Professor Dobb is Director of Critical Care at Royal Perth Hospital and Head of Intensive Care. He is a former President of the AMA (WA) and is a member of the AMA Federal Executive. Professor Dobb is a member of the AMA Economics and Workforce Committee, Public Health Committee and Co-ordinating Committee of Salaried Doctors. He is Clinical Professor in the School of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of Western Australia and is a former President of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) and the Asia Pacific Association for Critical Care Medicine. He is currently Vice President of the Federal AMA, chair of the ANZICS Organ and Tissue Donation Committee, a member of the National Organ Donation Collaborative Advisory Committee, and a member of the Australasian Donor Awareness Program National Education Resource Planning Group.