Private Emergency Medicine: Dispelling Myths, Building Training Pathways and Shaping Future Models of Care Webinar

• An introduction to PrEMN and the role of private emergency medicine in Australia.  
• A discussion of what private EDs do, how they are funded, and where common misunderstandings arise.  
• Consideration of the similarities and differences between public and private emergency medicine.  
• Discussion of the role private EDs can play in the FACEM Training Program, including consideration of metropolitan and regional private ED training opportunities.  
• Exploration of FACEM-led urgent care and community-based emergency care models, including their role in supporting public hospital capacity, improving patient access and experience, and expanding career pathways for emergency clinicians. 
• Opportunity for members to contribute questions for the speakers and ideas for PrEMN’s future work.

Dr Ian Turner

Ian is an emergency physician and Director of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at Cabrini Health, a large private not-for-profit hospital in Melbourne. He has worked in private emergency medicine for many years and has held senior leadership roles in the sector, including time as a Director of Emergency Medicine Training (DEMT) and now six years as DEM. Ian is Chair of the ACEM PrEMN and a member of ACEM’s Victorian Branch Council. His interests include private emergency medicine workforce sustainability, training, system advocacy, clinical governance and pragmatic implementation of digital health solutions in EDs.

Dr Melanie Bennett

Melanie is an emergency physician who works in both public and private EDs. She is currently a DEMT in a private ED as well as being their medical simulation lead. She has a strong interest in medical education, trainee wellbeing, simulation, equity and health advocacy.

Melanie sits on the executive of PrEMN and is a member of Advancing Women in Emergency and the Equity Champions Network.

Dr Hope Gates-Scovelle

Hope is a senior emergency trainee who has trained in both public and private EDs. She has passed her fellowship exams and is now in the final months of her training time. She has a strong interest in palliative care and has completed a clinical Diploma of Palliative Medicine. Hope is passionate about equitable care in the ED and is currently the medical lead for the BRIDGE-ED trial at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne.

Dr Tim Stewart

Tim is CEO and Group Medical Director of Heal Specialist Urgent Care. He works across emergency medicine and specialist urgent care, with a particular interest in community-based acute care models, health system integration, workforce innovation and patient-centred service delivery.

His work focuses on developing FACEM-led urgent care services that provide timely, high-quality emergency care outside the traditional hospital setting, while supporting broader health system capacity and creating sustainable career pathways for clinicians.

Dr Ian Norton

Ian is a FACEM based on the Sunshine Coast who previously Directed the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre in Darwin and set up and led Australia's medical response teams ’AUSMAT‘. He was the lead author of the Blue book and Red book the standards by which medical teams deploy to disasters, outbreaks and conflicts and was in charge of the Emergency Medical Team Initiative for WHO in Geneva 2014-2020. He is now managing director of two companies, Respond Global and Sotero, with a focus on global health advisory, a non-profit humanitarian ship in Vanuatu for the former, and telehealth and clinical services through the later.