MStJ, BSc, BHB, MBChB, FCICM, DipPallMed
David is an Intensivist at The Alfred. He is also the Medical Director of Ambulance Victoria; and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Paramedicine at Monash University. His clinical interests are prehospital and retrieval medicine, trauma critical care, ECMO, palliative care and bioethics.
David worked as a Paramedic in Auckland, New Zealand before qualifying as a doctor. He undertook postgraduate training in anaesthesia, intensive care medicine, palliative medicine, prehospital and retrieval medicine in Auckland, Sydney and Toronto before settling in Melbourne.
MBBS, FCICM, BBNSci
Natalie is an Intensivist at The Alfred. After completing a degree in Behavioural Neuroscience, she undertook her postgraduate medical training at Griffith University in Queensland. She returned to The Alfred as an intern in 2011 and began dual training in Emergency and Intensive Care thereafter.
Natalie has a keen interest in trauma medicine, retrieval, education and paediatrics.
MBBS(Hons) BMedSc(Hons) MPH GradDipEd, FANZCA FCICM
Jonathan is an intensive care physician and anaesthetist at The Alfred. He graduated from Monash University in 2008 and completed anaesthesia training in Victoria, including a prehospital and retrieval fellowship in North Queensland.
He later worked as an anaesthetist in rural New South Wales for three years before returning to Melbourne and completing intensive care medicine training.
Jonathan has a keen interest in safe airway management – for this work, he has received the Felicity Hawker Medal. He is an Anaesthesia Top-10 author, and is a member of the Safe Airway Society clinical council.
In addition, Jonathan serves as an editor for Anaesthesia Reports, has been awarded the James Cook University Sidney Sax Medal, holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Australian Army, and is an adjunct senior lecturer at Monash University.
MB BS, MD, FACEM, FCICM
Stephen is dual trained in Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care. He is a Senior Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at The Alfred and Director of Intensive Care at Knox Private Hospital and Medical Advisor to Ambulance Victoria.
He is undertaking research in major trauma patients, with current research in prehospital administration of tranexamic acid and clotting factors. His particular research interest is in outcomes from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with recent research into ECMO during CPR, post-arrest targeted temperature management, titration of carbon dioxide and early titration of oxygen in this patient cohort.
MBBS, FCICM, DDU, PhD
Aidan is an Intensivist at The Alfred. He initially trained in vascular surgery, before moving into intensive care medicine.
Aidan's research interests have focussed on acute cardio-respiratory failure diseases, critical care ultrasound and COVID-19. He completed fellowships in cardiac transplantation in 2012, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in Germany in 2015, and a research sabbatical in Berlin in 2022. He is currently investigating oxygen toxicity during VA ECMO in the BLENDER trial, the use of VV ECMO in moderate respiratory failure in the REDEEM trial, and is the Australian clinical lead for REMAP-CAP. He strongly believes in medical education, as the more he learns, the more he realises he doesn't know.
MBBS (Hons), FCICM, FANZCA ,Grad Dip Clin Ed
Tim is an Intensivist at The Alfred. He obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at Monash University. He trained in anaesthesia at Royal Melbourne Hospital before completing his fellowship in intensive care medicine.
Along with critical care, Tim has a strong interest in education and simulation. He has completed a postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Education. He is a CICM primary examiner, committee member of the Victorian Primary Exam Course for CICM, sits on the VECMOS education committee and teaches on numerous courses. He also works with the Createlab team at Monash University to provide engineering solutions for cardiac problems. Tim's clinical interests include airway management, crisis resource management and long term ICU outcomes.
MBBS/ BMedSci, FCICM
Charlene is actively involved in medical education, trainee supervision and welfare, mentoring, and quality improvement activities at The Alfred. She moved to Melbourne in 2008 to study medicine and later completed training in intensive care medicine.
She is currently completing a Masters in Clinical Leadership and Management. Her areas of clinical interest include end-of-life care and perioperative medicine. Outside work, she enjoys cooking, trying new cafes and restaurants as well as traveling.
