Dr Daniel Black

Daniel Black is an ophthalmologist in practice on the Sunshine Coast. He is a CASA DAO and Reserve Officer with one Expeditionary Health Squadron RAAF.

Dr Celia Chen

Dr Celia Chen completed her medical degree at the University of Adelaide followed by a Masters of Public Health and a PhD at Flinders University.  She undertook her ophthalmology training in South Australia and proceeded to a clinical and research fellowship in Neuro-ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Dr. Chen has returned to Adelaide in 2007 following her fellowship and is a consultant ophthalmologist at the Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University.  Dr. Chen was awarded the National Health and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC) National Institute of Clinical Studies (NICS)/MS Research Australia Betty Cuthbert Fellowship aiming to optimise the management of acute optic neuritis in patients with multiple sclerosis.

Dr. Chen has several peer reviewed publication and is the recipient of both national and international scholarships and awards including a Best Research Award by the European Neuro-Ophthalmology Society and the American Australian Education Fellowship.  She research interests include vascular diseases of the eye and visual rehabilitation.

Dr Michael Clements

B.Ec(Hons) MBBS MPH DAvMed FRACGP MRAeS

Michael joined the RAAF Graduate Medical Scheme while completing his medical studies at the University of Sydney. After starting his RAAF work at Katherine in the Northern Territory and a deployment to the Middle East he was posted to the United Kingdom to complete the Diploma in Aviation Medicine at King’s College London. After finishing off the year as an Exchange Officer with the Royal Air Force Centre of Aviation Medicine Michael has returned to become the Officer in Charge of the health facility at RAAF Townsville.

Michael is a trainee with the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and is a keen private pilot with 130 hours in Cessna 172’s, 182’s and Jabiru’s.

Dr Dorothy Coote

Dr Coote graduated from the University of Queensland in 1975.  After hospital training at Canberra Community Hospital, she spent 10 years in rural general practice with her husband, also a doctor, in Tamborine Mt and Canungra Qld.  She has spent the last 20 years in general practice as a civilian contracted medical officer largely for the Dept of Defence at Russell, Fairbairn and Duntroon Hospital in Canberra. 

During this time she also spent some years working at University Health Centres at both the Australian National University and the University of Canberra.   She enjoys women’s health, student health, sports medicine and has a special interest in Aviation Medicine, and has provided medical cover for 34 SQN (the Defence VIP squadron) for the last five years.  She has also had experience in preventive health and formulation of clinical policy for the Department of Defence.

Dr Tony Gibson

Tony Gibson is an optometrist in private practice since 1971 in Mitcham where he practises with clinical associates including his wife Anne and daughter, Riki.

He graduated from Melbourne University in 1969 and completed a Masters Degree in 1973.  His thesis, funded through the then Department of Civil Aviation, established the relationship between blurred vision and visual aerial navigation tasks for light aircraft pilots.  Dr John Lane was actively involved in the planning and supervision of this project.

He has been a consultant optometrist at the Ophthalmology unit at the Royal Melbourne Hospital since 1971.

He has been a Designated Aviation Eye Examiner since 1996 and a lecturer for the ACCAM aviation medical course (Monash University) (1995 -2004). He has consulted to CASA on applications requiring a second opinion regarding visual findings. 

In 1997 he was awarded the Ivor Lewis Medal, by the Optometrists Association of Australia (Vic. Div). He was awarded the Order of Australia medal in June 2004.

Current professional interests include:
      - vision and flying; visual standards for pilots and air traffic controllers
      - promotion of comanagement of eye disease with general practitioners and ophthalmologists.
      - primary eye care, anterior eye disease and ocular therapeutics.

Dr Bruce King

Dr Bruce King became interested in ambient pressure effects on pumps 2 years ago because a patient was affected. He spent 18 months researching the issue. He has been working in paediatric diabetes for 19 years. He obtained his fellowship in 1999 and a PhD in 2006. He is vice chair of the Australian Growth Hormone Committee, secretary of the Australian Paediatric Endocrine Group Diabetes Subcommittee, member of the NSW ADC Children’s Services Committee, coordinator of the John Hunter Children’s Hospital Quality Use of Medicines Committee and a senior researcher at the Mothers and Babies Research Institute. His main areas of interest are influences on insulin pump function, influences on post prandial glycaemia, prevention of DKA and hypoglycaemia.

Dr Andrew Marsden

Originally Honours BSc in Zoology (1968) then MBBS from The London Hospital 1973. Royal Navy Medical Officer from 1970 to 1982 in General Duties, and specialising in Occupational Medicine eventually. Royal Australian Navy 1982 to 1986. Retired as Surgeon Commander. HBF Occupational Health Services Consultant Occupational Physician from 1986 to 1991 in Perth, and Mining Industry WA. Independant Occupational Physician Consultancy since 1992-2008. All WA Rio Tinto Mines (Diamonds/Iron Ore/ Salt/ Talc), BHP Billiton (Nickel) and WMC Mines work. Railway Medical Officer for ARG/Westrail and for Rio Tinto Railway. UPPL now lapsed somewhat. DAME actively. Medico-legal consultancy work in the general and workers compensation Insurance arenas, until early 2008. Moved to rural WA and set up a new private General Practice in Kununurra, in early 2008, now a thriving practice with the  recent addition of a second doctor. Restoration and maintenance of elderly cars is somewhat in abeyance up here, but have purchased a LandRover Defender to bash about in the spectacular bush of the Kimberley camping.

