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10:30 - 10:50: Leaving the SIM Lab behind: In Situ Simulation

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Session 5
Friday, October 21, 2016
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Riverview Room 4

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Chris Nickson Jon Gatward


Speaker

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Dr Jonathan Gatward
Intensive Care Specialist
Royal North Shore Hospital

In-Situ Simulation

Biography

Jonathan is a dual trained Anaesthetist / Intensivist from the UK but now works full time as an Intensive Care Specialist in Sydney. He has special interests and qualifications in medical education and simulation. He likes to take simulation out of the Sim centre – running inter-professional scenarios in-situ in the Royal North Shore ICU, where he is also the education coordinator. Jon is an organ donation specialist, is on the Organ and Tissue Authority Family Conversation Steering Group and runs a simulation program, using professional actors, for donation specialists who conduct family donation conversations. Jon is also an airway fanatic, and runs an airway course (the Critical Care Airway Management Course) in Sydney twice a year. He is also interested in patient safety and quality, and is a member of Intensive Care Services Network Best Practice Working Group at the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation. He is loving being a new dad to baby Thomas.
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Dr Chris Nickson
Intensivist
Alfred Hospital

In-Situ Simulation

Biography

Chris is an Intensivist at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. He completed his medical degree at the University of Auckland, and continued post-graduate training in New Zealand, as well as the Northern Territory, Perth and Melbourne in Australia. He is also an emergency physician and has completed further training in clinical toxicology and clinical epidemiology. He coordinates The Alfred ICU education and simulation programme, convenes the 'Critically Ill Airway' course and teaches on many other Alfred ICU courses. He edits the Alfred ICU’s education website, INTENSIVE, and is co-creator of free open-access medical education (FOAM) projects such as Lifeinthefastlane.com, the RAGE podcast and the SMACC conference. On Twitter, he is @precordialthump.
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