CLINICAL PATHWAYS FOR ACUTE CARE IN TASMANIAN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS
With Associate Professor Viet Tran, Deputy Director of Emergency Medicine at Royal Hobart Hospital & Founding Director, Tasmanian Emergency Medicine Research Institute & Emergency Medicine Discipline Lead, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia
RESEARCHER PROFILE
Filmed in Hobart, Australia | July 2025
Viet Tran is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Tasmania, Founding Director of the Tasmanian Emergency Medicine Research Institute, Deputy Director of Emergency Medicine at Royal Hobart Hospital, Chair of the Tasmanian Emergency Departments Network and Inaugural Co-Chair of the Tasmanian Health Senate.
A/Prof Tran also works at the coalface of healthcare as an Emergency Physician and continually advocates for excellence in patient care through education, research, quality and safety and health reform.
He has built Emergency Medicine Research in Tasmania from the ground up, which has culminated in the success of a AUD$3 million Australian Government Medical Research Futures Fund grant looking into the Implementation of Clinical Pathways for Acute Care in Tasmania project. Dr Tran is also the Emergency Medicine Discipline lead within the Tasmanian School of Medicine and has key roles to play within Emergency Medicine training. He feels privileged to be able to teach and mentor across the whole spectrum of becoming a doctor, from watching students grow into junior doctors, senior registrar and as fellow medical specialists.
Source: University of Tasmania website
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