Adjunct Associate Professor David Anderson
David Anderson is the Medical Director of Ambulance Victoria – a large jurisdictional ambulance service covering all of Victoria; he is also an intensive care physician at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne – a quaternary referral centre for heart and lung transplant, ECMO, major trauma and burns; and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Paramedicine at Monash University. David worked as a paramedic in Auckland, New Zealand before completing medical training at the University of Auckland and then undertaking postgraduate training in intensive care medicine. During postgraduate training he also spent considerable spells working in anaesthesia, palliative medicine and prehospital and retrieval medicine in Auckland, Sydney and Toronto before settling in Melbourne. His interests are prehospital and retrieval medicine, trauma critical care, ECMO, palliative care and bioethics.
Qualifications
- Master of Bioethics, Monash University, 2024
- Clinical Fellowship in Adult Critical Care, University of Toronto, 2016
- Fellow of the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand, 2015
- Clinical Diploma in Palliative Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 2013
- Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of Auckland, 2007
- Bachelor of Human Biology, University of Auckland, 2004
- Bachelor of Science, University of Auckland, 2001