Michael Reade

Professor Reade is the Australian Defence Force (ADF) Chair of Military Medicine and Surgery and a member of the Burns, Trauma and Critical Care Research Centre at UQ. A specialist intensive care physician, anaesthetist and clinician-scientist, he leads a programme of research relevant to military trauma medicine and surgery, and guides the implementation of modern trauma care into ADF practice.

After clinical training in anaesthetics and intensive care medicine in Sydney, Melbourne, Oxford and Pittsburgh, a doctorate in the molecular pathogenesis of nitric oxide production in human septic shock from the University of Oxford and a postdoctoral research fellowship in clinical trials and epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh, Michael returned to Australia as Associate Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at the Austin Hospital & the University of Melbourne in 2007. Michael has held faculty appointments at the University of Oxford (where he taught physiology), the University of Pittsburgh (where he was an Instructor in critical care), and the University of Melbourne. He has supervised Masters and postgraduate clinical students in basic and applied research, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of the United Kingdom.