Our Instructors

Damien Santer

Paramedic

Dip. ParamedicalSci

An ALS-certified clinician and avid outdoorsman, Damien is a District Training Advisor to the “Rest of World” district of The Scout Association and the Group Scout Leader of 2nd Kuala Lumpur.

Damien serves as the curriculum director for AEMED International and has qualifications in both technical rope rescue and white-water rescue (Rescue 3 International). Damien has been teaching professionally since 2003. Before moving to Asia in 2007, Damien spent several years with the NSW State Emergency Service in Australia, qualifying in General Rescue, Search & Rescue, Storm Damage, Flood Boat Operations, Road Crash Rescue and Vertical Rescue. Damien was a NSW State Rescue Board accredited operator and was a qualified trainer and assessor for the NSW SES.

Damien is the founder and director of X3SI.

Shaliza Manmohan

MD

Dr Shaliza Manmohan is a graduate with 3 degrees- Bachelor of Biomedical Science, Bachelor of HealthScience(Hons) and Doctor of Medicine, MD from both an international (University of Adelaide, Australia) and local (Perdana University Graduate School of Medicine in collaboration with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) institute.

Her passion of learning science and medicine stems her interest in education. Having trained in Emergency Medicine in Borneo Malaysia, especially during the pandemic, she realized the low awareness of pre-hospital care amongst the community, especially in emergency situations. She aims and hope to improve the quality and create more awareness to prevent life threatening situations.

She believes that being a doctor isn’t just about saving lives, it’s also about educating- of which improves the lives of others.

Wee Chee Ong

Paramedic

Allan Fiddler

Austere First Responder + W

Darlene Ongkili

Emergency Physician

Rishaini Elengovan

MD

Sia Shun Yi

Paramedic

An experience medic and instructor, Sia is qualified as an Assistant Medical Officer and Pre-Hospotal Advanved Care Responder.

Ben Swindlehurst

Military & Tactical Lead

Ben Swindlehurst grew up hunting, hiking, and spending most of his time in the wild lands of eastern Oregon and Idaho. After high school, he worked on cattle ranches in the high desert and mountains of southeast Oregon until he was 23.

After a few years in the Army National Guard, he transferred to active duty in 1996. For his 24-year career in the Army, he was a combat medic, gaining a vast amount of experience in austere medicine - from treating injured personnel in wilderness environments to several years treating combat casualties on the ground.

Ben spent a tour as the Team Sergeant for a Forward Surgical Team in Afghanistan as well as the Team Sergeant for an imbedded Combat Advisor Team. He was then selected into the Project Warrior program where he worked as a Capability Developer, developing solutions to enhance survivability on the battlefield.

Francis Canete (Gitz)

Wilderness First Responder

Mario Wild

Austere First Responder + W

Alex Lithgow

Austere First Responder + W

Zi Lie Chan

Austere First Responder + W

Chitra Rani Yogarajah

MD

Perjit Kaur Singh

MSN

Sin Yuan Fua

MD

Raja Khairul Azli

Assistant Medical Officer

Julian Christopher Richard

Physiotherapist