LITFL Authors

We are Australasian emergency and critical care physicians, nurses and healthcare professionals exploring the changing world of eLearning, emergency medicine, critical care and toxicology through clinical cases, fictionalized anecdotes and medical satire.

Many people have contributed to this website and we are thankful to them all for their hard work.

Dr Caitriona McKennedy LITFL Author

MB Bch BAO - National University of Ireland, Galway. From Ireland, living in Australia, chasing the Emergency Medicine dream. Interests include Emergency Medicine, Psychiatry and Paediatrics. Also passionate about Ultimate Frisbee. Curator of @LITFLblog on instagram

maeve mclaughlin LITFL Author 2

Derry Girl. Emergency Medicine RMO at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth. University of Nottingham Graduate BMBS BMedSci.  Interested in Respiratory Medicine, Intensive Care and Medical Education.

Dr Ciselle Meier LITFL author

Emergency registrar at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth

Dr James Miers LITFL Author 2021

Dr James Miers BSc BMBS (Hons) FACEM, Staff Specialist  Emergency Medicine, Prince of Wales Hospital. Lead author of Lead author of Emergency Procedures App | Twitter | YouTube |

Dr Ruth Heledd Morgan LITFL author

Studied Physiological Sciences BA (Hons), followed by Medicine at the University of Oxford BM BCh. British doctor currently working in emergency medicine in Perth, Australia. Special interests include acute internal medicine and emergency medicine.

Community emergency physician with a passion for education, evidence based medicine, and life, working in the Greater Toronto Area (that’s in Canada) | @First10EM | Website |

Dr Christopher Moseley BM BSc Hons FACEM DDU LITFL 2

Chris is an Emergency Medicine Specialist with an interest in diagnostic and procedural ultrasound. He works at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, Western Australia. In addition to working in a tertiary Emergency Department he has experience in retrieval medicine with Royal Flying Doctor Service Western Operations, acute patient transport co-ordination with WA Country Health Service and in education as director of MedVault Education in Association with the Australian Medical Association WA.

GP trainee in the UK after three years of Emergency Medicine in Brisbane and Perth. Fascinated by the history of medicine.

Dr David Mountain LITFL

Assoc Prof Emergency Medicine at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital | LinkedIn |

Prof Bret P. Nelson, MD Mount Sinai LITFL Author

Bret P. Nelson, MD, AEMUS-FPD, FACEP. Professor of Emergency Medicine, System Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine, System Chief of the EM Ultrasound Division Mount Sinai Hospital | Sinai EM |

Chris is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at The Alfred ICU, where he is Deputy Director (Education). He is a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, the Lead for the  Clinician Educator Incubator programme, and a CICM First Part Examiner.

He is an internationally recognised Clinician Educator with a passion for helping clinicians learn and for improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives. He was one of the founders of the FOAM movement (Free Open-Access Medical education) has been recognised for his contributions to education with awards from ANZICS, ANZAHPE, and ACEM.

His one great achievement is being the father of three amazing children.

On Bluesky, he is @precordialthump.bsky.social and on the site that Elon has screwed up, he is @precordialthump.

| INTENSIVE | RAGE | Resuscitology | SMACC

Dr Tatiana Ninkov LITFL author 2

BSc, MD from University of Western Australia. Junior Doctor currently working at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.

LITFL Author David G O'rien Medmastery

David G. O’Brien, MD FRCP. Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Clinical Director of Cardiology at the Lincolnshire Heart Centre in the UK, and is a passionate teacher.| Medmastery|

Nuria O'Mahony LITFL Author

Nuria O'Mahony Emergency Nurse Practitioner MNP MNS PGDipCritCare DipHSNurs GradCertNPresc NP, RN, RNP

Dr Conor O'Reilly, MB BCh BAO BComm, University College Dublin / Dublin City University, Ireland. In Australia working in Emergency Medicine with an interest in Sports medicine

Rainer Oberbauer LITFL Author Medmastery

Rainer Oberbauer, MD MSc. Nephrologist. Chairman of the nephrology department at the Medical University of Vienna. | Medmastery |

Dr Lorcán Oliver LITFL author

MB BCh BAO MSc. I am currently working as an ED RMO in Perth, Australia. I completed my NHS Foundation Training in Northern Ireland before flying to Australia and embracing the outdoor lifestyle it has to offer. I have enjoyed competing for my County Hurling and Gaelic Football teams, and have always taken a keen interest in sports. I am a keen traveller and look forward to exploring more of the continent.

As a fluent Irish speaker, I always try to use my Gaeilge chomh minic agus is feidir!

 

Kevin Ostrowski LITFL author

Dr Kevin Ostrowski BSc (Hons) MBBS FACEM. Staff Specialist Emergency Medicine - St Vincent’s Hospital; Retrieval Specialist – CareFlight

Dr Will Palmer LITFL Author

Will Palmer, fourth Year Medical Student at the University of Bristol. Editor Black Bag magazine (2025); Events Director for Bristol University Emergency Medicine Society; National Child Protection Director for the charity Sexpression:UK

GP working in Broome in the NW of Western Australia. I work as a hospital DMO (District Medical Officer) doing Emergency, Anaesthestics, some Obstetrics and a lot of miscellaneous primary care | @broomedocs | BroomeDocs |

Dr James Pearlman LITFL Author

ICU Provisional Fellow BMedSci [Newcastle], BMed [Newcastle], MMed(CritCare) [Sydney] from a broadacre farm who found himself in a quaternary metropolitan ICU. Always trying to make medical education more interesting and appropriately targeted; pre-hospital and retrieval curious; passionate about equitable access to healthcare; looking forward to sitting on a tractor at harvest time. Student of LITFL.

Prof. Nicolas Peschanski currently works as a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Urgences Adultes-SAMU-35 SMUR, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes. Nicolas does research in Emergency Medicine at U1096 INSERM EnVI Normandy University research Unit. He's Associate Prof. teaching Clinical Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Rennes-1 University School of Medicine. Involved in the #FOAMed development, he is a current member of the french Society of Emergency Medicine Guideline Committee.

 

Jessica Phillips, MD LITFL author medmastery

Teacher Recruitment Manager at Medmastery. I completed my medical degree at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and worked as a pediatric resident physician before moving into medical course development. I received the Excellence in Public Health Award and have developed multiple training courses and presentations for medical students.

Dr Thomas Pike LITFL Author
MBBCh, Cardiff University. Currently working in emergency medicine in Australia. Aspiring anaesthetist. Enjoy football, rugby (more so watching than playing) and the occasional surf.
Bernardo Vidal Pimentel LITFL Author

Internal Medicine Resident | FOAMed enthusiast

Dr Matthew Quo LITFL Author

WA emergency doctor

Elaine Rabin MD Mount Sinai LITFL author

Dr. Elaine Rabin is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and the Program Director for the Residency in Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital | Sinai EM |

BA MA (Oxon) MBChB (Edin) FACEM FFSEM. Emergency physician, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Passion for rugby; medical history; medical education; and asynchronous learning #FOAMed evangelist. Co-founder and CTO of Life in the Fast lane | On Call: Principles and Protocol 4e| Eponyms | Books |