Alastair Miller is a Consultant Physician in the Tropical & Infectious Disease Unit at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and an Honorary Fellow at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Prior to that he was a Consultant in the West Midlands and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Infectious Disease at Birmingham University. His main clinical and research interests are blood borne viruses and bone and joint infection. He chairs the Specialist Advisory Committee on Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine and is Director of the Liverpool BRC Clinical Research Facility.  He is an examiner for the MRCP and the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Alastair trained in medicine at St John’s College, Cambridge and Westminster Medical School and trained in infectious disease in Royal Navy hospitals, Birmingham (Heartlands) and London (St George’s Hospital and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) He worked with the Royal Marines in Kurdistan after the first Gulf War and was a consultant physician and Professor of Medicine in the Royal Navy.

As a keen mountaineer he has particular interests in wilderness medicine and has been to 8000 metres on the north face of Everest and to the summit of Mounts McKinley, Kenya, Kilimanjaro and Kinabalu. He has led many commercial treks and expeditions.

Alexander van Tulleken is based at the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (IIHA) as its Helen Hamlyn Senior Fellow. Alexander has conducted aid work in Sudan, Russia, Peru and the Congo, and is now at Fordham University, New York, from the University of Toronto, where he was a senior resident at Massey College.

He earned his medical degree in 2002 at Oxford,  completed his Diploma in Tropical Medicine in 2005 and earned a Master's degree in Public Health in 2009 at Harvard, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

Alexander certainly hasn't led the most typical of careers. He worked with Medecins du Monde in Darfur, and he and his twin brother, Chris, travelled to some of the most disease-ridden places from the equator to the arctic while filming in 'Medicine Men Go Wild' for the UK's Channel 4 TV programme. This was shot during 2007 and involved travelling to the Congo, Gabon, Malaysia, India, Nepal, Russia and Peru to look at health and medicine in some of the most remote places in the world. He has maintained an interest in humanitarian work including writing, teaching and work for MERLIN. 

Dr Amy Hughes is currently working with Medecins Sans Frontieres in northern Sri Lanka having left her last post as a specialist registrar in pre-hospital medicine working for the Helicopter Emergency Medical Team (HEMS) in Kent.

Amy is involved extensively in the teaching of expedition and remote medicine and took over as Medical Director of Expedition & Wilderness Medicine in November 2011. Amy completed the Diploma of Tropical Medicine in 2006, has a European Masters in Disaster Medicine and is en route to gaining a Post Graduate Certificate in Aeromedical Retrieval.

Dr Anne Weaver is the Lead Clinician for the Pre-hospital Care Programme, in addition to being a Consultant in Emergency Medicine & Pre-hospital Care at The Royal London Hospital, and Lead Clinician for HEMS. Dr Weaver has years of experience in Pre-hospital Care in the UK and Australia, and has supported the Programme from the start. Dr Weaver organises the mentoring of the other medical students by the HEMS registrars.

As Lead Clinician for the London Air Ambulance, Dr Anne Weaver heads up a service that is on call for 11 million people in the capital. She and her team save lives on a daily basis through their critical intervention at the scene of an incident.

The air ambulance service, which began in 1989, pioneered the concept of trauma trained doctors and paramedics treating critically injured patients at scene and taking them to a hospital that specialises in trauma. Dr Weaver was in charge on the day in July 2005 when suicide bombers attacked four locations on London’s tube and bus network.

Professor  Redmond has been involved in international emergency humanitarian assistance for almost twenty five years, organising and leading medical support to natural disasters (e.g. earthquakes in Armenia, Iran, Pakistan, China, Indonesia; volcanic eruption; and cholera outbreak in Cape Verde) major incidents (e.g. Lockerbie air disaster, UN air crash Kosovo), conflicts (e.g. Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone) and complex emergencies (e.g. established tented hospital on Iran/Iraq border for Kurdish refugees) throughout the world.

Most recently he headed the UK surgical response to the earthquake in Haiti. In collaboration with the Department for International Development, Department of Health and MERLIN (the largest UK NGO) Professor Redmond established the UK International Emergency Trauma Register which will provide training and accountability for those wishing to respond medically to large scale humanitarian emergencies overseas.

