Dr Dave Baldwin

Dr Dave Baldwin got his medical degree at Otago University, Dunedin and after completing his vocational training in General Practice joined the RNZAF 889 Officer Training Course in 1989 and graduated to become the Base Medical Officer at RNZAF Base Ohakea with the A-4 Skyhawks of Ohakea’s famous 75 Squadron. In the truly action-packed fast jet environment of New Zealand’s Strike Force, Dr Dave found his true love i.e. developing his sub-specialty: aviation medicine.

Three years later, he left the RNZAF and began developing the Bulls Medical Centre located in Bulls – a thriving rural town located next door to the Ohakea Air Force Base. Since this time, the Manawatu region has provided him with not only a wonderful environment to bring up his family but also a place to form a base from which he has developed the truly unique “Bulls Flying Doctor Service” (www.flyingdoctor.co.nz). This service provides a mobile aviation medical service to the pilots located in the remote mountainous areas of New Zealand which he loves so much.

Colonel (Dr) Jeff Brock

Colonel Jeff Brock is the Senior Specialist in Aviation Medicine for the Australian Army, and is posted to Headquarters 16th Aviation Brigade in Brisbane.

He is a Science Graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon; a Graduate in Medicine and Surgery of the University of Queensland, and qualified in Aviation Medicine with the Royal Air Force, Farnborough and Royal College of Physicians, London. He is an Army rotary wing pilot.

Jeff enlisted in the Australian Regular Army in 1967 and has served as a full-time and reserve medical officer until now. Between 1995 and 1998, he was the Director of Aviation Medicine for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Australia.

In recent years, he has had multiple deployments with the United Nations, the Army, Navy and Air Force to PNG, East Timor, Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan in various appointments.

He is a civil and military on-scene accident investigator for major aviation, marine and rail accidents in Australia and overseas; and is a specialist advisor to various state police services, coroners and Australian Search and Rescue (AusSAR) on land and oceanic survival.

Dr Glenn Pascoe

WGCDR (RAAFSR) Glenn Pascoe, MBBS, FRACGP, DAvMed , is currently contracted to Defence as SOAVMED, Navy’s Single Service Aviation Medicine Advisor. Prior to transferring to the RAAFSR, his final posting in the PAF was as CO AVMED. Glenn joined the RAAF Undergraduate sponsorship scheme in 1994, graduated from UQ in 1996. Following internship and residency in QLD he completed RAAF officer training at Point Cook then postings as MO Health Services Flight RAAF Pearce; SMO RAAF Pearce; SMO 1 ATHS, RAAF Amberley ; Exchange instructor RAF Center of Aviation Medicine, RAF Henlow; and Chief Instructor AVMED, RAAF Edinburgh.

Glenn has deployed to Bougainville and East Timor as the AME Medical Officer, and the Middle East as the Senior Health Officer and AEOO. Overseas training achievements include being a distinguished graduate from the USAF Aerospace Medicine Primary in 2004, the Stewart Memorial Prize winner for the UK DAvMed in 2005, and completing the USAF Aircraft Mishap Investigation and Prevention course in 2006.  Glenn has responded to and investigated several military aircraft accidents during his time with the Air Force.  Glenn is a keen Senior Aviation Medical Officer (SAVMO), having flown in the PC-9, MB326, Hawk 127, Caribou, C130, Iroquois, USMC Sea-knight, UK Merlin, SK-50, and S-70B-2.

Dr Tracy Smart

Air Commodore (Dr.) Tracy Smart, BMBS, DipAvmed, MPH, MA, FAsMA, FCDSS, AFACHSE, joined the RAAF as a medical undergraduate in 1985. She has served as MO/Senior MO at bases around Australia, has undertaken overseas postings with the RAF and USAF, was Chief Instructor and Commanding Officer of AVMED, and Officer Commanding Health Services Wing. She has had operational experience in Rwanda, Timor Leste, the Middle East and Lebanon, and was awarded a CAF Commendation for her role in a fatal air accident investigation in Malaysia.

She attended the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies as a student in 2008 and was promoted and posted into the dual roles of Director General Corporate Health Management and Air Force Health Services within Joint Health Command in February 2009. AIRCDRE Smart assumed a new role as DG Garrison Health Operations in Feb 2010, and in this position manages health care at over 100 locations on Defence bases throughout Australia. She has authored, or co-authored, 14 published articles, and over 50 papers for presentation at scientific meetings, primarily in the areas of aviation medicine, aeromedical evacuation, and military medicine.

Dr Alan Turner

FLTLT Alan Turner joined the RAAF in 1995 and completed a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Physics in at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He studied a Bachelor of Medicine at the University of Newcastle from 2001 – 2005 and was posted to No. 2 Expeditionary Health Squadron in Jan 2008 as an Aviation Medicine Officer. In July 2009 he deployed to Afghanistan as the Aeromedical Evacuation Operations Officer for Afghanistan and was also employed as a Trauma Team leader at the Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit at Kandahar Airfield. FLTLT Turner has been selected to travel to London in 2011 to complete the Diploma of Aviation Medicine at King’s College.