Professor Michael Reade is Deputy Head of the Medical School at the University of Queensland, with primary responsibility for all UQ Brisbane teaching hospitals and general practices, along with the preclinical teaching resources on the St Lucia campus. He is an intensivist at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, and an anaesthetist at Ipswich Hospital. He was previously Director of Clinical Services of the Regular Army’s only field hospital, and until 2021 with the rank of Brigadier he was Director General of the Health Reserve. Appointed Professor Military Medicine and Surgery by Joint Health Command in 2011, he continues to lead an expanding research program focused on military trauma medicine based at UQ, covering trauma systems design, blood and fluid resuscitation in trauma, and traumatic brain injury.