Authors

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Editors of Life in the Fast Lane

Dr Mike Cadogan F.UCEM Emergency physician with a passion for medical informatics and medical education. I write medical textbooks and host educational material at HealthEngine and Popfossa.com. I write more eclectically on the web as @sandnsurf – Contact – *Read Posts*

Dr Chris Nickson BSc (Hons) MBChB MClinEpid (ClinTox) DipPaed DTMH An oslerphile suffering from knowledge dipsosis. Spends much of his time trying to keep calm amid a storm of interests including: ER, ICU, EM Critical Care, toxicology, tropical medicine, clinical epidemiology, medical history, literature, education and changing nappies. @precordialthump – *Read Posts*

The Life in the Fast Lane blogging team

Dr Ed Burns Ed Burns is an Emergency Medicine Registrar, originally from England, but now based in Western Australia. A self-described ECG nerd, Ed is currently doing his tox tour of duty and is a major force behind the ECG library and ECG Exigency series – *Read Posts*

Kane Guthrie Kane is an emergency nurse extraordinaire with a special interest in toxicology, minor procedures and mental health issues in ED. As the most avid reader on the team, Kane looks after all the book reviews for LITFL. @antidpoed – *Read Posts*

Dr Peter Allely MB BCh BAO DCH FCEM FACEM Trained in Ireland, now living in Perth and working as an Emergency Physician at SCGH. Main interests: Emergency Medicine, Trauma, Cardiology, Simulation training and Protocol development. Main external interests: Work avoidance, football, music a la john peel, arthouse films and general Guardian-reader type things. – *Read Posts*

Dr James Winton BMedSc MBBS FACEM Emergency Physician at SCGH heavy metal aficionado and part time acoustic guitarist. James hates House, but believes everything you need to know about emergency medicine can be learned from watching ER – *Read Posts*

Associate Professor Tor Ercleve BSc MBChB (Manc) FACEM Emergency Physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital with a keen interest in Clinical Education and medical illustration. I do not have a functioning mobile phone and I do not understand Blogs, Twittles, Bookface and other forms of modern communication. I find this greatly restricts my ability to do anything useful – *Read Posts*

Dr Gerard “Junior” Fennessy MB ChB PGDipComEmMed Kiwi ICU Registrar working at the Austin Hospital, Melbourne, as an ACEM and CICM advanced trainee. Toyed with Skifield Medicine on Mt Ruapehu and Ocean Medicine in USA/Mexico. Interests include shoulder dislocations, ECGs and organ donation. ‘Junior’ is a signed up member of the Beige Brigade and spends his spare time hacking and repairing iPhones, cracking wireless networks and building chicken hutches. – *Read Posts*

Dr Michelle Johnston FACEM Michelle Johnston has worked as an Emergency Physician in her beloved Royal Perth Hospital, a down and dirty inner city hospital, for over a decade. She is heavily involved in teaching and loves clinical work, but when it comes to social media, she is like the syndromic cousin in the corner who gets brought out and patted on the head once in a while.  Michelle is also the creator of #Path140 and specialises in all things quirky, weird and wonderful. - *Read Posts*

Dr Paul Young BSc (Hons) MB ChB FCICM Intensivist in Wellington, NZ and proud graduate of The Breakfast Club. Paul studied medicine after performing a cost-effectiveness analysis of his own biomedical fragility (champion runner as a youth) he now struggles with a zimmer frame. Early ED adopter now religious convert to Intensivism – *Read Posts*

Dr Bishan Rajapakse MB ChB (Otago) Bishan is an Emergency Medicine Registrar and a PhD candidate (ANU), currently writing up his findings from an exotic journey of International Research in Toxicology and Medical Education. His passions includeInternational Emergency Medicine, Dancing, Surfing and Tropical Toxicology – *Read Posts*

Dr John Larkin MB ChB MCEM(UK) John Larkin is an Emergency Medicine Registrar, originally from Liverpool in the UK, now training in Western Australia. His work interests include emergency orthopaedics, ECGs, medical education, and the future of emergency medicine training. When time permits, John’s non-work related interests include MMA, continually fixing his PC, mindless cinema and helping cobble together the ECG library.

