LTCOL Csongor Oltvolgyi

Lieutenant Colonel Csongor Oltvolgyi initially 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, as well as a stint at the Aeromedical Evacuation Co-ordination Cell at Headquarters Air Command. LTCOL Oltvolgyi has operational experience as the Aeromedical Evacuation Operations Officer in Afghanistan, three other deployments to the Middle East Region (including 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. He has led a number of international aeromedical retrievals. During a period in the RAAF Reserve, LTCOL Oltvolgyi worked as a defence contracted general practitioner in Townsville, including a period as Senior Contract Clinician - North Queensland. During this time he was posted as Deputy Director Primary Health Care in the RAAF Reserve. LTCOL Oltvolgyi obtained his Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners 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, LTCOL Oltvolgyi transferred to the Regular Army to train as a psychiatrist on the ADF medical specialist program. He expects to obtain his Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in early 2025, with subspecialty training in forensic psychiatry, after which he will take up a position as psychiatrist at Joint Health Unit - North Queensland. LTCOL Oltvolgyi holds masters degrees in public health, aviation medicine, applied law and psychiatry. He has also completed a diploma in diving and hyperbaric medicine whilst working in hyperbaric medicine at Townsville University Hospital. LTCOL Oltvolgyi is currently completing a PhD in military mental health at the University of Queensland School of Public Health. LTCOL Oltvolgyi lives in Townsville with his speech pathologist wife, three children, a dog and a cat.