DIRECTOR

Professor Paul Middleton

Professor Paul Middleton is a specialist in prehospital and emergency medicine, having worked as part of helicopter trauma and critical care retrieval teams in both the UK and Australia. He is the immediate past Chair of the NSW branch of the Australian Resuscitation Council, was founding Director of the Ambulance Research Institute and spent several years as Medical Director of the Ambulance Service of NSW. Paul is Director of the South Western Emergency Research Institute (SWERI) and Chair of the new Australasian Emergency Medicine Epidemiology Network (EDEN). He has associate professorial positions at the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, and Western Sydney University. Paul’s research degree was entitled Physiological and Clinical Implications of Photoplethysmography Waveforms and he performs research into novel non-invasive monitoring techniques, but mainly works with clinical and administrative ‘big data’, investigating the epidemiology of emergency medicine patients, including GIS mapping; evolving complex adaptive system models of emergency departments and the health system; creating critical illness registries and constructing linked data sets to provide information on the patient journey.