Arjun Katoch was born and educated in India. He holds a Masters degree in Defence Studies. He was in the Parachute Regiment of the Indian Army between 1967-1991 and retired from active service as a Colonel. He commanded a Special Forces battalion and has extensive combat and counter insurgency experience in India and Sri Lanka. The President of India decorated him for gallantry.

He later worked in complex field emergencies in Somalia, Armenia and the Great Lakes region of Africa for the UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA) , as well as in sudden onset disaster response, until his retirement in Dec 2009. As Chief of the Field Coordination Support Section of the OCHA Emergency Services Branch his responsibilities included managing the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) system and the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG). In this capacity, he was responsible for ensuring an immediate international emergency response through UNDAC to over 140 disasters and emergencies.

He currently resides in New Delhi, India, and is a Disaster Management Advisor working with various governments and international agencies. He has numerous articles and publications in various journals including Columbia University’s Journal of International Affairs, IFRC’s International Disaster Response Law Journal, Crisis Response and Humanitarian Exchange.

Ben has worked in the Accident and Emergency Department in Sheffield for over 11 years and is an A&E Department Charge Nurse and an Emergency Nurse Practitioner.

Ben’s pre-hospital care career started 15 years ago when he started as an aspirant for Northumberland National Park Search and Rescue Team. He then moved to Sheffield in 1994 and joined Edale Mountain Rescue Team: one of Britain’s busiest.

In 2001 he started working for Poles Apart as a location medic, assisting in providing film/TV location safety and medical support in extreme environments including Greenland and Iceland. Since 2004 his pre hospital career went south to Antarctica with Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions (ALE). ALE's field camp at Patriot Hills is home to one of the world's most remote field hospitals. From there he has helped to provide medical and rescue cover to expeditions skiing to the South Pole, climbing Mount Vinson, running the Antarctic Marathon and 100km race alongside escorting clients on flights to the South Pole.

Ben is an adventurer, explorer and survival expert who has led numerous expeditions and projects throughout the world in all environments – jungle, desert, arctic, mountain and ocean.

For the past 8 years Ben has been presenting the multi-BAFTA winning series Serious Explorers for BBC1, leading groups of teenagers on the expedition of a lifetime to remote and far flung corners of the globe achieving four world firsts.  As well as leading the group and presenting the programme, Ben is responsible for all the planning, recceing and safety of each new series. He has also consulted on series such as Tribe, Human Planet, Frozen Planet, Last Man Standing, Extreme Dreams, Adrenaline Junkie and various Sport Relief Challenges.

Having travelled extensively in remote and often hostile environments Ben consults on security and travel issues in between expeditions and TV work and has built up an impressive list of clients including the BBC and CNN advising on security issues while in countries such as Yemen, Iraq, Colombia and Afghanistan.

Ben joined Sandhurst after finishing school and served in the army for 9 years where he spent time in Northern Ireland and Bosnia. An accomplished mountaineer and polar adventurer, Ben led expeditions to the Arctic, Antarctic, Himalayas, Rockies and Andes including ascents of two 8000m peaks. Upon leaving the army he planned and led security operations to protect wildlife against professional poachers in Central and East Africa developing his love for camels; built eco-lodges and safari camps in Africa and led remote jungle conservation projects where he honed his survival skills amongst the native peoples of Asia, Central and South America.
 

Caroline qualified in Medicine at Newcastle in 1993, and has worked in various specialties, including anaesthetics. Caroline is a GP in Cumbria, who has worked as an expedition medic for many years, including Raleigh International in Zimbabwe and Namibia, then on many shorter trips to all environments.

She was one of the two founding medical directors of Expedition Medicine, helping set up and run Expedition Medicine courses for 7 years. She has taught on the UK courses along with Desert in Namibia, Jungle in Costa Rica and Borneo and Polar courses in Arctic Norway.

In 2004 she travelled across Nigeria for 700km following the route of the River Niger taken by Richard Lander, a British explorer. Caroline has lectured for the Newcastle University student-selected Wilderness Medicine module, Liverpool School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Expedition Medicine Course and the International Mountain Guide qualification at Glenmore Lodge.

Caroline has a Masters in Sports Medicine and is a medical advisor for BSES (British Schools Exploring Society). She has recently returned from 6 months in New Zealand working with Mount Hutt Ski Patrol.

