Tony Stewart - Medical Officer

Tony Stewart is the team's medical officer. He also handles the satellite communications, and helps out with the other activities at Cape Denison. Tony is a pilot, and so has enthusiastically has taken on the task of searching for remains of the Vickers REP Monoplane that was brought here in 1911, and last seen in 1975, in the ice between Mawson's Huts and Boat Harbour. The plane never flew in Antarctica. It was damaged during a test flight in Australia, and was then converted to work as an 'air tractor' towing sleds for Mawson's expeditioners. Tony splits his working life between working as an assistant surgeon and as a public health specialist at the Centre for International Health of the Macfarlane Burnet Institute. Now based in Melbourne, he has worked throughout the Pacific, Indonesia, East Timor, the Congo and Southeast Asia, as a medical officer and epidemiologist. In December 2004 he was sent to Banda Aceh with WHO to establish and coordinate the epidemic early warning and response system following the Indian Ocean tsunami. He is on call for the Global Outbreak And Response Network, which deals with such things as bird flu pandemics and ebola. He doesn't expect to be called on for the next few weeks.