MAJGEN Professor Rosenfeld is a distinguished Australian military surgeon and academic neurosurgeon He was Surgeon-General ADF (Res.) 2009-2011, and Chair Defence Human Research Ethics Committee 2012-2015.  He joined the Australian Army Reserve in 1984 as a Medical Officer and he has deployed on eight ADF Deployments including Rwanda, East Timor, Bougainville, Solomon Islands and Iraq.  MAJGEN Rosenfeld is an international expert on military trauma particularly blast and penetrating injury to the head and brain. He is a member, Expert Advisory Group to the ADF and DVA on Repetitive Mild Blast Traumatic Brain Injury. He was the National Vice President-Health, Defence Reserves Association, 2012-2020.

MAJGEN Rosenfeld is currently Senior Neurosurgeon, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne; Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Monash University; Adjunct Professor in Surgery at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of The Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD, USA; past Adjunct Professor, Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Honorary Professor in Neurosurgery, University of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and was the Foundation Director, Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME).  His main research interests are traumatic brain injury and brain computer interfaces. He is a co-author of the recently published Brain Trauma Foundation Guidelines on Penetrating Brain Injury.

He was awarded the Sir Hugh Devine Medal 2019 which is the highest honour the RACS can bestow upon a Fellow in their lifetime; the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons;  the Geoffrey Harkness Medal in in 2001 for outstanding contribution to the RAAMC; the International Award for Excellence in Military Surgery; the United States Airforce Commendation Medal for his service during the Battle for Fallujah (2007) and the US Armed Forces Meritorious Service Medal for service during the Battle for Mosul (2017); the prestigious ‘Monash Medal’ of Melbourne Rotary in 2012 and the ‘ANZAC of the Year Award’ of the Returned and Services League (RSL) 2015.