Dr Louise Ellard

Honorary Clinical Senior Fellow, Department of Critical Care, Melbourne Medical School
 
Dr Louise Ellard attended The University of Melbourne medical school and completed her Anaesthesia training at Austin Health and Canberra Hospital. She was awarded the Cecil Gray Prize for the FANZCA Part 2 Anaesthesia examination in 2009.
 
She was chief fellow at Toronto General Hospital in 2011 – 2012 and during this time completed fellowships in difficult airway, liver transplantation and cardiac anaesthesia, as well as obtaining accreditation with the National Board of Echocardiography for the advanced peri-operative trans-oesophageal echocardiography examination.

Dr Ellard’s clinical interests include cardiac surgery, liver transplantation and major hepatobiliary surgery. She maintains a strong interest in difficult airway management and has published several book chapters and review articles on airway management topics. She completed a Masters of Clinical Leadership (Hons) in 2019.