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.
Chris Nickson
Chris is an Intensivist at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia and is the Monash SPHPM-Alfred ICU Education Practitioner Fellow. He completed his medical degree at the University of Auckland, and completed post-graduate training in New Zealand, the Northern Territory, Perth and Melbourne. He is also an emergency physician and has completed further training in clinical toxicology and clinical epidemiology. He is involved in coordinating the Alfred ICU Education Program, including the In Situ Simulation program, convenes the Critically Ill Airway course, is an instructor on many of the other courses run by The Alfred ICU (including the ECMO course and ALS2) as well as external courses such as the Emergency Trauma Management course. He edits the Alfred ICU’s education website, INTENSIVE, and is co-creator of numerous medical education projects such as Lifeinthefastlane.com, the Resuscitationist’s Awesome Guide to Everything and the SMACC conference.
He participates in the intensivist-led ECPR and REBOA programs at The Alfred and is interested in all aspects of resuscitation medicine.
Kit Tainter
Dr. Christopher “Kit” Tainter is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Diego, in both the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Critical Care. His training includes an Emergency Medicine residency at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, with specialty training in ultrasound as a Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer, as well as a fellowship in Anesthesia Critical Care at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He also has experience in education as the Assistant Residency Program Director and Medical Student Clerkship Director at the University of Oklahoma and completed a Harvard Macy Education Program. He currently splits his time between the Emergency Department and various ICUs at the University of California in San Diego, and is the Director for Advanced Resuscitation Training for the Emergency Department.
He is happy to discuss any topic related to critical care or emergency medicine, especially cardiac arrest resuscitation, education, or point-of-care ultrasound/echocardiography.
Haney Mallemat
Dr. Haney Mallemat is Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland. After his EM-IM residency at SUNY Downstate/Kings County Hospital, he completed a critical care fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. His obsession with all things bedside ultrasound and critical care may have something to do with his selection for the University of Maryland’s Emergency Medicine Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award in both 2012 and 2013.
Dr. Mallemat has taken and passed the American Society of Echocardiography Board examination and his real passion lies in critical care ultrasound and bedside echo.
Scott Weingart
Dr. Weingart received his medical degree and completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He then went on to fellowships in Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and ECMO at the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
He is currently an attending in and chief of the Division of Emergency Critical Care at Stony Brook Hospital. He is a clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at Stony Brook Medicine and an adjunct associate professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
He is best known for his podcast on Resuscitation and ED Critical Care called the EMCrit Podcast; it currently is downloaded > 300,000 times per month.