The CCAM Course was born out of The Difficult Airway Rescue Techniques (DART) Course, developed by the The Severn Airway Training Society (SATS) in the UK in 2006. This flagship course for Anaesthetic trainees, which is still running successfully to this day, was the brainchild of a dear mentor and friend, Dr Nick Wharton, who sadly died in 2021. The CCAM Course is dedicated to Nick.
CCAM has been designed to include the knowledge and skills required for airway management in critical care: difficult airways, sick patients, challenging environments.
If you work in Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine, Pre-Hospital Care, Rural and Remote Medicine or Anaesthesia, you will face these challenges. This course is for you.
Gordon Flynn MRCP(UK), FRCA(UK), FCICM, FANZCA, FICM(UK) is an intensive care physician and part time anaesthetist. Trained in London, he now works in Sydney and North Canberra. Gordon has a strong interest in medical education and adult learning having completed a Post Grad Cert in Medical Education from Dundee. He is a Senior lecturer at UNSW and affiliate with the school of rural medicine Sydney University. He has a strong interest in ethics and law around end of life care and an unusual passion for health economics.
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Toby works as an Emergency Physician at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney and as a Medical Retrieval Specialist for CareFlight. He is also a Clinical Lecturer with the University of Sydney.
He is the principal investigator for the Australia and New Zealand Emergency Department Airway Registry. This project recently won an award at the 2014 NSW Health Awards and the results from the observational study of over 2500 ED intubations will be published in 2015.
Toby’s airway teaching activities include being faculty on the Levitan Cadaveric Airway course in Sydney as well as on the SMACC and BCC Conferences.
Marija is an ICU Specialist Royal North Shore Hospital. She is passionate about medical education and participates regularly in critical care course delivery and multidisciplinary health care teaching. Marija has supported CICM Fellowship education since completing the exam in 2020 via local trainee teaching, the Sydney Long Course and the online CICM Fellowship VIVA Program. She is looking forward to taking on the role of the CICM Advisory Co-Chair of the General/Fellowship Online Education Program Steering Committee in 2023.
Maddi is an ICU and Simulation Centre Fellow at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. She has a keen interest in education, mentorship and improving educational equity in the medical sphere. She has taught at multiple courses through both the ICU and the Simulation Centre, and is involved in the weekly fellowship teaching sessions at RNSH.
Maddi is also the co-creator of the ICU Primary and the ICU Fellowship Prepcast, podcasts aimed at helping ICU trainees study for their exams and hopefully lessening the horror of the preparation process.
Clive works as a Senior Intensive Care Specialist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and as an Anaesthetist at Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital. He has a keen interest in education and is an examiner for the Fellowship of the College of Intensive Care Medicine. He regularly teaches airway and ventilation stations on the BASIC courses and remains frustrated by the inappropriate use of the pillow in airway management!
Matt is a consultant anaesthetist at Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH), where he also completed his anaesthetic training. During this time, he undertook a term with CareFlight pre-hospital medicine, working alongside emergency teams to deliver hospital-level critical care at the roadside. He recently completed an Airway Fellowship at RNSH, further refining his expertise in airway management with a focus on complex Head & Neck, ENT surgery and management of the threatened airway. His major interests include trauma, airway management and human factors in anaesthesia.
Currently, Matt serves as a board member for the Safe Airway Society, where he is committed to advancing airway management standards and improving patient safety in critical care settings. He continues to teach on the ATTAAC and CCAM courses and is in the process of enrolling as faculty for EMAC.
Roger was a Specialist in Emergency and Retrieval Medicine before moving into Intensive Care. He has extensive experience with airway management in sick patients and challenging environments, and is a member of the Faculty on the Levitan Yellowstone Airway Course.
Roger was co-convenor of the highly successful Social Media and Critical Care (SMACC) and Bedside Critical Care (BCC) conferences, is co-founder of C4 (Centre for Critical Care Collaboration): a charitable not-for-profit trust, and also on the board of directors for the Northcare Foundation: a registered charity supporting Intensive Care research and education on the North Shore of Sydney.
