Speakers

Alastair was born and went to school in London, Millhill. He studied medicine in Scotland at Aberdeen University but soon returned to London to take up his love of surgery working on the east end surgical rotation based at University College Hospital. Learning his trade with some of the best surgeons in London most notably Mr David Mclean, Consultant Surgeon and ex Chairman of HEMS London and Professor Sid Watkins, Consultant Neurosurgeon and Formula One Medical Adviser.

In 1984 he became “Consultant Surgeon in Charge of Emergency and Accidents” at the London Hospital in Whitechapel where he went on to develop his love of emergency medicine and trauma. During these formative consultant years he, with the help of Andrew Cameron at Express Newspapers and Mr Richard Erlham another consultant surgeon at the London pioneered the development of the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service “HEMS London” and also set about making the Emergency Department at the London one of the most renowned in the world. Alastair went on to become Associate Clinical Director of Emergency Medicine and Prehospital Care and Chair of the Trust Trauma Committee. Other positions of responsibility have included President of the European Association for Emergency and Trauma Surgery and President of the British Trauma Society.

In 2006 Alastair was awarded an OBE for his contribution to emergency medicine, trauma care and his role in the 7/7 bombings where he lead the Emergency Department response. Trauma, emergency medicine, mechanisms of injury are his true passions. His un-bridled energy and enthusiasm for these topics are legendary amongst those who have had the pleasure of working with him. At the age of 63 he is still doing resident nights at the London reinforced by a plethora of coronary artery stents and cardiac tablets. Renowned for booming expressions such as “excellent” and  “yes treasure” - words that underpin and echo his commitment to clinical excellence and the treasure that it is his legacy, the Emergency Department at the Royal London Hospital. 

Married to Jo with 4 children Jamie, Dominic, Christian, Fabienne, Alastair combines his passion for medicine with a strong love of music and the arts. Alastair has been an inspiration for innumerable students, nurses and doctors in the field of trauma care and has without doubt shaped the trauma care not only within the UK but also around the world.

Professor Chairman of Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair. Prolific publisher and organiser of the ICCP group developing protocols for spinal injury studies. His specific interest lies in novel therapies for CNS injury.

Dr Timmerman is a specialist in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care medicine in Berlin. His major interests lie in airway management and he has published a number of significant papers on this subject. He also has an interest in simulation and was until recently director the Centre for Education & Simulation in Anesthesiology, Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Göttingen. He has lectured extensively on emergency airway management and sits on several German and international groups which have set standards in emergency and airway care.

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.

Professor Jonathan Benger is the Director of the Academic Department of Emergency Care at the University of the West of England, Bristol and a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. Professor Benger is also Medical Advisor, Air Operations, to the Great Western Ambulance Service, and regularly works in pre-hospital care. His key research interests include:

• The evaluation of new technologies and techniques
• Resuscitation, critical illness and emergency airway management
• Drug and alcohol use and their impact on urgent care delivery
• Pre-hospital care and ambulance design

Research grants to date exceed £7 million. Professor Benger chairs the Clinical Effectiveness Committee of the College of Emergency Medicine, and is closely involved with guideline and policy development. He is also the College Emergency Airway lead, having recently represented CEM in the 4th National Anaesthesia Audit Project as well as co-chairing a joint CEM/RCoA working party on sedation and airway management in the ED.

Tim Coats is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Leicester. He trained in Emergency Medicine in Leeds and London, developing a particular interest in pre-hospital and trauma care. His research interests are in coagulation following injury and non-invasive monitoring in emergency care.

Senior Lecturer at City University, London. Elaine has worked as a clinical nurse in medicine, CCU, ICU and A&E since qualifying in 1987. She joined as a Lecturer-Practitioner in 2001 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006. Her clinical specialties are emergency and trauma care. Current research interests include trauma outcomes: both short and longer term, injury prevention for violence-related trauma, human factors, patient safety and communication within inter-professional teams. Elaine is currently studying for a PhD, looking at acute renal injury following major trauma.

Consultant in Emergency Medicine in Sunderland. Jim has helped lead the development of a pioneering UK Royal College Surgeons course: Resuscitative Thoracotomy and Thoracic Damage Control for Non-Surgeons.

Deputy Director of Trauma at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Senior Consultant Pre-hospital and Retrieval medicine with Medstar Emergency Medical Retrieval Service. He is an accredited specialist in both Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine.

Emergency Medicine Trainee From Scotland currently training for dual accreditation in Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care. Dean brings a unique insight to the world of a head patient as describes his own experience of a severe head injury.

London Trauma System Manager. Tracey has been working on the major trauma project in London since it began in November 2007. She is a clinical nurse by background, having specialised in paediatric intensive care at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She held in a variety of clinical and managerial roles before moving to the Healthcare for London trauma project. Having trained at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford she moved to London and worked in a number of London hospitals. She has also worked overseas in Australia and Switzerland.

