Honorary Staff
Honorary Professorial Fellows
Professor Rinaldo Bellomo MBBS, MD, FRACP, FJFICM
Rinaldo Bellomo is Professor of Medicine at Melbourne University and Honorary Professor of Medicine at Monash University, Melbourne and the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a Full-time Staff Specialist in Intensive Care and holds an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship. He is the Director of Intensive Care Research at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne, the Founding Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care (ANZIC) Society Clinical Trials Group and the current Director of the ANZIC Research Centre. He has received more than 40 national and international awards and grants, has delivered lectures at more than 80 national and international conferences and has published more than 400 scientific papers. He has written more than 100 book chapters, edited 7 books and is the Renal Section editor for all major Critical Care Medicine Textbooks.
Honorary Fellows
Paul Middleton
Paul Middleton is a Honorary Fellow in the Critical Care and Trauma Division of The George Institute for International Health. He is Senior Medical Adviser to the Ambulance Service of NSW, and is also a practicing emergency and medical retrieval physician. He holds appointments as Conjoint Senior Lecturer in both the Clinical School and the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at UNSW, and as Visiting Medical Fellow at the UNSW Biomedical Systems Laboratory. He has been a Clinical Research Fellow in Emergency Medicine at Imperial College, London, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Joseph Epstein institute for Emergency Medicine Research, Melbourne. Paul is a member of the Clinical Trials Subcommittee of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.
His postgraduate qualifications include Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Diploma in Immediate Care of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Fellowship of the College of Emergency Medicine (UK) and Fellowship of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. He is a former Maurice Ellis Scholar in emergency medicine research at the Faculty of Accident and Emergency Medicine, UK.
Paul’s major research interests are in the area of pre-hospital care of critically ill patients, early diagnosis of critical illness, innovative non-invasive cardiovascular monitoring modalities, and trauma system design and function. Paul is intimately involved in the development of a research capacity for the Ambulance Service of NSW, the second largest ambulance service in the world, the construction of the DREAM network, a State-wide infrastructure network of multidisciplinary collaborators in prehospital research programs, and the development of national and international collaborative links in emergency medicine and pre-hospital research.
Arina Dan
Arina Dan is a honary fellow in the Critical Care and Trauma Division of the The george Institute for International Health. Currently she is practising as an Intensivist at Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick, sydney. She completed her undergraduate medical degree from the University of New South Wales, then pursued a career path training in critical care medicine and gained her fellowship from the Australian Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine in 2008.
Arina’s research interests in the critically ill population include nutrition, sepsis and trauma. She plans in the future to complete a PhD.
Ian Seppelt
Ian Seppelt is an Honorary Fellow in the Critical Care and Trauma Division of The George Institute. He is a Senior Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at the Nepean Hospital in western Sydney with a clinical practice which includes general intensive care medicine and neuroanaesthesia. He has a clinical appointment with the Nepean Clinical School of the University of Sydney and is Director of the newly established Sydney West Clinical Research Centre.
He is an executive member of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society’s Clinical Trials Group and convenes the CTG’s Point Prevalence Program in collaboration with the George Institute. He has been an investigator on many clinical trials in critical care medicine, in areas as diverse as fluid resuscitation, sepsis, sedation, neurotrauma and haemorrhagic shock. In addition he is a member of the Nepean group who are conducting basic research in cardiac failure and the role of echocardiography in critical illness.
Ian is an examiner for the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (soon to become the College of Intensive Care Medicine - Australia and New Zealand) and is involved with the teaching of intensive care trainees and the development of young researchers in intensive care medicine. His ongoing interests include clinical trial methodology and research governance in critical care research, knowledge translation of research into clinical practice, trauma management and the role selective gut decontamination in critical illness.
David Gattas
David Gattas is Honorary Fellow in the Critical Care and Trauma Division of The George Institute for International Health. He is a senior staff specialist and director of research in the ICU at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA) in Sydney. Dr Gattas trained at the University of Sydney (MBBS 1993, MMed (Clin Epi) 2006) and is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at Sydney Medical School. He is a fellow of the College of Intensive Care Medicine and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He is a tutor in Evidence Based Medicine in the Sydney Medical Program, and active in quality & safety through the design and implementation of response systems for deteriorating patients within RPA.
David's major interest is clinical intensive care research. He is an active investigator and participant in the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group. His current topic areas of interest are fluid resuscitation, renal replacement therapy, and diagnostic testing / biomarkers."