Associate Professor Paul Simpson

Position

Associate Professor of Paramedicine

Biography

Paul is a registered paramedic and Associate Professor of Paramedicine at Western Sydney University.

His research expertise is broad, spanning quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, and evidence-synthesis methodologies. His areas of interest are diverse, including pain management, research capacity building, paramedicine academic workforce sustainability, palliative care, bibliometrics, and ‘journalology’.

Paul was the inaugural Director of Paramedicine at Western Sydney University from 2013-2022. He conceived the Australasian Council of Paramedicine Deans and led its creation in 2018, serving as the Inaugural Chair.

He is the immediate-past Editor-in-Chief of the ‘Australasian Journal of Paramedicine’, was Chair of the National Journal Advisory Committee for the Australasian College of Paramedicine and is the current Editor-in-Chief of the international peer-reviewed journal ‘Paramedicine’.

Paul actively contributes to the regulatory efforts in Australian paramedicine. He is a current Practitioner Member on the Paramedicine Council of NSW, Chair of the National Competency Assessment Consortium in collaboration with the Paramedicine Board of Australia, and an accreditation assessor for the Board’s Paramedicine Accreditation Committee.

Paul continues to be active in clinical practice.  As a registered paramedic, he manages to find time here and there to work as an Intensive Care Paramedic in the private paramedicine sector in Sydney. Paul is committed to maintaining work-life balance, and having lost that balance at one point, seeks to promote the importance of such balance in academic life wherever he can.

Research Interests

• Paramedicine
• Paramedicine education
• Paramedic provision of mental health care
• Paramedicine academic workforce issues
• Work-integrated learning in paramedicine education
• Clinical reasoning and decision making

Professional Memberships

• Fellow of Australian and New Zealand College of Paramedicine (1997 - 2017)
• Paramedics Australasia (1997 - 2017)

Awards

• Solphus Falck Prehospital Research Award, International Conference on Emergency Medicine 2014-06-03
• Australian Prehospital Emergency Health Research Forum Best Paper Award 2014-10-21

Qualifications

• PhDPHCM University of New South Wales
• MSMCE University of Sydney
• GCPEM Victoria University
• GCCE Charles Sturt University
• BHSPH Charles Sturt University
• BED University of Wollongong

Research & Publications

• For a complete list of my publications please see my publications page (opens in a new window)
• View my Researchgate page (opens in a new window)

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