Member LTCOL Kerry Leslie Clifford

RN, GradCertEmerg, GradDipMid, MHA, MPH, MRCNA, MCN, FCHSM

LTCOL Kerry Clifford has had a long and varied service history encompassing Naval, Military and Nursing careers.

Kerry served from 1979 until 1985 as a communications specialist in the Navy.  Kerry subsequently trained as a Registered Nurse at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane 1986-1988 whilst concurrently serving as a reserve Corporal in the Royal Australian Corps of Military Police. He commissioned into the full-time Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps in March 1992 and was initially posted to the 1st Field Hospital (Ingleburn).

He subsequently served with the 1st Parachute Surgical Team at Holsworthy 1994-1997.  During this posting he completed a Graduate Certificate in Emergency Nursing, a Graduate Short Course in Aviation Nursing and the RAAF suite of Aeromedical Evacuation Courses.

Kerry gained a GradDip in Midwifery from the University of Western Sydney (Milperra) whilst on long service leave 1997-1998.  On completion, he was posted to the Army Aviation Centre at Oakey as Senior Nursing Officer and later as Officer Commanding Health Services.  He deployed on Operation TANAGER (East Timor) in support of 5/7 RAR (Mech) as Senior Nursing Officer to the Battalion Group at Balibo in 2000.

Kerry was subsequently posted to the 3rd Combat Service Support Battalion, Townsville, from where he immediately redeployed to East Timor to support the 1 RAR Battalion Group.  He was promoted to Major in 2002 in order to take up a posting as SO2 Health Development at Land Headquarters in Sydney until December 2003.

Kerry completed long term schooling for a Masters in Health Administration at the University of New South Wales in June 2005. He subsequently completed a Masters in Public Health, which included a major paper examining the relationship between armed conflict and infectious disease. He then returned to regular service as Officer Commanding Clinical Support Company and Base Hospital, 1st Health Support Battalion, Holsworthy. 

Kerry completed the requirements for Fellowship of the Australian College of Health Service Management in 2008. Kerry was successfully panelled as the first RAANC officer to attend the Australian Command and Staff College in the 2007 course.  He was, however, promoted to his current rank on 01 November 2006 in order to take up a posting as SO1 Allied Health in the Directorate of Strategic Workforce Development, Defence Health Service Division., where he undertook a range of staff roles, including development of Regional Level Agreements for garrison health reform.

He is currently the Senior Health Officer for the Joint Health Command Area Health Service Northern Queensland. He is concurrently the Commanding Officer of the Lavarack Barracks Medical Centre.

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