MBBS, FCICM
Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor; NHMRC L3 Investigator Fellow
Jamie is a senior Intensivist in Intensive Care Medicine at The Alfred. Previously he was interim-Director of the Intensive Care Department, and for many years Head of Alfred ICU Research.
He is also co-Director / Chair of the ANZIC Research Centre, and Head of Critical Care Division School of Public Health, Monash University.
In 2017, he was awarded Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to intensive care medicine in the field of traumatic brain injury as a clinician, and to medical education as an academic, researcher and author. In 2021, he was joint winner of the Research Australia Health and Medical peak award, the GSK Australia Award for Research Excellence, and also received the Convocation medal from his alma mater Flinders University, South Australia.
Jamie trained in medicine, anaesthesia and intensive care in Adelaide, South Australia, and in intensive care research at University of British Columbia, Canada. He was first appointed as an Alfred consultant in 1990, and inaugural Head of The Alfred/TAC Trauma ICU in 1991. He has had continuous NHMRC Fellowships since 2002, and NHMRC grant support since 1988. In Dec 2022, he had > 420 published papers including 18 in NEJM, Lancet and JAMA; an h-index personal Impact Factor(GS) of 88; and >40,000 (GS) citations. He has peer-reviewed research grant income >$88 million including $69 million from NHMRC. His practice changing randomised trials include traumatic brain injury, sepsis, resuscitation fluids and blood transfusion.
MBBS, FCICM
Julia is an Intensivist at The Alfred. She hails from Cairns and completed medical training at James Cook University in Townsville. She worked her way down the east coast of Queensland before buying some winter woollies and moving to Melbourne in 2017.
Julia undertook an ECMO fellowship at The Alfred and is an Education Lead for the Victorian ECMO Service. Julia also has a penchant for the application of human factors principles to organisation and clinical settings; and is fascinated by the ever-changing intensive care ecosystem and the impact of team dynamics on patient care. Feel free to ask her about her ever expanding gin collection and @crit.care.crafting.
MD, FACEM ,FCICM, DDU
Arne is an Intensive Care Specialist at The Alfred. He moved to Australia in 2006 after completing a research doctorate and working in diverse health care systems in Germany, UK and Brazil. He specialised in Melbourne, but also worked in Central Australia for the Royal Flying Doctor Retrieval Service.
In addition to Intensive Care he is an Emergency Medicine Specialist and holds a DDU in critical care echocardiography. Arne’s specific research and clinical interest is Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation [ECMO]. He completed the inaugural fellowship in ECMO at The Alfred Hospital. His interests include the physics of ECMO, oxygenator gas exchange, patient selection and advanced support modalities. He co-convenes the ECMO cannulation course and edits The Alfred ECMO guideline www.ecmo.icu.
MB BAO BCh MRCPI FCAI FCICM
Lucy Dockrell brings her expertise as an Intensive Care and Trauma Specialist to The Alfred ICU. Hailing from Ireland, she completed her training in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care medicine before moving to Australia in 2020.
Lucy's professional interests lie in trauma critical care, ICU liaison, and ultrasound and echocardiography. Currently, she is pursuing a Diploma in Diagnostic Ultrasound, further enhancing her skills and knowledge in this field.
MBBS, BMedSci, BA, FCICM
Larissa is an Intensivist at The Alfred. She is a life-long Melbournian and undertook intensive care training in several Melbourne hospitals. Her current ICU interests include quality, safety, communication, and end-of-life care. She enjoys teaching junior medical staff on a range of topics including ornithology.
MBBCh, MPH, FCICM
Khaled is an Intensive Care Specialist at The Alfred and Grampian Health. He is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University. He is the Clinical Lead of ICU research at Grampians Health.
He holds a Graduate Certificate in Emergency Health (Aeromedical and Retrieval), and a Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Ultrasound. He is the Principal Investigator in multiple Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) and has special interests in Telehealth, aeromedical retrieval, and Peri-Operative Medicine.
