Rate My Professor Ziad Nehme

Associate Professor Ziad Nehme is a paramedic-scientist affiliated with Monash University’s Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, holding positions as Associate Professor (Research) in Acute and Critical Care within the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Paramedicine. He serves as Director of the Centre for Research and Evaluation at Ambulance Victoria. Nehme obtained his PhD in Public Health from Monash University in 2017, with a thesis entitled 'The early response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Victoria, Australia.' He also holds a Bachelor of Emergency Health (Paramedic) with Honours from Monash University. His professional career includes over 17 years as an Advanced Life Support Paramedic with Ambulance Victoria since 2007, followed by Research Coordinator from 2012 to 2017, and Senior Research Fellow from 2017 to 2022.

Nehme specializes in prehospital emergency care and resuscitation research, encompassing cardiac arrest, cardiovascular research, emergency medical services, paramedic practice, and prehospital care. He has produced numerous peer-reviewed publications, including highly influential papers such as 'Air versus oxygen in ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction' (Circulation, 2015), 'Quality of life and functional outcomes 12 months after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest' (Circulation, 2015), and 'Using a cardiac arrest registry to measure the quality of emergency medical service care: decade of findings from the Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry' (Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2015). His research portfolio has secured more than $20 million in competitive funding as Chief Investigator on grants from the NHMRC and National Heart Foundation of Australia. Awards include the Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship, three NHMRC/Heart Foundation Fellowships, Young Investigator awards from the European Resuscitation Council and American Heart Association, and the 2025 Commonwealth Health Minister's Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research. Nehme chairs steering committees for the Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry (VACAR) and Victorian Ambulance STEMI Quality Improvement (VASQI), is an executive member of the Australasian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (Aus-ROC), serves on an International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) Task Force, and holds editorial roles for Prehospital Emergency Care and Resuscitation Plus.