Dr Peter Sharley OAM
MBBS, Dip Obs RACOG, Dip Av Med, Dip Bus Mgt, GAICD, FANZCA, FCICM
AMA(SA) President

After graduating from the University of Adelaide in 1985, Dr Sharley completed a diploma in obstetrics and terms in rural general practice. He completed specialist training in anaesthesia and subsequently intensive care medicine, commencing as a specialist at the RAH in 1993.

Dr Sharley is currently Deputy Director of the Royal Adelaide Hospital Intensive Care Unit and Hospital Medical Director for SA Donate Life. He is also the SA Regional Chair and an ANZ Board Member of the College of Intensive Care Medicine and a Visiting Intensivist at Memorial, Calvary and Alice Springs Hospitals. Previous professional postings include: Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology at the University of California, Davis Medical Centre, California USA, Director, Royal Adelaide Hospital “Mediflight” Critical Care Retrieval Service and Specialist Medical Officer with Careflight NSW.

He has spent a significant portion of his professional life providing critical care services to rural South Australia. The introduction of critical care telemedicine to the rural sector and improvement in the state systems that support rural doctors have been long term rewarding projects.

Outside of medicine he enjoys his position as a Vice President for the Adelaide University Football Club (the Blacks) and a committee member of the Adelaide University Sports Scholarships and Blues Committee. He has also planted 20,000 trees to save the planet and has been known to talk to cows!

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