Charlotte Madison is Britain’s first female Apache pilot and has served on multiple tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. During the infamous Jugroom Fort rescue in 2006, where a Royal Marine missing in action was strapped to an Apache to extract him from the firefight, Charlotte became the first British Apache pilot to expend every last bit of her ammunition by the end of the mission – known as going Winchester. At 26 years old, she also earned her nickname ‘Sniper’ during this same mission. Joining the army as its youngest officer at just 17, she was not only the sole woman in her field of work- and at times in the camp - she also commanded her flight of men and directed the activities of her squadron at war as its Operations Officer.

During her final tour of Afghanistan Charlotte was written up for bravery after a gruelling three-day mission with the Royal Marines, before leaving the Army to spend time with her new husband. She has written a book about her experiences, called "Dressed To Kill."

Chris is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at UHCW NHS Trust, and is also a Professor at Warwick Medical School. Chris has lectured to Expedition Medicine about frostbite and offers phone or email advice on the subject.Chris started climbing whilst at school and has continued to travel all over the world to fulfill this passion. His altitude research interest began with the Birmingham Medical Research Expeditionary Society, and more recently he has been involved with the UCL team at CASE.Chris took part in the 2006 Xtreme Cho Oyu expedition to Tibet, as one of the medical officers and was the Deputy Climbing Leader of the 2007 Caudwell Xtreme Everest Expedition. He summited both Cho Oyu (8201m) and Everest (8848m) and has the dubious distinction of having the second lowest arterial gases ever recorded in an adult (at 8,400m)!

Chris has the Diploma in Mountain Medicine and his mountain medical interests include frostbite, non-freezing cold injuries, extreme altitude physiology and the brain at high altitude. With Dr Paul Richards and Dr Dave Hillebrandt, he runs the UK internet-based frostbite service.

Professor David A. Warrell  is the world's leading clinical toxinologist, principally famous for his work on prospective studies of snakebite in tropical developing countries. Together with Associate Professor James Tibballs, he was the first appointed Principal Fellow of the AVRU in 1997. He also holds an appointment as Professor Emeritus of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of Oxford.

Professor Warrell was also the Honorary Clinical Director of the Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Founding Director of the Centre for Tropical Medicine at Oxford University.

Professor Warrell is Editor of the Oxford Textbook of Medicine, Essential Malariology, and Expedition Medicine. He is a Consultant to the World Health Organisation, the British Army, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Medical Research Council (UK) and Royal Geographical Society. He has held the office of President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine.

Dr. Gordon Giesbrecht is a Professor of Thermophysiology at the University of Manitoba where he studies human responses to exercise in extreme environments. He has spent a career describing how humans respond to hypothermia and helped develop strategies and protocols for pre-hospital treatment of cold patients.

Otherwise known as "Professor Popsicle", Gordon has applied much of his research in learning how to cope with extreme weather for long periods. Gordon is one of the world's leading experts in cold water immersion.  His key principles on sudden immersion in cold water have been used extensively when approaching any kind of ice rescue.

Dr Greg Ciottone is a recognized expert in disaster medicine and emergency management, international healthcare policy and infrastructure-building.

He is a U.S. Board-Certified Emergency Physician and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he is currently the Chair of the Disaster Medicine Section. He had also served as the Chair of the International Emergency Medicine Section at Harvard Medical School, as well as Director of the Division of International Disaster and Emergency Medicine and Medical Director for Emergency Management at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he works clinically in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Ciottone is the Founder and Director of the first-ever Disaster Medicine Fellowship Program at Harvard Medical School.

In 2008, the World Champion Boston Red Sox honored Dr. Ciottone by having him throw out the Ceremonial First Pitch as part of the 9/11 remembrance ceremonies at Fenway Park.

Dr Jane Zuckerman has a long history working in the travel health field and holds a number of key positions. Jane is Director of the Academic Centre for Travel Medicine and Vaccines, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference, Research and Training in Travel Medicine. She holds the positions of Sub-Dean and Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant at University College London Medical School and the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London.  She is also the Medical Director of the Royal Free Travel Health Centre and the UCL Medical Student Occupational Health Centre.

