Staff

Veronica Madigan

Senior Lecturer in Pre-Hospital Care Emergency Medicine

Course Coordinator for the Pre-Hospital Care Program

Veronica Madigan has extensive industry experience having worked for the Ambulance Service of NSW for 13 years in various roles including Acting District Officer, Paramedic Station Officer and Intensive Care Paramedic in the Illawarra and Sydney regions.

Veronica is involved with the development and teaching  of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and is also enrolled in a PhD with CSU, examining the lessons learned from veterinary medicine that can benefit human medicine.

Veronica’s research and teaching interests lay in pre-hospital emergency medicine; the overlap between human and veterinary medicine; how non verbal communication assists health care practitioner practice; problem based learning for internal and distance education students and learning to be a clinical detective.

Dr Peter O’Meara

Associate Head of the School of Biomedical Sciences
Associate Professor of Pre-Hospital Care

Dr O’Meara has over 20 years of ambulance service experience in Australia, having worked as a paramedic, communications officer, operations manager and senior regional manager in rural Victoria.

He currently teaches social science subjects in both the pre-hospital and health services management programs. Along with Professor Carol Grbich from Flinders University, Peter has recently edited a text book, “Paramedics in Australia: contemporary challenges of practice.”

Peter is currently supervising a number of students in Australia and North America undertaking Doctoral and Masters by research degrees in pre-hospital care and health services management. He is a Fellow and NSW Branch Board Member of the Australian College of Ambulance Professionals and a member of  numerous national and international professional bodies.

Scott Devenish

MVEdT(Southern Cross), BNur(Avondale), DipParaSc(NSW Ambulance Service), MACAP
Lecturer in Paramedical Studies

Scott Devenish is the Lecturer for the Pre-Hospital Care Program which forms part of the Bachelor of Clinical Practice (Paramedic). His favourite subject is Advanced Paramedical Science (APS301), which involves teaching advanced pharmacology to student paramedics in their last year of study.

Scott’s professional background includes over eight years with the Ambulance Service of New South Wales. During his time with the ASNSW, Scott worked in the roles of; Ambulance Officer for the North Sydney and Central Coast Sector, Ambulance Technical Educator and Ambulance Clinical Educator at the Ambulance Education Centre in Rozelle and Chair Person of the Assessment and Learning Committee.  He was a member of the Infection Control Committee at Ambulance State Headquarters  and also assisted the staff health officer in his capacity as a nurse vaccinator.

Scott has a Bachelor Degree in Nursing, a Master in Vocational Education and he is currently enrolled in a PhD with CSU examining the experiences of university and vocational paramedic graduates as they join the paramedic community of practice.

Scott’s research and teaching interests lay in Paramedic Education - both vocational and university based; pharmacology relating to the paramedical field; cardiovascular pathophysiology; paramedical treatment/interventions and infection control, specifically, immunisation.