Dr. Elissa Kennedy-Smith is a senior Emergency Physician who has worked in many different Emergency Departments throughout Victoria and NSW. She loves working with the huge variety of patients who need specialist Emergency care and being able to help them in many different scenarios and locations. She has sub-specialty interests in both Point of Care Ultrasound (gaining her Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound- Emergency Medicine in 2017), as well as in Early Pregnancy and is the Current Chair of the ACEM Emergency Department Ultrasound Committee. She loves working in the physical emergency department but has now developed a new passion for Emergency Telehealth and looks forward to many years of working in this field. 

Dr Andrew Dean is a passionate advocate for the benefits of telehealth in extending specialist emergency medical care to people who need our service, during stressful and critical times. He has been a practising emergency specialist doctor (FACEM) for nearly 30 years, working at St John of God Hospital Ballarat, in regional Victoria.  

In 1984 Dr Dean completed his medical degree at the University of Melbourne, and moved to Ballarat Base Hospital to undertake post-graduate training.  He worked briefly in general practice also, and achieved his Fellowship of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine in 1992.  Dr Dean has been involved with leadership in clinical, administrative and educational roles since then, and is actively involved teaching medical students in his Emergency Department whenever he works.  His areas of interest include risk management, clinical simulation, team building in critical care areas, and personal resilience and well being when working in stressful healthcare environments.  His passion for medicine extends into educating co-workers about a holistic approach to their practice of emergency medical care.  

In 2017, Dr Andrew Dean published a book titled ‘Moving Light: Meditation Journeys’ which encourages the use of meditation on a daily basis to achieve inner mind and body balance. It is through his dedication to strengthening the inner self, that he has been able to combine his clinical skills with an intuitive awareness of the patient’s needs. 

Dr Sue Ieraci studied a medical degree at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1983. She did her internship and most of her post-graduate training at St Vincents Hospital in Sydney, before achieving her Fellowship in Emergency Medicine at the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine in 1990. Her first consultant position was in Vancouver, Canada, before returning to continue her specialist career in Australia.  

Dr Ieraci thoroughly enjoys conversing with people and throughout her medical career she has actively participated in writing and vocalising her passion for patient-centred care. She has contributed to the Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine, 4th Edition (Jelinek ed.) and writes for The Medical Journal of Australia’s blog site, MJA Insight. 

After 35 years in public hospital medicine, Dr Ieraci discovered telemedicine with My Emergency Doctor and hasn’t looked back. She is often commended on her ability to deconstruct complex medical knowledge and put it in context for patients to have them instantly understand. Her satisfaction in her role as a FACEM is reflected in the many meaningful conversations Dr Ieraci enjoys in her telemedicine work – from joking with jovial seniors to sharing frank end-of-life discussions with families, and supporting other clinicians in remote settings. Her wealth of experience is now distilled to provide a service she has endless curiosity and passion in delivering. 

Assoc. Professor Paoloni is the Chief Medical Advisor for My Emergency Doctor, coordinating the activities of the FACEMs employed by the company. He is an experienced senior emergency physician, Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (FACEM) and an Associate Professor with the University of Sydney. Richard was Chair of the ACEM Workforce Subcommittee for eight years and a member of the ACEM Standards Committee.  Previous roles include the NSW Faculty Chair of ACEM (4 years) and Director of Emergency Medicine at Concord Hospital (12 years). He has a strong interest in streamlining access to emergency care, developing and refining new models of care and promoting high quality service within emergency medicine consultations. 

Dr Catherine Kizana was born in London, UK. She studied an undergraduate medical degree in Birmingham before moving countries to Sydney, Australia to complete her fellowship with the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine. For the four years following her accredited degree, Dr Kizana worked as a senior emergency specialist doctor at Blacktown Hospital, Sydney. Today, she enjoys juggling her life as a mum of a two year old and continuing her role as a senior emergency specialist doctor via telehealth.

My Emergency Doctor has allowed Dr Kizana to extend her caring nature to people when they are at their most vulnerable. Her greatest asset is her passion for communication. She approaches a medical assessment by carefully listening to her patients and taking the time to navigate a complete understanding of their symptoms. Additionally, she prides herself on uncomplicated delivery of medical reviews that leaves her patients feeling safe, reassured, and well looked after. 

A Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (FACEM), Justin is an experienced senior emergency physician with more than 25 years experience working in the hospital system, both in Australia and overseas. He is also the ACEM representative on the ultrasound group of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine, a Professor for the Ultrasound Leadership Academy, and Director of Emergency Ultrasound at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. A former member of the ACEM ultrasound subcommittee, Justin is also a published author (Emergency Ultrasound Made Easy, Bowra and McLaughlin, 2nd ed and Point of Care Ultrasound for Emergency Medicine and Resuscitation, 1st ed) and is also a Medical Advisor to Echonous Pty Ltd. His passions include telehealth, tele-education and ultrasound. 

Dr Rebecca Zimmer is a Canadian-born emergency specialist doctor. She completed her medical training at the University of Calgary and went on to become a Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (FACEM) in 2012. Dr Zimmer has a diverse range of experience having worked as a locum doctor in Australia and as a retrieval doctor for CareFlight, an aeromedical retrieval service.   
   
One of her passions is medicine in the developing world. She has done a number of stints of time working in various regions of Africa. Today, Dr Zimmer works part time at a hospital in Hamburg, Germany as a medical consultant in a busy emergency department. Her natural ability in communicating with people from all walks of life makes patients feel comfortable in her care. Dr Zimmer prides herself on exercising empathy and good communication to determine what her patients need.  

Dr Adam Chan completed his undergraduate medical training at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). After completing his internship in Sydney, he underwent training in general surgery in Hong Kong. On his return to Sydney, he changed his career pathway and undertook specialist training in emergency medicine which was a relatively new specialty at the time.

Dr Chan has been a practicing Emergency Medicine Specialist (FACEM) for more than 30 years. He was the Director of Emergency Medicine at St George Hospital (NSW) for 20 years and served as an examiner with the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine for 25 years. He is also a Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at UNSW, and he continues to be actively involved in the education and training of medical students and young doctors.

Dr Marian Lee studied medicine at the University of Melbourne and proceeded to complete her medical training at Royal Melbourne Hospital. She then moved to Sydney where she studied pediatrics for a year, followed by training at Liverpool Hospital in NSW. In 1996, Dr Lee was accredited her Fellowship in emergency medicine at the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM).  She has worked clinically in Emergency Medicine since attaining her specialist qualification and has been involved in all aspects of emergency medicine including management and education. She is also an actively involved in the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. 

Dr Lee is motivated to apply her clinical synthesis and management knowledge in order to evolve in her medical practice. She uses her natural ability as an effective problem-solver to undergo thorough medical assessments. Dr Lee also places high value on patient experience. She enjoys interacting with patients and they in turn, appreciate her kind, calm approach, that provides necessary assurance to best manage their health.  

Phil Offer has held senior executive roles over twenty years in digital health and telco organisations. Prior to joining, he was CEO at George Health Technologies growing its chronic disease management system across Australia and Asia. Phil also led the turnaround of the Medical Director division at Healius Limited which resulted in a successful sale of the business. Before entering the digital health sector, Phil was a Vice President at Optus working across finance, sales and marketing. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, outside of work he is a board member of Poetry in Action, a touring theatre company focused on increasing literacy levels in children.

Richard is the Chief Medical Advisor for My Emergency Doctor, coordinating the activities of the FACEMs employed by the company. He is an experienced senior emergency physician, Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (FACEM) and an Associate Professor with the University of Sydney. Richard is currently the Chair of the ACEM Workforce Subcommittee and a member of the ACEM Standards Committee. Previous roles include the NSW Faculty Chair of ACEM (4 years) and Director of Emergency Medicine at Concord Hospital (12 years). He has a strong interest in streamlining access to emergency care, developing and refining new models of care and promoting high quality service within emergency medicine consultations.

Andy has held executive IT roles in health & human services, software and management consulting.

He has a proven history of leading highly engaged technology and transformation groups - developing winning strategies, strengthening architecture and program governance and delivering material business results.

