Dr Alex Wurm MBBS, FACEM, FCICM
Alex is currently a Co-Deputy Director of the Intensive Care Unit at St Andrew’s Hospital, having been Director from 2014 until 2023. He initially trained as a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and worked in the Emergency Department at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, before ‘seeing the light’ and completing studies in Intensive Care, attaining his FCICM. He subsequently commenced work as a Consultant Intensivist at Flinders Medical Centre, before returning to the full-time staff of the RAH Intensive Care Unit in 2007. Alex joined AICS in 2012, and has divided his time between St Andrew’s and the RAH since then.
current appointments
Co-Deputy Director, ICU, St Andrews Hospital
Senior Staff Specialist, ICU, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Senior Clinical Lecturer, Acute Care Medicine, University of Adelaide
special interests
Teaching and education
Management of traumatic injuries
EMST Course Director and BASIC Course Instructor
Dr Nick Edwards MBBS, FRACP, FCICM
Nick gained Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of Physicians (FRACP) and Fellowship of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FCICM) before being appointed as a Staff Specialist for the Trauma Service at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 2000. He switched to full-time Intensive Care at the RAH in 2002, and currently divides his time between there and St Andrew’s. He has a keen interest in teaching and training, having been a Supervisor of Training for the College of Intensive Care Medicine since 2008, and on the Board of Examiners for the College since 2012. He is the Convenor of the South Australian Intensive Care Fellowship Examination Course, a Director of Early Management of Severe Trauma (EMST - RACS) Courses, and an Instructor of Basic Intensive Care Medicine (BASIC) Courses.
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Co-Deputy Director, ICU, St Andrew’s Hospital
Senior Staff Specialist, ICU, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Supervisor of Training (CICM), ICU, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Board of Examiners, College of Intensive Care Medicine (Fellowship Exam)
Senior Clinical Lecturer, Acute Care Medicine, University of Adelaide
COMMITTEES AT ST ANDREW’S HOSPITAL
Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee
sPECIAL INTERESTS
Teaching and education
Adelaide Crows and Tottenham Hotspur
Professor Marianne Chapman BMBS, PhD, FFARCSI, FANZCA, FCICM
Professor Chapman is an academic in the Discipline of Acute Care Medicine in the University of Adelaide and a clinician in the Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (Flinders University, Adelaide 1982) and 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 Discipline of Acute Care Medicine at the University of Adelaide and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine at Monash University in Melbourne. She was an Intensivist in the ICU at the Royal Adelaide Hospital from 1994 and the Director of Research from 1998 until 2022. As Director of Research she led 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 numerous national and international meetings.
She has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers (over 50 in the past 5 years, 4 invited book chapters, 6 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’.
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Professor, Acute Care Medicine, University of Adelaide
Senior Specialist, ICU, St Andrew’s Hospital
SPECIAL INTERESTS
ICU research - especially nutrition and feeding
Dr Jonathan Fraser MBBS, FCICM
Jon is the current Director of the Intensive Care Unit at St Andrew’s, having taken over from Alex Wurm in 2023. He completed his ICU training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, before spending 2 years working in the Royal North Shore and Royal Prince Alfred ICUs in Sydney. He returned to Adelaide in 2014 when he was appointed as a Staff Specialist at the RAH, before also joining AICS later that year. Jon is Co-convenor of Cardiothoracic Advanced Life Support (CALS) Courses and Director of Postoperative Care of the Cardiothoracic Patient (PCCP-RAH) Courses.
COMMITTEES AT ST ANDREW’S HOSPITAL
Hospital Medical Committee
SPECIAL INTERESTS
Management of cardiothoracic patients
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Director, ICU, St Andrew’s Hospital
Senior Staff Specialist, ICU, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Associate Professor Mary White MB BCh, BAO, FFARCSI, FJFICMI
Mary studied undergraduate medicine in Ireland and completed the Irish Fellowship in Anaesthesia. She worked as a Consultant in Anaesthesia in Ireland before coming to Australia and working in Intensive Care for 12 months at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (1994).
Mary then returned to Australia in 1996 to join the full-time staff at the RAH, working half-time in Anaesthesia and half-time in Intensive Care. She subsequently switched to full time Intensive Care in 2000, splitting her time between the RAH and St Andrew’s. She was Director of the ICU at St Andrew’s for the next 14 years, and continues to work at both hospitals. Mary is the coordinator of the Annual Tub Worthley Traveling Research Scholarship for ICU registrars, is an Instructor on BASIC Courses, and is a Past-President of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society.
COMMITTEES AT ST ANDREW’S HOSPITAL
Morbidity and Mortality Committee
SPECIAL INTERESTS
Teaching and education, including undergraduate students
Mentorship
CURRENT POSITIONS
Senior Specialist, ICU, St Andrew’s Hospital
Senior Staff Specialist, ICU, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Associate Professor, Acute Care Medicine, University of Adelaide
Chair of the South Australian Board of the Medical Board of Australia
Associate Professor Robert Young MBBS, FCICM, FANZCA, Grad Dip Health, MHSM
Rob graduated from the University of Adelaide Medical School in 1986. He achieved Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists in 1992 and Fellowship of the Faculty of Intensive (now FCICM) in 1994. Completed a Graduate Diploma of Health in 1999 and a Masters of Health Service Management in 2003, both at Flinders University.
From 1994 until 1996, Rob undertook an appointment as a visiting lecturer and then associate professor with the Chinese University of Hong Kong and worked in the Intensive Care Unit at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong.
He was appointed to the Royal Adelaide Hospital as Consultant in Intensive Care in 1996, as well as being the Director of the St Andrew's Hospital ICU from 1996 until 2000. He was appointed as Director of Clinical Intensive Care at the RAH in 2007, and then the Director of the ICU from 2018 to 2014.
Rob was an examiner for the Fellowship Examination of the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine for over 10 years, and was appointed Deputy Chair of the Court of Examiners in 2006.
COMMITTEES AT ST ANDREW’S HOSPITAL
Peer Review Committee
SPECIAL INTERESTS
Teaching and education
CURRENT POSITIONS
Senior Specialist, ICU, St Andrew’s Hospital
Senior Staff Specialist, ICU, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Associate Professor, Acute Care Medicine, University of Adelaide
Associate Professor Benjamin Reddi MBBS, MA, PhD, FRCP(UK), FCICM
Ben graduated from Cambridge University, worked in Edinburgh and Nottingham (Queens Medical Centre), and completed a Fellowship in advanced cardiopulmonary support before emigrating to Australia.
He completed his specialist training in ICU (FCICM) in 2010, joined the RAH as a full-time Intensive Care Specialist in 2011, and became a member of AICS in 2023.
Ben undertook a sabbatical in a specialist cardiothoracic unit in the United Kingdom during 2015, specialising in ECMO,
He is currently undertaking research into the basic physiology of vascular smooth muscle contraction and platelet function and their derangement in septic shock. These studies involve both human and animal work, translating molecular physiology insights into potential therapeutic strategies. The team uses both functional assays of isolated blood vessel contractility, molecular assays of contractile protein activity patch clamp techniques and whole blood impedance aggregometry. Previous research interests include using systems analysis in the fields of neurobiology (the LATER [linear approach to threshold at ergodic rate] model of decision making) and cardiac physiology (the 'venous excess' model of cardiac function). He has been a member of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group Committee.
CURRENT POSITIONS
Senior Specialist, ICU, St Andrew’s Hospital
Senior Staff Specialist, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Associate Professor, School of Medicine and Molecular Physiology of Vascular Function Laboratory, University of Adelaide
Clinical Evaluator, Adelaide Health Technology Assessment