Associate Professor David Heslop

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School of Public Health and Community Medicine

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d.heslop@unsw.edu.au

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Associate Professor

I am an Associate Professor at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at UNSW.

I am a practicing vocationally registered General Practitioner (FRACGP), an Occupational and Environmental Physician (FAFOEM) with RACP, and a fellowship candidate for the Academy of Wilderness Medicine.

My doctoral research focussed on the central autonomic anatomy and integrative neurophysiology relating to the cardiovascular response to noxious inescapable physiological stimuli such as severe haemorrhage and visceral pain. Utilising my research background and subsequent clinical training, through the Australian Defence Force I have been fortunate to have extensively deployed into a variety of complex and austere combat environments, and have gone on to undertake advanced training in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) Medicine and Senior Medical Officer training. Consequently I was appointed as Senior Medical Officer for Special Operations Command for 2014, and was the Officer Commanding and Senior Medical Officer to the ADF CBRNE medical incident response element at Special Operations Engineer Regiment from 2012-2015, Senior Medical Officer CBRNE in Special Operations Headquarters 2016-2019, and now undertake researve work as Staff Officer Grade 1 Public Health and Occupational Medicine at Army Headquarters.

I have extensive experience in the conception, design, planning, delivery and operations of health support systems and capability in remote and austere contexts; incorporating the management of exotic or novel hazards and risks. Extensive experience in planning for and management of major disasters, mass casualty and multiple casualty situations. I also have extensive overseas and domestic operational experience in command, personnel management, force protection, health protection systems, resilient systems design and test and evaluation. Direct responsibility and experience with leading deployable expeditionary medical support.

I am regularly consulted and participate in the development and review of national and international clinical and operational CBRNE policy and doctrine. I am additionally a peer reviewer for the journals Military Medicine (AMSUS) and Journal and Military and Veterans Health (AMMA). I also continue to conduct CBRNE medical, and general medical education and ADF GP Registar training within my military capacity, along with civilian instruction of the Major Incident Medical Management System (MIMMS) framework with MIMMS Australia.

Qualifications :

Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (FAFOEM)
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP)
Doctor of Philosophy (USyd)
Master of Public Health (USyd)
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) (USyd)
Bachelor of Science (Advanced) Honours 1 (USyd)

Grants :

NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence. Integrated Systems for Epidemic Response (ISER). Chief Investigator. $2,500,000 over 5 years. 2016-2021.
Defence Science and Technology Group (DST Group). Chimaera Evolution – An experiment by simulation framework to support CBR medical planning, preparedness and operational response. Bioterrorism Stream collaborative research grant. Chief Investigator. $575,000 over 3 years. FY 17-19
2x Industry funded reseatch grants totalling $210,000.

Memberships :

Royal Australasian College of General Practitioners

RACP Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Wilderness Medicine Society (WMS)

American Congress of Government and Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH)

American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM)

Australian Medical Association

Australian Military Medical Association (AMMA)

AMSUS

Major Incident Medical Management System (MIMMS) Australia

Royal Australian Army Medical Corps

Australasian Medical Review Officers Association

Full name (local) :

Associate Professor David J Heslop

Research

Research activities :

My interests lie in health and medical systems innovation and research. I retain linkages with key national civilian and military education, research and development organisations and retain an active involvement in a wide variety of projects and initiatives supporting national public health preparedness goals.

My current research effort and interests touch on complexity science, agent based and deterministic modelling, emergent complex adaptive systems phenomena, test and evaluation of systems, policy research, epidemic modelling, exotic and emerging infections, disaster preparedness and response, organisational resilience in health care, development of robust socio-technical systems in health care, and the modelling, simulation and investigation of public health interventions and systems.

Methods that I utilise in my research are:

- Sociotechnical systems modeling and simulation

- Hybrid Modeling (Agent Based Modeling, Discrete Event Modeling, System Dynamics)

- Artificial intelligence and autonomous agents

- Qualitative and mixed methods

- Epidemiology

- Geospatial/GIS based approaches

Socio-economic Objective (SEO) tags :

National Security

Defence

Defence and Security Policy

Field of Research (FOR) Tag :

Public Health and Health Services

Simulation and Modelling

Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety

Health Policy

Epidemiology

Emergency Medicine

Preventive Medicine

Defence Studies

Operations Research

Natural Hazards

Infectious Diseases

Software Engineering

Analysis of Algorithms and Complexity

Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics

Computer Gaming and Animation

Quality Management

Risk theory

Teaching & Supervision

Supervision :

ILP

PHD

I am available to supervise :

Yes

Areas of supervision :

I am willing to supervise across a broad range of research areas relating to the following fields, utilising traditional and also novel qualitative, quantitative and computational methods and techniques:

Emergency Response Systems
Emergency Medical Response Systems
Epidemic Response Systems
Computational Modeling and Simulation in Health Systems
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Emergency Response
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Medical Management
Clinical Governance and Risk Management
Expedition and Military Medicine
Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Currently supervising :

