Professor Michael Parr

Michael Parr trained in anaesthesia, internal medicine and intensive care in the UK, New Zealand, USA and Australia. He is Director of Intensive Care at Liverpool and Macquarie University Hospitals, Sydney, and Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales, University of Western Sydney, and Macquarie University. He is an editor of the journal ‘Resuscitation’ and Secretary and Treasurer of the Australian Resuscitation Council. He has a long standing interest in trauma and is Past President of International Trauma Care.

Professor Maaret Castren

Maaret Castrén is professor in emergency medicine at Karolinksa Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden and also at Turku University, Finland. She is the chair of European Resuscitation Council. She is the head of a international research group of 20 persons with focus on trauma, cardiac arrest, sepsis, dispatching and medical education.

Dr Stephen Solid

Stephen J. M. Sollid is a trained anaesthesiologist with his main clinical activity in the Norwegian Air Ambulance as a HEMS physician. He has a PhD in patient safety and risk management from the University of Stavanger, is an Associate Professor at the same university and currently also Dean of the Norwegian Air Ambulance Academy. His main interest and research activity is in prehospital patient safety and risk management strategies.

Professor Jim Ryan

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Dr. Gareth Davies

Gareth is Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Care at the Royal London Hospital and Medical Director of London's Air Ambulance. He has introduced innovative treatments and governance procedures into prehospital care.

Professor Karim Brohi

Professor of Trauma Sciences at Queen Mary School of Medicine & Dentistry, London. Since 2005 he has been Consultant in General, Trauma, Vascular, Emergency & Critical Care Surgery at Barts and The London NHS. Trust, U.K. He is also Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Cell & Molecular Science, Queen Mary, University of London, U.K. and Surgical Tutor in General Surgery, Trauma Surgery, Emergency Surgery & Critical Care Surgery, for The Royal College of Surgeons of England. He has trained in various trauma hospitals across the world (including Cape Town, South Africa and San Francisco, U.S.A.). Karim is also the Founder and a Director of trauma.org - a non-profit making world-renowned trauma website. Special Interests: Acute Traumatic Coagulopathy, Massive Blood Transfusion, Traumatic Inflammatory Response, Cytokine Inhibition, Biomarkers of Traumatic Injury, Emergency Preparedness.

Mr. Jim Connolly

Consultant in Emergency Medicine in Sunderland. Jim has a keen interest in cardiac arrest management and the role of ultrasound.

Dr. Mary Sheppard

Dr Sheppard is an expert histopathologist with a proven research record in both cardiac and pulmonary disease with emphasis on sudden cardiac death on which she has established an international reputation. Her research is undertaken into basic mechanisms with particular emphasis on morphology, light microscopy, histochemistry, immunocytochemistry, morphometry, electron microscopy, image analysis. Dr Sheppard established a research unit in cardiac pathology with funding from the charity CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) with dedicated personnel. This acts as a National referral centre. She has published 130 peer reviewed papers, 62 case reports, 25 book chapters, 2 books (both are now in their 2nd edition) and 25 reviews as well as over 300 abstracts (international and national meetings). She is the Cardiovascular Pathology representative on the specialist advisory committee of Royal College of Pathologist, a member of the Editorial Board and subeditor (cardiac pathology) for Histopathology Journal, Editorial Board member of Cardiovascular Pathology Journal, Advisor to governmental bodies in relation to cardiovascular pathology and a member of steering group developing a National database on sudden cardiac death.

Professor Peter Andrews

Dr Peter Andrews is a Consultant Anaesthetist at Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Intensive Care, Western General Hospital. Peter is the chief investigator for the international Eurotherm trial. His Interests lie in the management of head injury, effect of anaesthesia on the normal and injured brain.

Mr Rob Bentley

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Professor Anthony Bull

Anthony is Professor of Musculoskeletal Mechanics at Imperial College London. His research interests are in how forces and deformations are transmitted through the musculoskeletal system. The applications range from diseases of ageing, including osteoarthritis, to high-level athletic performance and injuries. Anthony leads the Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies, the Centre for Medical Engineering Solutions in Osteoarthritis, and the Sports Innovation Challenge, all multi-million pound funded research activities at Imperial College. His administrative roles include Head of Department of Bioengineering and Director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering. He represents his discipline externally as Chair of the Engineering in Medicine and Health Division Board of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and is a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering Biomedical Engineering Panel and the Bioengineering Society Main Committee.

