Guillaume Alinier
Guillaume Alinier is currently the simulation programme co-ordinator for the Sidra Medical and Research Center in Qatar where he is involved in the development of a new state-of-the-art simulation training facility that will be used for the on-boarding of staff to the new Sidra hospital.
Guillaume's career in healthcare education started in 2000 at the University of Hertfordshire as British Heart Foundation research co-ordinator with a background in physics. Following a rapid academic career progression, he became the equivalent of an Associate Professor in 2005, as well as Secretary to the Society in Europe for Simulation Applied to Medicine (SESAM) where he served until 2009 when he was invited to the join the Executive Committee of the UK Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) as Treasurer.
Guillaume was instrumental in the development of simulation education at the University of Hertfordshire and what became the largest university-based UK multiprofessional clinical simulation centre, called the Hertfordshire Intensive Care and Emergency Simulation Centre (HICESC).
He has received two key awards from the Higher Education Academy because of his endeavour and innovative work in healthcare education, including a National Teaching Fellowship in 2006 and a Senior Fellowship in 2009. He has organized and chaired two major conferences for the National Association of Medical Simulators in 2007 (now called ASPiH) and the 2008 SESAM annual meeting.
Guillaume has been Faculty to the International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare since 2006 and is one of the co-chairs for the 2012 conference. He has published several papers and book chapters in the field of healthcare simulation and has been involved in numerous national and European projects around nursing and healthcare education at various levels, simulation centre design, and patient safety facilitator training.
Stephene Burgess
Stephen Burgess is a Research Fellow at the Department of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University, Australia.
His current research interests are: public health; measures of population health; health needs of the elderly in the community; health needs of those with chronic and long-term illness and evidence-based paramedic practice.
Stephen is a member of Paramedics Australasia and maintains currency of clinical practice as an intensive care paramedic with Ambulance Victoria.
Tim Essington
Tim Essington became a paramedic in 1990 and over the past 20+ years has worked as a road paramedic in Alberta, Canada in both urban and rural settings. Currently, he works on-car as a casual paramedic in the small city of Wetaskiwin.
Tim began teaching paramedics in 1995. Most recently, he has been involved in the instruction of the paramedic programme at Lakeland College in Camrose, Alberta. In 2010, Tim graduated with a PhD in adult education from the University of Alberta. Later in that year, he travelled to Scotland to participate in a 10 week project at Stirling University which studied how paramedics and police dealt with mental health emergencies originating in the prehospital setting. Also in 2010, Alberta's regulatory body, the Alberta College of Paramedics presented Tim with the Award of Excellence. This is awarded to one practitioner per year who has demonstrated excellence in their career. Tim maintains an active interest in research, and believes that it is only through research that the profession of paramedicine can be moved forward.
Peter O'Meara
Dr Peter O'Meara is the Professor of Rural and Regional Paramedicine at La Trobe University in Bendigo, Australia where a new course that focuses on the education and training of paramedics for rural and regional practice is being established. Prior to entering academia, he worked in a wide range of operational and management positions for rural ambulance services in the Australian State of Victoria.
Dr O'Meara is currently the President of the Australian and New Zealand Council of Heads of Schools of Paramedic Studies. He is a Fellow of Paramedics Australasia, a Board Member of the NSW Chapter and National Convenor of the Rural and Remote Special Interest Group.
Over more than a decade, Peter has undertaken a wide range of research related to rural health and ambulance services including the emergence of new models of paramedic practice and the management of volunteers. He was the principal researcher in the Council of Ambulance Authorities funded project, ‘The rural and regional ambulance paramedic: moving beyond emergency response’ and has more recently completed a study that identified the factors influencing the successful integration of ambulance volunteers and first responders into ambulance services. His current research and educational interests centre on the professionalization of the paramedic profession and the educational and leadership implications of these changes.
Geoffrey Tobias Miller
Geoffrey Tobias Miller is the Director of the Center for Simulation and Immersive Learning at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in Norfolk Virginia. Geoff joined EVMS in January of 2011, and is overseeing the expansion of simulation-based educational activities, curriculum development and educational outcomes and translational research. Previously, Geoff was the Associate Director of Research and Curriculum Development for the Division of Prehospital and Emergency Healthcare at the Michael S. Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education (GCRME), University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Geoff began his career in public safety 22 years ago. Previously, Geoff worked as a paramedic firefighter with Alachua County Fire Rescue (ACFR) before moving into emergency medical services (EMS) education. During his time with ACFR, he also oversaw projects on system utilization, hospital diversions and assisted in the development and implementation of E911 system upgrades, electronic patient tracking and reporting and medical care protocol refinements.
Following his service in fire rescue, Geoff served as Associate Professor of EMS programmes at Santa Fe Community College, in Gainesville, Florida. There he led the schools participation in the pilot testing of the USDOT national standard curriculum for paramedics as a field test site.
For the past 15 years, Geoff has since worked in the areas of patient simulation, interactive multimedia computer learning systems, emergency medical skills training, terrorism response and disaster medical response and management. He is active in the areas of applied outcomes research in education, with an emphasis on the creation and improvement of methods of clinical competence assessment using advanced educational technology and simulation.
Presently, Geoff develops, implements, disseminates and evaluates innovative healthcare curricula and assessment systems that are used by a wide range of providers, schools and US Army medial teams throughout the US. Geoff is actively engaged in scholarly research and publication in EMS practice and education. He has co-authored several books including the Jones and Bartlett textbooks and instructor resource materials for ‘National Incident Management System: Principles and Practice’ and ‘Arrhythmia Recognition the Art of Interpretation’. Geoff is a frequent author in emergency medical services and emergency care journals authoring and co-authoring numerous articles. He is a frequent invited speaker at state and national and international conferences.
Geoff is a member of numerous local, state and national EMS professional organizations and committees advising fire rescue, emergency medical services, law enforcement, public health and hospitals. Geoff is also an active member of Florida and National educational organizations and has served twice as the President of the Florida Association of EMS Educators. In 2000, Geoff was recognized as the Paramedic Instructor of the Year by the Florida Association of EMS Educators. In 2003, the EMS Educator of the Year by the State of Florida Department of Health Bureau of EMS. In 2005 he received the Mary Ann Talley award for EMS education from the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians. In 2010, he was recognized as one of the top 10 innovators in emergency medical services in the US.
Stewart Stancil
US Army CPT Stewart Stancil MD, is a current emergency medicine resident at Ft. Hood Darnall Army Medical Center. He is a paramedic with flight paramedic and critical care paramedic credentials. Stew attended medical school at East Tennessee State University, after working in EMS for several years. He became interested in EMS initially as a way to help others. His career in EMS led to a consuming desire to learn all about the diseases of trauma and medicine seen in the patients he cared for. His interests include EMS medical direction, ultrasound, and critical care.
As an Army EM physician, Stew is priveleged to work with highly trained Army medics, nurses, and PAs. He also participates in cutting edge emergency medicine research. Being a paramedic and Army physician gives him a unique insight into applying prehospital emergency medicine in sometimes austere environments, as well as an opportunity to provide aid and goodwill to people in need throughout the world. Outside interests are arboriculture and horticulture, especially in regards to how their use and development can be used in the practice of austere emergency medicine worldwide.