His other interests include keeping up with his wife and 5 kids and cattle farming.
Georgie is an ENT surgeon currently working in Sydney.
She has a particular interest in innovative teaching and has been involved with the airway workshops at both BCC (Bedside Critical Care) and SMACC (Social Media and Critical Care) conferences, as well as being faculty at Richard Levitan’s Yellowstone Airway Course in America. Her podcasts on critical care/ ENT topics can be found on the ICN website.
In 2016, Dr Harris will be moving with her family to London for a year to undertake additional Fellowship training focusing entirely on laryngology/voice surgery.
Originally from central-west Queensland, Georgie is also passionate about rural life and loves nothing more than sitting on a motorbike behind a mob of sheep.
Wade got his MBBS at the University of Queensland. He has special interests in trauma and neurocritical care, having completed a trauma critical care fellowship at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto (the busiest trauma centre in Canada).
He loves teaching, has completed the NHET-Sim Instructor programand teaches on simulation based airway workshops (at Sunnybrook Hospital and now at RNSH). He is heavily involved in ALS training through the ARC (Australian Resuscitation Council) – he is a current course director and has taught on many provider and instructor courses. He also instructs on BASIC and Beyond BASIC courses.
Wade completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Echocardiography from the University of Melbourne during his CICM fellowship.
His other interests include travel, eating out and Australian Rules Football.
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Caroline is an Anaesthetist at the Northern Beaches Hospital. She completed her Fellowship at Royal North Shore Hospital, gaining extensive experience with fibre optic techniques. She also has Pre-Hospital experience and has managed airways in challenging circumstances. She has qualifications in education and simulation, and runs regular simulation sessions for anaesthetic trainees and nurses.
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Dr Adam Rehak is a senior consultant anaesthetist at Royal North Shore Hospital.
He underwent his undergraduate training at Melbourne University and the Austin Hospital in Melbourne. He was an anaesthetic registrar at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne and at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Trust in London, before undergoing a provisional fellowship at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney.
He has particular clinical interests in neuroanaesthesia, intra-operative neuro and spinal cord monitoring, airway management and human factors in health care. He is co-founder and Treasurer of the Safe Airway Society, and a member of the executive of the Airway Management Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. Adam also runs the highly popular ATTAAC Course (Advanced Technical and Teamwork training for Anaesthetic Airway Crises).
His other interests include wilderness and expedition medicine, ski touring, camping and surfing.
Richard is an Anaesthetist at the Northern Beaches Hospital. He has significant experience in difficult airway management. This is due to his work as a Staff Anaesthetist at the Royal Darwin Hospital, which sees a very high volume of facial trauma, and on medical aid trips to West Africa specialising in complicated maxillo-facial surgery on patients with advanced facial tumours. He has an interest in anaesthesia in remote areas and developing countries and has worked extensively overseas.
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John is a senior Staff Specialist working in the RNSH Emergency Department. He is also the Director of the Hospital Skills Program and Deputy Director of the Sydney Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre. He is a Clinical Associate Professor in the discipline of emergency medicine at Sydney Medical School. John has a strong interest in education, patient safety and airway management. He runs a cadaveric airway course yearly with Prof. Richard Levitan and is co-lead of the NSW airway registry project in collaboration with the Emergency Care Institute.
Andrea dual trained in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care medicine in Bristol in the UK. She came to Australia in 2012 and is now a Staff Specialist in Anaesthesia at Wollongong hospital.
Andrea has experience in airway management training having been regularly involved in teaching the Difficult Airway Rescue Techniques (DART) and DART-SIM courses in the UK from 2007 to 2012. She is now part of a team providing ANZCA approved CICO training in Wollongong, and runs regular simulation sessions for anaesthetic trainees.
She is also very involved in teaching and training as a supervisor of training at Wollongong hospital, and lecturer at the Graduate School of Medicine.