Amanda Baric

Doctor Amanda Baric AM is an Australian from Melbourne who is a Deputy of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at Northern Health and teaches anaesthesiology in Australia and around the world.[1][2][3] She has been key to the Australian collaboration with Mongolia to develop training courses for anaesthesiologists[4][5] for which work, she was awarded the Order of the Polar Star of Mongolia. This work has also extended to Myanmar.[6]

She has been a key person in developing the website developinganaesthesia which promotes "the advancement of anaesthetic practice and to empower(s) anaesthetists in countries with limited resources",[7] and has contributed to that website with works on peri-operative anaesthesia,[8] and obstetric anaesthesia.[9] This website contains several resources including the textbook, developingaanesthesia, specialist area seminars and the modular anaesthetic training program, which was produced to enhance training in Mongolia. [10]

Amanda is an author on the Peri-operative Medicine and Anaesthesia textbook which includes chapters on smoking and anaesthesia, liver disease, hypertension, and basics of pain.[11] She is also an author on the book Obstetric Anaesthesia, which was published in July 2006. This book contents include topics on sepsis, epidural test doses, maternal cardiac disease, and anaesthesia for caesarean section. [12]

Awards and honours

Publications

References

  1. ^ "Northern Health Staff Recognised In King's Birthday Honours - The North Central Review". 18 June 2024. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Dr. Amanda Barić odlikovana Redom Australije za zasluge u anesteziologiji". SBS Language (in Croatian). Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Dr. Amanda Barić odlikovana Redom Australije za zasluge u anesteziologiji". SBS Language. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  4. ^ Ganbold Lundeg; Amanda Baric; David C Pescod; Keith Pescod (1 April 2018). "Anesthesia Development in Mongolia: Strengthening Anesthesia Practice in Mongolia Through Education and Continuing Professional Development". Anesthesia & Analgesia. 126 (4): 1287–1290. doi:10.1213/ANE.0000000000002566. ISSN 0003-2999. PMID 29547422. Wikidata Q88079872.
  5. ^ Daniel Pescod; Amanda Baric (2008). "In the field: Revolutionising anaesthesia in Mongolia". Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Bulletin. 17 (4): 48–49. Wikidata Q127741445.
  6. ^ a b "Dr Amanda Baric". ASA 2016. 12 August 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  7. ^ "developinganaesthesia". Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  8. ^ Hallett, B.; Amanda Baric; Daniel Pescod (July 2007), Peri-operative Medicine & Anaesthesia (PDF), pp. 1–200, Wikidata Q127740767
  9. ^ Amanda Baric; David Pescod, Obstetric Anaesthesia (PDF), pp. 1–107, Wikidata Q127740226
  10. ^ "developinganaesthesia". developinganaesthesia. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  11. ^ Hallett, Ben; Baric, Amanda; Pescod, David (July 2007). Peri-operative Medicine and Anaesthesia.
  12. ^ Baric, Amanda; Pescod (2006). Obstetric Anaesthesia.
  13. ^ a b "AMA members recognised in King's Birthday 2024 Honours List". Australian Medical Association. 10 June 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  14. ^ Dr Amanda Baric awarded Robert Orton Medal, July 2023, retrieved 24 July 2024
  15. ^ a b "Dr Amanda Baric: making the world just slightly better". Northern Health. 24 May 2023. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  16. ^ "Dr Amanda Baric awarded Order of the Polar Star, Mongolia's highest state honour". Northern Health. 13 December 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2024.