Speakers

Invited Speakers

Dr Mark Stacey

MbMchir, FRCA, ILTHE, MScMedEd

Retired Consultant Anaesthetist and Associate Dean

I worked as an obstetric anaesthetist in a tertiary referral centre in Cardiff, Wales, until May 2025, completing nearly 30 years as a consultant. I have run (and still teach on) airway courses for over 3 decades, particularly focusing on how to improve flexible fibreoptic training and successful intubation. Over that time I developed and refined my clinical and teaching experience on the practical management of the ‘difficult airway’ and the complex obstetric patient- both time critical skills. For the last 20 years I have investigated skills, training and performance under pressure. I attempted throughout my career to enhance both our day to day performance, while also learning and teaching better methods of training to manage situations such as the ‘can’t intubate, can’t oxygenate’ scenario.

I integrated much of the research on the performance of elite athletes, military, business and human factors into my NHS work and teaching. I still work with Andy McCann, a Professor of Sports Psychology and Steve Eaton a retired special forces captain, developing a system encompassing information delivery, maximising learning practical skills, resilience and cognitive workload management to maximise our all round performance.

Additionally Andy and I have spent the last 15 years looking at a skills to improve our well being (maximise our body budget!). We have designed and delivered a high quality wellbeing skills workshop called Medtrim (now available on line) that can and does deliver an enhanced toolbox of skills for you to enhance your own performance.

Dr Claire Park MBE

Dr Claire Park MBE is a Consultant in Prehospital Care with London HEMS, in Critical Care and Trauma at Kings College Hospital in London, and a reserve army consultant with 23 years of previous regular army experience including multiple deployments.

Claire has many years of experience teaching pre-hospital anaesthesia and crew resource management on the London HEMS Pre-Hospital Care Course and the UK Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) course.

Claire is the London HEMS lead for Major Incidents and the Chief Investigator on a national research project looking at ‘Improving patient outcomes in the hot zone of major incidents.’ She is the Medical Adviser for the Metropolitan Police Service, sits on the National Police Clinical Panel, is a Member of the Guidelines Committee for the Committee for Tactical Emergency Care (CTECC), and a Director and Co-Founder of the European Tactical Medical Association (ETMA).

Having worked closely with all of the emergency services in London, Dr Park has also developed a new primary scene triage tool which has now been implemented by all UK emergency services known as “Ten Second Triage.“

Professor Y C Gary Lee

Professor Y C Gary LEE is a Professor of Respiratory Medicine at UWA. His translational pleural research program at the Institute for Respiratory Health uniquely integrates clinical, laboratory and allied health research arms with the pleural service he leads at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia. He has delivered 400+ invited lectures in 34 countries and trained 30+ pleural specialists. His 350 publications (H-index 68; citations 18000+; 15 in NEJM/JAMA/Lancet group journals) included many high-impact clinical trials that changed global practice. He has been awarded the highest Research Medals/Awards of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Thoracic Soc of Australia & NZ, Asian Pacific Soc of Respirology and Cancer Council WA. He has won successive NHMRC/MRFF Fellowships since 2012, and is currently a NHMRC Leadership Fellow as well as the Director of the Centre for Pleural Research supported by the Future Health Research Innovative Fund.

Dr Hayley Herbert

MBChB, FRACS (ORL-HNS)
Perth Children’s Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia

Hayley is a dual Fellowship trained Otolaryngologist having completed Fellowships in Laryngology in London UK (North Thames Laryngology Fellowship) and Paediatric ENT in Perth Australia. She graduated from the University of Otago New Zealand and spent her specialist years in the North Island of New Zealand.

She has a special interest in Airway, Voice and Swallowing and is a member of the Complex Airway Team at Perth Children’s Hospital performing airway surgery and reconstruction. She is the Co-Director of Surgery at Perth Children’s Hospital and a Senior Clinical lecturer at the University of Western Australia.

Hayley has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles and written a book chapter. She is regularly invited as a facilitator for Paediatric and Laryngology courses.

Dr Eric Levi

FRACS, MBBS, B.Sc, PGDipSurgAnat, MPH&TM, MHA
Consultant Otolaryngologist Head & Neck Surgeon

Eric is a Melbourne based Airway Head & Neck surgeon at Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne and Eastern Health. His area of subspecialty practice is complex paediatric airway reconstruction and adult head and neck tumours. His fellowship was in Adult Head & Neck and Reconstructive Surgery in Canada and in Paediatric Airway Head & Neck Surgery in Brisbane and Auckland. He has published over 30 papers and presented over 150 lectures internationally. He loves Bintang.

Dr Anton Hinton-Bayre

Anton is a consultant ENT surgeon trained and based in Perth, Western Australia. He has also been the long-suffering Head of Department at Royal Perth Hospital for the last eight years. Anton has been the lead facilitator of the annual WAAG nasendoscopy workshop since 2019. Practising general ENT surgery, Anton has developed extensive experience in managing the difficult airway and presented to a variety of medical and non-medical professionals on the topic. He also has extensive involvement in managing chronic middle ear disease in Indigenous Australians through his regular work in Pilbara towns and remote communities. Through this work he holds an adjunct Senior Clinical Research Fellow position through the Ear Science Institute of Australia. In a previous life, having been an academic psychologist with a PhD in sports-related concussion and lecturing in statistics, Anton has well over 50 publications with multiple book chapters across these specialist interests.

Dr Robert Ma

Dr Robert Ma completed his Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) with Honours at University of New South Wales in 2011. He undertook extensive vascular and endovascular training in Australia and New Zealand before being awarded Vascular Fellowship by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS – Vasc) in 2018. Robert worked as a vascular surgery and renal access consultant in Waikato Hospital, New Zealand, before relocating to Western Australia in March 2019. Robert has key interests in carotid, aortic and renal access surgery.

Dr Samuel Fitzpatrick

Sam is a locally trained anaesthetist who completed his FANZCA in 2018 having completed the airway fellowship at Royal Perth Hospital as well as an ENT & Maxillofacial post CCT fellowship at University Hospital Bristol. He helps supervise the airway fellowship at Royal Perth Hospital. He has done a few WACHS ENT trips to Kununurra as well as locuming in Darwin which he enjoyed. Interests are airway teaching and CICO training.

Dr Carl D’Souza

The Special Committee Investigating Deaths Under Anaesthesia (SCIDUA) was formed by a New South Wales Parliamentary Act in1960 with the sole purpose of identifying reversible factors that lead to a patients death and then educating practitioners so future deaths may be avoided. Dr Carl D’Souza has served on the Committee for over 10 years and has been its Chairman for over 5 years. He is Anaesthetist who works at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney and works in both public and private sectors. His talk will involve the analysis of two airway related deaths where valuable lessons can be learned.