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Brief Biography (English)
Dr Willem Stassen is an emergency care practitioner primarily involved in critical care retrieval via ground, helicopter or fixed wing modes of transport. He holds a Masters degree in Emergency Medicine from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and a PhD from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Willem also holds a PGDip in Applied Ethics. Willem further holds certification as a critical care and flight paramedic with the International Board of Specialised Certification. His main research interests are telephonic disease prediction and triage, prehospital emergency care networks and critical care transport. Currently Willem is the programme coordinator of the PhD in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cape Town.