Dr. Mark Byers

Dr Mark Byers is both an Army Medical Officer and Honorary Research Physician with the Medical Toxicology Research Centre, Newcastle University. A GP by trade he is a member of the Defence Medical Services Faculty of CBRN Medicine and has written several papers on the subject of the management of CBRN terrorist incidents. His views and opinions on the subject of CBRN medicine remain his own and are not necessarily endorsed by his employer.

Dr. Anne Weaver

Consultant in Emergency Medicine & Prehospital Care, Barts & the London NHS Trust. Anne has had extensive experience in trauma care both in the UK & Australia & has led the development of massive transfusion policies at the Royal London Hospital Major Trauma Centre.

Mr. Graham Chalk

Lead Paramedic London HEMS. Graham has had extensive experience as a paramedic both in helicopter operations, motorcycles & fast response cars. He is responsible for the tasking of London HEMS & developed a model of tasking that is cited in national guidance as an example of best practice in the field.

Dr. Otto Chan

Consultant Radiologist. Otto has specialist interest in trauma radiology & is an internationally renowned trauma radiologist. He has published widely on the topic & is the author of many books.

Dr Kevin Fong

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Dr Andrew Grace

Dr Andrew Grace is a Consultant Cardiologist at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge. Dr Grace has developed one of the largest clinical practices in cardiac arrhythmia management in the United Kingdom and specialises in catheter ablation techniques particularly for atrial fibrillation. He trained in medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital in London completing his Ph.D. in Cambridge and post-doctoral studies as a Fulbright Scholar in the University of California. He was appointed Consultant Cardiologist at Papworth and Addenbrooke’s Hospitals in 1996. He has a track record of publishing high quality research and runs a large, productive research group in the University of Cambridge. His work is widely known and respected and he is regularly invited to participate in initiatives both nationally and internationally. He holds a number of offices, is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Xi'an Jiaotong University, the Royal Air Force Civil Consultant in Cardiac Electrophysiology and a Member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on Human Medicines.

Colonel Peter Kovats

Colonel Peter B. Kovats is currently the Chief of Aerospace Medicine for the 48th Medical Group at RAF Lakenheath. He graduated from Gilmour Academy High School in Gates Mills, Ohio in 1985 then entered the Air Force in August 1994 after completing a three year Family Practice Residency in Akron, Ohio. Colonel Kovats earned a combined Bachelor’s degree in Science from Kent State University and his Medical Doctorate Degree from the Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine in 1991. He is an Aerospace and Occupational Medicine graduate from the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, Brooks City-Base, San Antonio Texas in 2006.

Professor Fiona Lecky

Fiona is Clinical Professor and Honorary Consultant in Emergency Medicine at The University of Sheffield and School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) and Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Research Director of the Trauma Audit and Research Network and Chief Investigator of the Head Injury Transportation straight to Neurosurgery Trial. She has also chairs the 2012 NICE Head Injury Guideline Development Group.

Major Thomas König

Tom König is a final year SpR in Trauma,Vascular and General surgery at the Royal London Hospital and a Major in the British Army. He is also a pre hospital care doctor with the London Air Ambulance. He is a faculty member of the DSTS and pre hospital emergency resuscitative thoracotomy course at the Royal College of Surgeons and has experience of deployments to the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is becoming progressively more interested in the field of suspended animation for resuscitation after traumatic injury.

Professor Hans Morten Lossius

Hans Morten Lossius is professor of prehospital critical care and head of R&D in the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation. He is a board certified specialist in anaesthesiology and intensive care, and has been working with prehospital critical care and rescue services in both urban and rural areas. His scientific activities are mainly within the fields of advanced prehospital interventions and trauma care. He is the Editor in Chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine.

Mr. Ross Davenport

Ross is a Specialist Registrar in Trauma & Vascular Surgery at the Royal London Hospital and a Clinical Lecturer in Trauma Sciences at the Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London. He has worked in prehospital care with both the London and Essex & Hertfordshire Helicopter Emergency Medicine Services. In 2010 he completed a PhD on "Acute Traumatic Coagulopathy: A functional characterisation of the Protein C pathway and haemostatic response to transfusion". His current research interests include novel diagnostics and management of trauma induced coagulopathy, injury prevention and trauma systems.

Dr. Jim Down

Jim is a consultant in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesia at UCLH appointed in 2005. He has also been Divisional Clinical Director of Critical Care at UCLH since 2009. His interests include peri-operative management of high risk surgery, medical education and medical management. Jim was responsible for the care of Alexander Litvinenko the former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service, FSB and KGB who succumbed to polonium poisoning in London 2006.