Surgeon Commander Jason Smith graduated from Newcastle University and joined the Royal Navy in 1992. He was appointed as a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Derriford Hospital in 2005, and is also a Senior Lecturer in Pre-Hospital and Emergency Medicine at the Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine in Birmingham. Jason led a UK consensus group on treatment of crush injury.

Consultant and Clinical Director in Emergency Medicine in Manchester. Paul has had extensive experience of trauma from both an in hospital and prehospital perspective and has shaped policies for dealing with warfarinised head injury patients at the Royal London Hospital Major Trauma Centre.

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

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 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.

Clinical Director Intensive Care, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham. President Elect of Intensive Care Society. Bob has been pivotal in development of ATLS within the UK.

Professor and Chairman Department of General and Special Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine at Lomonosov Moscow State University. He has had responsibility for the emergency response to major incidents both in Moscow and in other areas of Russia and has also deployed overseas with an airmobile field hospital.

Fionna's roles include: Medical Director of London Ambulance Service. Director of London Trauma Office and Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Charing Cross Hospital.

Andrew trained in the West Midlands including working in the North Staffordshire Major Trauma Centre. His first consultant appointment was in the East End of London where he worked for five years as part of the East London consortium providing resident consultant trauma team leader cover at the Royal London. After two years as an Emergency Physician in Australia he returned to the UK and currently works in the leafy suburb of Orpington, South London. He is currently the Trauma Director for the Princess Royal University Hospital, South London which is a Trauma Unit within the SE London Major Trauma Network.

Robert is a Consultant Cranio-Oral Maxillofacial Surgeon at King’s College Hospital and in addition is the Clinical Director for the Major Trauma Centre at King’s College Hospital and the South East London Major Trauma Network. Having been a Consultant based at King’s for over ten years, Robert was approached to take on the clinical directorship for Major Trauma at Kings’ in May 2008 to lead the bidding process to become a major trauma network, and subsequently following the network’s successful application, its implementation as part of the London Trauma Service commencing in April 2010.

Stephen Hearns is a consultant in emergency and retrieval mediicne and lead clinician for the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service in Scotland. He has a strong interest in trauma care in remote areas with experience in expedition medicine, mountain rescue and primary and secondary aeromedical retrieval.

Professor Kjetil Sunde is Professor and Senior Consultant at the Surgical Intensive Care Unit Ullevål, Norway and Department of Anaesthesiology, Oslo University Hospital. He received his PhD from the University of Oslo in 1999 which was on “Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Quality of performance and how to further improve haemodynamics”.

He has co-chaired ERC ALS committees and co-authored chapters in the ERC Guidelines. He is visiting professor at several international institutions. He has more than 75 peer-reviewed publications and is currently supervising six PhD students.

Dr Miles Dalby is Consultant Cardiologist and Associate Director of Clinical Trials at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals in London and Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London. His clinical focus is interventional cardiology and in particular the interventional management of acute coronary syndromes and structural heart disease. He leads the hospital primary angioplasty program which consistently delivers some of the best door-balloon times for primary angioplasty in the UK. His research focuses on acute coronary syndromes and the biology of coronary stents including the prevention and management of intracoronary thrombosis.

Consultant in intensive care at the University Hospitals, Bristol. He is also a consultant with the Great Western Air Ambulance and critical care team. Matthew was the Feneley travelling scholar to study bariatric anaesthesia in Stanford in Spring 2008. He has spoken extensively on the obese patient within critical care. He is the course co-ordinator for the National Intensive Care Exam Revision Course and an examiner for the European Diploma in Intensive Care. His research interest include resuscitation, prehospital airway management and scoring systems.

Prof. Malcolm Woollard PA02584, 79Y2845E, MPH, MBA, MA(Ed), Dip IMC (RCSEd), PGCE, RN, MCPara, NFESC, FASI, FHEA, FACAP is Director of the Pre-hospital, Emergency & Cardiovascular Care Applied Research Group at Coventry University (UK), an honorary consultant paramedic with the West Midlands and South East Coast Ambulance Trusts, a registered nurse, and a paramedic first responder for the Welsh Ambulance Service. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey and an Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt University, Australia; an Associate Editor for the Emergency Medicine Journal; a member of the Faculty of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; a founding member of the JRCALC Guidelines Committee; and is Past Chair of the College of Paramedics. His appointment as a Professor in Pre-hospital Care was the first in this discipline and the first for a paramedic, both in the UK and Australia.

Consultant Plastic surgeon at North Bristol NHS Trust. He qualified at UCL London and trained in plastic surgery in London and Sydney. He was a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Imperial Health 2002-2006 and Plastic Surgery Program training director London 2005-2006. His main interests are reconstructive plastic surgery, ortho-plastic surgery and limb reconstruction.

