Prof Michael Parr trained in anesthesia, internal medicine and intensive care in the UK, New Zealand, USA, and Australia. He is the Director of Macquarie University Hospital Intensive Care and Clinical Professor Macquarie University, the Clinical Program Head of Critical Care and Anaesthetics at MQ Health, Director of Intensive Care at Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Conjoint Professor University of New South Wales. He is an editor of Resuscitation, Deputy Chair of the Australian Resuscitation Council and a member of the ILCOR ALS Taskforce.