David Macintosh
Dr David Macintosh is an orthopaedic surgeon, ethicist, and educator whose career has spanned more than five decades across Australia and the Pacific. Blending the precision of surgery with a lifelong curiosity about the moral dimensions of medicine, he has dedicated his life to exploring what it truly means to earn—and sustain—trust between doctor and patient.
A graduate of the University of Melbourne, Dr Macintosh trained in surgery in Edinburgh, London, and Melbourne before going on to lead orthopaedic departments at some of Australia’s most respected hospitals. His work has taken him from major metropolitan centres to remote communities through the Royal Flying Doctor Service and teaching missions in Papua New Guinea, where he helped train local surgeons and nurses.
Equally passionate about the ethics of care, he later earned a Master...
The Ngarra Grant: Investing in a Stronger, Fairer Future for Surgical Care
In Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, the story of health is inseparable from the story of culture, community, and Country. No surgeon working in a modern hospital can ignore this truth. And no health system can genuinely claim to serve...
