Thomas Shanahan
Emergency Registrar, Trainee Section Editor, and Adjunct Clinical Lecturer in Melbourne, Australia
Dr Thomas Shanahan (MBChB, BA, MA, PGCert, MRCEM) is an emergency medicine registrar (TS2) at Monash Health, Victoria, Australia; adjunct lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University; member of the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) at Monash Health and Trainee Section Editor at Emergency Medicine Australasia (EMA).
Thomas has recently been appointed the clinical lead for the ACEM and James Lind Alliance (JLA) Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) for Emergency Care for Australia and New Zealand. Funding secured from the ACEM Foundation.
Thomas spent one year as ED research registrar at Royal Perth Hospital and before the one year as ED registrar at Royal Perth Hospital.
Previously Thomas was an emergency medicine trainee in Manchester, NIHR academic clinical fellow and honorary clinical research fellow at the University of Manchester. Thomas was an education associate with the General Medical Council and Research Lead for Emergency Medicine Trainees Association (EMTA) and member of RCEM research committee. Thomas was a Steering Committee member of the RCEM/JLA PSP in Emergency Care Refresh.
Thomas research interests are in health services research on major trauma and using implementation science to reduce unhelpful care in the ED. In a former life, he was a United Nations international civil servant working in New York, Africa and Asia-Pacific on gender-based violence prevention, peace building and national security policy development.