Dr. Danielle ScarfeEmergency and Paediatric Emergency Specialist
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Dr Danielle Scarfe is a dual qualified Emergency and Paediatric Emergency Physician. Originally from the UK, she left the NHS in search of sunnier skies in 2011 and has been in Brisbane ever since; completing her training at The Prince Charles Hospital.
Danielle is passionate about advancing Paediatric Emergency Medicine as a subspecialty through education, mentoring and evidence-based practice. When not in work she spends her time renovating an old Queenslander with her husband, all the while pretending that she is on The Block. |
Dr. Alaa IbrahimEmergency and Paediatric Emergency Specialist
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Alaa is a dual qualified Emergency Physician with a sub-specialty in Paediatric Emergency Medicine. His passion is in medical education with heavy involvement in the training of ACEM trainees across Metro-North, Brisbane and ACEM fellowship exam preparation.
He is the chair and the co-founder of AFEM Revision course (Advanced Fellowship in Emergency Medicine) and R4CE course (Ready for Children Emergency). He was one of the directors of the APEM course (Advanced Paediatric Emergency Medicine) which was concluded 3 years ago. Alaa is the director of training of Paediatric Emergency Medicine training at The Prince Charles Hospital. Alaa enjoys spending quality time with his wife and two kids. This is especially so when travelling overseas or during a Middle Eastern BBQ session. |
Dr. Faye JordanEmergency and Paediatric Emergency Specialist
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Faye was born and raised in Brisbane. On leaving school, she studied Speech Pathology at University, and worked as a Speech Pathologist for close to 20 years, in the area of developmental disability and brain injury in children. She returned to University to study medicine when her oldest daughter commenced year 1, graduating with the 4th cohort of the GMC at University of Queensland. Subsequently Faye has gone on to complete both her RACP PEM, and her FACEM. She works as a Staff Specialist in Emergency at TPCH. Faye is also involved in assisting her husband to run his Architectural firm, arkLAB, along with mentoring their eldest daughter who is an intern planning a surgical career; and supporting their 16 year old as she completes her secondary schooling. In her spare time, Faye likes to dance and sing, travel to Ethiopia where she is involved with a Grace Centre for Women and Children and spend time with her mum who is almost 96 years old.
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Melissa PlumbPaediatric Emergency Nurse
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Melissa is a Paediatric Emergency Department Nurse. She qualified in the UK in 2002, completing an Undergraduate Master of Nursing degree in child nursing. Melissa has since worked in a number of areas, including Children's Neurosciences, Children's Medical, Paediatric Intensive Care, and for the past 10 years in Paediatric ED.
She is passionate about teaching paediatric and adult colleagues about paediatric emergency care and gets particularly excited about simulation training. In her spare time she enjoys travelling, bushwalking, stand up paddle boarding and eating out. |
Jesse SpurrRN and Clinician Educator
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For his paid work, Jesse is a critical care nurse and educator. Much to the dismay of his ever-patient (and infinitely more successful) wife, Jesse likes to use his ‘spare’ time doing ‘volunteer’ work in the form of conference organising, co-producing healthcare simulation podcast Simulcast, producing nursing practice development blog and podcast Injectable Orange, and all manner of other questionable healthcare education pseudo-academic activities. A sport and functional fitness obsessive, Jesse classes himself a lifelong student of teaching, learning, health and human performance.
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Louise SpoonerSenior Paediatric Nurse Practitioner
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Louise graduated as a registered nurse in Christchurch New Zealand in 1981. After a compulsory year of acute medicine and surgical experience, she went straight into her first passion, paediatrics. She was second in charge of a paediatric ward in Christchurch before heading to London where she worked and travelled for 4 years. She returned to New Zealand and lived in Queenstown for 10 years where she worked at the local hospital, as a ski patrol nurse and as a wine waitress at the skyline. She met her husband there and had two children.
She moved to Australia in 1993 and started back into study. She did four certificates in paediatrics including a graduate certificate and transition to paediatric intensive care. In 2012 she became an APLS instructor and attained a Masters in Nursing Studies which followed into a Masters of Nurse Practitioner. She graduated in 2014 and has not looked back. She has also been fortunate enough over the last ten years to be involved as a volunteer with Operation Smile where she has travelled to a large number of third world countries as part of a team treating children with craniofacial abnormalities. She is a nurse, a Nurse Practitioner, Mother and Grandmother with a passion for paediatrics and Paediatric Education. She continues to learn and pass on to others every day she works. |
Dr. Jacqueline MillsJunior Doctor
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Jacqueline is a Senior House officer in the children’s emergency department at The Prince Charles Hospital . She is originally from Central Queensland, and after obtaining her bachelor of science from the University of Queensland, she studied post graduate medicine at Flinders University in Adelaide.
She has a strong background in rural and remote medicine and indigenous health, having completed her internship in Alice Springs in 2017. Jacqueline has recently been accepted as a trainee of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine and will be working as an adult emergency medicine registrar at TPCH in 2020. She is excited to pursue her interests in child and indigenous health, and plans to become a paediatric emergency physician. Jacqueline spends her spare time making pottery, going to yoga and collecting too many house plants. |
Dr. Keith AmarakoneConsultant Paediatric Emergency Physician and Paediatric Trauma Education Consultant
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Keith is a Consultant Paediatric Emergency Physician and the HMO supervisor at The Northern Hospital as well as the Trauma Education Consultant at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.
Keith graduated in the UK, but swiftly moved to New Zealand to start Emergency Medicine Training. After a spell in Cairns, he moved to Melbourne to complete his PEM training. He has an interest in human factors, clinical reasoning, simulation and ethics. As the Paediatric Trauma Education Consultant he has developed the largest multidisciplinary simulation programme run at the Royal Children's Hospital. He has also enjoyed designing and delivering paediatric trauma education courses state-wide, and internationally. Keith is completing a Master of Traumatology. He is an ETM Course Director and an APLS instructor. He is very excited to be involved with the PEM crew. |
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