| OAM, BMedSci(Hons),
MBBS, MEd, MPH, FRACGP, FIMC(RCSEd), FAFPHM, FASMF |
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Frank is currently the director of the
Monash University Centre for Ambulance and Paramedic Studies.
He was previously the State Ambulance Medical Director for
Victoria in the Department of Human Services - a position
he had held for the previous 20 years. He also held a concurrent
appointment as one of the four Medical Directors for the
Metropolitan Ambulance Service in Melbourne for the past
12 years.
Frank's first contact with the ambulance
service was when he was employed as an Ambulance Officer
during his long vacations whilst a medical student. He presented
his first paper at the First Seminar on the Management of
Road Traffic Casualties conducted by the Royal Australasian
College of Surgeons in 1999. The title of his paper was,
"Care Before Casualty - Current Shortcomings".
Following his graduation and hospital residences,
Frank combined clinical practice as a general practitioner
with (initially) a four year period teaching anatomy to
medical students at Monash University and later in a range
of appointments within the Ambulance Service. Frank commenced
a formal appointment as the "Ambulance Service Medical
Officer" in 1976, combining
responsibilities primarily for the development of the Mobile
Intensive Care Ambulance program in Victoria, within both
the Department of Human Services and the Metropolitan Ambulance
Service, whilst based at the Ambulance Officers' Training
Centre. These concurrent appointments continued until his
appointment at Monash University in May 1999.
During these ambulance appointments, Frank
has been a member of many teams which have led a series
of innovations in ambulance policy, research and development,
clinical practice education and operations, many of which
have been benchmarks for interstate programs and have attracted
international attention.
Frank has post graduate clinical fellowships
in general practice, immediate medical care and public health
medicine. He is also a member of a number of national and
international committees in the area of prehospital care. |
