Gurvinder Kaur

I am an experienced anesthetist, clinician-educator, and senior clinical lecturer with University of Adelaide, who loves to take care of patients and at the same time teach and mentor younger students and trainees to become better future physicians. I have the skills to work actively and effectively in clinical as well as teaching activities. In my current position as an anesthetic consultant at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, I am actively involved managing high risk elective, emergency and major trauma patients. I am very proactive in doing bedside teaching and research. I run monthly CICO simulation session within the Anaesthesia department and participate as an instructor at the Wet lab airway teaching at SAHMRI. I am actively involved in medical students teaching at the University of Adelaide. I am a qualified ALS 2 instructor as well. I am keen to join the interview panel for the specialist international medical graduate as it provides an opportunity to contribute to the rigorous evaluation and integration of skilled medical professionals into our health care system. Being a specialist international medical specialist myself and having diverse experience and commitment to excellence in medicine make me well suited to assess candidate’s qualifications and competencies. This role allows to ensure that our medical standards are upheld, fostering a high level of care for patients, and enhancing the overall quality of our healthcare workforce.

I am an experienced anesthetist, clinician-educator, and senior clinical lecturer with University of Adelaide, who loves to take care of patients and at the same time teach and mentor younger students and trainees to become better future physicians. I have the skills to work actively and effectively in clinical as well as teaching activities. In my current position as an anesthetic consultant at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, I am actively involved managing high risk elective, emergency and major trauma patients. I am very proactive in doing bedside teaching and research. I run monthly CICO simulation session within the Anaesthesia department and participate as an instructor at the Wet lab airway teaching at SAHMRI. I am actively involved in medical students teaching at the University of Adelaide. I am a qualified ALS 2 instructor as well. I am keen to join the interview panel for the specialist international medical graduate as it provides an opportunity to contribute to the rigorous evaluation and integration of skilled medical professionals into our health care system. Being a specialist international medical specialist myself and having diverse experience and commitment to excellence in medicine make me well suited to assess candidate’s qualifications and competencies. This role allows to ensure that our medical standards are upheld, fostering a high level of care for patients, and enhancing the overall quality of our healthcare workforce.

• Australian Medical Association (AMA)
• Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA)
• Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA)
• ANZCA Special Interest Groups: Airway Management, Perioperative Medicine Airway Management, Obstetrics Anaesthesia, Regional Anaesthesia, Trauma, Acute Pain
• Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA)

Department of Anaesthesia, Pain and Hyperbaric Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA, 5000

45 Waterford Circuit, Lightsview, SA, 5085

0402773340

• APHRA, Australia, 2015 to current, Specialist, MED 0001525845
• Medical Board of Australia, Australia, 2010 to 2015, Medical Practitioner
• Punjab Medical Council, India, 2001 to 2014, General Since 2001, Specialist since 2006, 31920

• Interview panelist: I have been on interview panels on many occasions at Mount Gambier Hospital and at RAH for Consultant Anaesthetist interviews as well as Registrar selection panel (JCCA as well as SANTRAS).
• Acting Head of Department at Mount Gambier Hospital during absence of the Head of the Department
• Supervisor of Training (in the past) at Mount Gambier Hospital
• Roster Management: Mount Gambier and Millicent hospital- rostering 5 consultants, locum anesthetists, 2 trainees and intern
• Welfare Officer at Mount Gambier Hospital
• Mentor to trainees
• Organize departmental audit and social meetings at Mount Gambier Hospital
• Assessment and Supervision of ANZCA and JCCA (Joint Consultative Committee on Anaesthesia) trainees, interns and Medical students as part of their training requirements in Mount Gambier Hospital
• Annual Performance Review as part of country health SA standards

• Recommendations and Guidelines for Perioperative management for patients undergoing pelvic exenteration at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA
• Established Environmental Committee in operating theatre at Mount Gambier Hospital
• Introduced perioperative lignocaine infusion protocol at Mount Gambier Hospital
• Introduced IV oxycodone pain protocol for acute pain management in PACU at Mount Gambier Hospital
• Revised Cant Intubate Can’t Ventilate rescue kit at Mount Gambier Hospital
• Revised Patient Information Booklet at Mount Gambier Hospital
• Audit (Either as principal investigator or supervisor): Procedural Sedation for Scopes, Perioperative anemia management (on going), Perioperative management of pts. with #NOF, Perioperative lignocaine infusion, Incidence and prophylaxis of PONV, Preoperative Chronic Medication Management, Patient Satisfaction Survey, Difficult Airway Trolley, Epidural Analgesia in Labor

• Run monthly CICO simulation session in the anesthesia department at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
• Run regular Pain scenarios for medical students at the simulation center, Uni Adelaide as part of their APIC rotation.
• Teach in ALS2 courses.
• Teaching sessions for ANZCA trainees, JCCA trainees, junior medical staff, interns and medical students- classroom, small group and bedside clinical teaching.
• Organization of department CME activities aligned with the combined SA and NT ANZCA & ASA quarterly CME events.
• Lectures for medical students at Flinders Rural Clinical School, Mount Gambier.
• Nursing education program: ongoing teaching program covering mainly emergencies in the operating theatres, high dependency areas and emergency department. The topics covered are: Airway assessment, Rapid Sequence Induction, Difficult airway management- Vortex approach, surgical airway, Rapid O2 device and set up, Emergency drugs, Malignant Hyperthermia, Anaphylaxis.
• Medical supervisor for 5th year medical students for a project entitled “Evaluation of the quality and efficiency of services provided for outpatients, inpatients and the Community, 2008 at Manali Mission Hospital, Himachal Pradesh, India.