Dr John Parkes

John Parkes is an occupational physician and public health physician in private practice in Melbourne. He has a particular interest in colour vision and has his own comprehensive colour vision testing laboratory.  He sees referred patients for colour vision testing from all over Australia and even abroad.  He is recognized for advanced assessment of colour vision by aviation, defence, maritime, rail and other transport, and fire brigade authorities.  He has undertaken reviews of colour vision standards for a number of state and national bodies.  He is a member of the International Colour Vision Society and attends its two early symposia.  He is a Designated Aviation Medical Examiner.  He is a Captain in the Royal Australian Navy Reserve, currently serving as Regional Director, Naval Health Reserves, for Victoria and Tasmania.

Dr Glenn Pascoe

WGCDR (RAAFSR) Glenn Pascoe, MBBS, FRACGP, DAvMed (UK), is a senior aviation medical officer currently contracted to Navy as the Senior Medical Advisor AVMED. He is also posted to a Reserve position at the RAAF Institute of Aviation Medicine. Glenn joined the RAAF as an undergraduate whilst studying medicine at UQ. He served in the PAF with postings to RAAF Pearce; RAAF Amberley; RAF Center of Aviation Medicine, and the RAAF Institute of Aviation Medicine. Glenn has deployed to Bougainville, East Timor and the MEAO.

Jeremy Robertson

Jeremy started learning to fly at age 15, and completed his PPL at age 17. He graduated from UNSW in 1998 with a Bachelor of Aviation, CPL, Instructor Rating and Command Multi Engine Instrument Rating.

After working as a flying instructor for UNSW, and spending two years in the Kimberley flying charter in single engine Cessna’s, Jeremy qualified for his ATPL and joined QANTAS as a Second Officer on the Boeing 747-400. Four years later he was promoted to First Officer on the Boeing 767.

In February 2010, after nine years with QANTAS, Jeremy was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes and was medically retired. Since then he has completed a Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering, and has been accepted by the University of Sydney to commence a Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery next year.

Jeremy still regularly flies light aircraft, mostly utilising his Recreational Pilots Licence.

Dr Howard Roby

Dr Roby is a specialist in anaesthesia and intensive care, currently working as a VMO at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney. He has a Dip Av Med from Otago University.

For 20 years he was the medical director of Customer Care International Medical Assistance. In that capacity he was responsible for the medical management overseas and if necessary, repatriation of approx 70% of Australasians with travel insurance. He has been responsible for between 1500 and 2000 aeromedical evacuations in total. He retired from this role in 2010. He now leads a much quieter life doing the occasional AME for the RAAF as a member of their specialist reserve.

Dr Simon Roger

Simon Roger underwent advanced training in Nephrology at Westmead Hospital, followed by two years of clinical and laboratory research in London, where he wrote the thesis “Mechanisms of Erythropoietin-induced Hypertension” and was awarded a Doctorate of Medicine.  On completion, he returned to Gosford Hospital as Director of Renal Medicine.  In 1993, Dr Roger was appointed as a nephrologist to Royal North Shore Hospital, and that year, took over as Medical Head of the Division of Medicine at Gosford Hospital.

His clinical practice includes 95 in-centre haemodialysis patients, 15 home haemodialysis patients and 43 peritoneal dialysis patients.  In addition, he supervises over 80 renal transplant patients. Clinical practice is busy, with approximately 50 to 60 new patients and just over 350 patients in follow up per month in private consulting rooms.

Dr Roger is a member of advisory boards of a number of pharmaceutical companies for their erythropoietin products and epoetin biosimilar drugs.  His clinical research in 2011 includes pharmaceutical industry-sponsored trials (on calcium sensing receptors, treatment of anaemia in diabetics with chronic kidney disease and novel drugs to reduce diabetic proteinuria) and investigator-initiated trials exploring monitoring frequency of anaemia management and correction of anaemia in the elderly with darbepoetin alfa.

Dr Tracy Smart

Dr. Tracy Smart joined the RAAF as a medical undergraduate in 1985. She has served 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 was posted into Joint Health Command in February 2009 and is currently Director General Garrison Health Operations, managing health care at over 100 locations on Defence bases throughout Australia, and Director General Air Force Health Services. She has authored or co-authored fourteen published articles and over 60 papers for presentation at scientific meetings in Australia and internationally, primarily in the areas of aviation medicine, aeromedical evacuation, and military medicine.

Dr Adrian Smith

Dr Adrian Smith is a research medical officer at the RAAF Institute of Aviation Medicine. He has studied aviation medicine at Certificate, Diploma, Masters, and PhD level.  He is co-founder of the Australasian College of Aerospace Medicine.

Dr Adrian Zentner

Adrian is an honours graduate in medicine from the University of NSW and holds a Diploma in Aviation Medicine from the Royal College Physicians, London.

As a past manager of both medical and safety services for Australian Airlines (now Qantas Domestic), his background has provided extensive experience in maximizing human performance as well as health. Adrian has for the last 15 years turned his attention to general medical practice with a strong focus on the management of hormonal problems. Currently based in Perth, he conducts regular clinics in hormone replacement and wellness in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide.

Adrian is a vice president of the London based Society for the Study of Androgen deficiency and has featured in television programs including Good Medicine, A Current Affair and Today Tonight, addressing issues of hormones, vitality and performance.

Dr Kylie Hall

Dr Kylie Hall is a Consultant Anaesthetist, predominantly in private practice in Brisbane. She is a Visiting Medical Specialist at the Royal Brisbane and Princess Alexandra Hospitals, and is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland.

She has active interests in Trauma, Airway Management, Teaching, and Ophthalmological anaesthesia. She joined the RAAF on completion of her Anaesthetic training, and has enthusiastically combined her interests with Military Anaesthesia, Aeromedical Evacuation, and Aviation Medicine.