Alex Manara qualified in Cardiff in 1981 and has been a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol since 1990. He was a member of the ICS Working Group on Organ and Tissue Donation and of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and department of Health’s Working Party on a Code of Practice for the Diagnosis and Certification of Death. He is currently a member of NHS Blood and Transplant's Donor Advisory Group.

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 of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Director of the Violence and Society Research Group at Cardiff University. His Group won a 2009 Queen's Prize for their work on violence prevention. The Cardiff Model for violence prevention which he developed is a coalition government commitment which is being implemented by the Department of Health. He is a Council member and Trustee of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, the College of Emergency Medicine and the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Dr Ffion Davies is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. Trained in both paediatrics and emergency medicine, she believes that emergency medicine personnel be as skilled and confident in treating common emergency conditions in children as they are in adults. To this end, she works with many agencies on an advisory level, including various Royal Colleges and the Department of Health. Her educational work includes the Birth to 5 years handbook for parents, Spotting the Sick Child DVD & online educational tool www.spottingthesickchild.com,a DVD on Minor Injuries and a book Emergency Management of Minor Trauma in Children.

Dr Amber Young is a consultant paediatric anaesthetist at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. She trained in Bristol, Great Ormond Street Hospital London and Melbourne Children’s Hospital, Australia. Frenchay Hospital hosts the Children’s Burns Centre for the South West UK Burn Care Network which covers a population of 10.5 million for complex burn injuries in children. Her current positions include clinical lead for paediatric burn care at the South West UK Children’s Burn Centre, clinical lead for children in the SWUK Burn Care Network, Prevention Lead, British Burn Association (BBA) and member of the National Network for Burn Care. She is also actively involved in the national paediatric neurosurgery designation process (Safe and Sustainable) and a member of the paediatric major trauma clinical advisory group. Dr Young has been involved with the care of children with burns for more than 12 years and has written for peer-reviewed journals on subjects including toxic shock syndrome, fluid management for major burns and costing analysis for children’s burn care. She is the clinical lead for a trial starting July 2010 between Bath University and North Bristol NHS Trust to assess the use of targeted antibiotic release from nano-capsules in a dressing for paediatric scald injuries. This project achieved a 4.5 million Euro European Commission grant this year. She is also currently applying for a £250,000 NIHR grant to study the effectiveness of biological dressings in small area scalds in children. The Children’s Burns team at Frenchay Hospital are also short-listed to be the Healing Foundation UK Children’s Burns Research Centre.

Mr Peter Hutchinson is Senior Academy Fellow University of Cambridge and Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon at Addenbrookes Hospital. His research interests include acute brain injury (head injury, subarachnoid haemorrhage), decompressive craniectomy in head injury and stroke, multimodality monitoring (intracranial pressure, brain tissue oxygen, intracerebral microdialysis), brain imaging (PET and MRI) and cerebral tumours (microdialysis, gene therapy). He is responsible for Trial coordination and is co-ordinator for the UK centres for the ongoing RESCUE trial.

Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, Robert Ferguson Unit, Royal Edinburgh Hospital and Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh.

I am the lead clinician at the Scottish Neurobehavioural Rehabilitation Service (a 20 bedded unit specialising in the management of cognitive and psychiatric consequences of acquired brain injury) and I provide a general neuropsychiatry service to our regional Clinical Neurosciences unit.

My master's thesis was on the neuropsychiatric effects of HIV infection in a Kenyan community sample and my doctoral thesis was on medically unexplained symptoms in neurology. Foremost amongst my current research work is the Scottish Neurological Symptoms Study a multi-centre, prospective cohort study of 4000 new neurology outpatients examining the outcome of neurologically unexplained symptoms.

Lead for Clinical Governance Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance. Honorary Clinical Specialist HEMS London. Previously Doctor with Royal Army Medical Corps. Malcolm has a broad experience of civilian and military prehospital care and was responsible for the British Army’s extrication training during his military career. Malcolm also has had extensive experience of providing medical support in remote and austere conditions including an ascent of Everest and more recently in Japanese Tsunami and New Zealand earthquake.

Emrys Kirkman PhD works for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl, part of the UK Ministry of Defence) at Porton Down where he is one of two technical leads for the Combat Casualty Care research programme. His areas of interest include haemostasis and cardiovascular, respiratory, oxygen transport changes and related consequences such as secondary organ damage following trauma and resuscitation. He has worked in the field of trauma since 1987 in areas including haemorrhage, musculo-skeletal and brain injury and for the past 10 years his work has included the pathophysiology of blast injury. He was awarded a Royal College of Anaesthetists’ Macintosh Professorship in 2009 and holds an honorary senior lectureship at Durham University.