Judy is the Director of Postgraduate Studies in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Deakin University. Judy’s research is focused on decisions that impact patient safety and quality of care, specifically clinical deterioration of patients in acute care. Judy also researches educational strategies to develop a workforce skilled in clinical risk management. Judy has been awarded a national ALTC Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, and four teaching and innovation awards including Deakin University Teacher of the Year. Internationally, Judy leads research and scholarship in teaching and learning related to Team-Based Learning, and is a qualified Team-Based Learning Trainer-Consultant.

Brian Cuthbertson is Chief of the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Professor in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is also an Honorary Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Aberdeen and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the George Institute of Global Health in Sydney. His research interests include improving outcomes from critical illness and major surgery. He has over 125 peer-reviewed publications and $17million of research grants as well as playing a leading role in a number of key clinical guidelines.

Associate Professor Craig French is a specialist Intensive Care Physician and Anaesthetist. He is the Director of Intensive Care at Western Health, Melbourne, Australia; a Clinical Associate Professor of the University of Melbourne; and the Chair of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group. His primary interests are multicentre clinical research, clinical ethics, and guideline development.

Dr Janice Gullick is a nurse academic at the Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney where she holds a substantive position as Director of Postgraduate Studies and coordinates the postgraduate intensive care courses. Janice is currently seconded half-time to the Sydney Local Health District in a strategic, nursing research capacity-building role as Conjoint Nursing & Midwifery Research Fellow. Janice has nearly 30 years’ experience as a senior nurse clinician in cardiothoracic surgery and cardiology. As coordinator of the Intensive Care Nursing courses at the University of Sydney, she has a particular interest in the development of advanced practice nurses who are both research literate and research active. With research interests in cardiorespiratory research, medical emergency processes and patient and family experience, Janice has over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, one book and two book chapters and presents her research work regularly in international forums. As a full-time academic, Janice is recognised as an expert in qualitative methodologies.

Dr Steve Webb is a Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at Royal Perth Hospital and a Professor of Critical Care Research in School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. He also holds adjunct Professorial appointments at the University of Western Australia and The George Institute for Global Health.