Dr Mardi Steere is the Exec GM of Medical and Retrieval Services for the Royal Flying Doctor Service SA/NT. She has lived and worked in the US, Kenya & Australia as a paediatric emergency & retrieval doctor, educator, health executive and non-executive director. She is passionate about strategic development of accessible, cost-effective, high quality primary, prehospital, emergency & hospital care and workforce, especially for remote & underserved populations. She is the co-developer of sub-Saharan Africa’s first postgraduate Fellowship program in Paediatric Emergency & Critical Care (PECC Kenya) with the University of Nairobi and University of Washington and assisted in the development and launch of the postgraduate Aeromedical Retrieval Graduate Diploma and Masters programs for Charles Darwin University in 2021. She holds an MBA from Melbourne Business School, is a graduate of the AICD, and in 2023 joined the board of AMREF Flying Doctors, Kenya as a non-Executive Director. When she’s not at RFDS, she still sees sick kids when she can in the Women’s and Children’s Hospital paeds emergency department, and in her free time can be found creating alternate timelines as a television drama medical advisor.