Dr Raymond Casey,
FANZCA-credentialled anaesthetist
MB ChB · FANZCA · GradDipAppStat · CHIA
AHPRA · MED0002219068 · ANZCA 45434
One of the anaesthetists who covers Dr Hirpara's upper limb operating lists at the Mater Private Hospital Rockhampton. FANZCA-credentialled with subspecialty fellowship experience in cardiac and ORL anaesthesia.
Raymond completed his medical degree at the University of Auckland in 2008, then trained through the New Zealand Southern Rotation Scheme — Anaesthetic SHO and registrar posts across South Canterbury, Christchurch and Invercargill. He achieved his FANZCA in July 2018.
His fellowship work focused on cardiothoracic and ORL anaesthesia — six months at Auckland City Hospital as Cardiothoracic & ORL Anaesthesia Fellow with a focus on TOE skills and perioperative-mortality data work. He had spent the previous year as a part-time cardiothoracic anaesthetic fellow at Christchurch Hospital, teaching SHOs, registrars and anaesthetic technicians.
From late 2019 Raymond was an SMO at the Rockhampton Base Hospital — a 300-bed regional hospital running approximately 10,000 operations and 1,400 births per year, serving a catchment of 225,000 people. During that time he was the ANZCA Supervisor of Training (2019–2024) for 5–10 trainees a year, led the practice's primary teaching curriculum, and ran the department's first multi-centre trial (ROCKET) as Initial Principal Investigator without research-nurse support.
He has covered Dr Hirpara's upper limb list at the Mater Private Hospital Rockhampton since 2021 — currently three lists a month. In 2024 he relocated to Brisbane and now works as a senior anaesthetist at Redcliffe Hospital across general, scopes, day cases, medical imaging, urology, orthopaedics, dental, obstetrics and gynaecology, with a small confirmed post at STARS Hospital to maintain ENT and ophthalmology skills.
Outside the operating theatre, Raymond holds a Graduate Diploma in Applied Statistics from Massey University and is a Certified Health Informatician Australia. He has contributed to perioperative-mortality audits at the Canterbury District Health Board, has served as Voluntary Assisted Dying Lead for the Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service, and sits on the Queensland AMA's Elective Surgical Round Table reviewing elective surgical services across regional Queensland.
Auckland to Brisbane,
via Rockhampton
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University of Auckland — MB ChB
Degree in Medicine; trainee intern at Rotorua Hospital.
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House Officer / Anaesthetic SHO — South Canterbury DHB
Junior medical officer rotations through Timaru Hospital, including an Anaesthetic SHO post with the Canterbury District Health Board.
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Anaesthetic Registrar — NZ Southern Rotation Scheme
Regional and tertiary experience across all anaesthetic sub-specialities, with regional time in Invercargill.
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Anaesthetic Fellow (Cardiothoracic) — Christchurch Hospital
One day a week in the cardiothoracic theatre, with formal and informal teaching of SHOs, registrars and anaesthetic technicians.
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Cardiac & ORL Fellow — Auckland City Hospital
Six months as Cardiothoracic & ORL Anaesthesia Fellow with a focus on TOE skills, plus research and scholar activities developing data-science skills around perioperative mortality data.
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General Anaesthetist SMO — Rockhampton Base Hospital
Five years as a senior medical officer at the 300-bed Rockhampton Base Hospital — service across all specialities except cardiothoracic, neurosurgery and vascular. Supervisor of Training (ANZCA) from 2019 to 2024, supervising 5–10 trainees per year.
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Visiting Medical Officer — Mater Private Hospital Rockhampton
Three upper limb orthopaedic lists a month with Dr Hirpara at the Mater Private Hospital Rockhampton.
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General Anaesthetist SMO — Redcliffe & STARS Hospitals
Senior anaesthetist at Redcliffe Hospital (.875 FTE) covering scopes, day cases, medical imaging, urology, orthopaedics, dental, obstetrics and general/gynaecological surgery, plus a confirmed .125 FTE post at STARS Hospital maintaining ENT and ophthalmology skills.
Outside the operating theatre
A short tour of Raymond's teaching, governance, audit and informatics work — the parts of the job that happen before and after the list.
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ANZCA Supervisor of Training
Five years as Supervisor of Training at Rockhampton Base Hospital (2019–2024), supervising 5–10 trainees per year. Successfully gained pre-approval for a PFY position with ANZCA and led a training-site reaccreditation.
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Deputy Education Officer (Queensland) — ANZCA
Resource for trainees experiencing trouble and Supervisors of Training needing advice — March 2020 to present.
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Elective Surgical Round Table — Queensland AMA
Member from June 2024, analysing and recommending improvements to elective surgical services across Queensland and regional areas.
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Voluntary Assisted Dying — CQHHS
Voluntary Assisted Dying Lead for Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service through 2023, providing, designing and implementing services across an area 1.5 times the size of Tasmania.
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Research & data — perioperative mortality
Initial Principal Investigator for the ROCKET Trial — the department's first multi-centre trial. Multiple perioperative-mortality audits at CDHB across 2009–2016, plus a CDHB NOF mortality audit.
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Health informatics & statistics
Certified Health Informatician Australia (2023). Graduate Diploma in Applied Statistics from Massey University (2018–2021), with intermediate R skills used in audit and outcomes work.