BPhysio, MBBS, FCICM ,GradDip (Clinical US)
Sophie is a paediatric trained Intensivist with an interest in cardiac intensive care, extracorporeal support, transplant medicine and optimising neurodevelopmental outcomes in critically unwell patients. She has completed a post-fellowship training year at The Alfred in 2022.
She is currently working as a Cardiology Fellow on the Transplant and VAD Team at the Royal Children’s Hospital.
In the non-clinical space, she is undertaking a PhD looking at tissue oxygenation in ECMO and has an active interest in education. Outside of work she loves spending time with Shelby (her golden retriever), attempting yoga and has a love hate relationship with running.
BSc, MBBS, PhD, MAICD, FRACP, FCICM
Dashiell is a Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care, and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine of Monash University. He is also the Clinical Lead for ICU Burns and an Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) specialist.
In his role as a Medical Donation Specialist, he assists in coordinating the organ donation and transplantation service for Alfred Health. Dashiell has over 50 peer-reviewed publications on topics including evidence implementation, trauma, transfusion, neurocritical care, fluid management and resuscitation. He is a Chief Investigator on publicly funded international clinical trials and has been an advisor to the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance since 2019.
MBBS, FRACP, FCICM, DDU
Trent has been a consultant at The Alfred ICU since 2017. He is actively involved in echocardiography, mechanical support programs and junior doctor education. Trent graduated from Monash University (MBBS 2002) and completed ICU (FCICM 2012) and cardiology training (FRACP 2015).
He also completed an imaging fellowship at Monash Heart in 2016 (DDU Cardiology). Trent loves playing kick-to-kick with his son, learning the piano (slowly), and trying to get to the starting line in masters athletics.
B Med Sci, MBBS(Hons), Grad Cert Clin US, FCICM
Ken immigrated from Tasmania to "the mainland" and completed his ICU training at The Alfred. He oversees The Alfred First Part Exam Education Program and is currently completing a Master of Clinical Education with research focusing on the reliability and validity of specialist credentialing exams.
When not at work, you'll find Ken on his mountain bike, reading non-fiction or paradoxically being taught how to parent by his own offspring.
FCICM, EDIC
Andrew is a Senior Intensivist, Head of Trauma Neuro Intensive Care at The Alfred, and adjunct Senior Lecturer, at Monash University. Following training in Sydney, Melbourne, and London, he was a Consultant at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle.
He returned to The Alfred in 2018. In addition to trauma, Andrew has interests in patient transport, mobile medical imaging, and supporting trainees through consultant recruitment. He has recently completed a Masters in Trauma Sciences examining the quality of life of trauma patients following ICU admission. Andrew enjoys gastronomy and has also trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris.
MBBS, FANZCA, FCICM, PGDipEcho, PTEeXAM, CCEeXAM
Matthew is an Intensivist at The Alfred. He is the ICU Clinical Lead for surgical specialties. Matthew undertook his anaesthetic and intensive care training in Melbourne. He has also completed fellowships in both cardiothoracic anaesthesia and critical care ultrasound.
His interests include echocardiography, perioperative medicine and mechanical circulatory support.
BMed, FRACP, FCICM, DDU
Josh is the Clinical Lead of ECMO and organ donation at The Alfred. Just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, he spent 6 months in Paris looking at pre-hospital ECMO CPR (eCPR), which has now commenced in Melbourne.
Josh completed his physician training prior to ICU, concluding with a fellowship in echocardiography. His interests include complex cardiothoracic care, including mechanical circulatory support (ECMO and VADs), heart and lung transplantation, the use of diagnostic echocardiography and organ donation.
MA(Hons), MBChB, MRCS(Ed.), PhD, FCICM
Toby is an Intensive Care Physician with a sub-specialty interest in neuro-critical care. He currently works as a Senior Research Fellow at the ANZIC-RC and as an ICU Consultant at The Alfred. He trained in the United Kingdom and Australia.
He combined this training with the completion of a PhD in Bioengineering from Imperial College London focused on novel methods for neuromonitoring of acute brain injury in the ICU.