Dr Tharsa Thillainadesan BSc BCom MBBS University of Sydney grad (Science & Commerce) who has seen the light! Recently graduated from University of Notre Dame (WA), Tharsa is an Intern at Westmead Hospital in the hustle and bustle of Sydney. She is a self proclaimed dork who spends all waking hours satisfying her thirst for medical knowledge by researching, blogging and eclecticizing. – *Read Posts*

Dr Jeremy Fernando BMedSc (bioethics), MBChB, FANZCA Jeremy is a dual trainee in Anaesthetics and ICU working at Wellington Hospital, NZ. He is a dad of 2 and husband of 1. He used to enjoy dancing, lifting weights and contemplating the meaning of life. Now his favorite past time is uninterrupted sleep. His advice to those sitting specialist exams is ‘knowledge is required, but TECHNIQUE is more important than you realise’.

Dr Rick Abbott MD Rick Abbott (aka American ER doc gone walkabout) has been an ER Doc since 1973 and has bad wanderlust. He is currently Assistant Clinical Professor in a University teaching hospital in Denver, Colorado and has occasional trips to practice in an 8 bed ER at an Indian Health Service Hospital.  He also likes to see medicine from the other side, which he achieves by crashing his bicycle on a regular basis… *Read Posts*

Dr Yosef Leibman MD Yosef Leibman is currently a senior attending in the ED at Meir Hospital in Kfar Sava, Israel and is affiliated with the Tel Aviv University of Medicine. A prolific author and speaker in both Israel and the United States, Yosef was the founder and first Editor-in-Chief of the Israeli Journal of Emergency Medicine. Since 1998 he has produced the amazing Emergency Medicine Update.

Guest bloggers on Life in the Fast Lane

Assoc Prof Tim Inglis BM DM DTM&H PhD FRCPA FACTM A Medical Microbiologist and Field Investigations Manager based at SCGH and creator of Priobe.net – Understanding the Language of Infection. He is president of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine and has an alter ego known as the micrognome. He has a keen interest in too many things to mention, but they include fencing, clinical education, Crazy Bug Hunters – *Read Posts*

Commander Harrison Biscuit III F.UCEM The original inventor of therapeutic botulism toxin (BotNap); ListGran and defTox. Cdr. Biscuit remains a controversial proponent of the functional use of microbes to cure medical ailments (and make some cold hard cash). AKA Jarrad Hall – *Read Posts*

Dr Sean Rothwell MBBS FACEM FAWM Hardwood eucalypt timber farmer and part-time Emergency Physician at RBWH with a passion for Wilderness Medicine, emergency ultrasound and echocardiography. Adventure Medic providing medical assistance in the field of Extreme Medicine. -*Read Posts*

Dr Oliver Flower FCICM Unlike many of his predecessors, Oli was able to gain entry to Australia from England without the need for previous criminal convictions. He is an intensive care physician with a passion for Neurointensive care, mixed martial arts, medical education and art – *Read Posts*

Aaron Sparshott BSc Aaron is a medical student at the University of Queensland (UQ) and creator of Project IV Line. Project IV Line is a blog that focuses on investigating and sharing information on public health issues, clinical and biomedical sciences and medical education. – *Read Posts*

Dr Minh Le Cong MBBS FRACGP FACRRM FARGP GDRGP GCMA GEM Minh is the Medical Education Officer for RFDS Queensland, providing governance and coordination for teaching and training programs across the state, and is a Senior Lecturer in Aeromedical Retrieval at James Cook University. Minh is originally a medical MacGyver (aka rural GP) with interests in remote critical care, prehospital ultrasound, retrieval and is actively engaged in research in these areas. – *Read Posts*