Rate My Professor Christopher Bain

Christopher Bain is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Anaesthesia Teaching & Research unit at Monash University and an Associate Professor (Adjunct) at the Caulfield School of Information Technology within the Faculty of Information Technology. He earned his MBBS from the University of Otago in New Zealand in 1996, followed by a Master of Information Technology and a PhD in Information Systems. His medical career began as a resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1998, and he commenced anaesthesia training at The Alfred Hospital in 1999. Bain completed his provisional fellowship focusing on cardiothoracic anaesthesia at The Alfred and Geelong Hospitals, receiving his fellowship from the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) in early 2004. He then served as a cardiothoracic anaesthetist at The Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, Scotland, before returning to The Alfred Hospital in 2005. Since 2009, he has been a council member of the Victorian Consultative Council on Anaesthetic Mortality and Morbidity (VCCAMM). Bain coordinates the Monash University Master of Medicine in Perioperative Medicine unit POM5003 Organ Dysfunction 1. In health informatics leadership roles, he was Managing Director of Applications and Knowledge Management at Alfred Hospital in 2014-2015 and Chief Health Information Services Manager at Mercy Health from 2015 to 2017.

Bain's research spans perioperative genomics, quality and safety of anaesthesia, perioperative medicine, inflammatory response to surgery, health informatics, electronic medical records usability, digital health ecosystems, and data mining in healthcare. His expertise includes cardiothoracic anaesthesia and perioperative transoesophageal echocardiography. Key publications include 'Short-term forecasting of emergency inpatient flow' (2009, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 163 citations), 'Myths of ideal hospital occupancy' (2010, Medical Journal of Australia, 89 citations), 'Lessons learned from natural disasters around digital health technologies and delivering quality healthcare' (2023, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 99 citations), 'Postoperative systemic inflammation after major abdominal surgery: patient-centred outcomes' (2023, Anaesthesia), 'Postoperative systemic inflammatory dysregulation and corticosteroids: a narrative review' (2023, Anaesthesia), and 'Medical and nursing clinician perspectives on the usability of the hospital electronic medical record: A qualitative analysis' (2024, Health Information Management Journal). He is a Fellow of ANZCA and credentialed by examination in perioperative transoesophageal echocardiography through the National Board of Echocardiography (USA). Bain's work is supported by an ANZCA project grant and involves collaboration with the Genomics and Systems Biology Laboratory at The Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute. He actively teaches, lectures, and contributes to echocardiography education at The Alfred Hospital.