Our people are your people

The faculty.

The Academy Faculty and Executive Team are the driving force behind the Academy Fellowship. Below, you can meet the individuals, the legends, the pioneers, and the founding fellows—who make up our esteemed faculty.
Sunny Whitfield
Principal Fellow
Founding Principal / Expedition Medicine
Nick Abussi
Principal Fellow
Advisory Board Chair / Critical Care / Dive Medicine
Dr Dan Lack
Fellow
GP / Expedition Medicine / Mountain Rescue 
Shell Piercy
Fellow
Governance / Remote & Rural Paramedicine
Adam Kershaw
Associate Fellow
Expedition Medicine / Remote First Response
Dr Johan Gustafson
Associate Fellow
Ecologist / Shark Week Host 
Dr Tom Solano
Fellow
GP / Emergency Medicine / Tropical Medicine 
Kerryn Wratt
Fellow
Critical Care Flight / Wilderness Rescue 
Wendy Sullivan
Associate Fellow
Marine First Response / Ocean Medicine 
Dr Edi Albert
Fellow
Emergency, Expedition and Wilderness Medicine.
Dr Kate Baecher
Fellow
Clinical and Performance Psychologist.
Damo Anderson
Fellow
Vertical Rescue / Remote Paramedicine
Dr Sophie Ootes
Fellow
GP / Sports Medicine / Mountain Medicine
Andrew Hughes
Fellow
Paramedic / Jungle / Tactical Medicine
Dr Brenton Systermans
Fellow
GP / Expedition Medical Practitioner
Mark Ward
Fellow
Paramedic / Remote Paramedicine
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