ICU of the Future project team

Project Manager, Oystein Tronstad

Oystein Tronstad graduated as a physiotherapist from the University of Queensland in 2002. He is a physiotherapy clinical lead at The Prince Charles Hospital with extensive critical care clinical and research experience. He is currently the project manager for the ICU of the Future project investigating how the ICU environment and design is affecting patient outcomes, aiming to redesign the ICU bed space environment.

ICU of the Future project team including (L-R) Project Manager Oystein Tronstad; Tami Photinos, Executive Director, The Prince Charles Hospital; Dylan Flaws; and Michael Hornby OAM, CEO, The Common Good, pictured with Professor John Fraser, Founder and Director, The Critical Care Research Group (far right). The Project group is pictured in the ICU of the Future Prototype bed space at The Prince Charles Hospital.

Associate Professor Dylan Flaws

Associate Professor Dylan Flaws is a psychiatry advanced trainee who completed an MSc in Psychology during medical school exploring how clinicians measure risk and communicate risk. Later he commenced a PhD exploring the clinical problem of chest pain presentations to emergency departments. As he completes his psychiatry training, he is now focusing his postdoctoral research interests on the physical, cognitive and psychological recovery journey of patients that survive severe illness or injury.