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.

Emergency Physician FACEM PhD (ANU), International Research in Toxicology and Medical Education | @trainthetrainer |

Intensivist and Donation Medical Specialist, Australia  | @NudratRashid |

Dr Shiuli Rathore LITFL Author

Dr Shiuli, MBBS, MD. Currently serving as Associate Professor in Forensic Medicine & Toxicology at King George's Medical University, Lucknow (India).

Dr David Raw LITFL Author

Dr David Raw BM BCh (Oxon) BA (Hons) FRCA PGCE MSc (Dist). Head of Department, Anaesthesia, Pain and Perioperative Medicine, Fiona Stanley Hospital | Twitter | LinkedIn |

Dr Hayden Richards LITFL Author Comms Lab

Hayden is an emergency physician at University Hospital Geelong and a senior lecturer at Deakin University, Geelong. He is somewhat obsessed with the science and art of effective communication, and in particular: difficult conversations. He believes that we can all get better at having difficult conversations, and that the process of learning to do so can be seriously fun.

Hayden is also an avid but terrible surfer, ad hoc gardener, and dad to two awesome kids. | LinkedIn |

Dr John Richards LITFL

Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Davis Medical Center interested in progressive treatment of substance abuse patients in the emergency department. Night shift stimulant expert (espresso)

Dr Caitlin Rigler LITFL Author
BA, BM BCh University of Oxford, PgCert (Medical Education)University of Dundee. Aspiring medical physician with a particular interest in respiratory medicine, public health and medical education
Photo of Helen Rimington, PhD - smiling brunette with her hair pulled back. Grey textured background wall.

Helen is a Consultant Cardiac Physiologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, in London (UK). She's also a co-author of Echocardiography: A Practical Guide for Reporting. | Medmastery

Dr James Rippey LITFL Ultrasound SonoCPD

An Emergency physician based in Perth, Western Australia. Professionally my passion lies in integrating advanced diagnostic and procedural ultrasound into clinical assessment and management of the undifferentiated patient. Sharing hard fought knowledge with innovative educational techniques to ensure knowledge translation and dissemination is my goal. Family, wild coastlines, native forests, and tinkering in the shed fills the rest of my contented time. | SonoCPDUltrasound library | Top 100 | @thesonocave |

U.K trained doctor, medical physician in training.

Thomas Robertson LITFL Author

Medical student University of Sydney. Currently on sabbatical with the Wallabies and Western Force rugby

Laura Rock LITFL

Dr. Laura K. Rock is a Pulmonologist and Critical Care Physician at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. She is faculty for the Center for Medical Simulation and a VitalTalk instructor. She believes the human connection is the pith to a functioning team, patient safety, and what brings the fun into our daily work. Laura strives for curiosity, respect and the spiciness of a great debrief to encourage difficult conversations and promote learning. She conducts research on interprofessional team debriefing and patient safety and runs training programs for effective and empathic communication; unit culture and how it affects teamwork, the patient experience, and clinician well-being; managing conflict at the bedside; and providing feedback that improves performance. Her most pressing personal challenge is implementing family debriefs to promote sanity and cohesion during COVID-19.

BSc, MD (UWA), MPH (UNSW). Emergency Physician in training. German translator and lover of medical history.

 

FACEM Clinical Toxicology Fellow and Emergency Medicine Physician at Austin Health, Melbourne  | LinkedIn |

Emergency physician with a passion for Wilderness Medicine, emergency ultrasound, echocardiography and health management. Working with adventure companies to provide medical assistance in extreme and remote areas | @Rothy001 | LinkedIn |

Dr Chloe Roy MBChB, BMed Sci (hons). Surgeon in the making | LinkedIn |

Senior Consultant Anesthesiologist, Traumemanager and PHEM doctor. Dedicated to trauma resuscitation, prehospital care and airway management. Barometerbarn | @SorenRudolph |

Dr Tim Rutland LITFL Author 2

MBChB, BMedSci in Global Health and Health Policy, University of Edinburgh. Currently working in the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Australia. Career focus is emergency medicine, with interests in humanitarian and pre-hospital care and treatment difficulties faced in resource-limited settings.

Dr Bradley Ryan LITFL author

FACEM, MBBS (Hon), B. Pharm. Emergency Medicine Education Fellow at Liverpool Hospital, Australia. Special interests in clinical education, ECG interpretation and diagnostic ultrasound. Proud father and husband, sadly a golf tragic

Peruvian Emergency medicine and Family Physician, living and working in Spain. Reformed English teacher and developing artist  | SketchbookMD | Twitter |

Physicianly type with neurological leanings... | LinkedIn |

Dr David Schaack LITFL Author

Cardiology and invasive electrophysiology fellow from Germany pursuing an M.Sc. degree in medical computer science. Passionate about ECGs, #FOAMed and coffee (in no particular order) Twitter | cardiotools.net

Dr Jason Scop LITFL 2

Emergency Physician. Basic science in clinical context educator | LinkedIn |

Dr Ben Scott LITFL Author

MBChB (Hons) from University of Birmingham, undertaking an MSc in Global Health at LSHTM. Currently working in ED at Charlie’s in Perth. Interested in global health, particularly climate health & infectious diseases.

Dr Kathryn Scott LITFL Author

Graduated from Southampton Medical School in 2017 with BMBS. Working in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Emergency Department in Perth, Australia.

MD, Bond University. Currently Intensive Cares Registrar at SJOG Midland. Pianist and avid Golfer  | LinkedIn |

Dr Clare Skinner LITFL

Dr Clare Skinner is an Emergency Physician in Sydney. Her professional interests include health system re-design, medical education and improving hospital culture. She is on a gazillion committees. In her spare time, she writes stories, plays music, makes bad art, and hangs out with her partner and kids. | @claski |

Doctor at Cairns Base Hospital. ECG enthusiast and aspiring cardiologist. Loves SCUBA diving and explaining dive physiology to unfortunate medical students.

Stephen W Smith LITFL Author

Dr. Stephen W. Smith is a faculty physician in the Emergency Medicine Residency at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) in Minneapolis, MN, and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Author of Dr Smith's ECG Blog | Bibliography | X |

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 |