She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal The Journal of Travel Medicine & Infectious Disease and is the editor of several textbook in travel medicine including a reference textbook: The Principles & Practice of Travel Medicine and Travellers' Vaccines. She has contributed to several peer-reviewed journals on topics related to travel medicine.

Jane received the award of UK Hospital Doctor of the Year 2001 and the UK Hospital Doctor Innovation Award for 2001. She was also listed in 2001 by the British Medical Association as one of the 82 "Pioneers in Patient Care: NHS Consultants leading change".

Jim was born and brought up in Zambia. Trained in the UK, he has since lived and worked in Botswana, Malawi, South Africa, Madagascar and Mozambique. He has a broad range of medical experience, with particular interests in tropical diseases and public health, developed while working as a doctor in Africa.

Intrigued by the gulf that often exists between Western and African traditional medicine, Jim for some years pursued a parallel career interest in ethnobotany, (the study of traditional knowledge and uses of plants by local people). To this end he studied at the Edinburgh Botanics and then set up a research, community development and conservation project in SW Madagascar, working with the elusive Mikea forest people and their healers. Since 1996, he has led and/or acted as expedition doctor to a range of expeditions to Belize, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania and the Peruvian Amazon.

Jim currently works as a civilian occupational medicine physician to the Army and runs the specialist travel clinic and expedition consultancy service, TrExMed.

Jon Snow has been a journalist with ITN since 1976, and the face of Channel 4 News since 1989. He reported The Revolution in Iran; the Release of Nelson Mandela; the fall of the Berlin Wall; and more recently, the Arab Spring and the Japanese Tsunami.
 
His many awards include the Richard Dimbleby Bafta award for Best Factual Contribution to Television  and Royal Television Society awards for Journalist of the Year and Presenter of the Year, both of which he has won on more than one occasion.
 
As well as presenting the programme, Jon writes Snowblog - a unique take on the day's events - and Snowmail - a preview of the evening programme's main stories.
 
He was the Director of the New Horizon Youth Centre for homeless and vulnerable teenagers in London(1970-1973), and has been the Chair of the project since 1986.

Dr. Josef Haik is an Associate Professor, specialist in plastic and reconstructive surgery and in the treatment of burns. He heads the Sheba Regional Burns Center, part of the Division Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery in the Sheba Medical Center, Israel. As one of 23 outstanding leaders for Israel's medical future, he was one of the first Sheba "Talpionnaires", that have been selected since 2002. He was a Fellow in Burns Reconstruction and Intensive Care in the Burn Unit of the Division of Plastic Surgery at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada and in Sao Paolo, Brazil. In 2008 he completed a Masters degree in Public Health (MPH) in disaster planning and management.

He led Israeli humanitarian medical and disaster delegations and is ranked Captain in the IDF Medical Corps. Josef is a Senior Lecturer in plastic surgery and burns, directs private aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgery clinics and runs a multidisciplinary wound care clinic. He founded and established the Aesthetic Regional Clinic in Israel ("Klalit Estetica").

Josef has authored many publications in the field of plastic surgery, burn, terror and wound care and is a reviewer of medical journals such as "burns", IMAJ and Harefua, as well as the co-author of new Israeli laws for safety and burn prevention.  He also acts as a medical advisor for many medical and biotech companies.
 

Karen is currently a GP partner in Colchester and also works as an independent contractor for the Medical Defence Union as a Clinical Complaints Adviser, assisting MDU members at hearings and other meetings.

Having qualified as a GP, Karen undertook a law degree and began working at the MDU in 1999. She gained 12 years' experience in medico-legal work and until 2011 was an almost fulltime medico-legal adviser with the MDU. Karen's experience with the MDU also included work as a senior medical claims handler and clinical risk manager. She has lectured on a wide variety of medico-legal subjects.

Karen left the MDU in 2011 to return to full-time clinical GP practice which will allow her to pursue her interest in mountain medicine, but she continues to do some independent work for the MDU.

She is a keen climber in the UK and abroad and holds the Diploma in Mountain Medicine.