FCICM, MBBS (Hons), BSc
Paddy is an Intensivist at The Alfred Hospital. Born and raised in New Zealand before defecting to Australia where he undertook the majority of his training. He undertook most of his CICM training in QLD before moving to The Alfred to finish his training.
He has done the ECMO Fellowship at The Alfred and worked on the expansion of the pre-hospital ECPR program. He has an interest in medical education and simulation training.
MBBS (Hons), FCICM
Elisa completed her ICU and Anaesthetic training in Italy before moving to Australia and obtaining her FCICM. She has a research background and is interested in Paediatric ICU and echocardiography. She is one of the Supervisor of training and a second part examiner for the College of Intensive Care.
One husband, two children, one cat Elisa loves practicing yoga, swimming, running and playing the piano (when she has the time!)
MBBS, FCICM, Grad Cert Health Informatics
Chris is an Intensivist at The Alfred. He graduated from the University of Western Australia and worked in WA, NSW, and Ireland before completing his training at The Alfred ICU. He developed an interest in digital health during the implementation of the Electronic Medical Record in The Alfred ICU.
He subsequently acted as the Chief Medical Information Officer for Alfred Health. He is currently the Digital Health Medical Lead for Alfred ICU and is part of the ECMO team. He spends his free time repairing old Gameboys.
MB ChB, MRCP, FRCA, FCICM, PGDip Engineering
Jason is a Senior Intensivist and past Education Lead, Head of General ICU and Burns, and Deputy Director at The Alfred. He is the current Director of Adult Retrieval Victoria, Ambulance Victoria and a member of the Victorian ECMO Service Governance Committee.
He has a particular interest in systems and processes to improve patient care and safety. He has a range of clinical interests including sedation and delirium, burns, haemodynamic monitoring, ventilation and extracorporeal support.
MBBS, MD, EDIC, FCICM, DDU (Critical Care), Mstr Biostatistics
Vinodh is a Consultant Intensivist at The Alfred. He teaches The Alfred ICU courses and is an Advanced Life Support Director. He is a CICM college examiner and is a member of the CICM ultrasound special interest group.
He completed his ICU fellowship in 2010 and worked as a Fellow in Critical Care Echocardiography at The Alfred. In 2012, he was awarded the Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound (Critical Care) from the Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (ASUM).
His areas of interests are ECPR, Critical Care Echocardiography and its use in patients on extra-corporeal life support. His other special interests include echocardiography education, ICU epidemiology, research and biostatistics.
MB, BCh, BAO Overall Hons II, FCARCSI, FCICM, PGDipEcho, PhD
Alistair is an honorary Senior Intensivist at The Alfred, a Professor and Department Director of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre in the School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University.
He is also an Intensivist and Anaesthetist at St Vincent's University Hospital Dublin and Chair / Professor / Director of Critical Care Medicine University College Dublin, Ireland.
Alistair leads a large international network conducting clinical trials in the critically ill. These studies have randomised over 50,000 patients into clinical trials and over 800,000 patients into observational studies. Alistair has been awarded over 135 million dollars in funding as a named investigator on these studies which have been published in the world's leading journals (13 New England Journal of Medicine, 10 Journal of the American Medical Association, 3 Nature etc), including multiple first author publications in the NEJM, JAMA and the Lancet). Furthermore, these results have shaped clinical practice globally and been incorporated in the national and international guidelines (i.e WHO). Alistair has a particular interest in mechanical ventilation, cardiac arrest, pandemics and trauma.
MBBS, FRACP, FCICM, FELSO
Vince is a Senior Intensive Care Specialist at The Alfred. He holds a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor appointment at the Monash University School of Public Health & Preventative Medicine. He has had a lead role in the development of ECMO services at The Alfred since 2003.
Vince has provided ECMO training programs nationally and internationally. He completed undergraduate training at Monash University in 1990 and a physician and intensive care specialist training in 1999. He was awarded the Matt Spence Prize for research. He is the Clinical Lead of the Victorian ECMO Service (VECMOS) and a member of the VECMOS Executive. In 2022, following twenty years of clinical service to the development of ECMO locally, he was recognised by the Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (ELSO) and made a fellow (FELSO). He is on the Executive Committee for ECMOnet. He is active in clinical and animal research in ECMO, circulatory physiology and control of the circulation. During more than 20 years in ICU, the conclusion that social determinates of health undermine Intensive Care therapies has become inescapable.