Higher Degree (PhD) Candidates:

Mr Nathan George (Future Health Leaders Program - Professional Doctorate in Public Health)
Ms Mohana Kunasekaran (Kirby Institute)
Mr Richard Mouthaan (Professional Doctorate - UNSW Canberra)
Mr Richard Mouthaan (UNSW Canberra)

Medical Program Project Supervision:

Mr Stewart McNamara (UNSW Medicine ILP)
Mr Mark Butorac (UNSW Medicine ILP)

Supervision keywords :

public health

modelling and simulation

complex systems

complexity science

adaptive systems

policy development

emerging communicable diseases

emergency medicine

toxicology

occupational medicine

environmental health

primary care

software

cybernetics

artificial intelligence

emerging defence technologies

Media

LinkedIn :

https://au.linkedin.com/in/david-heslop-ba50117b

Publications related to this Person

Journal articles

MacIntyre R; Heslop D; Nand D; Schramm C; Butel M; Rawlinson W; Baker M; Kiedrzynski T; Nelson C; Fotualii L; Yeo K; Elsgaard J; Fonua L; Lane M, 2019, 'Exercise Mataika: White Paper on response to a smallpox bioterrorism release in the Pacific', Journal of Global Biosecurity, vol. 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.31646/gbio.10

Yew YY; Delgado RC; Heslop D; Gonzales PA, 2018, 'The Yew Disaster Severity Index: A New Tool in Disaster Metrics', Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, vol. 34, pp. 98 - 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X18001115

Currie J; Heslop DJ, 2018, 'Operational systems evaluation of a large scale multi-agency decontamination exercise', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, vol. 31, pp. 1054 - 1061, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.03.027

Ashraf MM; harrison ; Hinchcliff R; *Agaliotis M; Balasooriya C; Meyer L; Heslop D, 2018, 'Optimising the use of Technology Enhanced Learning And Teaching (TELT) in Health Services Management Education', Education for Health, http://www.educationforhealth.net/

Raina MacIntyre C; Engells TE; Scotch M; Heslop DJ; Gumel AB; Poste G; Chen X; Herche W; Steinhöfel K; Lim S; Broom A, 2018, 'Converging and emerging threats to health security', Environment Systems and Decisions, vol. 38, pp. 198 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10669-017-9667-0

Harrison R; Manias E; Mears S; Heslop D; Hinchcliff R; Haye L, 2018, 'Addressing unwarranted clinical variation: A rapid review of current evidence', Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, vol. 25, pp. 53 - 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jep.12930

Heslop DJ; Chughtai AA; Bui CM; MacIntyre CR, 2017, 'Publicly available software tools for decision-makers during an emergent epidemic—Systematic evaluation of utility and usability', Epidemics, vol. 21, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2017.04.002

Muscatello DJ; Chughtai AA; Heywood A; Gardner LJ; Heslop DJ; Macintyre CR, 2017, 'Translating real-time infectious disease modeling into routine public health practice', Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 23, pp. e1 - e6, http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2305.161720

Awadh A; Chughtai AA; Dyda A; Sheikh M; Heslop DJ; MacIntyre CR, 2017, 'Does Zika Virus Cause Microcephaly - Applying the Bradford Hill Viewpoints.', PLoS Curr, vol. 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/currents.outbreaks.2fced6e886074f6db162a00d4940133b

Currie AJ; Heslop DJ; Winter SM, 2011, 'H1N1 in the field: The impact on Australian Defence Force Field Exercise Talisman Sabre 09', Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal, vol. 14, pp. 103 - 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aenj.2011.03.002

Heslop DJ; Bandler R; Keay KA, 2004, 'Haemorrhage-evoked decompensation and recompensation mediated by distinct projections from rostral and caudal midline medulla in the rat', European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 20, pp. 2096 - 2110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03660.x

Troy BP; Heslop DJ; Bandler R; Keay KA, 2003, 'Haemodynamic response to haemorrhage: Distinct contributions of midbrain and forebrain structures', Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical, vol. 108, pp. 1 - 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1566-0702(03)00152-8

Keay KA; Clement CI; Matar WM; Heslop DJ; Henderson LA; Bandler R, 2002, 'Noxious activation of spinal or vagal afferents evokes distinct patterns of fos-like immunoreactivity in the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray of unanaesthetised rats', Brain Research, vol. 948, pp. 122 - 130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0006-8993(02)02959-1

Heslop DJ; Keay KA; Bandler R, 2002, 'Haemorrhage-evoked compensation and decompensation are mediated by distinct caudal midline medullary regions in the urethane-anaesthetised rat', Neuroscience, vol. 113, pp. 555 - 567, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0306-4522(02)00161-6