Consultant in Anaesthetics and Major Trauma, King's College Hospital and Royal Navy

Having joined the Navy 19 years ago, Kate has seen the world.  Unfortunately, ships haven't featured for many years because she has completed operational tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Service in Afghanistan included retrieving casualties from the frontline whilst working as the medical officer of the Chinook-based Medical Emergency Response Team and, more recently, in the Role 3 Hospital at Camp Bastion.

When not in sandy places, Kate is a consultant in anaesthetics and major trauma at King's College Hospital in London.  Her on-calls are all based in the emergency department where she is the trauma team leader overseeing the stabilisation, investigation and management of major trauma patients.

Kate's civilian pre-hospital experience is diverse and varied and ranges from watching fast cars not crash as the FIA medical car doctor at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to doctoring the London Marathon
 

Kevin Fong is the Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, University College London Hospitals. Fellow, National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts Honorary Lecturer in Physiology, University College London, Chair for UK Space Biomedical Advisory Committee, Co-founder and Co-director of CASE.

Kevin has a Bachelors degree in Astrophysics (1993) and Medicine (1998). He has a long standing interest in human space exploration and space medicine.

He has participated in NASA medical operations research and has completed space medical training rotations at Johnson Space Centre, Houston and Kennedy Space Centre, Cape Canaveral. He has an advisory role to British National Space Centre, a liaison role with European Space Agency and is responsible for development of CASE research strategy.

Research includes: medical considerations for expedition class missions, psychological aspects of long duration space deployment and the influence of genetics on the human physiological response to micogravity.

Kevin is best known for his television appearances, particularly as an occasional presenter of the long-running BBC2 science programme, Horizon.

Professor Kobi Peleg is Director of the National Trauma & Emergency Medicine Research Center, Israel and Head of the Disaster Management Department, School of Public Health, Tel-Aviv University. As such he leads research and education activities in various fields of trauma, with special interest in disasters and terror related injury and Emergency Medical Services (EMS).

Professor Peleg has vast practical and theoretical experience in disasters. He served as the Head of the Civil Defense - Medical Branch, in the first Gulf War as the Head of Operation, Training and Organization of the Israel Defense Force Medical Corps, and served in command positions in the Israeli Field Hospitals in Rwanda, at the Armenian earthquake site and in Haiti.

Kobi is one of the UNDAC (United Nation Disaster Assessment and Coordination) experts and served as WHO consultant for the national emergency system. He also led mass-casualty management courses for several organizations and governments as the WHO, Lombardy MOH and more. He has served as a consultant for emergency and disasters preparedness for private companies, organizations and ministries.
 

Actively practicing pre-hospital immediate care for over fifteen years, Dr Malcolm Russell has served most of his career as a doctor in the British Army including some of the UK's most elite military units. He was central in the development of concepts of combat casualty care and was the first Senior Lecturer in Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham.  Dr Russell has extensive operational experience in desert, arctic, temperate and jungle environments, and in rural and urban settings.

As a civilian, Dr Russell has worked with several ambulance services including the London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service and been involved in the training of medical professionals throughout his career.   He remains actively involved in pre-hospital emergency medicine and is Clinical Lead for Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance and Honorary Clinical Specialist for London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS). Dr Russell is an examiner for the RCS Diploma in Immediate Medical Care and is a Royal College of General Practitioners' representative on the Curriculum Training and Assessment Sub-committee of the Intercollegiate Board for Training in Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine.   In his spare time, Dr Russell volunteers for Mercia Accident Rescue Service(MARS), a charity providing advanced pre-hospital emergency support in Herefordshire and Worcestershire. He has planned and managed medical support to various expeditions including the Army Everest West Ridge Expedition, 2006.  Dr Russell is a Medical Officer with the UK International Search and Rescue (ISAR) team, deploying to the earthquake of Christchurch New Zealand and the Japanese tsunami in 2011.
 

Mark is the founding director of Expedition & Wilderness Medicine and Across the Divide Expeditions and helped in the setting up of the orginal Expemed course established by Dr Stephen Hearns. A Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Arts, Mark has been involved with expeditions for over 27 years and has led and organised expeditions to all of the world's continents, both in desert and marine environments but also in both polar regions, at altitude and in the world's most remote corners.

Mark is also an award winning photographer with images regularly published in the Sunday Times and Telegraph, National Geographic and is proud to have been the second ever First Responder and involved in the schemes set up in the UK.