Dr Barney Scholefield

Dr Barney Scholefield is a paediatric intensive care consultant working at Birmingham Children’s Hospital in the United Kingdom. He graduated from Guy’s & St Thomas’s hospital in 2000 and has worked in Paediatrics and Paediatric Intensive Care for 11 years.His research interests are neuroprotection and the use of therapeutic hypothermia after paediatric cardiac arrest. He has recently completed a PhD at Warwick University focusing on the feasibility of performing a post cardiac arrest randomised controlled trial of therapeutic hypothermia for children in the UK, supervised by Prof Gavin Perkins, Dr Kevin Morris & Dr Heather Duncan. He is now an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham University working with Prof Fang Gao in the Perioperative, Anaesthesia and Critical Care Trials group.

Dr. Erich Norman

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Dr. Nils Petter Oveland

Dr. Nils Petter Oveland is working as a consultant and air ambulance physician at Stavanger University Hospital, Norway. He is a certified specialist in anesthesiology and intensive care and has a part time position as a PhD student and medical adviser in the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation. His project is "Ultrasound detection of Pneumothorax", and he is working with a full implementation of ultrasound in the national air ambulance service of Norway. He is also course director for "Scandinavian Course in Prehospital Ultrasound" held in Stavanger biannually.

Professor Sir Keith Porter

Professor of Clinical Traumatology University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust’s and the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine. Sir Keith received his Knighthood, for services to the Armed Forces, is a recognition of how much the care of injured soldiers has improved in the past 10 years. He chairs the Intercolliegate Board leading on the development of the speciality of Prehospital Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Marius Rehn

Dr. Marius Rehn is a senior researcher and medical advisor with the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, and a registrar in anaesthesiology and intensive care at Akerhus University Hospital, Norway. He has a background as a clearance diver and winch man of the Norwegian Air Force, and his research field is trauma and mass casualty triage. He is involved with the improvement of the multi-professional on-scene command course for major incidents run by the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation.

Professor Simon Redwood

Professor Redwood qualified from St. George’s Hospital Medical School. He trained in Cardiology at The Royal London Hospital, The Royal Free Hospital and St. George’s Hospital, London. Interventional training was obtained at The Washington Cardiology Center, Washington, DC and Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals. He obtained Fellowship of the American College of Cardiology in 2001 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003 and Fellow of the Society of Angiography and Interventions in 2004. Professor Redwood is Professor of Interventional Cardiology/ Honorary Consultant Cardiologist and Director of the Cardiac Catheter labs at St. Thomas’. He is also President of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society. He is trained in all aspects of adult interventional cardiology including intravascular ultrasound, physiological lesion assessment using pressure-sensor tipped wires, stent implantation, rotational atherectomy, laser angioplasty including the laserwire for chronic total occlusions, and trans-catheter aortic valve implantation. His MD thesis was on the subject of the pathophysiology of acute myocardial ischaemia and he currently has particular interest in interventional cardiology based research including risk analysis and prediction of events post percutaneous coronary intervention, evaluation of coronary stents and coronary artery physiology. He runs an active research team, has over 100 publications, is lead editor of a major Interventional Cardiology textbook (Oxford Textbook of Interventional Cardiology), has raised over £2.7m in grant funding and has supervised >10 MD/PhD theses. Further information can be found at www.cardiacresearchcentre.com

Dr. Gareth Grier

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Professor Sanjay Sharma

Professor Sanjay Sharma is Professor of inherited cardiac diseases and sports cardiology and consultant cardiologist at St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust in London. He is also medical director of the London Marathon. His research interests are
cardiovascular adaptation to exercise, sudden cardiac death in sport, cardiomyopathy and ion channel diseases.
He leads an inherited cardiomyopathies and sports cardiology service and is Consultant cardiologist for the charitable organisation, Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), cardiologist for the English Institute of Sport, British Rugby League and the British Lawn Tennis Association. He has an international reputation in cardiovascular adaptation in athletes, sudden cardiac death in the young and heart muscle diseases and have published over 120 scientific articles including 80 original papers in highly rated peer reviewed journals. His research has been pivotal in characterising the impact of age, sex and ethnicity on cardiovascular adaptation to exercise and in the identification of non-invasive methods of differentiating electrocardiographic and echocardiographic manifestations of cardiomyopathy and ion channel disorders from those representing ‘athlete’s heart.’

Dr. Rhys Thomas

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Dr. Matt Thomas

Dr Matt Thomas is a consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and anaesthesia at University hospitals Bristol. He is also a consultant at Great Western Air Ambulanceand Programme training director in pre-hospital emergency medicine. His research interests are in cardiac arrest and airway management.

