Our team
Director, JTI – Prof Michael Schuetz
Prof Michael Schuetz
Chair of Trauma, QUT
Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, RBWH
Professor Michael Schuetz is a practicing orthopaedic surgeon and research leader in the field of trauma care and orthopaedic trauma research and in August 2018 he commenced as the Director of Jamieson Trauma Institute based at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital campus in Brisbane. Prof Schuetz has held many esteemed positions in both Germany and Australia.
Between 2004 and 2016 Michael Schuetz was the Chair of Trauma at the Queensland University of Technology as well as Director of Trauma at the Princess Alexandra Hospital.
Also between April 2016 until August 2018 he held the position of Chair for Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery at the Humboldt and Free Universities of Berlin as well being the Director of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Surgery at the Charité Hospital in Berlin.
In 2019 Michael Schuetz was appointed to the Australian Orthopaedic Association Research Board.
Professor Schuetz’s research interests lies in the fields of orthopaedic trauma surgery, trauma system management, traumatology, fracture healing and implant development. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed publications.
Professor Michael Schuetz’s Google Scholar
Executive Support Officer: Ms Crystal Brouwers
Email: JTI-Director-ESO@health.qld.gov.au
Theme leads
Chair of Trauma Surveillance & Data Analytics
Biostatistician
Director, QISU (Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit)
Chair of Trauma Related Clinical Research
Director, JTI / Chair of Trauma, QUT
Chair of Device-Related Infection Management
Theme Lead, Education & Training
Clinical Representative, Burns & Surgery
Professor Michael Muller is a leading Brisbane-based General and Burns Surgeon whose career spans acute surgery, trauma, and major burn care. A founding Director of the RBWH Trauma Service, he has significantly shaped Queensland’s emergency and disaster‑preparedness capability. As a Pre-eminent Trauma, Burns General Surgeon at RBWH and Education Co‑lead at the Jamieson Trauma Institute (JTI), he plays a central role in advancing trauma education and injury‑prevention programs across the state.
Queensland Trauma Education Program Lead
Deputy Director RBWH Trauma Service
A/Prof Williamson is an emergency physician working across the trauma spectrum, from pre-hospital, tertiary emergency department and as the Deputy Director of the Trauma Service, trauma inpatient care. She leads the Queensland Trauma Education program, developing and delivering face-to-face trauma education to clinicians across the state, and has a passion for improving the care of the injured by educating others from undergraduates to consultant clinicians.
This stream researches the ways that augmented reality and virtual reality can be employed to improve the preparation and delivery of trauma care across an integrated trauma system, projecting resources to support patients and clinicians.
Interactive Telepresence for Trauma Support.
Augmented Reality (AR) can be utilised to bring remote expertise to the assessment and treatment of an injured patient, including time-critical interventions. This work will explore how to project expertise along the patient journey from point of injury to definitive care allowing bi-directional transmission of audio-visual data and direct real-time interaction allowing remote annotation on to the patient to facilitate any unfamiliar interventions.
Virtual Reality for Trauma Care
Virtual Reality (VR) technology can facilitate preparation of trauma teams to deliver care, when team members may be unfamiliar with other team members, key members change or to prepare for specific clinical scenarios. VR can help prepare and practice uncommon time-critical interventions when real world experience would take years to acquire and where skill degradation and team turnover precludes any individual or team becoming expert.
Chair of Trauma-Related Mental Health / Chair of Rehabilitation Services, QUT
Principal Research Fellow
A/Nursing Director, RBWH Trauma Service
Michael Handy is an Endorsed Nurse Practitioner working as the Assistant Nursing Director of Trauma and Orthopaedics at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. He obtained his undergraduate degree in nursing at the Queensland University of Technology and has subsequently completed his Graduate Certificate in Critical Care and a Master of Nursing Science (Nurse Practitioner). Michael comes from a background of Emergency and Trauma Nursing from the United Kingdom, Brunei, and Australia.
Rural Generalist, Goondiwindi
Dr Matt Masel is a General Practitioner at the Goondiwindi Medical Centre, and a Rural Generalist VMO providing emergency, in-patient and obstetric services to the Goondiwindi Hospital. He is an Adjunt Associate Professor at QUT, and a Senior Lecturer with UQ and Griffith Universities, and is part of a team that provides vertically-integrated education and training to students, residents and rural generalist registrars. He is a former President of the Rural Doctors’ Association of Queensland, and a member of the Queensland Trauma and Burns Quality Assurance Committee.
Consumer Representative
Darryl O’Callaghan is a survivor of catastrophic injuries sustained in a head-on motorcycle accident, considered by doctors at the time, to be un-survivable. Darryl truly understands what it is to have to literally fight for your life and then your quality of life. Today, Darryl is able to provide a unique perspective on life, blending his experiences as a multi-trauma survivor with that of a business professional. He uses this experience to help people bring about positive change in their world by viewing their circumstances through a different lens.
Darryl has been a Consumer Representative since 2015, holding positions on various advisory committees including the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Consumer Advisory Group, the Queensland Trauma and Burns Quality Assurance Committee and the Jamieson Trauma Institute.
All staff (A-Z)
Bonnie Woods
Clinical Nurse, multidisciplinary Device Related InFection Team
Professor Kirsten Vallmuur
Chair of Trauma Surveillance and Data Analytics
Dr Ruth Barker
Director Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit and Injury Prevention lead JTI
Associate Professor Susanna Cramb
Biostatistician and Content Lead for Geospatial Analytics
