Stephen Edward Asha

Associate Professor Stephen Edward Asha is a senior staff specialist in Emergency Medicine at St George Hospital, Kogarah, NSW, and holds a conjoint appointment as Associate Professor (Conjoint) within the St George & Sutherland Clinical School of UNSW. In addition to his clinical role he serves as Director of Emergency Medicine Research at the hospital and is affiliated with the St George Medical Research Foundation and professional bodies including the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and the Australian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine.

Research Interests span the breadth of acute-care medicine and surgery, anchored in trauma care and underpinned by rigorous diagnostic-accuracy methodology. His work addresses radiation exposure in trauma CT imaging, optimisation of emergency-department patient flow, blunt thoracic trauma management, cervical-spine clearance in trauma, evaluation of suspected body-packers in the ED, primary spontaneous pneumothorax treatment strategies, and the diagnostic utility of D-dimer in aortic dissection.

Recent Publications (52 journal articles in total) concentrate on high-impact emergency-medicine questions: improving diagnostic certainty in acute trauma, reducing unnecessary imaging, and refining therapeutic pathways for thoracic and vascular emergencies.

Grants & Supervision are managed through his role as Director of Emergency Medicine Research; specific grant titles or student lists are not detailed in the provided text.

Qualifications: BSc, MBBS(Hons), FACEM, MMed(Clin Epi)