Cliff Reid is the Director of Training for the Greater Sydney Area Helicopter Emergency Medical Service and a Senior Staff Specialist in Emergency Medicine at Mona Vale Hospital in Sydney, Australia.
He worked as a specialist in intensive care medicine and emergency medicine in the United Kingdom before his wife forced him, kicking & screaming, to move Down Under to enjoy beautiful sunshine, beaches, and animals that are determined to kill you.
Cliff is passionate about getting resuscitation right regardless of age or location, which is why he has taking training posts in prehospital care, retrieval medicine, and neonatal & paediatric critical care in addition to his emergency and intensive care training.
He has a special interest in the non-technical skills that facilitate effective resuscitation: control of the environment, of oneself, and of other team members, and is often heard ranting: “the clinical bit is the easy bit!”
His skills and interests outside resuscitation medicine are listed in the remainder of this biography.