Michael Ardagh

Professor
Surgery
Otago University
New Zealand

Professor Surgery
Biography

Mike is Professor of Emergency Medicine and a specialist in the Emergency Department of Christchurch Hospital. He has a PhD in Bioethics, with his thesis exploring decision making in resuscitation. He convenes the Emergency Medicine teaching thread, and the 4th year undergraduate medical student attachment to surgery. He chairs the Rhise Group (researching the health implications of seismic events), the Emergency Medicine and Nursing Research Group and is a trustee of the Emergency Care Foundation (a charitable trust which funds Emergency Medicine research).

Research Intrest

Earthquake injuries and health system response Emergency Department crowding and systems Diagnostic decision tools The ethics of Emergency Medicine

List of Publications
Hogg, D., Kingham, S., Wilson, T. M., & Ardagh, M. (2016). The effects of relocation and level of affectedness on mood and anxiety symptom treatments after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. Social Science & Medicine, 152, 18-26. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.01.025
Ardagh, M., Standring, S., Deely, J. M., Johnston, D., Robinson, V., Gulliver, P., Richardson, S., … Than, M. (2016). A sex disparity among earthquake victims. Disaster Medicine & Public Health Preparedness, 10, 67-73. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2015.81
Ardagh, M. (2017). Triage, terrorism and translational ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics, 43(5), 301-302. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2016-103839
Lambie, E. S., Wilson, T. M., Brogt, E., Johnston, D. M., Ardagh, M., Deely, J., … Feldmann-Jensen, S. (2017). Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Earthquake Behaviour Coding Methodology: Analysis of Christchurch Public Hospital video data from the 22 February Christchurch earthquake event. Natural Hazards, 86(3), 1175-1192. doi: 10.1007/s11069-016-2735-9