Advanced Paediatric Life Support, Australia (APLS) aims to improve the early management of acutely ill and injured children in Australia through training and education of health care professionals.
A fully incorporated, not-for-profit organisation founded in 1997, APLS Australia currently facilitates over 130 courses a year for more than 2,500 health care professionals, expanding each year.
Its flagship courses, Advanced Paediatric Life Support and Paediatric Life Support, run in over 30 locations across Australia each year with outreach work conducted in several developing countries.
From its development in the 1980s by the UK's Advanced Life Support Group, APLS has become the internationally recognised gold standard in paediatric emergency training. Courses are supported by the 7th edition Australia and New Zealand APLS manual and an award-winning online learning package for both the APLS and PLS courses.
APLS Australia has its own dedicated training centre in Melbourne’s CBD. It also produces the biannual PAC Conference, one of the largest paediatric acute care conferences in the Asia-Pacific region.
Our Vision
To continue to raise the standard of care provided to acutely ill and injured children in Australia.
Our Values
- Diversity
- Respect
- Recognition
- Innovation
- Sustainability
Our Mission Statement
"To promote excellence in emergency care of ill and injured children through the provision of high-quality contemporary education programs for health care professionals.”
Our Constitution
APLS Constitution 2020
APLS Board & Committees
Want to contact a board member, committee chair or APLS staff member? Email faculty@apls.org.au and we will send on your enquiry, or contact us here.
Chief Executive Officer
Rod Wealands
Chair
Jacquie Schutz
Deputy Chair
Marissa Alexander
Board Members
Jason Acworth
Marissa Alexander
Andrew Blanch
Shelley Dutton
John Gavranich
Susan Loane
George Panos
Course Development Committee
Chair
Adam Buckmaster
Members
Shahn Horrocks, Cathrin Parsch, Jane Stanford, Anthony Stevenson, Andrew Terrey, Adam Buckmaster, André Kogan, Donovan Dwyer, Noel Roberts, Jane Cichero, Lisa Kane, Olwen Gilbert, James Flynn
Instructor Development Committee
Chair
Marissa Alexander
Members
Paul Bloomfield, Sue Coretti, Elizabeth Cotterell, Jane Stanford, Jane Cichero, Christopher Webber, Noel Roberts, Andrew Blanch, John Gavranich, Chris Wilde, Anna Sullivan (APLS NZ Representative)
Paediatric Life Support Committee
Chair
Shelley Dutton
Members
Di Crellin, Constance Gray, Catherine Gale, Stephen Teo, Jane Cichero, Jane Stanford, Stephen Bradley (APLS NZ Representative), Carmen Haines (APLS NZ Representative)
International Development Committee
Chair
Mike Starr
Members
Malcolm Higgins, Tomas Ratoni, Christine Brabyn (APLS NZ representative), Setthy Ung, James Flynn, Susan Phin, Olwen Gilbert, Jane Stanford, Jane Standish, Heidi Baker (APLS NZ Representative), Trina Kaverumaneoru
Risk, Finance & Audit Committee
Chair
George Panos
Members
George Panos, Susan Loane, Michelle Montague, Rod Wealands, Poranee Buttery
