Amanda Baric

Amanda Baric AM is an Australian anaesthetist and medical educator. She is Deputy Director of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at Northern Health and a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Melbourne.[1][2] She teaches anaesthesiology in Australia and around the world.[3][4][5] Baric has contributed to anaesthesia education and training programs in Mongolia, including a long-running collaboration between Australian and Mongolian anaesthetists.[6][7] She received Mongolia's Order of the Polar Star in 2021 for her contribution to healthcare and anaesthesia training in the country.[8][9]

Baric has also been involved with Developing Anaesthesia, an educational initiative that provides freely accessible teaching materials for anaesthetists working in countries with limited resources. Its materials have included seminars, textbooks and modular training resources used in the Mongolia program.[10]

Baric 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. ↑ "King's Birthday Honours for Northern Health staff". Northern Health. 13 June 2024. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  2. ↑ "Dr Amanda Baric". University of Melbourne. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  3. ↑ "Northern Health Staff Recognised In King's Birthday Honours - The North Central Review". 18 June 2024. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Dr. Amanda Barić odlikovana Redom Australije za zasluge u anesteziologiji". SBS Language (in Croatian). Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  5. ↑ "Dr. Amanda Barić odlikovana Redom Australije za zasluge u anesteziologiji". SBS Language. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "Dr Amanda Baric receives Order of the Polar Star award". University of Melbourne. 13 December 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  9. 1 2 "Dr Amanda Baric". ASA 2016. 12 August 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  10. ↑ "Developing Anaesthesia". Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  11. ↑ Hallett, Ben; Baric, Amanda; Pescod, David (July 2007). Peri-operative Medicine and Anaesthesia.
  12. ↑ Baric, Amanda; Pescod (2006). Obstetric Anaesthesia.
  13. 1 2 "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. ↑ "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.