He migrated to Australia with his parents and older brother, Lothar, when he was one year old, settling in Bellevue Hill, a suburb in Sydney's east.
[7] St Vincent's Hospital is regarded as having one of the busiest emergency departments in Australia[6] and was the setting of reality television series Kings Cross ER, in which Fulde featured prominently.
[10] Fulde was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017 for "distinguished service to emergency medicine as a clinician and administrator, to medical education, and to the community as an advocate for a range of public health issues.
"[11] Fulde met his wife (Susan) Lesley Forster[4] when she was studying medicine at UNSW (MB BS '75).
[9] Lesley Forster trained as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators and Public Health,[12] having served as the Director of Medical Administration at St Vincent's and having established the NSW Trauma System and Retrieval Services and the Delineation of Roles in Hospitals,[13] and served as the Head of the UNSW Rural Clinical School.