Who We Are
What We Do
First Minutes Matter
We’re proud to be Australia’s largest employer of pre-hospital emergency care doctors, serving communities across Queensland and the world, in their greatest moment of need.
While our aircrafts connect patients to the care they need, it’s the people on board who truly set us apart. Our team of more than 180 critical care doctors are highly trained, empowered, and equipped to handle any emergency—from remote rescue operations to international medical evacuations.
We provide critical care doctors across all LifeFlight services and to all retrieval services in Queensland.
We believe that what we learn today, we can use to improve tomorrow’s care. Learn more about what we do to keep our team at the forefront of emergency care.
Our integrated teams of doctors, flight nurses and flight paramedics embrace the challenge presented by pre-hospital emergency care.
Operating in some of Australia’s harshest environments, we’re always pushing to set the bar higher. What we learn on the front-line today, helps us improve tomorrow.
From search and rescue operations to critical hospital transfers and aerial surveillance, our medical team is unmatched in the quality of care delivered.
A typical day could see our team rescuing victims of a natural disaster, conducting complex medical procedures on the side of a road, on a rural property, or back of an aircraft or sharing their experience to provide real-time, real-world training.
With critical care doctors based in locations across Australia and Singapore, we’re ready to mobilise in the moment. LifeFlight provides critical care where others can’t, serving communities in their greatest moments of need. Anyone, anywhere, anytime.
At the forefront of our medical workforce is a small team of dedicated, experienced specialists who provide leadership, education and training, guidance and mentor-ship to the whole retrieval family. They are the driving force behind LifeFlight’s ongoing excellence in pre-hospital care.
Favourite part of your job: The sense of teamwork we have in providing a service we’re really proud of.
Most memorable experience: I really enjoy watching the registrar group grow in confidence in training week and throughout their time with lifeflight. And there was that time we flew U2 to their concert in Brisbane!
Qualifications: MBBS, FACEM, Post graduate certificate of Aeromedical Retrieval
Years at LifeFlight: 18 years
Favourite part of your job: It is an excellent combination of challenging clinical work that is very rewarding and gives you a sense of value adding to your patient’s journey. Also, you can’t beat flying around the state.
Most memorable experience: Nothing beats flying up the Brisbane River at night on approach to the QCH helipad.
Qualifications: FACEM
Years at LifeFlight: 7 years
Favourite part of your job: Having grown up in regional Queensland, it’s important to me that people in the country have access to tertiary level healthcare when they need it. I love being part of a team who can take critical care medicine to the roadside, or transport patients safely and quickly to a major hospital for lifesaving treatment.
Qualifications: FACEM, MBBS, BPharm
Years at LifeFlight: 7 years
Favourite part of your job: High quality banter in the aircraft
Most memorable experience: I’ve been lucky to have many but probably my first ever clinical task as a Retrieval Registrar which was a night winch into Blencoe Falls
Qualifications: FACEM, DRANZCOG (Adv)
Years at LifeFlight: 5 years
Favourite part of your job: Working with such an outstanding team on the Sunshine Coast
Most memorable experience: We were tasked to a winch job in a rainforest and got covered head to toe in mud. On completion we were immediately tasked to an arrest on a sandy beach – that’s how you get proper dirty!
Qualifications: FACEM, MBBS, BPharm
Years at LifeFlight: 10 years
Favourite part of your job: I love the incredible aircrew and clinical teams. I also enjoy the reward of our teams being able to deliver high quality care well before the patient is transported to definitive care.
Most memorable experience: Flying across waterfall-like clouds in the mountains of the Scenic Rim: unforgettable.
Qualifications: MBBS, FACEM
Years at LifeFlight: 7 years
Favourite part of your job: Helicopter primary missions and watching registrar growth from training week to end of term.
Most memorable experience: Successful Tele-health resuscitations by very small rural hospitals is extremely gratifying.
Qualifications: FACEM
Years at LifeFlight: 3 years
Favourite part of your job: Working with dedicated clinical and aviation professionals to positively contribute to patients and their families at the worst time of their life, through delivering compassionate critical care anywhere in Queensland.
Most memorable experience: Planning and problem solving as a team to enable us to transport three injured siblings on-board the helicopter, so that the children could remain together after their dad died.
Qualifications: MBBS, MPH, FACEM
Years at LifeFlight: 8 years
13-year-old Eli Jarrick was rescued by LifeFlight after he fell six metres from a tree in his backyard. Eli suffered punctured lungs, a traumatic brain injury and a sprained wrist but thanks to LifeFlight’s swift intervention he’s well on his way to making a full recovery and is back at school.
We acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traditional Custodians of the land on which we serve and fly, and pay respect to their Elders past, present and future.
