ACRRM ALS Course
Tracks
Park + M5; M6 & M7
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 |
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
Speaker
Dr Peter Arvier
ACRRM Trainer
Instructor : ALS Course
Biography
Dr Lawrie McArthur
Instructor : ALS Course
Biography
A/Prof Bill Nimorakiotakis
Director EM
Epworth Hospital
Instructor : ALS Course
Biography
A/Prof Vasilios Nimorakiotakis MBBS, FACEM, FACRRM. Bill Nimo (full name Vasilios Nimorakiotakis) is an emergency physician and the deputy director of Epworth Richmond’s emergency department, Senior staff specialist with Retrieval Service Queensland (RSQ) and a senior staff specialist at Sunshine Hospital in Melbourne. He has a special interest in retrieval medicine, toxinology, emergency medicine in developing countries and teaching. Bill has been at Epworth Richmond emergency department for over 17 years. He is married to Cherie and has three awesome kids Isabelle, Luca and Noah.
Dr Louis Peachey
Atherton District Memorial Hospital
Instructor : ALS Course
Biography
Dr Louis Peachey is a Girrimay man from the Djirribaligan language group (Rainforest People) of North Queensland. He is a Senior Medical Officer at the Atherton District Hospital where he works as a Rural Generalist Anaesthetist, and runs a regular clinic at Lotus Glen Correctional Centre.
Dr Peachey was the founding President of the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association (AIDA), and is a former Board member of ACRRM. He has been an advocate for Rural and Indigenous Health for more than 25 years.
He served in Mount Isa as a Senior Lecturer and Medical Educator for MICRRA. Through the Mount Isa Simman Partnership, his team delivered training to remote areas surrounding Mount Isa. Louis was also one of the founding crew of the ACRRM ALS Course.
Dr Peachey served on the National Board of Headspace - National Youth Mental Health Foundation. His time on the board saw a national increase of 80% in the numbers of Indigenous Youth accessing Headspace.