Forty years of aeromedicine.
A non-profit, membership-based forum for everyone who moves patients by air across Australia and New Zealand: the clinicians, crews, engineers and services of aeromedical care.
Aeromedical care includes pre-hospital, inter-hospital, air transport and retrieval clinical care across all age groups, whether broad-based general care or specialty teams.
The Society is focused on education, professional development and sharing, through its conferences and other means, including the information this website provides to members and others. Members are supported to travel to and attend international conferences and seminars, including those of our partner organisations in other parts of the world.
The Society has also developed a set of minimum standards aimed at enhancing optimal patient care while aiming for the highest level of safety. The emphasis is on quality.
To unite, inspire and empower the aeromedical community, enhancing patient outcomes, equitable access, aviation safety and innovation across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
What we
stand for.
Defined in 2024 together with the core purpose and the value proposition to members.
Care
Care of our patients, with integrity, commitment, ethics and an outcome focus.
Equity
Equity of access to aeromedical care, and access to education.
Collaboration
Across industry and educational institutions: inspiring, empowering and innovating.
Expertise
Industry standards, excellence, trust and safety.
Get to
know us.
Our story, the people who lead the Society, and the record of its work.
Our history
From ISAS Australasia in 1985 to the Aeromedical Society of Australasia, in the words of one of the fathers of air medicine.
Read the storyThe committee
An elected committee of practising professionals from across Australia and New Zealand.
Meet the committeeReports and governance
Every President's annual report since 2010, and the Society's rules.
Browse reportsStandards
The Society's Standard for aeromedical services.
View the StandardScholarship
Up to A$5,000 each year for a member’s professional development.
Find out moreConnected to the world’s
air-medical community.
EHAC, Europe
The European HEMS and Air Ambulance Committee, the umbrella organisation of European HEMS and air ambulance services. Our memorandum of understanding was signed in Hobart on 1 October 2009 and renewed on 21 September 2022.
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The Association of Air Medical Services. Our memorandum was signed in San Jose, California, on 28 October 2009 during the annual Air Medical Transport Conference, and renewed in Tampa, Florida, on 26 October 2022.
Visit AAMS (opens in a new tab)SAMM, Malaysia
The Society of Aeromedicine Malaysia. Our memorandum was signed in Cairns on 31 August 2012, to increase the exchange of ideas between Malaysia and Australasia on all matters aeromedical.
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four decades of advocacy.
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