From small beginnings to a community of practice across the Asia-Pacific, the story of APLS Australia.
A fully incorporated, not-for-profit organisation founded in 1997, APLS Australia currently facilitates over 130 courses a year for more than 2,500 health care professionals, expanding each year.
Its flagship courses, Advanced Paediatric Life Support and Paediatric Life Support, run in over 30 locations across Australia each year with outreach work conducted in several developing countries.
From its development in the 1980s by the UK's Advanced Life Support Group, APLS has become the internationally recognised gold standard in paediatric emergency training. Courses are supported by the 6th edition Australia and New Zealand APLS manual and an award-winning online learning package for both the APLS and PLS courses.
APLS Australia has its own dedicated training centre in Melbourne’s CBD which is available for hire throughout the year. It also produces the annual PAC Conference, one of the largest paediatric acute care conferences in the Asia-Pacific region.
To achieve the best outcome for ill and injured children by improving the knowledge and skills of health professionals involved in their care.
"To promote excellence in emergency care of ill and injured children through the provision of high-quality contemporary education programs for health care professionals.”
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Want to contact a board member, committee chair or APLS staff member? Email info@apls.org.au or contact us here.
Rod Wealands
Jason Acworth
Marissa Alexander
Andrew Blanch
André Kogan
Di Crellin
Lindsay McMillan
Jacquie Schutz
Susan Loane
George Panos
Jacquie Schutz
Shahn Horrocks, Cathrin Parsch, Jane Stanford, Anthony Stevenson, Andrew Terrey, Adam Buckmaster, André Kogan, Donovan Dwyer, Noel Roberts, Jane Cichero
Andrew Blanch
Paul Bloomfield, Sue Coretti, Elizabeth Cotterell, David McDonald, Jane Stanford, Jane Cichero, Christopher Webber, Noel Roberts, Marissa Alexander, John Gavranich, Anna Sullivan (APLS NZ Representative)
Stephen Teo
Di Crellin, Connie Gray, Catherine Gale, Shelley Dutton, Jane Cichero, Jane Stanford, Noel Roberts, Stephen Bradley (APLS NZ Representative), Carmen Haines (APLS NZ Representative)
Mike Starr
Malcolm Higgins, Tomas Ratoni, Christine Sanderson, Christine Brabyn (APLS NZ representative), Mike Starr, Setthy Ung, Bruce Lister, James Flynn, Susan Phin, Olwen Gilbert