Keay KA; Henderson LA; Heslop DJ; Potas JR; Bandler R, 2000, 'The caudal midline medulla mediates state dependent cardiovascular responses', EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, vol. 12, pp. 419 - 419, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000088236602394&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Shepherd VA; Beilby MJ; Heslop DJ, 1999, 'Ecophysiology of the hypotonic response in the salt-tolerant charophyte alga Lamprothamnium papulosum', Plant, Cell and Environment, vol. 22, pp. 333 - 346, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3040.1999.00414.x

Conference Posters

MacIntyre CR; Kirk M; Clements A; Komesaroff P; Heslop DJ; Wang Q; Sakar S; Rawlinson W; de Barro P; Baker M, (ed.), 2016, 'The NHMRC CRE for Integrated Systems for Epidemic Response (ISER)', in Journal of Military and Veterans' Health, Australasian Military Medicine Association, Melbourne, Australia, Vol. 24, pp. 67 - 68, presented at Australasian Military Medicine Conference 2016, Melbourne, Australia, 14 October 2016 - 16 October 2016, http://amma.asn.au/amma2016/

Conference Presentations

Heslop DJ, 2017, 'A Review of Civil-Military Cooperation and Response During Epidemic and Pandemic Events', in A Review of Civil-Military Cooperation and Response During Epidemic and Pandemic Events, Australasian Military Medicine Conference 2017, Brisbane, Australia, presented at Australasian Military Medicine Conference 2017, Brisbane, Australia, 06 October 2017 - 08 October 2017, http://www.amma.asn.au/amma2017/

Heslop DJ, 2016, 'ADF Forward CBRN Medical Capabilities - Preparing for Black Swans', in ADF Forward CBRN Medical Capabilities - Preparing for Black Swans, Australasian Military Medical Association 2016, Melbourne, Australia, presented at Australasian Military Medical Association 2016, Melbourne, Australia, 14 October 2016 - 16 October 2016, http://amma.asn.au/amma2016/

Conference Abstracts

Heslop DJ, (ed.), 2017, 'A Review of Civil-Military Cooperation and Response During Epidemic and Pandemic Events', in Journal of Military and Veterans' Health, Australasian Military Medicine Association, Brisbane, Australia, Vol. 25, pp. 9 - 9, presented at Australasian Military Medicine Conference 2017, Brisbane, Australia, 06 October 2017 - 08 October 2017, http://www.amma.asn.au/amma2017/

Ashraf MM; Harrison R; Hinchcliff R; Agaliotis M; Balasooriya C; Meyer L; Heslop D, (ed.), 2017, 'Optimising the use of Technology Enhanced Learning And Teaching (TELT) in Health Services Management Education', in SHAPE Symposium 2017, SHAPE of Healthcare: Outcomes, Research, Actions, Curriculum, University of New England, Parramatta Future Campus, 232 Church Street Parramatta, Sydney Australia, presented at SHAPE of Healthcare: Outcomes, Research, Actions, Curriculum, University of New England, Parramatta Future Campus, 232 Church Street Parramatta, Sydney Australia, 19 July 2017 - 21 July 2017, http://www.shape.org.au/shape-symposiums/shape-symposium-2017/

Ashraf MM; Hinchcliff R; Agaliotis M; Narasimhan P; Pardosi J; Asante A; Harrison R; Heslop D; Meyer L; Balasooriya C, 2016, 'The role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Health Management education: a global perspective', in The role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Health Management education: a global perspective, 10th annual Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Global Health Program Workshop, Sydney, presented at 10th annual Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Global Health Program Workshop, Sydney, 28 October 2016 - 01 October 2016

Heslop DJ, (ed.), 2016, 'ADF Forward CBRN Medical Capabilities – Preparing for Black Swans', in Journal of Military and Veterans' Health, Australasian Military Medicine Association, Melbourne, Australia, Vol. 24, pp. 10 - 11, presented at Australasian Military Medical Conference 2016, Melbourne, Australia, 14 October 2016 - 16 October 2016, http://amma.asn.au/amma2016/

MacIntyre CR; Kirk M; Clements A; Komesaroff P; Heslop DJ; Wang Q; Sakar S; Rawlinson W; de Barro P; Baker M, (ed.), 2016, 'The NHMRC CRE for Integrated Systems for Epidemic Response (ISER)', in Journal of Military and Veterans' Health, Australasian Military Medicine Association, Melbourne, Australia, Vol. 24, pp. 68 - 69, presented at Australian Military Medicine Conference 2016, Melbourne, Australia, 14 October 2016 - 16 October 2016, http://amma.asn.au/amma2016/

Reports

Dawson P; Lau TWM; Heslop D; Unsworth N, 2018, Outcomes from a Q Fever Biological Attack Scenario Exercise, from the 6th Annual CBRN International Symposium, Defence Science and Technology Group - Australia, Fisherman's Bend, Victoria, Australia, DST-Group-GD-1025

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