Mr. Jan Jansen

Jan qualified from Guy's and St. Thomas's in London, then moved to Scotland for his general surgical training. During his training Jan was awarded fellowships in trauma in Johannesburg and critical care medicine in Toronto. Currently he works as consultant in general surgery and intensive care medicine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. As a member of the reserve forces he has completed two tours of Afghanistan and in 2008 was awarded Queens Commendation for Valuable Service. In 2009 Jan was awarded the Moynihan Travelling Fellowship of the Association of Surgeons Of Great Britain and Ireland to study provision of trauma care in the United States. His research interests include the organisation of trauma care and resuscitation.

Professor Eldar Soreide

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Dr. Julian Thompson

Julian qualified as a doctor from Oxford University in 2001 and trained in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in London and Oxford. He worked as a doctor on London’s Air Ambulance in 2010 and returned as an Executive Director in November 2011. His interest in Pre Hospital Care has been developed through his experiences of working with the British Army in Afghanistan and leading mountaineering and exploratory expeditions across the world. In 2005 he reached the summit of Mount Everest and has combined this passion with a research interest in the response of the human body to extreme environments.

Mr. Mark Whitbread

Mark Whitbread, London Ambulance Service Clinical Practice Manager, has achieved outstanding results by leading change in the field of cardiac care. Mark has worked tirelessly to ensure that for cardiac arrest patients early defibrillation is the norm and not the exception, and instigated the evidence-based changes to ensure all heart attack patients in London now receive timely primary angioplasty as the gold standard of care.

Mr. Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson is a Consultant Neurosurgeon and Pre-Hospital Care (HEMS) Specialist at Imperial and Bart's and the London NHS trusts. His specialist interest is acute brain and spinal cord injury (including traumatic) and his research includes the cerebral effects of hypoxia. In addition he has worked extensively overseas and lead the Neurosciences work during the Caudwell Xtreme Everest Expedition of 2007.

Dr. Bob Winter

Clinical Director Intensive Care, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham. President of Intensive Care Society, Mid Trent Critical Care Network and East Midlands Trauma Network Medical Lead. Board Member Faculty Intensive Care Medicine. Chair Critical Care Network Medical Leads.

Professor Wolfgang Voelckel

Associate professor of Anesthesiology Medical University Innsbruck, head of the Department, AUVA Trauma Center Salzburg, and Medical Director of the Austrian Air Rescue. He underwent an international medical and scientific education in Munich, Germany, St.Gallen and Frauenfeld, Switzerland and Minneapolis, USA. His research focus is trauma care and shock, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, emergency medicine and regional anesthesia. (Emergency Medicine Specialty Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine 2002).

Dr. Matias Zuercher

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Dr. Lars Wik

Lars Wik, M.D., Ph.D., Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway is the Principal investigator for the CIRC trial .He has a keen interest in cardiac care and extrication and publsihed widely on both topics.

Dr. Stefan Mazur

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Professor Eldar Soreide

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Mr. Mark Rickman

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Dr. Simon Glasgow

Simon Glasgow is a trainee in emergency medicine currently undertaking a Phd in emergency preparedness. He is investigating computer simulation modelling as a planning tool for blood use in mass casualty events. His research is being carried out at the Centre for Trauma Sciences, Queen Mary University of London and was recently awarded a one year surgical research fellowship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England to support his work. Alongside his research he sits on the Academic  Committee for the London School of Emergency Medicine and has a keen interest in disaster and humanitarian medicine, completing the Diploma in the medical care of catastrophes at the Society of Apothecaries earlier this year.

Mr. Jonny Morrison

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Mr. Jerry Overton

Jerry Overton serves as the Chair of the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch, he has served as the President/CEO for Road Safety International & as the Chief Executive Officer, Richmond Ambulance Authority (RAA), Richmond, Virginia, for 18 years and had overall responsibility for the Richmond Emergency Medical Services system. He is the Past President of the American Ambulance Association, was a member of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U. S. Health System, and is the Chief Financial Officer for the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine. He serves on the editorial boards of two leading prehospital care journals and has received numerous recognitions. As an expert in EMS system design and response deployment strategies, he was named one of the 20 most influential leaders in EMS by JEMS magazine.

Dr. Geir Arne Sunde

Dr. Geir Arne Sunde is a consultant in anesthesiology and intensive care at Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway. He has worked in HEMS since 2003, and has a part time PhD-grant from the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation. His area of research is advanced airway management in physician manned EMS, currently leading the international airway study "AIRPORT".