Scott Stirling
Nationality?
USA & Australian
Current Position? 
Deputy Director Logan ED.
FACEM, FACEP, RDMS, CCPU. 
Point of care ultrasound director. 
Education and work experience?
Sydney Med-2006.
EM residency USF (Florida, USA)-2008-2011.
ED attending(consultant).- ECRMC, CA 2011-2013.
ED attending (consultant)-2013-current.
Deputy Director Logan ED-2016-current.
ED point of care ultrasound director 2013-current.
Previous Volunteer Work?
Indonesian UNESCO-2005. 
Nepal-2004. 
Medical interests?
POCUS- started the first POCUS special skills post in QLD 2015. 
TOE resuscitation. 
Local surf spot?
Burleigh, Snapper, South Straddie and Blacks (when back in California). 
 
What is your favourite surf destination?
Indo. 
Travel experience?
Indo best surf trip.
Nepal is the best non-surfing trip. 
Best surf trip ever?
Indo. Ments-2005.
Indo. G-Land every year. 
Fiji.
Worst surf trip ever?
Spain got skunked. 
What is the best thing about surfing? 
Getting barrelled and hanging out with your buddies) or having your mates see you get barrelled 🙂 
Best advice you were ever given with regards to surfing?
Look where you want your board to go. Bend at your hips. 
Who is your favourite surfer in the world, and why? 
I would say KS, but he’s gone a little weird on the vaccine stuff, so I will go with Mick Fanning: he’s an all-around legend, a nice person out of the water and quite the ambassador for the sport. 
Current go-to surfboards? (make and dims)
Short-board 5’8 Happy: 26.5 L, step up: Ghost Pyzel 28.3L 5’11.
That covers most waves I surf. 
Any other information you would like to add about yourself?
Surfing and medicine have essentially shaped my life for the better, so it’s an honour to be involved in both, and hopefully, I’ll be able to do both for a long time!