Mark Read (aka the 'croc doc' )is a wildlife biologist based in Queensland who specialises in things that bite and have the potential to kill you. One of Australia’s most respected crocodile biologists, Mark has spent almost 20 years working with these animals in Australia, Papua New Guinea and South Africa.

He also has extensive knowledge and experience of snakes and terrestrial and marine, venomous and poisonous vertebrates and invertebrates and now specialises in the conservation management of protected species like whales and marine turtles.

He has experience leading expeditions and research teams in remote locations and doing fun things like counting, catching and researching crocodiles and marine turtles and trying to learn more about these misunderstood animals. 

Mark has worked with Expedition & Wilderness Medicine as a course director and lecturer on Jungle and Diving Medicine Courses and has experience working in Africa, Antarctica, Borneo, the Maldives, Oman, Papua New Guinea and Central and South America.

"Doc Martin” recently returned from a trek in Peru where none of the clients could be convinced that he was really a doctor. Others are uncertain whether this is a compliment or not, but he continues to take it as one!

Martin's career has included studying law at a minor English university, working as a joiner, a language teacher, and for the Foreign Office in Latin America, and (honestly!) training in Paediatrics, A&E and General Practice in the People’s Republic of South Yorkshire.

He is happiest running up and skiing down mountains, and sitting in tents in the Antarctic being brought cups of tea by Ben Cooper, with whom he is joined at the hip, having worked together in the UK as doctor and Deputy Team Leader of Edale Mountain Rescue Team, and on numerous Polar and Alpine expeditions . He is Chief Medical Officer for Poles Apart and Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions, and runs an outdoor activities and gîte business in the French Pyrenees.

Director of Xtreme Everest
Mike Grocott is the Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Southampton and a Consultant in Critical Care Medicine at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. He is also director of the NIAA Health Services Research Centre at the Royal College of Anaesthetists. Until 2011, he was a Senior Lecturer in Critical Care Medicine at the UCL Institute of Child Health and Director of the Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme Environment Medicine (CASE) which he co-founded with Dr Kevin Fong in 2000.

He is the director of the Xtreme Everest hypoxia research programme and led the successful 2006 Cho Oyu and 2007 Everest Caudwell Xtreme Everest expeditions. Mike has completed 11 high altitude expeditions to the Himalayas and South American Andes (6 as leader) and has extensive experience in expedition medicine and co-ordinating high altitude medical research projects. He was Resident Physician at the Himalyan Rescue Association aid post in Pheriche, Khumbu, Nepal.

Moira is currently the Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium. This seeks to bring humanitarian agencies, development agencies, and the international financing institutions together with the Nepali Government and national organisations to mitigate current risk and minimise new risk in Nepal.

Moira Reddick has over twenty years experience in humanitarian and development work primarily in Africa and Asia.

She has worked for the UN, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, international NGOs, donors, research organisations and as an independent consultant.

Dr Pascale Fritsch is a public health specialist with more than 12 years experience in international health projects. She started to work in the humanitarian field with Médecins Sans Frontières France in 1988 (Sudan). Since then she has been employed by other MSF branches, UNICEF and several organisations implementing projects funded by the European Commission or the World Bank, mostly in African countries or Eastern Europe.

She has an extensive experience in health rehabilitation projects, having worked as health coordinator for the European Commission Offices in post-war Kivu (DRC) and Liberia.

In 2003, she integrated the French Ministry of Health at regional level (Alsace), coordinating the regional programme against cancer and for palliative care, the regional mental health programme, as well as the health emergency preparedness and response team.

In April 2011, she started working with the HelpAge International Emergency Team as Health and Nutrition Adviser.

Paul Hartley has been a Senior Medical Instructor/Medical Manager and Close Protection Instructor for G4S Risk Management and Specialist Training, Hereford, for just under 3 years.

He has planned and conducted the logistics and administration for the delivery of various courses and subjects to a myriad of organisations and individuals. Paul has ensured compliance with various awarding bodies and conducted successful audits, whilst maintaining the standards and professionalism of the organisation.

