RAH - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Office Staff Member
- Head of Unit )
Originally trained in emergency medicine, attaining his FACEM prior to undertaking training in intensive care and completing the FCICM in 2007. Ken works predominantly in ICU at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, however works on a fractional basis in ICU at the RAH from 2008.
Interests:
Teaching
Lee-anne is an Accredited Practising Dietitian with experience in clinical dietetics, tertiary-education, and research. She was awarded her PhD in July 2017, which explored nutritional intake and muscle wasting in patients admitted to intensive care with a traumatic brain injury.
Lee-anne is currently a post-doctoral fellow with the RAH ICU Research team where she is interested in developing strategies to better feed critically ill patients to prevent muscle wasting and improve their long-term functional outcomes and quality of life.
Outside of research, Lee-anne loves trying new restaurants, experimenting in the kitchen, spending time with her mischievous nephews, and all things wine and gin related
Job Titles:
- Office Staff Member
- Head of Research and Innovation )
Job Titles:
- Immediate past President, Australian Medical Association SA
After graduating from the University of Adelaide in 1985 Dr Sharley completed a diploma in obstetrics and terms in rural and metropolitan general practice. He commenced specialist training in Anaesthesia and subsequently Intensive Care Medicine, commencing as a Specialist at the RAH in 1993.
He has spent a 20 years of his professional life providing critical care services to rural South Australia. The introduction of critical care telemedicine to the rural sector and improvement in the state system that support rural doctors in times of critical care emergencies have been long term rewarding projects.
Dr Sharley is currently Deputy Director of the Royal Adelaide Hospital Intensive Care Unit.
Past appointments include Hospital Medical Director for SA Donate Life and Visiting Intensivist at Alice Springs Hospital among many other private hospitals. International major trauma centre experience includes the period 1994-96 as an Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of California, Davis Medical Centre, California USA. He enjoyed his time as Director, Royal Adelaide Hospital "Mediflight" Critical Care Retrieval Service 2002-2007 and Specialist Medical Officer with Careflight NSW in 1996. Current ongoing involvement in the AMA, CICM, several corporate boards and external specialist consultancy work across several states.
Outside of the office he is active on the Adelaide University Sports and Scholarships Blues Committee and is currently a Vice President for the greatest amateur football club in the world; "The Adelaide University Football Club" or also known as "The Blacks" which is the home of the legendary Bob Neil. Peter has also planted 20,000 trees to save the planet and enjoys talking to his cows on the farm.
Richard completed fellowship with the CICM in 2008 and was awarded the Don Harrison medal that year. He is currently employed as a senior consultant at the RAH and his interest include critical care ultrasound and extracorporeal supports including dialysis and ECMO.
Richard completed a Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound in 2012, runs regular ultrasound courses for trainees and is able to act as supervisor for the CCPU and DDU. Richard is a CICM First Part examiner and has been a member of the CICM Curriculum Review Committee and Assessment Committee since 2011. He currently holds an academic appointment as a Clinical Senior Lecturer with the University of Adelaide.
Dr Stewart Moodie MB ChB FRCA FCICM MBioeth, is an Intensive care physician who joined the Royal Adelaide in 2009. He began his anaesthetic training in the UK and completed his FRCA in 2002. Having spent a year as an ICU Registrar in Sydney in 2000, he emigrated to Australia in 2003 to complete his advanced ICU training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He took a Consultant Job at TQEH in 2007 and began working across both sites in 2009. His clinical interests include end-of-life care and organ donation and completed a Masters of Bioethics in 2012. He also holds a fractional appointment with the Australian Organ and Tissue Authority.
Current positions
SA Regional Chair ANZICS
SA representative on the ANZICS Death and Organ Donation Committee
SA representative on the ANZICS End-of-Life Care working group
LEAD trainer on the FDC and ADAPT workshops
Interests:
Teaching
Job Titles:
- Associate Nurse Unit Manager, BN, Critical Care Certificate
Kath began her nursing career in 1979 at the Port Pirie and Districts Hospital, moving to Adelaide in 1983 to further her career with Emergency Care nursing.
