Associate Professor William Griggs
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Qualifications
MBBS (Adel) MBA (Adel) PGDipAvMed (Otago) FANZCA FCICM FACAP FAICD
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Awards & Achievements
Member Order of Australia (General Division) - AM - 2003
Ambulance Service Medal - ASM - 2009
SA recipient Australian of the Year - 2006
Key to the City of Adelaide - 2006
South Australian of the Year - 2009
Invented and patented an instrument and technique to perform Percutaneous Tracheostomy which is sold worldwide - Initial Patent 1989
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Research Funding
$50,000+ grant from Charles and Sylvia Vietel Foundation (with Prof Nigel Jones) to develop trauma training courses - 1993
$350,000+ from National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund for a study entitled "The impact of drugs on road crashes, assaults and other trauma - a propective trauma toxicology study" - Principal Investigator with others - 2003-2007 (GRIGGS WM, CALDICOTT DG, PFEIFFER J, EDWARDS N, PEARCE, A, DAVEY M: The impact of drugs on road crashes, assaults and other trauma – a prospective trauma toxicology study. National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund (NDLERF) – Monograph 20 – 2007 April; 1-65.)
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