SQNLDR Rebekah Herron is a registered nurse working as a Nursing Officer in the Royal Australian Air Force. SQNLDR Herron has provided patient care to injured civilians and military personnel through roles in aeromedical evacuation and while working to support Australian military in conflict and disaster response.

Anthony is a dual qualified intensivist and emergency physician working at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) as a senior staff specialist. He is a senior lecturer with the University of Queensland Medical School. Anthony serves on the Australia New Zealand Intensive Care Society National Executive. He is an examiner for the fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand. He has authored five book chapters and 30 peer reviewed publications. He is the supervisor of intensive care training at the RBWH and is an instructor for BASIC and EMST (ATLS). Anthony is a representative for the National Blood Authority Critical Care Group in developing the Australian Patient Blood Management Guidelines for critical care. Anthony is a Commander in the Royal Australian Navy Reserve and his military career has seen him deploy extensively, including to Angola, Bougainville, East Timor and The Persian Gulf. Anthony served in Afghanistan in 2012 as a force insertion and extraction medical officer and then again in 2013 as an intensivist at the American led NATO Role III Hospital in Kandahar. He has most recently returned in April this year, after serving in Taji, Iraq at the ANZAC Role 2E Hospital.

Air Commodore Jenny Lumsden CSC has been a member of the Air Force for almost 30 years. In that time, she has worked in numerous roles as a nurse clinician, personnel manager, administrator and military leader across Australia and overseas. Her deployments have included East Timor as part of the United Nations military hospital, the ADF’s response to the 2nd Bali Bombings, and to Iraq with the United States Air Force’s hospital with medical evacuations from around the world including Afghanistan. She has been awarded a number of awards, most notably the Conspicuous Service Cross in part for development of the Air Force’s critical care aeromedical patient transport capability. She is currently posted as the Director General Health Reserves – Air Force and otherwise works as a Clinical Nurse Consultant in Intensive Care at The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Captain Ben Mackie is a reserve Nursing Officer with over a decade of military experience. Ben is a Lecturer of Nursing at the University of Southern Queensland and Vice-President of the ACCCN Queensland Branch. He is currently completing his PhD at Griffith University and is focused on research promoting Patient and Family Centred Care in hospitals and interventions to enhance team performance. Ben is a peer reviewer for a number of nursing and health journals. Ben contributes more broadly to the profession and formally mentors several undergraduate nursing students and is an assessor of BN programs for ANMAC. He has published several peer reviewed journal articles.

Professor Reade is an intensivist / anaesthetist and clinician scientist in the Australian Defence Force, seconded to the University of Queensland and the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital to lead a program of research relevant to military trauma medicine and to guide the implementation of modern trauma care into ADF practice. In his military clinical role, he holds the rank of Colonel and is the Director of Clinical Services of the Australian Regular Army’s only field hospital. He has completed eight overseas operational deployments since commissioning as an Army officer in 1989, most recently to Iraq in 2015 and 2016. Professor Reade’s Oxford DPhil examined the molecular pathogenesis of septic shock, while his postdoctoral research fellowship focussed on clinical trials and large observational datasets. His current research interests are fluid resuscitation and coagulopathy in trauma, the effects of blood transfusion (including large clinical trials of cryopreserved blood products and tranexamic acid), and the management of delirium. He recently completed the 15-hospital DahLIA trial assessing dexmedetomidine treatment for agitated delirium in the ICU. He holds or contributes to research grants totalling >A$12M, has published >100 peer-reviewed papers and has delivered >140 lectures at national and international conferences.

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Susan is a FACEM from WA who has been in the Navy, both full time or in the Reserves for 25 years. She has served on ships deployed to many areas of operations including the Middle East during the Gulf War and when ashore was in charge of the Submarine and Underwater Medicine Unit at HMAS STIRLING, which involved work with diving and hyperbaric medicine and submarine escape and rescue. Since leaving the full time military and transferring to the Reserves in 2008, she has kept busy deploying to post-Tsunami Samoa and Tonga, participating in a land-based multinational exercise and she most recently was posted to the amphibious assault ship HMAS CANBERRA. Susan also does occasional work at the Hyperbaric Unit at Fiona Stanley Hospital and has an interest in disaster and humanitarian medicine. Outside work she enjoys travel and ballroom dancing.

MAJ Dan Weber joined the Australian Regular Army in 1995 and graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon and the Australian Defence Force Academy with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Honours). In 2005, Dan entered the Graduate Medical Scheme and graduated as a Doctor from Flinders University. He has attained Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and in 2016 commenced as an Emergency Medicine Registrar within the ADF Medical Specialist Program.