Final Program

Dr. Ilana Delroy-Buelles works as an Anaesthetist in a Major Trauma Centre in Sydney with special interests in Orthopaedics & Trauma.

 

She also works as a Prehospital & Retrieval Consultant for NSW Aeromedical both as a clinician undertaking retrievals and as the State Retrieval Consultant helping co-ordinate taskings of the NSW Aeromedical Servies.

 

In her involvement with critical trauma patients both in and out of hospital she has developed her interest in blood product resuscitation and currently co-ordinates governance of the state Retrieval Transfusion Procedure, supporting blood to retrieval teams and remote hospitals.

25 years ago, in a Twin Otter at 10 000’, with a crashing patient & frozen IV lines, Dr. Kavi Singh learned 2 things:

1. Body heat & armpits were ineffective at thawing IV lines at -30C

2. His training had not set him up for success in the harsh reality of austere medical care in N. Quebec.  

 
Subsequent attempts to find solutions using the medical training paradigms of the day resulted in little change and large frustration.
 
An epiphany occurred when he realized that, for high stress situations, his sport training in white water kayaking and combat sport was much more structured than his medical training.
 
Spurred on by his need to get better or get out, he applied performance training principles from sport, aviation and music to acute care medicine.
 
The dramatic success of this cross-disciplinary exchange led to the realization that for performance under pressure, ‘This was the Way’.
 
Taking these lessons to heart, after working for 15 years, Kavi returned to residency for an EM fellowship, with the primary goal of advancing and modernizing acute care education.
 

Stephen is a consultant with Scotland’s Emergency Medical Retrieval Service. He led the establishment of the team from a small voluntary service in 2004 to what is now a fully government funded aeromedical retrieval organization. 

 

He is the author of Peak Performance Under Pressure, a book discussing decision making in high pressure situations and the effects of human factors on team and individual performance. He trains medical, rescue, military and police personnel internationally in this area.  

 

Stephen led the team establishing the Diploma in retrieval and transfer medicine for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He developed and contributes to the organization of the annual UK retrieval conference. Stephen is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the University of Glasgow. 

 

He has been an active voluntary member of Arrochar mountain rescue team for 30 years and holds the Mountain Leader Award. Stephen acted as medical officer on seven international expeditions in mountain, desert, jungle and arctic environments before establishing the first expedition medicine course in the UK. 

 

Stephen has been providing expert opinions in legal cases for over fifteen years. He was the Scottish Ombudsman’s first advisor in emergency medicine and prehospital care and has been an expert witness for the General Medical Council for ten years. He also works with the Procurator Fiscal in relation to fatal accident inquiries. 

 

Visit his website at CoreCognition.co.uk 

Dr. Katie Lin is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary.

 

She works as an Emergency Physician at the Foothills Medical Centre, a Stroke Physician with the Calgary Stroke Program, a Critical Care Flight Transport Physician with STARS Air Ambulance, an expert advisor for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, Deputy Director of Podcasts for EM Cases Podcast, and creator and director of the SYNAPSE: EM Neuro Essentials Course.

 

Dr. Lin completed her FRCPC emergency medicine residency training and stroke subspecialty training in Calgary alongside a parallel Master of Public Health through Harvard. She is an award-winning speaker and educator with interests in medical education and knowledge translation, neurocritical care, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

 

Outside the hospital and helicopter base, you’ll find her reading, traveling, running, and hiking.