Stephen Bernard MD

Professor Stephen Bernard is Director of Intensive Care at Knox Private Hospital, Senior Intensive Care Specialist at The Alfred, and the Medical Director of Ambulance Victoria. He is Adjunct Professor at the Monash University Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine.

He is Chief Investigator in a number of clinical trials funded by the NHMRC. These include: “EXACT” which tests reduction of oxygen administration after resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, “PATCH” which tests the role of tranexamic acid in severe trauma, “POLAR” which tests early therapeutic hypothermia in severe traumatic brain injury, “ICED” which tests early therapeutic hypothermia in patients with spinal cord injury and "TAME" which tests therapeutic hypercapnea in the ICU after cardiac arrest. He is also a Chief Investigator in two NHMRC funded Centres for Research Excellence – The Australian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium and the Centre for Prehospital and Emergency Care.