Nozawa Onsen Presenters
Conference Speakers
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Dr Ryan Windish, Emergency Medicine Clayfield, QLD, Australia |
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Dr Ryan Windish is a senior staff specialist at the Prince Charles Hospital Emergency Department in Brisbane. He completed his specialist training in emergency medicine in Denver, Colorado and has been practicing in Australasia since 2008. He holds fellowships with both the American and Australasian Colleges for Emergency Medicine. He has also done a postgraduate diploma in medical toxicology at Cardiff University in Wales. Dr Windish is an associate professor at QUT’s School of Life Sciences, Senior Lecturer with the University of Queensland, and a member of the Royal Brisbane Hospital’s Jamieson Trauma Institute.
Dr Windish’s professional interests include innovations in medical education, difficult airway management, and the medical and trauma management issues unique to the obese ED patient.
His interests outside of work include spending time with his family in the great outdoors. |
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Dr Daniel Wong, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Adelaide, SA, Australia |
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Currently completing his plastic surgery training through the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, commencing by 3rd year of training. Prior to this, completed by fellowship with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and completed my Bachelor of Dental Surgery. |
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Dr Laurence Boss, Anaesthesia Randwick, NSW, Australia |
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Laurence is a Staff Specialist Anaesthetist at St George Public Hospital in Sydney where he runs the simulation education programme for theatre staff based around improving patient safety and teamwork. Dr Boss is a graduate of the University of London. He completed his fellowship training in anaesthesia for high-risk obstetrics and neurosurgery, and in simulation-based education. Laurence was a consultant in the UK, at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals, before emigrating to Australia with his wife and 3 children. Laurence has a Master of Arts in Clinical Education and formal training in supervision, appraisal, communication skills, conflict- resolution and crisis resource management. His current interest is in question and conversation construction and the balance between feedback and debriefing. He is the programme lead for clinical event debriefing at St George Hospital.
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Dr Rachel Earl, Obstetrics Kensington Park, SA, Australia |
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Dr Rachel Earl is an obstetrician in public and private practice in Adelaide. At the Women's and Children's Hospital she co-leads the Preterm Birth clinic and runs a postnatal follow up clinic for women who suffered obstetric complications. Rachel has recently been appointed Medical Unit Head of Women's Outpatients and the Women's Assessment Service. She is interested in clinical research aimed at assessing and improving our care of mothers and their babies, and also in working in low resource settings. |
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Dr Desmond Wee, ENT Dalkieth, WA, Australia |
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Desmond completed his ENT training in 2006. He then travelled and completed Head and Neck Fellowships at Auckland City Hospital in 2007 and Singapore General Hospital in 2008. Desmond learnt to ski for the first time in Nozawa in 2016 and he tries and come back every year. He goes very slow as he has previously ruptured his ACL and achilles. |
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Dr David Fabinyi, Ophthalmology Newtown, VIC, Australia |
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David Fabinyi is a Vitreoretinal Surgeon with an interest in retinal detachments, macular holes, complicated cataract surgery, intraocular lens exchanges and diabetic eye disease. He works in public at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne and University Hospital Geelong and in private in Geelong.
David trained in Ophthalmology at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne. Subspeciality training in vitreoretinal surgery was performed at the Eye and Ear Hospital and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London and he trained in sutureless extracapsular cataract surgery at L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India. He has worked in East Timor, Myanmar and is involved with the Sight For All Project in Cambodia and Laos. |
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Dr Andrew Morokoff, Neurosurgery Clifton Hill, VIC, Australia |
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Associate Professor Morokoff is an academic neurosurgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and University of Melbourne, Australia. He trained in Melbourne and his PhD is in the biology of glioma. He completed a neuro-oncology fellowship in 2006-2007 at Harvard University, Boston and Necker Hospital in Paris. His other clinical interests are skull base surgery, epilepsy and brain-computer interfaces and his research work at the Melbourne Brain Cancer Centre focuses on liquid biopsy diagnostic approaches for brain cancer. |
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Dr Joanne Grindlay, Paediatric Emergency Medicine Yarraville, VIC, Australia |
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Joanne has been an Emergency Physician for 25 years, and at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, where she is the Deputy Director, for 22 of these. She is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne in the Departments of Paediatrics and the Department of Critical Care. She has a wide array of clinical interests including making procedures safe and comfortable in children through preparation, distraction and procedural sedation. Her other interests include skiing ( preferably cross-country), hiking, travelling amongst many others.
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Dr Phil Holz, Anaesthetist Newcastle, NSW, Australia |
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Phil is born & bred Newcastle. He initially trained as a Rural GP Anaesthetist via Tamworth & completed that era up in Atherton NQ. Anaesthetics got the better of him & he returned to Newcastle to complete Specialist Anaesthetic training in 2005 with his final year spent in Sacramento California. Phil has a strong interest in Regional Anaesthesia & have taught at local, national & international levels. He incorporates it into his everyday practice which is mainly private practice & with still some public work in Newcastle. Phil is married to Megan & they have 3 grown up kids. He loves any water sports from surfing to skiing. Previously he was an exchange student to Japan in 1988 & have been coming back every year or so since! |
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Dr John Prickett, Anaesthesia & pain management Bar Beach, NSW, Australia |
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Specialist Anaesthetist in UK and Australia since 2002, following undergraduate training in Perth WA, and then post graduate training in various units throughout the UK. Specialist Pain Management Physician since 2018. Major interests in both acute , chronic and cancer pain management. Worked in HNE area since 2003 in public and private practice. Current senior partner at Northern Integrated Pain Management , working primarily in private sector. Just starting the journey of adapting to empty nesting, with my wife who works as a senior nurse at the Practice.
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Dr Dana Halmagiu, Anaesthetist Iluka, WA, Australia |
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Dr Dana Halmagiu is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Joondalup Health Campus in Western Australia. She has a particular interest in the management of pain, both acute and chronic and anaesthesia for cancer surgery. A focus of her work is how psychosocial and lifestyle factors impact the experience of pain. |
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Mr James Abbott, Ski patrol & mountain rescue Squamish, BC, Canada |
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After moving to the mountains of Canada 'for a season', James decided to turn this into a life spent roaming and exploring the BC mountains with Whistler Blackcomb as his main base. James began ski patrolling in 2013. Through his 11 years of patrolling, James has been involved in several major first aid calls, mountain rescues and helps mitigate the avalanche hazard on storm days.
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