Kath joined the Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1985 and gained further experience in Intensive Care Nursing and Retrieval Services. She has a long-standing interest in research and joined the Intensive Care Unit Research team in 2015 on a part-time basis, whilst still maintaining some clinical contact within the Intensive Care Unit. Kath enjoys the challenges that the research area presents and feels a great sense of achievement when a study is completed with positive outcomes for the critically-ill.
Time outside of work is mainly spent looking after her family. She enjoys catching up with friends, gardening, reading and dressmaking and tries to keep fit with swimming, jogging and long walks.
Job Titles:
- Research Dietitian / Scientist ( FTE 0.6 )
Matt Summers is a Research Dietitian/Scientist who has been working within the ICU Research team since 2008. Matt completed his undergraduate Bachelor of Science majoring in nutrition in 2007 and commenced the Research Scientist role within ICU Research shortly after. A few years later Matt undertook a Master of Dietetics, graduating in 2014.
In addition to Matt's research experience in the critically ill, Matt has experience as a clinical dietitian in the outpatient setting as well as dietitian experience in the elite team sport environment. Matt's research interests include nutrient absorption in critically ill patients, as well as nutritional intake and outcomes following ICU stay.
Matt is a big sports fan and a passionate supporter of Port Adelaide in the AFL. He also enjoys spending time with his wife, son and their west highland white terrier.
Job Titles:
- Medical Rostering Officer
Job Titles:
- Research Scientist
- Research Scientist ( FTE 1.0 )
Rhea is a research scientist who completed her bachelor of medical science with Flinders University, and bachelor of health and medical science (honours) degree at the University of Adelaide, where she investigated the role of GREMLIN1 in nurturing a tumour-supportive microenvironment in multiple myeloma.
Since joining ICU research in March 2019, Rhea's growing interests in the role of nutrition in physical recovery of individuals who are critically ill, has seen her publish her first paper in Australian Critical Care in 2019. Rhea strives to use her skills and knowledge as a research scientist to help run studies in ICU, in the aim of improving ICU patient outcomes and thereafter the quality of life.
Rhea loves to challenge herself into baking cakes and going for long walks during weekends. She also loves playing the piano, and spends a good chunk of time at the Bunnings to help her mum keep the garden a beautiful sanctuary.
Job Titles:
- Intensive Care Units Research Team As a Research Scientist
Sarah joined the Intensive Care Units Research Team as a Research Scientist in September 2020. She has completed the Exercise Sports Science degree Bachelor of Human Movement, and a second Bachelor's Degree, Psychological Science (Cognitive Neuroscience), at the University of South Australia. After finishing her Neuroscience degree Sarah was chosen to participate in a research scholarship at the Cognitive & Systems Neuroscience Research Hub at UniSA, with this experience further developing her interest in research.
Job Titles:
- ICU Research Co - Ordinator / ANUM ICU Research, RN 2A
Nerissa began her nursing career in 1998 in the Royal Adelaide Hospital, completing her graduate year before joining the Intensive Care Unit and completing her post graduate qualifications in critical care. She has worked in general adult and paediatric units as well as High Dependency and Coronary Care units across Adelaide, Darwin and overseas. She has also worked for Careflight Australia whilst in Darwin as well as a Donor Co-ordinator for DonateLife, both in the NT and SA. Nerissa has a long-standing interest in research and joined the Intensive Care Unit Research team in 2019 on a part-time basis, whilst still maintaining some clinical contact within the Intensive Care Unit.
The main focus of her role includes assisting with the implementation and coordination of clinical trials in the ICU; staff education, identifying and recruiting patients, monitoring patients and performing investigations, data collection and entry, assisting with the coordination and maintenance of databases, and liaison with-in a multi-disciplinary team.