MBBS (Hons) FANZCA, FCICM, PGDipEcho
Steve is an Intensive Care Specialist at The Alfred and Cabrini Hospital. He has a special interest in end-of-life care, organ and tissue donation, communication skills training, empathy in the workplace and health Law.
Steve is the National Lead Trainer for the Organ and Tissue Authority and the Convenor of the Communication Training Program for the College of Intensive Care Medicine.
He is also the Convenor of the Cabrini Health “Shared Decision Making” and “Advance Care Planning Conversations” workshops, Chair of the Cabrini Health End of Life Care Committee, and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Monash University. He has recently completed a Master of Health and Medical Law at Melbourne University. His other interests include playing the guitar and the piano, singing, walking his dogs, the Fremantle Football Club, and fiction writing.
MBBS, MRCP (UK), FRACP, FCICM
David has been an Intensive Care Specialist at The Alfred since 2005. His interests include ICU performance monitoring, severity of illness assessment, organ donation, lung transplantation and ECMO. He trained in respiratory, general and intensive care medicine in the United Kingdom and Australia.
He is a medical advisor to DonateLife in Victoria. He is the Chairman of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation. He is also an Adjunct Clinical Professor with the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University and Clinical Lead for the Safer Care Victoria Critical Care Clinical Network.
He has co-authored over 300 publications, written six book chapters, supervised eight PhD students and received over $20 million in competitive and government grants. When not in the ICU, he really enjoys burying himself in a spreadsheet with data scientists and clinicians.
MBBS BSc Med, FCICM, GC Clin Sim
Mike is the Lead for morbidity and mortality review in the education and simulation team at The Alfred. Mike trained in a variety of settings, beginning in the Northern Territory, and finishing with an education fellowship at The Alfred.
He has an interest in teamwork training and interdisciplinary learning. He is lucky to have two fabulous little girls at home who keep him grounded and well entertained.
BMBCh, MA MRCP(UK), FCICM, DAME
Sacha is an Intensive Care and Prehospital Retrieval Specialist. His research interests are in the delivery of ECMO-CPR in different hospital and prehospital environments. He led the CHEER3 pre-hospital ECPR feasibility study for metropolitan Melbourne in conjunction with Ambulance Victoria.
Sacha has secured independent research funding and authored several key book chapters on the provision of ECPR. His contributions to the development of ECPR and training globally have been internationally recognised. He is the first author of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organisation (ELSO) International Adult ECPR guideline.
Current appointments and leadership positions
BBioMedSc, MBBS, FCICM
Brooke is an Intensivist at The Alfred. She graduated from the University of Queensland, completing much of her medical training in Queensland. In 2020 Brooke moved to Melbourne just in time for the first of many lockdowns.
She has completed an ECMO fellowship at The Alfred. Her interests are in cardiothoracic intensive care, ECMO, education and training.
BBiomedSci (Hons), MBBS, FCICM
Rebecca has been an Intensivist at The Alfred since 2021. She has a background in biomedical sciences and general medicine before completing her intensive care training in Queensland. She completed a Critical Care fellowship in Canada, with a focus on trauma and neurocritical care.
She continues this interest at The Alfred ICU, as lead of a number of state service initiatives. This includes the spinal trauma positioning guidelines and implementing spirometry in the management of trauma patients. Along with intensive care, she has a passion for teaching, clinical leadership and trainee supervision through her roles as CICM Supervisor of Training and mentor to a number of trainees. She is currently undertaking research in thoracic trauma in the critically ill.
MBBS (Hons), BMedSc, FCICM, FRACP, FANZCA, DDU (Critical Care)
Lloyd is an Intensive Care Physician and Anaesthetist with a fellowship in critical care echocardiography and ultrasound. His clinical interests include echocardiography, cardiac intensive care, mechanical support, and general intensive care. His Information technology skills find diverse uses in The Alfred ICU.