He delivers and assists various Risk Mitigation training courses to various organisations and individuals world wide including Phoenix Close Protection ,CONDO, HEAT, OSAT etc
 
Prior to G4S he was in the military. As a very experienced manager and combat medical technician ( Royal Army Medical Corps ) he served with UK and US Special Forces, both in Hostile and Non Hostile Environments, receiving the George Medal for Bravery whilst on active service in Afghanistan.

Paul is a General Medical Practitioner and runs a travel clinic from the practice, specialising in remote or difficult itineraries. He is also an Honorary Lecturer in Travel Medicine at the Department of Academic Travel Medicine & Vaccines, Royal Free Hospital, UCL, London.

Paul is also a Director of Medical Expeditions, a research charity with the remit to promote research and education into high altitude medicine and physiology. Previous research expeditions include Everest in 1994 when two members summited; Kangchenjunga base camp in 1998; and Chamlang base camp in 2003. The charity also organises a yearly 3 day high altitude medicine course and, for the past 4 years, a biannual international research conference held in Oxford.

He is a holder of and faculty member of the Diploma of Mountain Medicine for which he is course organiser for the Expedition Medicine course component. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and has contributed to their Expedition Medicine textbook. In 2005 he was one of the climbers on the first Caudwell Xtreme Everest pilot expedition to Cho Oyu where he reached 7100m and organised the expedition solar power system.

Pete started climbing in Easter 1978 with some school friends, bumbling his way up a snowy gully somewhere near the summit of Snowdon! Since then he has climbed and skied throughout Europe and the Southern Alps of New Zealand, and participated in expeditions to the West Ridge of Everest, Denali in Alaska and to the mountains of the Cordillera Blanca of Peru.

Pete is a consultant in emergency medicine by profession, currently serving in 16 Air Assault Brigade, and with prior operational service with both Commando and Airborne Forces in Northern Ireland, Kurdistan, Iraq and Afghanistan. His sub-specialty interests are in pre-hospital emergency care and wilderness medicine, but he hopes that his skills as a ski mountaineer rather than as a doctor will be tested during his expeditions.

Piers Carter runs his own Management Training Consultancy developing high potential teams and leaders, his passion being people and their behaviour. He works with groups from a range of backgrounds and environments, specifically in the area of personal development, team performance and leadership skills.

Having worked for 6 years at the National Police Training Facility in Coventry he learned a great deal about how to deal with challenging behaviour, violence and aggression and how to help others to learn to manage it. 

Over the past 15 years he has travelled all over the world working with a wide range of clients. Most recently he has carried out research on Extreme Teams – Success Factors for Teams in High Pressure Environments. He is currently running a series of expeditions aimed at developing team and leadership skills for the corporate sector.

Raj is a General Practitioner with a special interest in remote and hostile environments. His special interest has stemmed from a passion for mountaineering and through the military. Raj has climbed extensively worldwide, on every continent, both as a civilian and with the military. In nearly all these expeditions he has been in a leadership capacity and sometimes had the dual role of working as the Expedition Medical Officer.

He was privileged to be asked to work as the Expedition Leader for the Comic Relief Kilimanjaro Climb, successfully taking up the likes of Cheryl Cole, Gary Barlow, Chris Moyles and a host of others to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. This helped raised £3.3 million, from one expedition alone, to fight malaria in East Africa. He is an instructor on various military and civilian courses including instructing on expedition matters, battlefield trauma and austere medicine.

Raj regularly writes on expedition medicine for a leading UK outdoor magazine and was a contributor to the book ‘3 Commando Brigade, Helmand’ which reached number 7 in the Sunday Times best sellers list.

Richard Williams OBE TD FRCPsych DMCC is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, strategic leader of health service design and delivery, and a government policy adviser. He is Professor of Mental Health Strategy in the University of Glamorgan; Honorary Professor of Disaster Healthcare in the Robert Gordon University, Scotland and Presidential Lead Officer for Disaster Management in the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Richard Williams’ research, scholarship and writing are in mental healthcare policy, clinical governance, professionalism, and the psychosocial aspects of emergencies, disasters, terrorism and war. He has had a special interest in disaster healthcare for more than 25 years. He led development to publication in 2009 of NATO’s Guidance on Psychosocial Care for People Affected by Disasters and Major Incidents and similar guidance for the English government.

