
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

Day 1: Wednesday 3rd December 2025
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7.00am - 8.00am Registration & coffee
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8.00am - 8.30am Opening and Welcome to Country
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8.30am -10.30am
Session 1: Where have we been, Where are we now & where to next (Frontiers of Critical care Medicine)
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Where are we now in critical care medicine
David Lockey
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What can medicine learn from NASA
Pam Melroy​
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What can we learn from military medicine
Craig Jurisevic
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Q&A
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Keynote: Stephen Hearns
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11.00am - 11.30am
Morning Tea & Industry Exhibition plus Poster review
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11.30am - 1.00pm
Session 2: Survival beyond Circulatory Collapse…
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Pre-hospital eCPR and CHEER Study
Sacha Richardson
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Neonatal/Paediatric ECMO
Krista Mos
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Logistic challenges of eCPR
Jenna Shwartz
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Patient targeted CPR and mental models in cardiac arrest care
Cliff Reid
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Q&A
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​1.00pm - 2.00pm
Lunch & Industry Exhibition plus Poster review
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2.00pm - 3.30pm
Session 3: All Bleeding stops… Eventually
Penetrating trauma and endovascular resuscitation
Zaf Qasim
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Obstetric PPH
Amy Hercus
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ICU trauma NOAC/coagulopathy
Lucy Dockerill
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Q&A
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Keynote: David Lockey
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4.00pm - 4.30pm
Afternoon Tea & Industry Exhibition plus Poster review
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4.30pm - 5.30pm
Session 4: Beyond the border: same same but different
PHRM Trauma around the World​
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EMRS
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London
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MedSTAR
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Sydney
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Philadelphia
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Lifeflight
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Kids
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NZ
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Q&A
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6.00pm - 9.00pm
Novotel Barossa Valley Resort
Day 2: Thursday 4th December 2025
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8.00am - 9.00am Sponsored Breakfast
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​9.00am - 11.00am
Session 5: We think.......therefore we are: the
psychological impact on performance and safety
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Performance under pressure
Stephen Hearns
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Mental skills
Anil Joshi
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Psychological safety and the weaponisation of it
Kristen Raison
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Decision making models for time critical/non time critical tasks
Simon Pietsch
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Keynote: Pam Melroy
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11.00am - 11.30am
Morning Tea & Industry Exhibition plus Poster review
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11.30am - 1.30pm
Session 6: Beyond life extension: evolving concepts from cradle to the grave
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Neonatal and maternal near death/death
Amy Kier
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Paediatric near death/death
Krista Mos
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Palliative care and Last Aid training in PHRM
Matt Hooper
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Injury patterns in retrieval patients
Cheryl Charlwood
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Q&A
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Fred GIlligan Lecture: Anne Weaver
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1.40pm - 2.40pm
Lunch & Industry Exhibition plus Poster review
2.40pm - 4.10pm
Session 7: Outnumbered and overwhelmed: perfecting mass casualty events internationally
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AusMat-Japan 2025
Jacinta Pickles
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White Island from a PHRM perspective
Chris Denny
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Q&A
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4.10pm - 4.30pm
Afternoon Tea & Industry Exhibition plus Poster review
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4.30pm - 5.30pm
Session 8: Same storm, different boats: breaking barriers in PHRM
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6.30pm - 11.00pm
Seppeltsfield Winery
(Return transfer provided)
Day 3: Friday 5th December 2025
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8.00am - 9.00am Sponsored Breakfast
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​9.00am - 10.30am
Session 9: What’s your Emergency? How does your service deal with emergencies.
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Major crash
Jeremy Wooley
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Special forces
Simon Pietsch
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​Q&A
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10.30am - 11.00am
Morning Tea & Industry Exhibition plus Poster review
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11.00am - 1.00pm
Session 10: Through the doors: what happens now
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Paediatric trauma surgery
Warwick Teague
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ECMO in trauma
James Winearls
Obstetric trauma care
Clare Bertenshaw
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Leading trauma teams in the ED
Zaf Qasim
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Q&A
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Keynote: Zaf Qasim
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1.30pm - 2.30pm
Lunch & Industry Exhibition plus Poster review
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2.30pm - 4.00pm
Session 11: Elemental Survival
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Heat burns
Liz Concannon
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Cold Antarctica
James Doube
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Toxicology
Sam Alfred
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Mountain rescue
Stephen Hearns
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Q&A
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4.00pm - 4.30pm
Afternoon Tea & Industry Exhibition plus Poster review
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4.30pm - 5.30pm
Session 12: Blood and clotting: when physiology become pathology
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Swift NZ
Alana Harper
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Feisty Trial
James Winearls
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MTP use in PHRM
Dan Martin
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Paediatric haemorrhage
Fran Lockie
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Q&A
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5.20pm - 6.00pm
Closing Ceremony & AATPHRM 2027