​Dr David Vote obtained his medical degree from the University of Melbourne in 1990. Following post-graduate training in Australia he qualified as a Specialist Anaesthetist in 1999.  The following 2 years he undertook further post-graduate fellowships in Hyperbaric and Diving Medicine and a Paediatric Anaesthesiology Fellowship at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina, USA.  Since then he has principally worked in private practice focusing on Obstetrics, Orthopaedics, Plastics, General Surgery and Urology Anaesthesia.