Mark Fitzgerald

Director of Trauma Services

Mark Fitzgerald

Director of Trauma Services

Biography

Mark Fitzgerald is Director of Trauma Services at The Alfred Hospital; Director of the National Trauma Research Institute; Professor, Department of Surgery, Central Clinical School, Monash University; and Professor, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology.

He is an Ambulance Victoria Medical Advisor, a Victorian State Trauma Committee member and the Director of the Trauma Reception and Resuscitation Project.

Mark’s research themes are systems improvement, error reduction and standardization of resuscitation care.

He has led the establishment of Trauma Systems in Sri Lanka, India, China, the Philippines and Myanmar.

Mark has delivered 120 major presentations, 110 publications in peer reviewed journals, 10 book chapters and has achieved Au$8 million in research and development funding 2007-14.

Professor Fitzgerald’s honours include the Ambulance Service Medal 2003; the Foundation Medal, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine 2003; Honorary Life Membership, Neurotrauma Society of India 2010; and the Gordon Trinca Medal for services to trauma, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 2013.