David Anderson is the Medical Director of Ambulance Victoria – a large jurisdictional ambulance service covering all of Victoria, Australia; he is also an intensive care physician at The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne – a quaternary referral center for heart and lung transplant, ECMO, major trauma and burns; and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Paramedicine at Monash University.

David volunteered and worked with St John as an event volunteer, first aid instructor, volunteer ambulance officer, paramedic and finally senior clinical tutor in Auckland. He completed and undergraduate science degree followed by medical training at the University of Auckland before undertaking postgraduate training in intensive care medicine. During postgraduate training he also spent considerable spells working in anaesthesia, palliative medicine and prehospital and retrieval medicine in Auckland, Sydney and Toronto before settling in Melbourne. His clinical interests are prehospital and retrieval medicine, trauma critical care, ECMO, palliative care and bioethics