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A/Prof Marguerite Reith 
Marguerite is a University of Queensland graduate, but left Queensland to pursue a career in the Royal Australian Air Force, serving in Melbourne, Newcastle and Malaysia.
Deciding to ‘spread her wings’ further, she then transferred to the Royal Air Force (RAF), where she spent the next 21 years serving in various clinical, operational and command posts throughout Europe and the Middle East.
It was in the UK Armed Forces that she first developed an interest in sedation and anxiety management and completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Conscious Sedation at King’s College London.
This equipped her to set up a referral service treating military patients under IV sedation. She also developed a course in sedation and anxiety management for newly qualified military dentists whilst also training dentists and dental nurses in nitrous oxide inhalation sedation.
An examiner with the National Examining Board for Dental Nurses for over 10 years, she has also lectured at annual conferences of the Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry (SAAD), the UK peak body for dental sedation.
On her retirement from the RAF and her return to her ‘home town’ of Brisbane, Marguerite joined Queensland Health, supervising undergraduate students in oral surgery at the UQ Oral Health Centre, Herston.
Having attained AHPRA endorsement for Conscious Sedation, she set up an IV sedation clinic at Herston, the only such service for public dental patients in the State. She has continued to provide this service, alongside various management roles in the corporate and public sectors.
She is currently an Associate Professor in Clinical Dentistry at James Cook University and is on the Australian Dental Council Register of Assessors.
Dr Nick Cusack 
Dr Cusack joined the Navy as an Undergraduate on scholarship in 1994 whilst studying at the University of Queensland.
Upon graduation in 1996, he completed Officer Training at HMAS Creswell and was posted to HMAS Cerberus on completion. In 1999 he posted to the Mobile Fleet Dental Team – Fleet Base East, and served in HMA Ships Brisbane, Success and Tobruk, deploying in SE Asia and Southwest Pacific, before posting to HMAS Cairns as a Dental Officer.
In 2001 he undertook a Graduate Diploma in Oral Surgery at the University of Western Australia, before moving to Sydney to operate out of the Balmoral Naval Hospital.
Transferring to the part-time force in 2004 he took up positions in various private practices on the Sunshine Coast, before returning to Brisbane in 2005, joining Queen Street Dental where he has been a partner since 2006.
He completed a Graduate Diploma in Conscious Sedation and Pain Control from the University of Sydney in 2015 and in 2022 completed a Master in Health Administration at Monash. He was made an Associate Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Managers in 2023.
He continues to be involved in the reserve as Staff Officer to the Director General Navy Health Reserves and is an Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Queensland.
He is married to Juliette with 3 children, aged 18,18 and 16, and enjoys holidaying in the Noosa/Tewantin area.