In her free time she enjoys travelling and learning new cultures, reading a good book, walks on the beach, playing and watching tennis and cooking.
Job Titles:
- Leader
- Member of the Adelaide
- Professor
Professor Chapman is an academic in the School of Medicine in the University of Adelaide and a clinician in the Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, with a PhD in the area of gastrointestinal pathophysiology and nutrition in the critically ill. She is a Fellow of the Australian & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, the Australian College of Intensive Care Medicine and the Faculty of Anaesthetists in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She is a Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Adelaide and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine at Monash University in Melbourne. She has been the Director of Research in the ICU at the Royal Adelaide Hospital since 1998. As Director of Research she leads a group of researchers (medical, nursing, allied health and scientists) focused on clinical research in the critically ill which covers a breadth of areas. The significant successes of the broader group in terms of grant funding, publication and awards reflect her ability to provide support and foster enthusiasm and success in her colleagues and trainees. Her particular area of interest relates to gastrointestinal pathophysiology, nutrition and metabolism but also extends to other areas such as thyroid function in sepsis etc. She has previously held roles on the Board of Examiners for the College of Intensive Care Medicine, the Abstract Review Committee for the Australian & New Zealand Intensive Care Society and the Scientific Committee for the Intensive Care Foundation.
Professor Chapman is a recognised world leader in the area of gastrointestinal pathophysiology in critical illness and has received national and international recognition, with invitations for the presentation of her work at many national and international meetings. In the past 5 years, Professor Chapman has received more than $8 million in research grant funding (including as CI/AI on NHMRC/ARC project and CRE grants). She was CIA on the largest NHMRC funded grant in the field of critical care nutrition (APP1078026) the TARGET trial published in the NEJM in 2018.
Professor Chapman is also a member of the Adelaide based NHMRC funded Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Nutrition. This group is highly productive and successful both in terms of publication output and accessing grant funding. A major strength of the group is in the cross-fertilisation across specialty areas such that ideas and techniques utilised in researching nutrition for example in the aged or in diabetics can also be used in critical illness providing novel insights. She also has extensive interstate collaborations (e.g. Professor Andrew Davies) and has been participating investigator in 20 multi-centre studies (mostly clinical trials performed with the Australian & New Zealand Intensive Care Society - Clinical Trials Group - see rgms CV-Pub). She continues to collaborate with other international leaders in critical care nutrition such as Professor Daren Heyland (Canada).
Professor Chapman and Associate Professor Deane have a number of commercial collaborations with Theravance-USA, GSK-USA and TAKEDA completing single-centre, phase II, investigator-driven pharmaceutical-sponsored trials on the safety and efficacy of new pre-motility drugs. She has had involvement in the development and testing of a novel device for the insertion of small intestinal feeding catheters (see rgms CV-Pub).
Professor Chapman is registered as a Principal Supervisor for higher degree students at the University of Adelaide. She has had 6 completions to date. Professor Chapman is also a supervisor and assessor of medical students completing Honours degrees and an undergraduate examiner for MBBS at the University of Adelaide. She also reviews for multiple journals, including Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Intensive Care Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Critical Care & Resuscitation and Clinical Nutrition. She is also an external assessor of grant applications for the NHMRC, Intensive Care Foundation, the Revised Thuthuka Programme in South Africa and the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthesia, National Research Foundation.
She has published just over 160 peer-reviewed papers (over 54 in the past 5 years, 3 invited book chapters, 5 invited reviews and 1 invited editorial). A number of these publications have appeared in the highest ranking journals in her area of critical care, including in ‘Critical Care Medicine', ‘Intensive Care Medicine' and ‘Critical Care'. Professor Chapman has also had many publications in high-ranking journals outside of her field, including ‘Gut', the ‘American Journal of Clinical Nutrition', the ‘Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism', ‘Diabetes Care' and ‘Diabetes'. She has had 33 publications with over 50 citations.