Staff: Dr Bill Nimo
Deputy Director - Clinical
Bill’s full name is Vasilios Nimorakiotakis but he is commonly know as Bill Nimo. He is currently employed as an emergency staff specialist at the Epworth and Sunshine Hospitals, occasionally acts as club doctor for the Williamstown Football Club and is the clinical deputy director at AVRU. Bill graduated from Melbourne University in 1993 and spent most of his time at Western Hospital, but he has also spent time at the Northern Hospital and Box Hill Hospital. He worked in the Northern Territory aboriginal communities, Oenpelli and Jabiru, and North Western Australia, Karratha, when his interest in toxinology began, after looking after a 10-year-old envenomed by a sea snake. He has special interest in education and enjoys lecturing. |  |
On a personal level, he has a beautiful wife, Cherie, and three children, Isabelle, Luca and Noah, whom he considers the most important things in his life.
His aim is to continue to educate both medical and non-medical people. He also has an interest in clinical research and is currently doing a prospective study looking at the true false positive rate of the SVDK. Toxinology in developing countries such as Vietnam and PNG is another area in which he is involved and he hopes, in the near future, to expand that involvement with regard to the exchange of knowledge, clinical research and antivenom development.