Assoc Prof Hooper is a Medical Retrieval Consultant and the Medical Director of CareFlight NT, and has worked in the Northern Territory since 2017. He is also a Consultant Anesthetist at Royal Darwin and Palmerston Hospitals, a Medical Officer in the Hyperbaric Unit, and a Clinical Associate Professor at Charles Darwin University. His key professional interests lie in pre-hospital and retrieval medicine, and trauma anesthesia.