Associate Professor Emmeline Campbell is a Prehospital and Retrieval and Emergency Physician for nearly 20 years. She has a breadth of experience having worked nationally both inside and outside of the ED between Darwin, Adelaide, the Queensland Eastern Seaboard from Horn Island to the Gold Coast, Melbourne, and more recently NE Health - Wangaratta.  

Her administrative duties include;

-Subject Coordinator for the Graduate Certificate in Aeromedical Retrieval Medicine, James Cook University; 

-Deputy Chair for Accreditation Subcommittee Associateship in Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine as well as being an inspector for the ACEM accreditation team and long time member of the Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine evolution through ACEM ; and 

-Aeromedical Industry Consultation.

Her clinical position in the Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine industry has been established with clinical  leadership, governance, education and operational roles at LifeFlight Medical (previously CareFlight Qld), Ambulance Victoria and MedSTAR in Adelaide.

Prehospital and Retrieval Medical systems remain integral to supporting healthcare for rural communities, saving lives. Critical ill and injured patients across rural Australia have poorer health outcomes in order of 1.5 times greater compared to their metropolitan counterparts.  Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine fundamentally strives to impact on such outcomes. 

Emmeline’s presentation Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine – Serving Rural Communities will describe the intricacies of the Australasian Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine systems showcasing that a critical rural clinical patient be they anyone,….anywhere,… anytime,….will have timely equal access to specialised care.