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
Dean / Principal Fellow
Founding Principal / Expedition Medicine
Nick Abussi
Director / Faculty Chair 
Advisory Board / Critical Care / Dive Medicine
Shelly Kim
Communications Director
Advisory Board /Fellow Coordinator
Dr Dan Lack
Fellow
GP / Expedition Medicine / Mountain Rescue 
Shell Piercy
Fellow
Governance / Remote & Rural Paramedicine
Dr Belinda Flanagan
Research Fellow
Humanitarian Medicine / Prehospital Obstetrics
Adam Kershaw
Associate Fellow
Expedition Medicine / Remote First Response
Dr Johan Gustafson
Associate Fellow
Ecologist / Marine Scientist / Shark Week Host 
Dr Sophie Fontaine
Research Fellow
Remote Medicine / Adventure Travel
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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