Brendan Shannon

Senior Lecturer, Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice Brendan.Shannon1@monash.edu

Biography

Brendan is a lecturer and paramedic with Ambulance Victoria (AV). He has experience in curriculum development, continuing professional development, clinical instruction, and supervision of honours students’ projects, on top of his clinical and academic workload. Brendan has a keen research interest in alternative care pathways, non-transport, referral services, extended care paramedics and community care paramedicine.

articles

Ambulance ramping is a sign of a health system in crisis

Hospitals are struggling, with ambulances ramping outside emergency departments, and patients facing long waits for care. But doing more of the same won’t fix the problem.

Medicine and health