Welcome to our new VIC Representatives to the Health SIG Committee:

Ben Fisk 

Ben is a mobile intensive care (MICA) flight paramedic with Air Ambulance Victoria and has worked in the pre-hospital field for 20 years. Ben completed his PhD through the Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine at Deakin University in 2013, studying rural/urban differences in traumatic brain injury outcomes.  A small part of his thesis considered the decision-making processes of rural clinicians required to manage TBI patients.  This has developed into a genuine interest in human factors and the critical importance of non-technical skills.

Ben has a passion for teaching and mentoring, and is interested in contributing to research focussed on decision making and teamwork in complex environments.

Nathan Farrow

Nathan comes from a critical care nursing background spending the majority of his clinical career in emergency and trauma. He spent around 12 years managing large project and programs in the health sector in Australia and internationally, most of which had a safety, quality improvement or systems development focus. He used human factors methods in all of these projects. For two years, Nathan  was the risk and patient safety manager for the second largest health service in Victoria. More recently, he was the Director of Patient Safety and Experience for the Victorian Government’s lead agency for healthcare quality and safety, Safer Care Victoria. Nathan completed his Master of Safety Science (Human Factors Engineering) in 2021 and for the past 18 months, he has been working in HF consulting, about 80% in rail and 20% in health care.