Lieutenant Colonel Csongor Oltvolgyi joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 2002 on the Graduate Medical Scheme. After graduating from the University of Queensland School of Medicine, he held postings as an Aviation Medical Officer at RAAF Amberley and RAAF Townsville, and at the Aeromedical Evacuation Co-ordination Cell at Headquarters Air Command. He has operational experience as the Aeromedical Evacuation Operations Officer in Afghanistan, three further deployments to the Middle East Region (twice as the regional Senior Medical Officer at the Australian Task Force Headquarters), and domestic deployments on Operations RESOLUTE, BUSHFIRE ASSIST 19–20 and COVID-19 ASSIST, and has led a number of international aeromedical retrievals.
During a period in the RAAF Reserve he worked as a defence-contracted general practitioner in Townsville, including as Senior Contract Clinician – North Queensland, and was posted as Deputy Director Primary Health Care in the RAAF Reserve. He obtained his Fellowship of the RACGP in 2011 (later endorsed as rural generalist) and completed specialist training with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians as an occupational and environmental physician in 2018. He is also a Fellow of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators.
In 2020 he transferred to the Regular Army to train as a psychiatrist on the ADF medical specialist program, obtaining his Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 2025 with sub-specialty training in forensic psychiatry; he now holds a position as psychiatrist with Joint Health Unit – North Queensland. He has master’s degrees in public health, aviation medicine, applied law, psychiatry and forensic mental health, and is completing a PhD in military mental health at the University of Queensland. He lives in Townsville with his speech-pathologist wife, three children, a dog and a cat.