MBBS, FCICM, FACEM
Bevan has dual fellowships in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, with key interests in supervision and training. He finds his role caring for critically ill patients and their families in the complex multi-team environment of public hospital intensive care fulfilling and engaging.
He Co-Chairs the ED-ICU working group and leads The Alfred at Night Clinical Lead program. This includes supervising and training advanced trainees in communication and clinical leadership, supervises training for ACEM trainees in ICU, and supervises Monash University medical students in ICU. He is the lead coordinator for CICM fellowship written and clinical exam preparation at The Alfred. He is a regular faculty member teaching courses in ECMO, ALS, BASIC, CIA, leadership and communication courses.
MBBS, BMedSci, FCICM, FRACP, AFRACMA, DDU
Clinical Associate Professor Tom Rozen is a Paediatric and Adult Intensive Care Physician. In addition to his part-time role with The Alfred ICU, he has a substantive appointment with The Royal Children’s Hospital where he is the Director of Paediatric Intensive Care.
MBBS, PGCertCU, MD, MPH, FCICM, FRACMA, FCHSM, GAICD, CHE
Vineet is an Intensivist Specialist at The Alfred ICU as well as the Director of Cabrini’s ICU at Cabrini Health. He completed intensive care medicine training with the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) at The Alfred.
He previously worked as a Specialist Intensive Care Physician at Epworth Health, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Eastern Health in Melbourne. His interests include leadership and management in ICU and medical services, clinical governance and medical administration. He completed MPH (Master of Public Health) in Health Management stream at Monash University and has also recently completed a medical administration training and obtained a fellowship of Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators. He currently holds an Adjunct Associate Professor appointment at the Department of Medicine at Monash University.
MBBS, FCICM
Mark has a special interest in supporting regional critical care through Critical Care Telehealth service at The Alfred and mentoring/assisting CICM trainees in the supervisor of training role. Outside of work, he loves playing music, taking photographs and spending time with his wife and adult sons.
MB (Hons), BCh, BAO, FCARCSI, FCICM, DDU (Crit Care) (She/her)
Li graduated from University College Cork and went on to complete her specialist training in anesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine in Ireland. In Australia, she completed her intensive care training at Royal North Shore Hospital.
After Li completed an echocardiography fellowship at St George and St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney. She worked as a consultant at Epworth Hospital where she was the lead in ICU echocardiography service and education before returning to the Alfred as a full-time staff specialist. She is currently the Lead Supervisor of Training (SOT). Li is the proud parent of two labradoodles named after two well-known ultrasound physicists! On a sunny day when she is not at work, she can often be found swimming in the bay.
FCICM, FRACP, MBBS(Hons), BMedSci, MClinEd
Sarah is an Intensivist at The Alfred. After graduating from the University of Melbourne, she completed physician training before obtaining a fellowship in intensive care medicine. Sarah's clinical interests include cardiothoracic intensive care and crisis resource management.
Along with critical care, she has a strong interest in education, clinical simulation and advocacy. She has completed a Masters in Clinical Education in non-technical skills in intensive care and puts it into practice as part of the Alfred ICU-IS-SIM team. A strong advocate for her peers, Sarah is a previous CICM board member, New Fellows’ Representative and Victorian CICM Committee member. She is a founding convenor of the ANZICS Women in Intensive Care Medicine Network, with published research on gender balance in critical care.
MBBS, FCICM, MHIM
George joined The Alfred ICU in 2023. After completing his training in Perth, he worked as a consultant at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, contributing heavily to the COVID-19 responses at each wave of the pandemic.
George has a keen interest in global health. In 2020, he was a part of a WHO mission to Lebanon to assist with COVID-19. He has recently returned from a project in Palestine with 'Médecins Sans Frontières'. Blessed with the Australian healthcare system,George is interested in education, doctor welfare and healthcare quality. Out of scrubs, George loves binge watching TV and has sports aspirations which clearly surpass his level of skill.