Stephen is an Intensive Care Physician at The Alfred Hospital and Director of Intensive Care at Knox Private Hospital in Victoria. He is also Medical Advisor to Ambulance Victoria. His research interest include the use of therapeutic hypothermia for the treatment of neurological injury after resuscitation from out-of hospital cardiac arrest. He has published the results of a number of clinical trials in this area, more recently examining the role of large volume, ice cold intravenous crystalloid fluid for the induction of hypothermia by paramedics after resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. He is also co-investigator of a current clinical trial of early hypothermia after severe traumatic brain injury.

Aidan Burrell is an intensivist at The Alfred Hospital. He previously completed a fellowship in heart failure and cardiac transplantation in 2012. His interests include cardio-respiratory failure, VA and VVECMO, critical care ultrasound and ICU education. He is currently completing a PhD at Monash University exploring advanced imaging and mechanical supports in heart failure.

Dr Shay McGuinness is Director of Research at the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU), Auckland City Hospital, New Zealand, and Clinical Director of the Air Ambulance Service, Auckland District Health Board. Dr McGuinness is the New Zealand representative on the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group (ANZICS-CTG) Executive and is the Chair of the ANZICS-CTG Capacity Working Group Sub-committee. Dr McGuinness trained at medicine and surgery in Sheffield, United Kingdom. He has published more than 25 journal papers including articles in New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). He has been a Principal or Co-investigator on peer reviewed research grants exceeding (NZ)$2.9 million including 5 NZHRC grants. His research interests include randomised clinical trials in non-invasive ventilation and renal failure.

Dr Rachael Parke is the Nurse Senior Research Fellow in the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Intensive Care Unit at Auckland City Hospital. She was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 2014, and is currently leading a programme of research investigating the effects of fluid management following cardiac surgery. She has published over 50 articles and been an investigator on peer reviewed research grants exceeding NZ$3 million. Rachael is the current Secretary of the ANZICs Clinical Trials Group Executive Committee and Chairperson of the ANZICS Intensive Care Research Coordinators Interest Group. Research interests include oxygen therapy, cardiac surgery associated acute kidney injury and enhanced recovery after thoracic surgery.