Mr Stephen Burgess

Acting Head of Graduate Programs

Profile

Research Interests

• Public Health
• Measures of population health
• Health needs of the elderly in the community
• Health needs of those with chronic and long term illness
• Evidence based paramedic practice

Current Research Projects

• The Metropolitan Fire and Emergency Service Board Emergency Responder Program - Where to Next?

Publications

Morgans A and Burgess S. What is a health emergency? The difference in definition and understanding between patients and health professionals. Australian Health Review. 2011;35:284-289.Journal Articles - Peer Reviewed

Hutton J, Dent A, Buykx P, Burgess S, Flander L & Dietze P. The characteristics of acute non-fatal medication-related events attended by ambulance services in the Melbourne Metropolitan Area 1998–2002. Drug and Alcohol Review. 2010;29:53-58. .

Boyle M, Williams B, Burgess S. Contemporary Simulation Education for Undergraduate Paramedic Students. Emerg Med J. Emerg. Med. J. 2007; 24: 854 7.

Williams, B.Archer, F. Boyle, M. Burgess, S. Lord, B. What are paramedic undergraduate students' perceptions of a clinical curriculum utilising a case-based learning paradigm. Prehospital Emergency Care. 2006, 10(4):530.

Burgess S. Social and environmental influences affecting the risk of development of meningococcal disease: considerations for prehospital care. Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care 2006; 4(1): Article Number: 990179.

Burgess S, Boyle M, Chilton M, Ellis B, Fallows B, Lord B, et al. Monash University Centre for Ambulance and Paramedic Studies (MUCAPS) Submission to the Department of Human Services (DHS), in response to the DHS Discussion Paper examining the regulation of the Health Professions in Victoria. Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care 2004; 1(3-4): Article Number: 990066.

Burgess S. Book Review “Users’ Guide to the Medical Literature - A Manual for Evidence Based Clinical Practice”. Edited by Gordon Guyatt and Drummond Rennie, 2002, AMA Press, Chicago, 706 pages. Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care 2003;1(3-4).

Dietze P, Cantwell K, Burgess S. Bystander resuscitation attempts at heroin overdose: does it improve outcomes? Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2002;67(2):213-218.

Technical Papers

Patrick I, Burgess S, Cantwell C, Cameron P, Fitzgerald M, Jones C, Niggemeyer L, Pascoe D. Prehospital management of tension pneumothorax: has it improved. Final report to the Traffic Accident Commission, 2009. School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Research Projects

2009

Researcher
Point Prevalence of Wounds Study
Ballarat Health Service

2008

Principal Researcher
Victorian Trauma Foundation
Pre-hospital management of tension pneumothorax - has it improved?

2004

Chief investigator (D)
Beyondblue: Victorian Centre of Excellence in Depression and Related Disorders
Exploring Melbourne's hidden epidemic: Medication overdose, depression and their management by first responders.

Current Professional Activities

Honorary Research Fellow, National Trauma Research Institute, Alfred Hospital

Reviewer, Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care

Reviewer, Cochrane Prehospital and Emergency Health Field

Member, Australian College of Ambulance Professionals

Maintenance of clinical currency as a MICA (Intensive Care) Paramedic, Ambulance Victoria