Meet our panel of medical specialists

Associate Professor Mark Putland MBBS MPH FACEM joined the Royal Melbourne Hospital team as Director of Emergency Medicine in 2018, after 10 years working across regional and metropolitan, private, and public emergency departments as well as for the Victorian critical care retrieval and coordination service. His primary role before coming to RMH had been at Bendigo Health in central Victoria where he was part of a team that built a successful EM training program from the ground up. He graduated from University of Melbourne in 1998 and trained in Emergency Medicine in Melbourne and Brisbane, with a focus on trauma, critical care, and retrieval medicine. After graduation he completed further study in clinical research methods, aeromedical care and health service management. He received a Fulbright Professional Scholarship from the US State Department in 2015 to examine different models of regional trauma systems around the US and Australia. .. read more »

George is co-Director of Emergency Medicine Training at Royal Melbourne Hospital – a busy quaternary trauma centre in the Parkville precinct encompassing RMH, RWH and the VCCC. After completing initial studies in Brisbane, George made the move to Melbourne where he lives with his wife and two children. After obtaining specialist qualifications in Emergency Medicine, he has established interests in education, trauma, and cardiology. George has conducted research on the management of atrial fibrillation, lectured for the University of Melbourne on the topics of acute cardiology and trauma, and has delivered presentations to international and local meetings on the subjects of trauma, vehicular ramming attacks, acute cardiology and clinical change implementation. Outside of medicine, George enjoys the idea of sleep... read more »