CAPT Ian Young AM

Captain Ian Young, AM, RAN joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1998 as a Medical Officer after transferring from the Canadian Forces where he had served from 1990 to 1998. His first posting was to HMAS Cerberus, and he was then posted to HMAS Penguin at the Submarine and Underwater Medicine Unit. In 2002 he pursued a surgical career and qualified as an orthopaedic surgeon in February 2008. Captain Young has held positions as Director Fleet Health at Fleet Headquarters 2022-2024, Director Specialist Medical Capability for the Navy 2019-2022, Director of Clinical Services for the Maritime Operational Health Unit 2017-2018, Director Clinical Services for the ANZAC Role 2E hospital in Taji, Iraq in 2016 and as Senior Health Officer (J07) for the Australian Headquarters in the Middle East in 2012. He has deployed as an orthopaedic surgeon in the NATO Role 3 hospital in Baghdad, Iraq in 2020-2021, in the NATO Role 3 hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2012, and in the Netherlands Role 2E hospital in Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan in 2010. He has also deployed in non-combat roles on land and at sea to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Bougainville, Vietnam and Australia. He has served in HMA Ships Warramunga, Manoora, Kanimbla, Choules, Canberra and Adelaide. Captain Young was appointed as a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia in the Military Division on the Australia Day 2019 Honours List. He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Science, Doctor of Medicine and Master of Health Administration. He is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, the Australian Orthopaedic Association, and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Captain Young transferred to Navy Reserves in January 2024 and is the Deputy Director of Surgery for Peninsula Health in Melbourne, Victoria. Captain Young has been a member of AMMA since 1999 and has been on AMMA Council since 2017, initially as Treasurer and subsequently as President since October 2023. Captain Young has a strong interest in genealogy and in the Scottish Australian community. He is married with four adult children.