Team — TRA2SH

ANZCA Environmental Sustainability Network

TRA2SH has merged with ANZCA’s Enviromental Sustainability Network (ESN) in 2023. The ANZCA ESN is comprised of various ANZCA fellows, and previous TRA2SH Steering Committee members from Australia and New Zealand. Their responsibility is to continue to promote and oversee TRA2SH as its trainee network, and provide support and guidance to the Steering Committee.

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Trainee Steering Committee

TRA2SH is ‘trainee-led’ and the Steering Committee, made up of anaesthetic trainees from Australia and New Zealand, helps to deliver current projects, create new ones and meets regularly online to help coordinate these.
Members are elected to the Steering Committee for 1 year, which can be renewed. The Steering Committee also seeks to have a co-opted member from each regional ANZCA Trainee Committee.

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TRA2SH Members

When you join TRA2SH via our ‘get-involved’ page you become a TRA2SH member. You will receive occasional emails updating you about our projects, and will be invited to participate in our annual Operation Clean Up.
TRA2SH invites all doctors, nursing and other hospital staff who want to make a difference. We want as many people to engage in environmental sustainability as possible - 100 people doing something imperfectly is better than a few trying to do it all perfectly!

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Acknowledgements:

Co-Founders of TRA2SH - It all begins with an idea!

We would like to pay tribute to the two co-founders of TRA2SH: Dr Jessica Davies and Dr Sophia Grobler. They started the seeds of what TRA2SH has become today.

Past Steering Committee Members (post-merger with ANZCA ESN)

2025 onwards

First Generation Past Steering Committee Members

We would all like to applaud the work and contributions of the first generation of past steering committee members towards establishing TRA2SH:

Dr Jessica Davies
Dr Sophia Grobler
Dr Archana Shrivathsa
Dr Rajesh Pachchigar
Dr Richard Seglenieks
Dr Alistair Park

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Past Steering Committee Members (pre-merger with ANZCA ESN)

We would all like to acknowledge the work of past steering committee members who contributed towards the development of TRA2SH:

Dr Emma Panigas
Dr Aria Nasteka
Dr Margaret Hezekiel
Dr Rose Cameron

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Steering Committee Members

Dr Sukhi Hegde

I have been an active sustainability advocate since joining TRA2SH. Since the TRA2SH merger in 2023 with ANZCA's Environmental Sustainability Network(ESN), I have been able to continue to help TRA2SH grow through ESN's networking and support.
As part of the ANZCA trainee committee, I have also been actively raising awareness of sustainability and TRA2SH activities to ANZCA trainees, including co-hosting the 2025 TRA2SHCON.
I am currently completing my fellowship in cardiac anaesthesia.
Dr Kenhui Heng

I believe in being actively involved in sustainable healthcare to reduce climate change and preserve our environment for the future, particularly with reducing volatile use and recycling.
I enjoy being involved in education, teaching and learning via simulation and quality improvement in the workplace. My other active interests are in regional anaesthesia, bedside ultrasonography and perioperative medicine. I am also an intensive care trainee.
It has been a great joy to be the main organiser and co-host of 2025’s TRA2SHCON webinar and to bring together like-minded and enthusiastic sustainability advocates and trainees.
Dr Andrew Tan

I am currently a consultant anaesthetist in Melbourne, with public appointments at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, and Werribee Mercy Hospital.
I have been actively involved in sustainable anaesthetic practice since I was a critical care resident, with involvement with TRA2SH, as well as completion of my ANZCA trainee project reviewing the estimated cost of medication wastage at Western Health. I joined the Steering Committee in 2024 during my fellowship year.
In my spare time, I enjoy F1, photography, head-fi, and spending time with my family.
Dr Lyndsay Thompson

I became involved with TRA2SH through Operation Clean Up as a basic trainee and enjoyed the challenge of trying to implement behavioural changes in my department to reduce waste and improve recycling capabilities.
Following the COVID years, I again wanted to work on ways to make a difference to our long term environmental sustainability in medicine. I am particularly interested in waste management and combine a passion for perioperative medicine with reducing low value care through shared decision making. I then joined the Steering Committee in 2024 during my fellowship year.
Outside of anaesthesia I’m a mum of 2, passionate home veggie gardener, composter, permaculture enthusiast and daily laundress of countless reusable nappies!!
Dr Maggie Keys

I am currently a provisional fellow trainee at Gold Coast University Hospital, with a strong interest in improving environmental sustainability in the operating theatre. I was an inaugural executive member of the ANZCA Environmental Sustainability Network when it was established in 2021. In this role, I chaired an international webinar titled Nitrous or Not, which brought together leading experts to discuss the use and environmental impact of nitrous oxide.
My sustainability efforts have included initiatives to reduce the amount of plastic waste sent to landfill, with a particular focus on the recycling and repurposing of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic.
I am currently completing my fellowship in obstetric anaesthesia.