Rate My Professor Judith Finn

Professor Finn specializes in resuscitation science and prehospital emergency care, with research interests encompassing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, epidemiology, and critical care nursing. She has authored over 280 peer-reviewed publications, garnering more than 22,000 citations and an h-index of 70, while securing over $30 million in competitive research funding. Notable leadership includes landmark clinical trials such as PACA, PARAMEDIC 2 (adrenaline in cardiac arrest), RINSE (rapid infusion of cold normal saline during CPR), and EXACT (oxygen in cardiac arrest), which have shaped international resuscitation guidelines. She leads the Western Australian out-of-hospital cardiac arrest registry and has co-authored key ILCOR publications, including three updates to the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest Utstein Template. Extensively involved with ILCOR for over two decades, she served as Co-Chair of the Interdisciplinary Task Force (2002–2005) and Education, Implementation and Teams Task Force (2010–2015), and as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee (2019–2023). In Australia, she joined the Australian Resuscitation Council in 1993, chairs its Western Australian Branch, and teaches on the Advanced Life Support Instructors course. Major awards include the John Curtin Distinguished Professor title (2018), Fellowship of the American Heart Association (2012), honorary membership of the European Resuscitation Council (2017), and designation as an ILCOR Giant. She has supervised over 30 postgraduate research students, promoting interdisciplinary and diverse research capacity.