National Executive
National Executive
President – Michael Parr
Vice-President – Alicia Jackson
Immediate Past-President/Media Liaison – Kate Martin
Treasurer – Sarah Adams
Secretary – Kate Martin
Committee – Helen Jowett, Melissa Webb, Belinda Gabbe, Ian Civil, Andrea Herring, Tony Joseph, Savitha Bhagvan
Conference Organising Committee
Kate Curtis (Chair), Tony Joseph, Alicia Jackson, Helen Jowett, Michael Parr, Ian Civil, Melissa Webb, Belinda Gabbe, Rebekah Ogilive.
Publication Committee
Ian Civil, Rebekah Ogilive and Michael Reade
Website Committee
Melissa Webb and Rebekah Ogilive
Research Committee
Kate Martin, Belinda Gabbe, Kate Curtis
Dr Kate Martin
Kate is a full-time General and Trauma Surgeon and has been at the Alfred Hospital since being awarded her fellowship in 2009. Her trauma-specific interests are resuscitation, abdominal, pelvic and chest trauma. She is the supervisor of General Surgical Education and Training for the Alfred Hub, as well as Director with the Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST) and Definitive Surgical Trauma Care (DSTC) faculties. Kate is the secretary of ANAST - The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Surgery of Trauma and has been on the Australasian Trauma Society Executive since 2013.
Dr Tony Joseph
Dr Joseph is the Director of Trauma (Emergency) and an Emergency Physician at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. He was the chairperson of the Steering Committee for the formation of the Australasian Trauma Society in 1007. Dr Joseph's interests include the use of ultrasound in trauma and other emergent situations. He was involved in the drafting of the ATS' policy and credentialing guidelines for the use of ultrasound in trauma patients, which are in use state-wide. He has been the Chairperson of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) Ultrasound Subcommittee and is the current Chair of the NSW Faculty of the ADEM as well as a member of the ACEM Council and the current chair of the ACEM Standards Committee.
Alicia Jackson
Alicia Jackson is a registered Nurse with over 26-years experience in Critical Care in the Public Health System. Alicia trained in Waterford Ireland, working in the County & City Infirmary and later in Waterford University Hospital, both Adults and Pediatrics. Working also in critical care in the UK and later in Australia. Her true passion over the last 15-years has been in trauma and the co-ordination of care of the multi-injured trauma patients in order for the best patient outcome.