Michael Reade

Major Michael Reade is an Associate Professor of anaesthetics and intensive care medicine at the Austin Hospital and the University of Melbourne. He joined Sydney University Regiment in 1989, completed the First Appointment Course and was commissioned as a general service officer. After medical qualification, he served as RMO of UNSWR and SUR, on exchange with 144 Parachute Medical Squadron in London and the 2nd Armoured Division in Texas and California, and as a specialist medical officer with 1HSB and 3HSB. He is currently the OC of the Specialist Advisory Group of 3HSB – Victoria Company. He deployed with the British Army to Bosnia in 2000 and Kosovo in 2001, and with 1HSB to East Timor in 2003 and the Solomon Islands in 2004. In 2009 he was the clinical director of the NATO Role 2(E) Hospital, Tarin Kot, Afghanistan. He has first class Honours degrees in medicine and medical science from the University of Sydney, the British Army-sponsored diploma in disaster medicine, a Masters in Public Health from the University of Pittsburgh, and Doctorate from the University of Oxford, as well as specialist clinical fellowships in anaesthetics and intensive care medicine.