Gary Martinic

Flying Officer Gary Martinic, Australian Air Force Cadets In his role as Laboratory Manager and Supervising Scientist, the author manages the Centres for Transplant & Renal Research and Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, at the Westmead Millennium Institute for Medical Research (Westmead Hospital). He is also the Training Officer-Operations and an Instructor with the Australian Air Force Cadets (AAFC), based at 307 (City of Bankstown) Squadron, located at AAFC Headquarters, Lidcombe Multi-User Defence Facility, NSW. With a lifelong interest in military aviation and military history, and having served for a number of years in the Air Training Corps, as a serving AAFC Officer, he now dedicates a significant portion of his time to the supervision, training and mentoring of AAFC cadets. He has a strong interest in unmanned and future weapons systems of land, sea and air.

Articles by Gary Martinic


Glimpses of future battlefield medicine – the proliferation of robotic surgeons and unmanned vehicles and technologies

Introduction The rescue of severely wounded soldiers,  while under fire, is itself a major cause  of  military  death and traumatic injury.1 Some  sources  estimate  that up to 86% of battlefield deaths occur after the first 30 minutes post-injury.1,2 Hence life saving training techniques3  and  treatments,  and  more   recently, the application of robotic surgical systems  (RSS; Fig.1),… Read more »

By Gary Martinic In   Issue Volume 22 No. 3 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-28389582/JMVH Vol 22 No 3

Military ‘live tissue trauma training’ using animals in the US – its purpose, importance and commentary on military medical research and the debate on use of animals in military training

Introduction There has been a significant change in the types of injuries sustained on the modern battlefield due to the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) which are designed to cause severe penetrating injuries to limbs and torso, often resulting in massive haemorrhage in  injured soldiers. Massive haemorrhage is the most common preventable cause of… Read more »

By Gary Martinic In   Issue Volume 20 No. 4 Doi No https://doi-ds.org/doilink/11.2021-29442211/JMVH Vol 20 No 4