Qualifications
Awards & Achievements
Research Funding

Associate Professor William (Bill) Griggs

Telephone	+61 8 8222 4408
Position	Director Trauma Services RAH
Email	william.griggs@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8222 4970
Building	RAH - ST
Floor/Room	8
Campus	Royal Adelaide Hospital
Org Unit	Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

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Qualifications

MBBS (Adel) MBA (Adel) PGDipAvMed (Otago) FANZCA FCICM FACAP FAICD

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

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.)

Entry last updated: Wednesday, 8 Jun 2011

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