• Anaphylaxis Workshop 26 June 2024, South Pacific Anaesthesia Meeting, 25-27 June 2024 Fiji
• Cultural Safety Workshop, 17 June 2023 NT ACE 2023, Alice Springs Convention Centre, NT
• ASBD Workshop, ASURA 2-4 March 2023, Adelaide
• WS4 Upper Limb -Above the clavicle blocks, ASURA 2-4 March 2023, Adelaide
• WS Lower Limb- Hip Surgery Block ASURA 2-4 March 2023, Adelaide
• ASBD Emergency Response workshop, 18 June 2022, Adelaide
• Fuse Covid 19 Lung USG Simulator Course at RAH, May 2022
• Major Hemorrhage Workshop at CSC 2022, Combined Scientific Congress NZSA and ASA, Wellington NZ 21-024 October 2022
• Human factors online short course, Monash University 19 August- 27 September 2019
• CICO Instructor Course, Royal Perth Hospital, 26-27 August 2019
• Difficult Colleague Interactions Workshop, Mount Gambier Hospital, 21 August 2019
• ANZCA Workplace-Based Assessments Regional Workshop, Mount Gambier Hospital 13 May 2019
• ALS2 Course as an Instructor, Mount Gambier Hospital, 23-24 March 2019
• Definitive Surgical/Anaesthetic Trauma Course (DSTC) Brisbane, 18-20 February 2019
• ARC ALS Hybrid Instructor Course, Flinders University, SA 4-5 August 2018
• Emergency Response Workshops (CICO and Anaphylaxis), Adelaide 24 March 2018
• CICO workshop, Royal Adelaide Hospital, 11 January 2016
• Critical Bleeding: Bloodsafe eLearning online course 14 December 2015
• Basic and Advanced Medical Officers Diving and Hyperbaric Course, Royal Adelaide Hospital, 30 November -11 December 2015
• Professional Development Program for Registrars, SAMET, Adelaide, 24-25 September 2015
• Perioperative Medicine Course, Monash University, 25 May- 24 August 2015
• Anaphylaxis workshop, ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting, Adelaide May 2015
• E.M.A.C Course, The Southern Health Simulation and Skills Centre, Melbourne 27-29 October 2011
• Regional Anaesthesia Workshop, University of Adelaide, Discipline of Anaesthesia Regional Anaesthesia Workshop, 18-19 June 2011
• Difficult Airway Workshop, Royal Adelaide Hospital, 23 October 2010

Manage elective and emergency surgical cases from ASA 1 to ASA 5 including morbidly obese, obstetric and paediatric patients. Competent in providing regional anaesthesia in clinically appropriate settings to manage postoperative analgesia. Intensive care management of postoperative patients after major vascular procedures, colorectal surgery, perioperative high risk patients and patients requiring postoperative ventilation. Special interest in hyperbaric medicine, acute pain management, trauma. Clinical audits as lead investigator or supervisor. Provided outreach service for chronic pain patients- Ketamine or lignocaine infusions arranged for rural patients with chronic pain in Mount Gambier Hospital. Up-to-date with ANZCA CPD requirements.

MBBS, MD (Anaesthesia), FANZCA GChPOM

• 2015, The University of Adelaide, Medical Officer & Associate Investigator, Participated as Associate Investigator in an ongoing research study, Title: A Phase 1b, positive-controlled, dose escalation study to determine the safety, pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of a single intravenous dose of HSK3486 in healthy female subjects. Medical Officer & Associate Investigator for an ongoing clinical trial, Title: A Randomized, double blinded, placebo-controlled crossover study to evaluate the analgesic efficacy and safety of Oral CMX-020 in subjects with symptoms of sciatica resulting from lumbosacral radiculopathy.
• 2003-2006, Baba Farid University of Health Sciences-Faridkot, India, Evaluation of the influence of transdermal nitroglycerin on the analgesic action of low dose intrathecal neostigmine following surgeries below the umbilicus. A thesis submitted to University for the award of MD (Anaesthesia) degree.

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MBBS, M.D (Anaesthesia), FANZCA, GChPOM

• Procedural sedation for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (UGIE) and colonoscopy in a rural Australian hospital, is it safe? – Poster Presentation, ASA NSC, Sydney, September 2019.
• An audit comparing the perioperative management of patients with neck of femur fracture (NOF) in a regional Orthogeriatric fracture center in South Australia to national standards. Poster Presentation in ANZCA ASM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2019.
• Author, Country Health SA Policy on Trans abdominal Catheter (TAP) for post op pain relief June 2019.
• Airway Management in Endoscopy, South Australia Education Meeting organized by Gastroenterological Nurses College of Australia 28 October 2017.
• Yuel Veronica Irene, Kaur Vaneet, Kaur Gurvinder, Andappan Arun, Afzal Lalita. “Critical care in Obstetrics - scenario in a developing country.” J Obstet Gynecol India, Vol.58 No. 3 May/June 2008: 217 – 220.
• Gurvinder Kaur, Narjeet Osahan, Lalita Afzal. “Effect of transdermal nitroglycerine patch on analgesia of low dose intrathecal neostigmine.” J Anesth Clin Pharmacology 2007; 23(2): 159 -162.
• Harjeet Kaur, Gurvinder Kaur. “Efficacy of beta lactam inhibitor drug combinations against extended spectrum beta lactamase positive gram negative organisms”. Hospital Today Vol. VIII No.4: November 2003:183 -185.
• Presented the paper “Efficacy of beta lactam inhibitor drug combinations against extended spectrum beta lactamase positive gram negative organisms” in North West Chapter Meeting of Indian Association of Medical Microbiology 2002 at Postgraduate Institution of Medical Microbiologist (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.

Nature walks, Parkrun, cooking, entertaining family and friends.