Have you ever wondered what happens to your patient after you have transferred care? Have you ever thought about why different healthcare providers do things a certain way?
This webinar is the third in a series focused on exploring continuity of care. Each webinar will examine different aspects of the health care system and how they impact patients.
Webinar Three is led by Associate Professor David Anderson ASM who is the medical director for Ambulance Victoria and an accomplished intensive care physician.
Biography: Associate Professor David Anderson
David Anderson ASM is the Medical Director of Ambulance Victoria; he is also an intensive care physician at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne – a quaternary referral centre for heart and lung transplant, ECMO, major trauma and burns; and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Paramedicine at Monash University.
David worked as a paramedic in Auckland, New Zealand before completing medical training at the University of Auckland and then undertaking postgraduate training in intensive care medicine. During postgraduate training he also spent considerable spells working in anaesthesia, palliative medicine and prehospital and retrieval medicine in Auckland, Sydney and Toronto before settling in Melbourne. His clinical interests are prehospital and retrieval medicine, trauma critical care, ECMO, palliative care and bioethics.
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