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.
MD, Bond University. Currently Intensive Cares Registrar at SJOG Midland. Pianist and avid Golfer | LinkedIn |
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.
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 |
MbChB University of Bristol, UK. Currently working at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia in emergency medicine.
Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Ultrasound Fellow working at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth.
Emergency Physician working in Western Australia. Areas of interest include ultrasound, sports injury and the eternal failures of Plymouth Argyle.
Emergency Medicine trainee. Interests in ophthalmology, critical care and clinical research.
Graduated from Cardiff Medical School in 2017 with MBBCh and BSc in Psychology and Medicine. Currently working as a doctor in the emergency department at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, Australia.
Dr Ian Summers is an Emergency Physician and Educator and Director of Simulation at Monash Health. He has been Director of Emergency Training at St Vincent’s and helped recruit and set up the emergency team at Casey Hospital as its initial deputy director. You can find him out wandering through the bush with his family, taking photographs of sunsets or wildlife.
New Jersey Emergency Physician with academic focus on resident education and critical care in the ED. Strong supporter of FOAMed and its role in cutting down knowledge translation | @EMSwami |
EM doctor, in-situ sim fan, junior researcher, music lover, budding photographer. Eternally itchy feet. CESR Trainee and Teaching Fellow, Royal Derby Hospital | @andrewtabner |
Josh Taylor, MD University of Western Australia. Medical training in Western Australia with a keen interest in Ophthalmology.
MBBS Bsc DPMSA Msc(PH) FACEM FRCEM CCPU. Emergency physician & DDU Fellow, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. Favourite colour: hot pink. Favourite food: brussels sprouts. Often found lost in the dynamic range, elbow deep in a gel bath, knobologising for focal clarity
Final year MBBS student at Curtin Medical School. Keen interest in internal medicine and neurology, medical education, and integrating specialist healthcare into rural medical practice.
Dr Mariam Tokhi is a General Practitioner in Melbourne, Australia | @mariamtokhi |
Joel Topf, MD. Board certified nephrologist in Detroit. Author of several medical textbooks. Social media aficionado. | Medmastery | Twitter | Linkedin | PBFluids |
BMBS BMedSci University of Southampton. Working towards a career in Emergency Medicine with interest in Cardiology and Sports Medicine.
Emergency Physician & Retrievalist; from Wales, now in Melbourne. Growing family, loves the ocean and the outdoors
Tracy Tylee, MD. Associate Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Washington, and Program Director for the Endocrinology Fellowship Program. | Medmastery |
Emergency Physician and Clinical Toxicologist who thinks that life exists outside Emergency Departments and that there is a wide and wonderful world outside the web.
Psychiatrist in the making
Emergency Medicine Physician at Bridgeport Hospital. Devoted student of emergency electrocardiography and echocardiography. Plus all the other stuff | @BrooksWalsh | LinkedIn |
Third year M.D. student at the University of Notre Dame Fremantle. Passionate about emergency and retrieval medicine, rural practice and clinical research
Kristian Webb CCDS. International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE) certified specialist in cardiac pacemakers and ICDs. Chief cardiac physiologist in a pacemaker clinic that carries out over 4,000 pacemaker checks per year. | Medmastery |
British doctor (BMBS) training in Emergency Medicine in Perth, Australia.
MB BCh BAO Junior Doctor working in Emergency Medicine.
Internist at the Medical University of Vienna and founder of Medmastery. Master’s degree in public health at Johns Hopkins University as a Fulbright student. Passionate about teaching. | Medmastery | LinkedIn | Twitter |
BM BCh, Oxford University. Currently training in Australia. Career interest in Hepatology and Emergency Medicine
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 |



















