Associate Professor Daniel Ellis
FACEM, FCICM, FIMC & DRTM (RCSEd), FRCS(Eng), MRCP, DMCC, GCertCU
Director of Trauma, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Co-Chair, Statewide South Australian Trauma Service (SATS), TraumaSA
Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Pre-Hospital and Retrieval Physician, SAAS MedSTAR, Emergency Medical Retrieval Service
Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Adelaide University
Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University
Adjunct Associate Professor, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University
Adjunct Associate Professor, The National Trauma Research Institute, School of Translational Medicine, Monash University
About Daniel Ellis
A/Prof Ellis is a pre-hospital Retrieval Consultant, Emergency Physician, and Intensivist whose clinical career has spanned 25 years across Australia and the United Kingdom. An internationally recognised leader in trauma systems, he is the Director of Trauma at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Co-Chair of the South Australian Statewide Trauma Service (Trauma SA), and former Director of MedSTAR, South Australia’s emergency medical retrieval service.
A/Prof Ellis leads a comprehensive portfolio of trauma research focused on trauma system development, major haemorrhage, traumatic coagulopathy, haemostatic resuscitation, and traumatic brain injury. He is the author of the second edition of Cases in Pre-hospital and Retrieval Medicine and holds academic appointments with Adelaide University, Flinders University, and James Cook University.
Recent Publications:
Ryder C, Sharpe P, Omodei-James S, Sallows G, Shannon B, Möller H, Campbell M, Kimlin R, Porykali B, Hossain S, Kelly N, Ellis DY, Ting T, Gray J, Afzali H, Ivers RQ. “I didn’t know nothing” – yarning up on access to compensation from road traffic injury with Aboriginal people. J Transp Health. 2025;42:102055.
Hiwase A, Foster M, Ovenden CD, Wong KY, Foo N, Kaukas L, Reddi B, Wells AJ, Ellis DY. What the Sigma? Exploring the Change From Single to Dual Anti-Platelet ROTEM on the FIBTEM to Clauss Fibrinogen Relationship in Neurotrauma. Emerg Med Australas. 2025;37(6):e70170. doi:10.1111/1742-6723.70170.
Ponsford JL, Hicks AJ, Bagg MK, Phyland R, Carrier S, James AC, Lannin NA, Rushworth N, O’Brien TJ, Cameron PA, Cooper DJ, Hill R, Gabbe BJ; AUS-TBI Initiative Investigators, Cullen J, Ellis DY. The Australian Traumatic Brain Injury Initiative: Review and Recommendations for Outcome Measures for Use With Adults and Children After Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Neurotrauma Rep. 2024;5(1):387-408.
McKimmie A, Keeves J, Gadowski A, Bagg MK, Antonic-Baker A, Hicks AJ, Hill R, Clarke N, Holland A, Veitch B, Fatovich D, Reeder S, Romero L, Ponsford JL, Lannin NA, O’Brien TJ, Cooper DJ, Rushworth N, Fitzgerald M, Gabbe BJ, Cameron PA; Australian Traumatic Brain Injury Initiative Investigators, Cullen J, Ellis DY. The Australian Traumatic Brain Injury Initiative: Systematic Review of Clinical Factors Associated with Outcomes in People with Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Neurotrauma Rep. 2024;5(1):640-659.
Harris D, Martin D, Bednarz J, Ellis DY. Acute traumatic coagulopathy and the relationship to prehospital care and on-scene red blood cell transfusion. Emerg Med Australas. 2021;33(5):834-840.
Harris D, Ellis DY, Gorman D, Foo N, Haustead D. Impact of COVID-19 social restrictions on trauma presentations in South Australia. Emerg Med Australas. 2021;33(1):152-154.
Cameron PA, Fitzgerald MC, Curtis K, McKie E, Gabbe BJ, Earnest A, Christey G, Clarke C, Crozier J, Dinh M, Ellis DY, Howard T, Joseph AP, McDermott K, Matthew J, Ogilvie R, Pollard C, Rao S, Reade M, Rushworth N, Zalstein S. Overview of major traumatic injury in Australia—implications for trauma system design. Injury. 2020;51(1):114-121.