#16 Emergency paramedicine with Andy Bell

Welcome to the Critical Response Performance and Innovation podcast, this episode's guest is Andy Bell.

Andy Bell is a Senior Lecturer in Paramedicine at Griffith University, Gold Coast Australia.  He is a PhD candidate at the University of Southern Queensland and most recently took up a full-time role as Paramedic Team Leader for TacMed Australia.  His role at TacMed includes the clinical governance, educational development and team leadership of a group of specialized Tactical Paramedics, who operate extensively in the defence force space.   He continues an ongoing 16-year career with the Queensland Ambulance Service, both in clinical and educational roles, and has worked for a number of private medical providers specialising in clinical care in mass gatherings and remote and austere environments.   As a result of his work in these environments, he has always had a particular interest in the quality of performance in high-stress/threat operators.  Andy is part of an extensive group of performance and wellbeing researchers from Griffith University working towards improving operator decision-making and resilience to stress under cognitive load.  His personal research predominately focuses on educational methodology as a vehicle for developing improved clinical decision-making and reasoning in paramedics, and more recent investigations into the psychophysiological nexus as a measure of performance and stress inoculation in high acuity operators.  He has several academic publications to his name and is an Editor for the Journal of High Threat and Austere Medicine, and an Associate Editor of The Shift Extension Paramedic Publishing Platform.

If you would like to learn more, follow or get in touch with Andy please visit the following links.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-bell-64104562/  

https://twitter.com/paradub 

https://www.theshiftextension.org/