Dr Alex Wurm MBBS, FACEM, FCICM
Alex is currently a Co-Deputy Director of the Intensive Care Unit at St Andrew’s Hospital, having been Director from 2014 until 2023. He initially trained as a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and worked in the Emergency Department at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, before ‘seeing the light’ and completing studies in Intensive Care, attaining his FCICM. He subsequently commenced work as a Consultant Intensivist at Flinders Medical Centre, before returning to the full-time staff of the RAH Intensive Care Unit in 2007. Alex joined AICS in 2012, and has divided his time between St Andrew’s and the RAH since then.
current appointments
Co-Deputy Director, ICU, St Andrews Hospital
Senior Staff Specialist, ICU, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Senior Clinical Lecturer, Acute Care Medicine, University of Adelaide
special interests
Teaching and education
Management of traumatic injuries
EMST Course Director and BASIC Course Instructor
Dr Nick Edwards MBBS, FRACP, FCICM
Nick gained Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of Physicians (FRACP) and Fellowship of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FCICM) before being appointed as a Staff Specialist for the Trauma Service at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 2000. He switched to full-time Intensive Care at the RAH in 2002, and currently divides his time between there and St Andrew’s. He has a keen interest in teaching and training, having been a Supervisor of Training for the College of Intensive Care Medicine since 2008, and on the Board of Examiners for the College since 2012. He is the Convenor of the annual South Australian Intensive Care Fellowship Examination Course and an Instructor of Basic Intensive Care Medicine (BASIC) Courses. Nick is also Co-Deputy Director of the Intensive Care Unit at St Andrew’s.
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Co-Deputy Director, ICU, St Andrew’s Hospital
Senior Staff Specialist, ICU, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Supervisor of Training (CICM), ICU, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Board of Examiners, College of Intensive Care Medicine (Fellowship Exam)
Senior Clinical Lecturer, Acute Care Medicine, University of Adelaide
COMMITTEES AT ST ANDREW’S HOSPITAL
Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee
sPECIAL INTERESTS
Teaching and education
Adelaide Crows and Tottenham Hotspur
Dr Michael Farquharson BSc (Hons), MBBS, FCICM, GCCritCareEcho, CGHealthProfEd
Michael initially worked as an Intensive Care Specialist at the Lyell McEwin Hospital before moving to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 2015. He is currently serving as the Chair of the South Australian State CICM Regional Committee and as Chair of the South Australian State ANZICS Committee, is a Supervisor of Training (CICM), a current CICM Fellowship Examiner and is the Royal Adelaide Hospital ECMO Service medical coordinator. He joined AICS in 2024.
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Senior Specialist, ICU, St Andrew’s Hospital
Senior Staff Specialist, ICU, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Board of Examiners, College of Intensive Care Medicine (Fellowship Exam)
Supervisor of Training (CICM), ICU, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Senior Clinical Lecturer, Acute Care Medicine, University of Adelaide
Chair, South Australian State CICM Regional Committee
Chair, South Australian State ANZICS Committee
SPECIAL INTERESTS
Strengthening the SA ICU community
Education
Ultrasonography in critical care
ECMO service delivery
Exercise and being busy
Dr Jonathan Fraser MBBS, FCICM
Jon is the current Director of the Intensive Care Unit at St Andrew’s, having taken over from Alex Wurm in 2023. He completed his ICU training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, before spending 2 years working in the Royal North Shore and Royal Prince Alfred ICUs in Sydney. He returned to Adelaide in 2014 when he was appointed as a Staff Specialist at the RAH, before also joining AICS later that year. Jon is Co-convenor of Cardiothoracic Advanced Life Support (CALS) Courses and Director of Postoperative Care of the Cardiothoracic Patient (PCCP-RAH) Courses.
COMMITTEES AT ST ANDREW’S HOSPITAL
Hospital Medical Committee
SPECIAL INTERESTS
Management of cardiothoracic patients
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Director, ICU, St Andrew’s Hospital
Senior Staff Specialist, ICU, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Associate Professor Mark Plummer MBBS, PhD, FCICM
Mark is an academic intensivist and current NHMRC Emerging Leader fellow.
His research interests include neurocritical care, sepsis, glycaemic control and clinical trials. He is on the ANZICS-CTG management committee and the steering committee for several ANZICS-CTG sponsored multi-centre trials.
He has received over $11 million in Category One funding from the MRFF, NHMRC Ideas Grant and Investigator Grant Schemes.
He is enthusiastic about sharing his passion for critical care research and is experienced in supervising PhD and Higher Degree candidates.
SPECIAL INTERESTS
Critical care research
Melbourne Demons
CURRENT POSITIONS
Senior Specialist, ICU, St Andrew’s Hospital
Head, Research and Innovation, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Senior Staff Specialist, ICU, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Associate Professor, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide
Associate Professor Benjamin Reddi MBBS, MA, PhD, FRCP(UK), FCICM
Ben graduated from Cambridge University, worked in Edinburgh and Nottingham (Queens Medical Centre), and completed a Fellowship in advanced cardiopulmonary support before emigrating to Australia.
He completed his specialist training in ICU (FCICM) in 2010, joined the RAH as a full-time Intensive Care Specialist in 2011, and became a member of AICS in 2023.
Ben undertook a sabbatical in a specialist cardiothoracic unit in the United Kingdom during 2015, specialising in ECMO,
He is currently undertaking research into the basic physiology of vascular smooth muscle contraction and platelet function and their derangement in septic shock. These studies involve both human and animal work, translating molecular physiology insights into potential therapeutic strategies. The team uses both functional assays of isolated blood vessel contractility, molecular assays of contractile protein activity patch clamp techniques and whole blood impedance aggregometry. Previous research interests include using systems analysis in the fields of neurobiology (the LATER [linear approach to threshold at ergodic rate] model of decision making) and cardiac physiology (the 'venous excess' model of cardiac function). He has been a member of the ANZICS Clinical Trials Group Committee.
CURRENT POSITIONS
Senior Specialist, ICU, St Andrew’s Hospital
Senior Staff Specialist, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Associate Professor, School of Medicine and Molecular Physiology of Vascular Function Laboratory, University of Adelaide
Clinical Evaluator, Adelaide Health Technology Assessment