Dr Dan Holmes, Specialist Anaesthetist and AUSMat Mission Team Leader

Dr Dan Holmes is a Specialist Anaesthetist and AUSMat Mission Team Leader. For the past 10 years and following his first mission to the Philippines (working in anaesthetics and ICU), Dan has led teams of experienced Australian clinicians to respond to disasters in Samoa, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. In early 2020, Dan was deployed to Christmas Island, where the team assisted in the repatriation of Australians from Wuhan, China, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dan recently received the Overseas Humanitarian Service Medal for his work in the Philippines and Vanuatu. In this interview with Dan, we talk about his career, his missions with AUSMat and one of the many experiences that will stay with him.