Presented by Dr Amith Shetty, Staff Specialist, Emergency Department, Westmead Hospital.

Care of the elderly - how best to achieve it?
HITH WOW Pilot and the role of RRT
Definition of Emergency and role of Emergency Services

This presentation formed part of our Geriatric Education Evening on 9th April 2019.

Amith is an Emergency physician and Co-chair of NSW Emergency Care Institute and Westmead Emergency Medical Research Unit, an Honorary Research fellow at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research. He is also the director for the Western Sydney hospital in the home service and clinical advisor for eHealth NSW for data, analytics and innovation portfolios. Amith has been active in ED research fields of critical illness, sepsis and models of care delivery. Amith’s background knowledge and research in healthcare delivery, training in leading information technology initiatives and research into models of care and healthcare performance provide him the insight into the challenges and prospects for use of big data in future research and guidelines development.

Amith is an Emergency physician and Co-chair of NSW Emergency Care Institute and Westmead Emergency Medical Research Unit, an Honorary Research fellow at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research.