Trauma Program Manager  - The Royal Melbourne Hospital: Kellie Gumm
Phone: (03) 9342 7052
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Kellie is a clinical nurse consultant with 16-year history of working with trauma patients. Her background includes critical care (ICU & ED), management and education. She is responsible for the implementation, monitoring and coordination of all operational issues involved in the running of the Trauma Service, she is looking forward to supporting the running of the P.A.R.T.Y. program at RMH in 2011 onwards.

Trauma Education Coordinator (P.A.R.T.Y.) - The Royal Melbourne Hospital: Kellie Liersch

Phone: (03) 9342 4294
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Kellie is a registered nurse and has worked on the trauma ward at RMH for over 8 years and as a direct result has seen how trauma effects lifes especially in youth.  Her background also includes educating nurses about caring for trauma patients.  Kellie is responsible for  coordinating the the P.A.R.T.Y program and also trauma education for the organisation.  Kellie is passionate about trauma education and preventing injury in youth and looks forward to coordinating the program at RMH.

P.A.R.T.Y. Program volunteers

P.A.R.T.Y. Program volunteers come from a variety of backgrounds but have two main things in common - they all wish to contribute to their community by volunteering their time, and they all enjoy working with young people and wish to make a difference in their lives. They have been specially selected and trained to assist the P.A.R.T.Y. Program team. Their role is to escort the students who participate in the Program around the hospital and to assist to supervise, support and encourage them in their experience of trauma. The P.A.R.T.Y. team greatly appreciate their volunteer service and commitment to the Program and the young people who attend it.

P.A.R.T.Y. Program Presenters

Presenters for the Program come from a broad range of clinical specialties including Emergency Service Workers, Doctors, Nurses, Allied Health professionals and Researchers. All of our clinical presenters volunteer their time in the hope of reducing the death and disability associated with trauma in youth. Depending on availability, the Program also features specially consented patients and their families in the acute phases of treatment for trauma injuries in the Intensive Care and Trauma Units of the hospital. These patients and/or their families speak to the students of the choices they or others made and the life changing consequences resulting from these choices. They answer questions students may have and form a very powerful part of the Program. The Program is also honoured to have presenters from Independence Australia - trauma survivors who sustained a spinal cord injury who come and present to the students about their experience of life post trauma.