Spotlight on the Chair

Dr David Rosengren

Executive Director, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital

Led by Dr David Rosengren, the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) is committed to delivering high-quality, patient-focused services to communities across Queensland, northern New South Wales and in the surrounding pacific region.

David and the executive team are building on the RBWH’s proud history of clinical expertise, research excellence and quality care to shape healthcare into the future.

With a strong commitment to excellence, RBWH is at the forefront of research and innovation, education and most importantly, healthcare.

Spotlight on the Speaker

DR. MED. Gerhard Achatz

Executive Senior Physician
German Armed Forces Hospital Ulm
Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery,
Reconstructive and Septic Surgery, Sportstraumatology

Specialisation: General Surgeon, Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon
Previous Deployments: Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq
Research Interests:

• Orthopaedic trauma surgery
• Health service research on terror and disaster preparedness
• Shoulder and elbow surgery
• Ultrasound in orthopaedics and trauma surgery

Memberships:

• German Society of Surgery
• European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery
• German Society of Trauma Surgery
• German Society of Orthopaedics and Trauma
• German Society for Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
• German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine

Spotlight on the Speaker

Brigadier Michael Reade

Professor of Military Medicine and Surgery

Professor Reade is an intensive care physician, anaesthetist and clinician scientist in the Australian Defence Force, since 2011 seconded to the University of Queensland as the inaugural Professor of Military Medicine and Surgery. He has deployed nine times, including twice to Afghanistan and three times to Iraq. He holds the rank of Brigadier, and as Assistant Surgeon General – Army, is responsible for clinical policy, personnel and capability development. His research interests are trauma systems design, fluid resuscitation in trauma, and trauma coagulopathy.