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<strong>Prof</strong>. Al<strong>is</strong>tair Nichol, <strong>MB</strong>, BCh, BAO Overall Hons II,<br />

FCARCSI, <strong>FCICM</strong>, PhD, <strong>Dip</strong> Management, Vic Neurotrauma<br />

Foundation Practitioner fellowship<br />

PG<strong>Dip</strong>Echo.<br />

Al<strong>is</strong>tair <strong>is</strong> an honorary consultant intensiv<strong>is</strong>t in <strong>the</strong> Alfred Hospital,<br />

Melbourne and an Associate <strong>Prof</strong>essor in <strong>the</strong> School of Public<br />

Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University.<br />

Following completion of a PhD at University College Dublin,<br />

Al<strong>is</strong>tair continued h<strong>is</strong> clinical and research work in <strong>the</strong> Alfred ICU<br />

examining optimal mechanical ventilation strategies in ARDS.<br />

After a successful pilot <strong>the</strong> PHARLAP Open Lung Ventilation<br />

Strategy (dev<strong>is</strong>ed by Alfred ICU Intensiv<strong>is</strong>ts) will now be tested in<br />

a large phase II RCT. Al<strong>is</strong>tair continues to co-ordinate and ass<strong>is</strong>t<br />

on th<strong>is</strong> study and on a number of large multi-centre random<strong>is</strong>ed<br />

controlled trials (> $7,000,000.00 funding) many of which <strong>the</strong><br />

Alfred ICU <strong>is</strong> a lead site.<br />

A/<strong>Prof</strong> Robert Salamonsen, Emeritus Intensiv<strong>is</strong>t<br />

<strong>MB</strong> ChB, FANZCA,<strong>FCICM</strong>, MD, Cert Hyperbaric Med<br />

Associate professor Salamonsen holds <strong>the</strong> post of Emeritus<br />

Consultant in Intensive Care at The Alfred Hospital as well as an<br />

academic appointment in <strong>the</strong> Department of Surgery at Monash<br />

University. He has spent most of h<strong>is</strong> working life in <strong>the</strong> fields of<br />

Cardiac Intensive Care and Perfusion. He pioneered <strong>the</strong><br />

introduction of ECMO and Ventricular Ass<strong>is</strong>t Devices into clinical<br />

service at The Alfred and establ<strong>is</strong>hed <strong>the</strong> ICU service for patients<br />

presenting for cardiac and lung transplantation. He has<br />

conducted research in rotary heart pumps with particular focus<br />

on <strong>the</strong> Australian Ventrass<strong>is</strong>t LVAS and has publ<strong>is</strong>hed widely in<br />

<strong>the</strong> field of mechanical ass<strong>is</strong>t to heart and lungs.<br />

Currently h<strong>is</strong> research interests are <strong>the</strong> development of Starlinglike<br />

physiological control systems for rotary blood pumps and<br />

feasibility studies on <strong>the</strong> technique of preservation and<br />

transplantation of <strong>the</strong> heart after cardiac death.<br />

Dr. Alex Padiglione, <strong>MB</strong><strong>BS</strong> (Hons) (Monash) <strong>FRACP</strong> PhD<br />

(Monash)<br />

<strong>is</strong> an Infectious D<strong>is</strong>eases Physician in <strong>the</strong> Infectious D<strong>is</strong>eases Department at<br />

<strong>the</strong> Alfred Hospital and has portfolio responsibility for Intensive Care & Burns<br />

Infections.<br />

H<strong>is</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r interests include Travel medicine, HIV medicine and medical<br />

education.<br />

He also works at Monash Medical Centre where he <strong>is</strong> <strong>the</strong> head of Monash<br />

Travel Health, and runs an Intensive Care Consultation service with <strong>the</strong> ICU at<br />

Dandenong Hospital in Melbourne. H<strong>is</strong> current research interests include <strong>the</strong><br />

epidemiology of burns wound infection, and antibiotic prescribing in ICU.

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