Dr Johnson has a strong track record of achievement having authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, supervision of successful PhD, Honours and summer students and being the recipient of numerous national and international awards and grants.

Col Jennifer is the Chief of the Joint Trauma System.  Prior to assuming this position, she was a surgeon at the US Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center.  She also works at Brook Army Medical Center as a trauma surgeon. COL Gurney was the first chair of Defense Committee on Trauma, she was also the Chair of the Committee on Surgical Combat Casualty Care for three years.  She joined the US Army while at Boston University Medical School on a Health Professions Service Program Scholarship and did her surgical training at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.  She did a Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at Stanford Hospital and spending a year at the University of California San Francisco at San Francisco General Hospital. 

She has deployed 8 times in support of military operations and has received a Legion of Merit with a ‘C’ (combat) device, three Bronze Star Medals, a Combat Action Badge and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal for wartime service.   She has had the opportunity to work at every level of care after ‘Role 1’ in the deployed battlefield trauma system and has focused her surgical career to improving care of the combat casualty. 

Dr Andre is Director of Research/Chief Scientific Officer, US Army Institute of Surgical Research; Hematology-Oncology Consultant to the US Army Surgeon General; Professor of Medicine, Uniformed Services University Biography:COL Cap received a BA from Harvard University, an MS in Technology & Policy from MIT, and worked in management consulting at Arthur D. Little and in policy consulting at Industrial Economics before enrolling in the Boston University School of Medicine where he earned an MD magna cum laude and a PhD in Pathology, and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. 

He completed Internal Medicine residency and Hematology-Oncology fellowship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, with additional training in Stem Cell Transplantation at NIH. He currently serves as Director of Research for the US Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR), with a staff of over 250 and a budget of over $60M, executing the DoD’s primary intramural research program in combat casualty care. COL Cap previously served as Chair, USAISR Coagulation and Blood Research, and led efforts to develop improved blood products as well as study mechanisms of acute traumatic coagulopathy, blood-device interactions in extracorporeal life support systems, and cellular therapies for trauma, burns and radiation injury.

 COL Cap has served as fellowship director for the San Antonio Military Medical Center Clinical Research Fellowship, Associate Program Director for the Hematology-Oncology Fellowship and as Medical Director for the Fort Sam Houston Akeroyd Blood Donor Center. COL Cap is an active hematologist and transplant physician, a Professor of Medicine at Uniformed Services University, an Adjoint Professor of Biology and adjunct faculty in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas – San Antonio, and an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Centers in Houston & San Antonio. He has published over 290 peer-reviewed papers, 8 book chapters, and has filed several patent applications. He is an Associate Editor of Transfusion and Co-Editor of the Military Supplement of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery and is on the editorial board of Shock and the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. 

COL Cap served as Chief of Medicine in a Combat Support Hospital deployed to CENTCOM and has provided strategic support to the Armed Services Blood Program, the Joint Trauma System, SOCOM, INDOPACOM, AFRICOM and EUCOM. He served as Co-Chair of the NATO Blood Panel for five years. He currently serves as the Hematology-Oncology Consultant to the US Army Surgeon General.

Dr Neville is a full-time anaesthetist at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Nedlands, Western Australia, and a Clinical Professor at The University of Western Australia.  He has over 30 years’ experience in anaesthesia for cardiac surgery and liver transplantation.  His research interests include perioperative coagulation and point-of-care coagulation monitoring.  He is a former Chief Editor of ‘Anaesthesia and Intensive Care’, and remains an Associate Editor.  He was also the Editor of three triennial ‘Safety of Anaesthesia in Australia’ reports.  More recently he completed an MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care at Oxford University and has published several articles and editorials on the correct interpretation of statistics in anaesthesia research.

Dr Sperry is a Professor, Section Chief and Acute Care Surgery fellowship director with a primary appointment in the Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and General Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on clinical outcomes following traumatic injury and primarily on massive transfusion, prehospital resuscitation, early correction of the coagulopathy which complicates injury. Prof Sperry is the Principal Investigator for the LITES network, a multicenter trauma network to execute clinical trials for the Department of Defense.

Jon Newman is a project officer with the NSW Institute of Trauma and Injury Management, Agency of Clinical Innovation NSW Health. His work involves improving the trauma system by leading statewide innovative projects. He has a passion for innovation in areas of blood management and other system change by considering how emerging technologies deliver better patient outcomes.

Jon has previously worked in various critical care areas, with the majority in NSW Ambulance, in fixed-wing retrieval as a flight nurse, and the Aeromedical Control Centre (ACC). In his role at the ACC Jon was pivotal in the introduction and establishment of the clinical coordinator program and various core clinical/operational initiatives. 

These initiatives include the clinical leadership in the establishment of a blood management program with the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) in providing blood products to RFDS medical teams and the Retrieval Transfusion Procedure (RTP). 

The RTP is a highly successful collaborative program where blood products are delivered to Helicopter Emergency Medical Service teams caring for patients with critical bleeding, especially in prehospital and remote environments.Jon has a particular interest in geospatial applications for health. He is the architect of the critical care database iTRACC, which is a pivotal tool used in the RTP processes in locating blood resources throughout NSW, Australia.

Dr Joe is a Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon with over 10 years of clinical experience. He graduated medicine from the University of Newcastle in 2002 and completed his FRACS – Vascular from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2014. He did a mini-fellowship in Paediatric Vascular Surgery at Great Ormond St Hospital, LondonHe is a Consultant Vascular and Endovascular surgeon at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, where he is also Supervisor of Vascular Training and a member of the State Sarcoma Service.

He is a Consultant to the Perth Children’s Hospital and King Edward Memorial Hospital.Joe has extensive experience and an interest in the minimally invasive (endovascular) treatment of complex aortic aneurysm repair, both in the abdomen and thorax. He works at the forefront of new and emerging developments in the management of peripheral vascular disease, which facilitates his management of complex occlusions in the legs, ulcers of the legs with a particular interest in diabetic feet.

 He is also very experienced in the treatment of Thoracic Outlet syndrome.Joe is regularly invited to speak at national and international conferences on aspects of aneurysm repair and revascularisation of the leg, especially newly introduced devices.He is involved in research undertaken at the Heart and Vascular Research Institute at the Harry Perkin’s Institute (on the Sir Charles Gairdner campus), and is an Adjunct Clinical Senior Lecturer at Curtin University.

James Preuss is a cardiothoracic and liver transplant anaesthetist based at Sir Charles Hospital in Perth Western Australia. He has completed his Cardiothoracic fellowship at Barts Heart Centre in London where he still holds an honorary consultant position. His clinical interests in aortic surgery, ECMO and echocardiography.

He completed a research degree by thesis at The University of Western Australia and is the Deputy Director of Research at SCGH. His research interests include patterns of coagulopathy in end stage liver failure, optimal transfusion triggers in liver transplant patients, the use of cell salvage technologies in malignancy, novel uses of extracorporeal circulation support, and the diagnostic accuracy of point of care coagulation testing. He has presented his work at national and international conferences and has published in numerous anaesthesia and surgical journals. He has a passion of teaching and holds teaching roles including co-convener for the WA ANZCA Part 2 examination short course and is a committee member for the ANZCA Training Accreditation Committee.