William " Bill " Middleton Griggs AM ASM , began his medical career in 1976 as a volunteer paramedic while studying as a medical student . As a paramedic he attended his 100th fatal road crash prior to graduating as a doctor in 1981 . Since then he has had a long involvement in the care of the injured and has been involved in caring for the victims of many multiple casualty events , including structure collapses , bombings , bus , train and aircraft crashes . He has completed many hundreds of aeromedical retrievals including a number of maritime helicopter winch rescues . He has also been deployed , as either a Royal Australian Air Force Specialist reservist or as a civilian , to manage evacuations and tend to victims in a number of disasters including both the 2002 and 2005 Bali Bombings , the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami , the crash of Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 in Yogyakarta in 2007 , the maritime fire/explosion at Ashmore Reef in 2009 and the Samoan tsunami in 2009 . He is considered a world authority on trauma and disaster medicine
Bali Bombings
2002 Bali bombings
Bill Griggs