Upcoming Webinar: How Mobile Communications Are Transforming Patient Care

Moderator: Kris Kaull
Chief Marketing Officer at Pulsara, Critical Care Flight Paramedic, Founder of Paramedic.com, and co-founder of EMS1.com

Kris Kaull, BS, NRP, FP-C has driven innovation and positive change in EMS for nearly 30 years. After beginning his career as a firefighter and EMT, Kris started paramedic.com and co-founded EMS1.com, which today is the largest online paramedic resource. He has worked as a firefighter captain, paramedic and ambulance service director, and most recently, practised as a critical care flight paramedic covering Southwest rural MT and Yellowstone National Park. Kris is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at Pulsara.com, the leading mobile telehealth and communication platform that connects healthcare teams across organisations.

Professor Chris Bladin
Victorian Stroke Telemedicine (VST) Service Director and Adjunct Professor at Monash University 

Prof. Christopher Bladin is a practising Neurologist who has previously worked in London, UK, and Toronto, Canada. He is the Director of Stroke services in Ambulance Victoria and Director of the Victorian Stroke Telemedicine (VST) service. He is active in stroke research with a special interest in post-stroke glucose control, stroke thrombolysis, acute stroke brain imaging, and stroke telemedicine.

Dr Kathleen Bagot 
Senior Research Officer, Stroke Division: Public Health & Health Services Research Group 

Dr Kathleen Bagot (BSci; BBSci, Honours, PhD; Psychology) has over 15 years of experience as a social scientist with a particular focus on mixed-methods research in complex applied settings (e.g., within ambulance and emergency departments, blood donor centres, education settings) to improve physical and/or psychological health. Her experience includes conducting and/or analysing over 300 individual interviews (via phone and face-to-face)/focus groups, complex statistical modelling from survey data to identify factors underlying or associated with behaviour change, interpretation within relevant theoretical frameworks and literature, tailored to best fit the research objectives, target audiences and available resources.

Janet May 
Stroke Coordinator at Latrobe Regional Hospital

Janet is the Stroke and Pulsara Coordinator at Latrobe Regional Hospital (LRH) in regional Victoria.  She is a Registered Nurse with 26 years of experience working in Australia and abroad and holds a Masters in Health and Graduate Diploma with Merit in Critical Care Trauma and Emergency Nursing.  She has an extensive background in Emergency Nursing and previously held positions as Associate Unit Manager and Clinical Nurse Specialist in Emergency Departments. Janet managed the Pulsara implementation project at LRH and Gippsland and continues to manage the day-to-day operational aspects of Pulsara for LRH. She is passionate about improving stroke care and streamlining processes in regional Victoria.

Grant Hocking, ASM 
Regional Improvement Lead, Grampians Region Operational Improvement for Ambulance Victoria 

Grant has a 35-year career with Ambulance Victoria (AV) and has worked in most operational areas of the organisation, including as a MICA Paramedic, Team Manager, Clinical Support Officer, Clinical Manager and is currently the Improvement Lead for the Grampians region of AV. He has an interest in clinical quality and was awarded the Ambulance Service Medal (ASM) in the 2014 Australia Day recognitions for the development of Clinical Quality Improvement processes. He was a member of the Health Services Review Council for 3 years (2010-2013). 

Also, with an interest in Stroke management, Grant was a member of the Victorian Stroke Clinical Network (Dept. of Health) for 6 years (2012-2017) and was awarded the National Stroke Foundation (NSF) President’s Award in 2018. Grant has changed internal AV procedures and guidelines and directed state-wide improvements in the outcomes of patients with Stroke and many other projects and research.