Groups Andy has led have delivered significant results, from which highlights include: top line growth together with improved clinical outcomes through data analytics and data science, matching evolving clinical needs with funding eligibility; a $2m saving in annual opex through careful redesign and overhaul of three categories of commodity IT outsourcing; reduced medication errors and adverse events through the design and roll out of a complex and highly integrated medication management solution including pharmacies and GPs across NSW for over 80 residential aged care facilities.

After playing a key role in establishing a successful healthTech start-up in the harm reduction space, with over 20,000 active clients - Andy is particularly inspired and driven by the impact technology can have in amplifying practitioner led patient outcomes in the acute space. This has led Andy to My Emergency Doctor and his focus on driving up patient outcomes through the fusion of emergency medicine and telehealth innovation.

Commencing her career as a clinical pharmacist Veronica has a diversity of experience from the pharmaceutical industry, strategic consulting and both public and private health. 

She has spent the past ten years within the public health services of Queensland and Victoria most recently as the Director of Strategy and Planning for Monash Health. She has a breadth and depth of understanding of the health system  across rural, regional and metropolitan health across community, primary, secondary and tertiary care.

She believes the time is now for transformational change in healthcare, incorporating digital technology and new ways of working to deliver equitable access to quality care and a sustainble system.

Margot Morton is a health leader professional and Sales Director of My Emergency Doctor – A leading Emergency Telemedicine provider in Australia. Margot is passionate about improving the patient experience through transforming the delivery of emergency care. She has over 20 years of experience in the Australian healthcare industry, across virtual healthcare solutions medical and surgical devices, cloud software and pharmaceuticals. Margot holds a masters with the UNSW in Business and Information Technology and dual degrees in Bachelor of Applied Science (Medicinal & Pharmaceutical Chemistry) and Bachelor of Education.

MEDCare is the division created in service and support of our doctors and Laura manages the team who manage everything from recruitment to onboarding, rostering and relationship management and facilitating international moves for our doctors as required.

A career in international recruitment has led Laura to join the team at My Emergency Doctor.  She has successfully developed a network reaching nationally around Australia and also throughout the Middle East, UK, Canada and Asia Pacific. My Emergency Doctor has been able to capitalise on Laura’s skills leading a team in being able to develop and nurture relationships across multiple time zones in order to deliver the capacity required to meet the demand of our telehealth clients.

Richard is the Chief Medical Advisor for My Emergency Doctor, coordinating the activities of the FACEMs employed by the company. He is an experienced senior emergency physician, Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (FACEM) and an Associate Professor with the University of Sydney. Richard is currently the Chair of the ACEM Workforce Subcommittee and a member of the ACEM Standards Committee. Previous roles include the NSW Faculty Chair of ACEM (4 years) and Director of Emergency Medicine at Concord Hospital (12 years). He has a strong interest in streamlining access to emergency care, developing and refining new models of care and promoting high quality service within emergency medicine consultations.

Dr John Kennedy is a Senior Staff Specialist Emergency Physician and co-Director of Emergency Medicine Training at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital. He has a background in outer metropolitan and rural Emergency Departments and works part-time as a NSW Ambulance Retrieval Consultant. He has worked with My Emergency Doctor in an advisory role since it’s earliest days.

A Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (FACEM), Justin is an experienced senior emergency physician with more than 25 years' experience working in the hospital system, both in Australia and overseas. He is a member of the ACEM telehealth working group, and chairs the FACEM ANZ telehealth community or practice. He is also a Professor for the Ultrasound Leadership Academy, and co-director of Emergency Ultrasound at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, past deputy chair of the ACEM ultrasound subcommittee, past chair of the ASUM CCPU committee and past ACEM representative on the ultrasound group of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine. Justin is also a published author (Emergency Ultrasound Made Easy, Bowra and McLaughlin, 3rd ed and Point of Care Ultrasound for Emergency Medicine and Resuscitation, 1st ed) and is a Medical Advisor to Echonous Pty Ltd. His passions include telehealth, tele-education and ultrasound.

