Gary Barnes Email & Phone Number

Far North Queensland

Australia

Consulting on emergency response and medical management in remote locations.

Guyana

Asked to come at short notice to Guyana and medically manage a major project supporting Exxon in providing emergency medical staffing and topside cover to numerous vessels and hundreds of personnel. Responsibilities included governance for COVID-19 strategies as well as being personally responsible for primary Nursing care, management of all emergency medical care and critical care transport.

Various Around Surat Basin And Moomba

Rig Safety and Training Coordinater, and Medic.

Guyana

Asked to fly at 24 hours notice to Guyana, South America for one month, to set up new 50 year project for International SOS and Exxon. On and offshore medical and emergency response, 6 personnel, paramedic, doctors and nurses, as well as set up clinic to Exxon standards and ensure local medical and response capability were to Exxon standard..

Coconut Island And Other Islands

Remote area isolated practice Nurse in Primary Health Care. Torres Strait Islands as locum cover.

Central Australia

Remote mobile seismic exploration in the Strezlecki Desert. Solo post with around 70 personnel in very remote and harsh locations.

Surat Basin

Field Safety Advisor to 2 CSG exploration rigs. Advice and oversight of HSE matters and client liaison.

Se Queensland

Training in office and field to 900 new and current employees in all services provided Australia wide.

Emergency Medical Care and all Administrative duties.

- QLD Health and Agencies. Locum Director of Nursing (D.O.N.) and Remote Area Clinical Nurse Consultant roles in remote and rural Queensland, such as Dajarra, Camooweal, Croydon, Georgetown, 6 locums on 4 Torres Strait Islands, always single nurse posts to cover at very short notice. - NT Health and Federal Govt. Locum Remote Area Nurse (R.A.N.) roles in the Northern Territory, such as Imanpa, Groote Eylandt, Lake Nash, Alicurung.

Broome, Singapore

Offshore Broome and Singapore on 2 rigs and a drill ship.Rig Medic, Emergency preparedness Consultant on board the Frontier Discoverer, a drill ship undergoing a major rebuild and testing phase, located in Singapore/Malaysia. Responsible for ensuring the Shell Corporate Medical standards were introduced and adhered to as well as providing immediate emergency care and safety advice. Seconded to Shell Development Australia 2007 - 2008Rig Medic and Safety Department Representative on board Diamond Drilling Semi-submersible Drill Rig - Ocean Epoch and Bounty, offshore North-West Shelf, Australia. Responsible for all activities in emergency and non-emergent health and trauma matters and rig safety. P.O.B. 100.; Singapore 2006 - 2007

Singapore

Most senior Operational Manager world wide for International SOS, the World's largest medical and security company.Advising on and writing global policy and procedure for remote area medicine and major clinics and for major project contract proposals and start-ups.

Singapore

Singapore 2005 - 2006Responsible for all company remote site medical activities in 12 countries in the region, from Pakistan to the Philippines, including all on and off shore clinics, staffing, budgeting and advice on regional direction and growth.

Balikpapan, Indonesia

Bid Manager and Responsible for the development and implementation of a new Western style clinic in Balikpapan, as well as responsibility for all company activities in the region

Beijing City, China

Sole Responsibility for all auditing and medical management of 20 to 30 remote site clinics in China, Tibet and Mongolia. On and Off Shore, total staff 50; total patients seen per year 16,000.Head of training department, internal medic, nurse and doctor training. External First Aid training to Red Cross standard to over 100 'Fortune 500' clients. Sole responsibility for formulating the training curriculum, delivering all internal and external courses, and maintaining the training functions of the department of up to 12staff.CQI and Audit manager of China region conducting 200 audits in 3 years.

Central Australian Desert

In a remote aboriginal community in Central Australian Desert, as part of a 3-nurse team, one of whom was my wife, with rare medical attendance & liaison with RFDS.

Intensive Care 2IC

Undertook a 2 year voyage from Australia to Turkey over 20,000 sea miles in my own yacht.

Helicopter Rescue Paramedic and Remote Area Practitioner. Primary and solo response practitioner to a 500 man camp involved in helicopter exploration drilling in the high altitude jungle. Responsible for HSE at site.

A senior staff member in this busy ICU in Cairns, Far North Queensland. Worked in various areas, in senior nursing; ICU, CCU and Emergency.. In Australia and New York, in ER's and in Infectious Disease Hospitals.12 months in the remote central desert in 1983 as sole medical person for 2500 people.

General Nursing duties

Diploma Of Applied Science, Nursing

Diploma in Applied Science, (Nursing)

Training, Cert Iv Training And Workplace Assessment

Cert IV in Training

Post Grad Cert, Aviation Nursing

Post graduate in Aviation Nursing

Diploma Applied Science, (Nursing), Queensland