Associate Professor David Read

Overview

A/Professor David Read is the Director of Trauma and a Colorectal Surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He has trained in Adelaide, United Kingdom, Darwin, San Antonio Texas. Melbourne and Auckland. He is a broadly experienced General Surgeon who has interests trauma, conflict and disaster surgery, colorectal cancer, and laparoscopic hernia repair. Prior to moving to Melbourne he worked in Darwin for 16 years, and developing many surgical services such. as burns, paediatrics, trauma and breast surgery, and had a heavy committment ot Indegenous health with his decade and half long dedication to speacilaist outreach visits to remote Indigenous Communities. His private practice is based at at Melbourne Private Hospital, and he is a VMO at the Royal Women's Hospital as a colorectal Surgeon. David is senior surgeon for Austrlain Medical Assistance Teams (AUSMAT), has been central to the establishment of the Nationla Critical Care & Trauma response Centre (NCCTRC) in Darwin.  He teaches on many trauma and disaer related courses. He has been decorated for his efforts after the Bali Bombings and Typhoon Haiyan in the Phillipines. David's research interests are the epidemiology of trauma, disaster response surgery, and cancer and trauma outcomes in rural Australians.