Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Katie Dainty, PhD
Professor Katie Dainty is a social scientist and Research Chair in Patient-Centred Outcomes at North York General Hospital and Associate Professor of Health Systems Research at the University of Toronto. She is an internationally recognized expert in survivor and family experience of sudden cardiac arrest and lay responder support and has extensive methodological experience in qualitative and mixed research methods, the development of patient-centred outcome measures, and implementation science. Her core program of research focuses on using qualitative and co-design methods to unpack long-held assumptions about how to support patients and families at their most vulnerable moments.
Dr. Allan de Caen
Dr. de Caen is a Pediatric Intensive Care Consultant and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Stollery Children's Hospital/University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. His research/clinical interests include Resuscitation Medicine and Critical Care Transport Medicine. He has held leadership positions within ILCOR (the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation) since 2003, and between 2005-2016 was ILCOR's Pediatric Task Force Co-chair, helping lead its systematic review process of the Pediatric Resuscitation literature. He has been part of the knowledge translation process into the "PALS" resuscitation guidelines for Heart and Stroke Canada and the American Heart Association (AHA) since 2003, and was the writing group chair for AHA's 2015 PALS guidelines.
Dr. Kasper Lauridsen
Dr. Kasper G. Lauridsen is an associate professor of resuscitation science at Aarhus University, Denmark and a physician at Randers Regional Hospital, Denmark. He completed simulation & resuscitation research fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA and wrote his PhD on in-hospital cardiac arrest teams. He works with numerous aspects of resuscitation science and has a major interest in how to strengthen the link between training, clinical performance, and patient outcomes. He serves as a co-chair for the Educator and Instructor Support Science and Education Committee for the European Resuscitation Council and as vice chair for the ILCOR Education, Implementation, and Teams Task Force.
Invited Speakers
Prof. Janet Bray
Janet Bray is a Professor and Heart Foundation Fellow at Monash University. She leads a resuscitation research program as Director of the Australasian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (Aus-ROC) Centre of Research Excellence, and is Chair of the Basic Life Support Taskforce for the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) and an Executive Member of the Australian Resuscitation Council.
Prof. Julie Considine AO
Julie is Deakin University's Professor and Chair in Nursing at Eastern Health, Australia. Julie is an expert educator and researcher, with a focus on nurses' recognition and response to deteriorating patients across the continuum of care. Julie has represented emergency nurses on the Australian Resuscitation Council since 2007, has been associated with the ILCOR Basic Life Support taskforce since 2012, and has supported the New Zealand Resuscitation Council conference scientific committees since 2018. In 2013, Julie was awarded the Julie Finucane OAM medal, the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia's highest honour, and in 2023, was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service emergency nursing, tertiary education and professional associations, Julie is an expert in leading practice change in complex clinical environments.
Prof. Charles Deakin
Prof. Charles Deakin is Divisional Medical Director for South Central Ambulance Service and a consultant in cardiac anaesthesia and cardiac intensive care at University Hospital Southampton. He is also Honorary Professor of Resuscitation and Prehospital Emergency Medicine at Southampton University where his main academic interests are cardiac arrest, resuscitation and defibrillation. Charles is a lead author for paramedic (JRCALC), RCUK and European ALS resuscitation guidelines and is a member of the ILCOR advanced life support working group. He was formerly the ILCOR domain lead for defibrillation and was also a Principe Investigator for the PARAMEDIC-2 adrenaline study.
Prof. Judith Finn
Professor Judith Finn, originally a critical care nurse, is the Director of the Prehospital, Resuscitation and Emergency Care Research Unit (PRECRU) at Curtin University, in Perth, Western Australia Judith was the inaugural Director of Australasian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (Aus-ROC) (2012-2017) and continues as a member of the Executive Committee. Aus-ROC has enabled the establishment of the Australian and New Zealand out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) Epistry - which includes data on all OHCA cases across the 10 Ambulance Services in Aus/NZ. Judith has had a long-standing involvement with the Australian Resuscitation Council and is currently the Chair of the Western Australian Branch and Chair of the newly established ANZCOR Scientific Advisory Committee. She has also held leadership roles with the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR), and is currently a member of the ILCOR Scientific Advisory Committee.