Russell Schedlich

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Editorial – A Message from the Surgeon General Australian Defence Force

A Message from the Surgeon General Australian Defence Force It is with great pleasure that I note the launch of the AMMA Newsletter. The publication of the Newsletter marks another…

President’s Message

As I write this message, Australia is in its sixth month of responding to the threat of the Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza virus. This has been an extensive test of…

Rear Admiral Graeme Shirtley RFD RANR

Rear Admiral Graeme Shirtley RFD RANR MB BS (NSW), DDR (Syd), FRANZCR Surgeon General Australian Defence Force 09 May 2005 – 03 July 2008. Patron of the Australian Military Medicine…

President’s Message

As I write this note, a Four Corners program on post-traumatic stress disorder in the ADF has gone to air. Although not wanting to comment on the detail or veracity…

President’s message

I am writing this message several days after the completion of another highly successful AMMA conference. Held in Hobart over the weekend 17-19 October, some 300 delegates attended, supported by…

Inside this Edition

This Edition of the Journal of Military and Veterans Health has an array of papers considering operational and strategic issues confronting military health services in this region. Infectious disease has…

Retention of medical officers in a combat support-only health service

At the recent announcement of the changes to the Single Service Chiefs of the Australian Defence Force, the Minister for Defence, The Hon Joel Fitzgibbon MP made the following comments:…