Dr Chris Cheeseman is an experienced senior emergency medicine and retrieval specialist with extensive prehospital and retrieval experience across the UK, Australia, Asia, South America and Africa, as well as prior frontline military service. Originally trained as a surgeon in the UK and later as an emergency medicine registrar in both the UK and Australia, he is Medical Director of the CareFlight Rapid Response Helicopter, Greater Sydney’s rapid-launch trauma and paediatric helicopter service.

He holds a senior Staff Specialist position at Westmead ED, a major trauma and quaternary centre, where he serves as trauma team leader, participates in disaster response, supervises junior medical staff and leads portfolios in medico-legal, security and police liaison. His clinical sub-specialty areas include counter-terrorism medicine, nuclear/biological/chemical weapons and ballistics, and he is an accredited provider for the NSW Biocontainment Unit for High Consequence Infectious Diseases.

Qualifications

2000 Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery, Birmingham 

2005 Member Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh

2015 Fellow Australasian College of Emergency Medicine 

2016 Fellow Royal College of Emergency Medicine, London

Current Positions

Staff Specialist, Emergency Department, Westmead Hospital, Sydney

Medical Director, CRRH CareFlight, New South Wales

Medical Retrieval Specialist CareFlight, Northern Territory

Previous Positions

Emergency Medicine Specialist, Westmead Hospital, Sydney

Emergency Medicine Specialist, Nepean Hospital, New South Wales

Emergency Medicine Specialist, Fairfield Hospital, New South Wales

Emergency Medicine Specialist, Wollongong, New South Wales

Areas of Clinical Expertise

• Emergency, trauma, resuscitation and critical care across major trauma centres and retrieval environments
• Prehospital, retrieval, remote and austere medicine
• Tactical medicine, security liaison and high-consequence infectious disease biocontainment