Dr Joseph is the current Co-Director of Trauma and senior Staff Specialist in the Emergency Department at Royal North Shore Hospital. He is also a Clinical Associate Professor at the Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney where he graduated in Medicine. He is a past –President and co-founder of the Australasian Trauma Society. He has held numerous positions as Chair and member of committees for the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and was a member of the ACEM Court of Examiners for over 15 years. He teaches medical students, trainees in Emergency Medicine and senior doctors in trauma-related courses.

Dr Joseph is an author or co-author on 40 publications published in peer-reviewed journals and has authored 8 chapters in medical textbooks. His research and teaching interests include emergency ultrasound, trauma radiology, mental health issues after trauma and trauma in the older person.

He is currently a reviewer for articles submitted to the Injury, Emergency Medicine Australasia, and the European Journal of Emergency Medicine journals.He has been an invited speaker at over 60 national and international meetings on a variety of subjects including emergency medicine, emergency ultrasound and trauma-related topics.

Dr Bowra is the Founder and Medical Director of My Emergency Doctor. He is an experienced senior emergency physician and Fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (FACEM). Additionally Justin is also the ACEM representative on the ultrasound group of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine, and a Professor for the Ultrasound Leadership Academy. A former member of the ACEM ultrasound subcommittee, he is also a published author (Emergency Ultrasound Made Easy, Bowra and McLaughlin, 2nd ed and Point of Care Ultrasound for Emergency Medicine and Resuscitation, 1st ed) and is also a Medical Advisor to Echonous Pty Ltd. His passions include telehealth, teleeducation and ultrasound.

John has enjoyed a successful Radiology, leadership and commercial career working in Australia and United Kingdom. John brings to the board of MED highly relevant experience gained from his clinical / executive role within I-MED and having successfully founded, grown and sold, Everlight Radiology, Imaging @ Olympic Park & the Regional Radiology Group.

Paul graduated from Sydney University with degrees in Economics and Law. He began his legal training with Hunt & Hunt (Sydney) before moving to Hong Kong where he worked with Baker & McKenzie for over 5 years. Paul then worked in various in-house roles including many as regional counsel/ compliance counsel. Paul’s core areas of experience are general corporate law, IT law as well as startups. Paul has been working with My Emergency Dr since January 2016.

Katie Hankinson is the Digital & Technology Operations Manager for St Vincent’s Health Australia, responsible for the service delivery across the organisations Clinical and Corporate Applications and Integration, Security Operations Centre, Communications, Systems, Networks and Data Analytics teams. Katie has a 23 year history working in health information technology, with expertise delivering countless successful health information system projects and programs. Completing further post-graduate studies and an Executive MBA, Katie has a personal objective to make a difference to people’s lives and organisations through the implementation of optimised software solutions. Katie’s leadership experience is built upon both technical and management roles working across all functions within the Health IT sector, including software design and development, project implementation, systems support and sales.

John Studdert is an advisor and investor in My Emergency Doctor.

John brings experience having founded, built and sold an award winning, highly profitable consultancy that grew to have an international footprint. After moving on from the consultancy firm, John went on to run Australia’s largest and most awarded Public Relations firm as CEO and then Chairman.

Now an angel investor, advisor and director of a number of privately owned companies John brings a skill set valuable in helping start, build and exit early stage companies. John’s formal qualifications include a Bachelor of Education (University of Sydney) and a Master of Business Administration (Macquarie University).

Todd McEwan is the Director of Acute Care Services and also the Disaster Incident Controller (HSFAC) for St Vincent’s Sydney. Responsible for providing effective leadership to the Acute Care Services and Support professions across the organisation, the position ensures the development and implementation of the clinical scope of practices for the relevant professional groups. In addition, he is also responsible for organisational performance. Across all these responsibilities, Todd has a strong track record of being on time and on budget.

Todd has a background as a Registered Nurse, (Critical Care), holds a Bachelor of Business (Economics) as well as an MBA in Organisational Behaviour.  He has been leading large organisations or part thereof in the Tertiary / Quaternary Acute care sector at an executive level for over 17 years, with his previous roles including Chief Operating Officer for Central Adelaide LHD (SA Health), Director of Clinical Operations for the Acute Hospital Network (Hunter New England LHD, NSW), and General Manager of John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle (Hunter New England LHD, NSW).