Paediatrics - Clinical Tips and Literature Update

Dr Lalith Gamage is a paediatrician who works in both hospital and community paediatrics, and in both metropolitan and rural locations. He works at the Women’s & Children’s Hospital as a Paediatric Emergency Physician and a Paediatrician at Port Augusta Hospital. He completed his specialist training at Women’s & Children’s Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre, Lyell McEwin and Port Augusta Hospital. He gained his dual fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (Paediatrics) and Emergency Medicine in 2012.

Dr Lalith is also lecturer at the Rural School of Medicine at Adelaide University, and as a result is involved in teaching medical students in addition to being an instructor of APLS (Advanced Paediatric Life Support).

Dr. Abdul-razaq Musa is a Paediatric Emergency Physician at The Women’s & Children’s Hospital (WCH) in SA.

His interests are emergency acute mental health care and promoting paediatric resuscitation skills and knowledge in low resource areas. Dr. Musa is a Faculty member of the Paediatric Mental Health Emergency Training course (PMH-ET) which is held at the WCHN since 2009. He is the Paediatric ED liaison with the WCH Mental Health unit and the lead writer of several Mental Health policies and guidelines both at the WCH and beyond.

With colleagues from Paediatric Mental Health Training Unit at the University of Adelaide, Dr Musa established a paediatric specific de-escalation module titled AGRO+ which aims at improving the knowledge and confidence of health care workers in managing children with acute severely disturbed behaviours.

Dr Jacquie Schutz has worked as a Paediatric Emergency Physician at the Women's and Children's Hospital since 2004.

Over the years she has had experience in paediatric retrieval, worked with the PREDICT research group, and is currently on the board of APLS, chairing their course development committee. Her work with APLS over the past 20 years has led to an interest in adult education and simulation. She is part of her department's team aiming to develop strategies for improving staff well-being, and has recently begun refreshing her skills in hypnotherapy, in particular, how to apply them to the setting of an ED.

Dr Charmaine Gray is a Fellow of Paediatric emergency and is currently the clinical Fellow at Women and Children’s in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Charmaine undertook her post-graduate medical studies in Perth, Western Australia after initially completing her Bachelor of Applied Science in Speech Pathology. Following this, she worked at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne before returning to work in Adelaide. In addition to her clinical work she is currently undertaking a PhD at Adelaide University, with a focus on research techniques in studies of acute severe paediatric asthma and how to incorporate qualitative work into core outcome sets. She is passionate about teaching and encouraging others to engage in the field of research

Dr Francis Lockie is a Paediatric Emergency and Retrieval physician working at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital and SAAS MedSTAR. He trained in London and Sydney and recently enjoyed a stint on the faculty at BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. He is interested in emergency airway management and currently co-chairs the WCH airway safety group. He is an active APLS instructor and enjoys teaching on the annual instructor course in Sri Lanka. Fran recently deployed to Samoa for the measles crisis with AUSMAT and also runs the safety and quality programme for PED.

Dr Sasha Rossaye, PEM Specialist, Sim enthusiast with an interest in Toxicology and Disaster Management.