Bombs, Blasts and Bullets (B3) Course – Responding to terrorism threats
Thursday, 16 October 2025
1230 – 1630
Location: Adelaide Convention Centre
Cost for conference delegates: $200
Cost for non-conference delegates: $250
1230 – 1630
Location: Adelaide Convention Centre
Cost for conference delegates: $200
Cost for non-conference delegates: $250
Overview:
This workshop aims to provide participants with the base knowledge and skills to respond effectively to such terrorism events, particularly in a civilian setting. The course specifically reviews the risk, threat and specific vulnerability to such an emergency, as well as the clinical management of casualties with injuries relating to penetrating and blast injuries.
Run by Dr Andy Robertson, CSC, PSM, the Chief Health Officer and Assistant Director General of the Public and Aboriginal Health Division at WA Health and AIRCDRE A/Prof Andrew Pearce, Director Clinical Services MedSTAR Retrieval Service at SA Health.
If you have already registered for the conference and wish to attend, please email Daniella.
If you have not yet registered for the conference and would like to attend both, please refer to the Registration page.
Dr Andrew Robertson, CSC PSM
Chief Health Officer and Assistant Director General within the Public and Aboriginal Health Division at WA Health
Dr Andrew (Andy) Robertson has served on the AMMA Council since 1996 and became Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health in 2000. He is currently the Chief Health Officer and Assistant Director General of Public and Aboriginal Health at WA Health.
A specialist in Public Health Medicine, Medical Administration, and CBR Defence, Dr Robertson served in the RAN from 1984–2003, including UN missions to Iraq and multiple sea postings. In the Naval Reserves, he held senior health leadership roles, including Director General Navy Health Reserves (2015–2019).
He has led major disaster and public health responses, including the 2004 tsunami, 2005 Bali bombing, 2011 Fukushima incident, and the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Since 2008, he has managed WA’s responses to public health crises such as pandemics, cyclones, and mass casualty events. He has held his current role since 2018, including leading WA’s COVID-19 response.
AIRCDRE A/Prof Andrew Pearce
Director Clinical Services MedSTAR Retrieval Service at SA Health
Air Commodore and Associate Professor Andrew Pearce is a Pre Hospital and Retrieval Physician, current Director of Clinical Services with MedSTAR retrieval service as well as an Emergency Medicine and Trauma Consultant at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
Andrew is the Director General Health Reserves Air Force, an AusMAT team leader with civilian and military overseas deployments to East Timor, Middle East, Solomons, Banda Aceh, Samoa, Antarctica and Germany.
Andrew has academic positions at James Cook University, University of Adelaide and is an examiner for Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, Scotland and the conjoint Diploma of Pre Hospital and Retrieval Medicine in Australia.
