Squadron Leader Ron Jithoo (1EHS) (MBBS FRACS (Neurosurgery) is a Melbourne based Neurosurgeon working at the Alfred and Royal Darwin hospitals and in private practice.  He is past acting head of the Alfred Hospital Department of Neurosurgery and has taken part in a DFAT Australia Myanmar surgical teaching program. He has recently deployed to the MER and has been teaching on Melbourne’s Definitive Surgical Trauma Care course since 2005.