Dr Andrew Perry is an emergency medicine physician with a sub-specialty in pre-hospital and retrieval medicine. He currently splits his time between working at the Royal Adelaide and Queen Elizabeth Hospital emergency departments and MedSTAR, the South Australian retrieval service. At MDA National he is the Chair of the South Australia State Advisory Committee, a member of the Clinical Underwriting Committee, and a regular workshop facilitator. Andrew has interests in medical education, medical politics and clinical governance. He has held a number of state and national advocacy roles with several organisations including the Australian Medical Association, the Australian Medical Council and the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.