Plenary Session: EMS Leadership and Education in Developing Countries

Duncan will be discussing how he has implemented leadership and education development in developing countries and the challenges he has faced along the journey.

Duncan will also be discussing the international collaboration he has used across Australia, Canada and the USA, and just how globalisation is enabling the growth of paramedicine as an industry world-wide.

Speaker: Duncan McConnell

MBA(Exec), MCOM, GradCertAmbMgt, DipHlthSc(Amb) DipInfoTech, AFCHSM, FAIM, CHM, MAP
Foundational Paramedicine Program Director / Senior Lecturer
Clinical Directory Mongolian EMS and Disaster Management Program
School of Medicine – Griffith University

Duncan has worked in prehospital care and emergency services since 1997 starting off as a volunteer and progressing through to Senior Management and Director roles to date. Duncan’s experience has spanned both metropolitan, rural, military, private industry, international service delivery and aeromedical ambulance operations, in the capacity of a paramedic, educator and managerial/leadership responsibilities. Since 2017 Duncan has been working with the Ministry of Health, the Republic of the Maldives, Ministry of Health Mongolia and the World Health Organisation (WHO). This work has included the ground up development of new National Ambulance Service (Maldives) and the redevelopment of and introduction of national standardisation for the Mongolian Ambulance Service to date.

This work has included developing clinical and corporate governance, response capability frameworks, education development strategies and the implementation of sustainable systems to enable growth and future development of ambulances services within both countries.