Richard is a member of the Emergency Planning Clinical Leadership Advisory Group in the Department of Health; UK Cabinet Office Committee on the Ethical Aspects of Pandemic Influenza and the UK Chief Medical Officers’ Pandemic Influenza Clinical & Operational Advisory Panel.
 

Dr Rob Conway is an anaesthetist by trade and the medical director and co-founder of Blue Ventures Conservation. Blue Ventures is an award winning charity that runs diving expeditions to remote areas including Madagascar and Belize. At is core it recognises social enterprise, innovating new approaches to financing marine conservation.

Rob has been part of a number of expeditions that have ranged from SCUBA diving in the warm waters of Eastern Africa and the islands and shoals of the Western Indian Ocean, medical research in the Andes climbing peaks with only a handful of coca and a bottle oflucozade, through to kiting across the frozen landscapes of Greenland.

Rob was invited as one of the youngest fellows of the Royal Geographical Society and was part of the team that won the Duke of Edinburgh British Sub-Aqua Club Gold Award two years running. He has worked for Divers Alert Network as an intern and led their Project Dive Exploration research in the Caymans.

Rob regularly teaches on expedition medicine courses including diving medicine. He has trained in diving medicine at Divers Alert Network Headquarters at Duke University and the Diving and Disease Research Centre. He has just been awarded the Diploma in Mountain Medicine. Rob has just returned from working in a South African busy rural hospital and Level 1 trauma centre which taught him a lesson or two!

Saleyha Ahsan came to medicine later in life after a spell in the British Army. After graduating out of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, she was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps. It was during her non-medical role of Medical Support Officer in Bosnia she was inspired and encouraged by her military medical commanders to apply for medicine. She found herself at medical school in Dundee and never looked back.

After leaving the Army Saleyha continued to travel into hostile environments but this time as a filmmaker and freelance journalist. She has worked and written for the BBC, Channel 4 News, the Guardian and on-line news Latitude News.

Saleyha is currently nervously awaiting her results for her Masters in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, from Essex University. This was done to support her work with Medical Justice as a volunteer doctor assessing victims of torture seeking asylum

She is currently on the Diploma in Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine and has a BSc in Chemistry.Saleyha works as a Staff Grade in A&E; in London and is in the edit stage of her latest documentary about frontline medicine in Libya. She has just returned after six months out there where she both volunteered as a medic and filmed Libyan volunteer doctors working during the battle for Bani Walid.

Sean was the first person in the UK to become a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. He has been involved in a wide variety of expeditions over the last 20 years. During this time he has trekked across the Darien Gap and the Thar Desert; worked as a trekking guide and Chief Medic for Raleigh International in Namibia and Zimbabwe; a trauma medic in Columbia; a ski field doctor in New Zealand and spent a number of seasons in the Antarctica at Union Glacier.

In 2004 he became a medical consultant to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and works throughout the Middle East. Since 1998 he has worked for Across the Divide Expeditions as medic and expedition medicine advisor, providing medical cover on expeditions in 21 different countries. In 2002, he co-founded Expedition and Wilderness Medicine, which seeks to provide comprehensive training for medical professionals working as expedition medical officers in a variety of extreme and remote environments.

Steve is the Field Operations Manager in charge of the international base Union Glacier in Antarctica, operated by Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions. As a polar guide he has led groups to both North and South Geographic Poles and on expeditions to Alaska, Arctic Canada, Greenland and Spitsbergen.

He has helped several polar adventurers including Pen Hadow, Hannah McKeand and Rosie Stancer to organise their solo polar expeditions and acts as a consultant to extreme adventures all over the world. He works as a consultant in safety management and crisis management based on his personal experiences of treating casualties, most notably from a terrorist bombing in London and from coordinating a three day rescue of five stranded climbers on the Vinson Massif in Antarctica in 2006.

In 1996, during the worst ever storms on Everest, Sundeep was forced to turn back some 400 metres below the summit, and had to bury a fellow climber on the way down. Undeterred he returned two years later and successfully broke a world record to become the youngest person in the world to climb the Seven Summits - the highest mountain on each continent. To date, this has only been completed by around 67 people, and Sundeep held the record for 4 years. He has travelled, climbed and visited over 40 countries on every continent, and in every environment from the deserts of Antarctica to the Sahara, and the jungles of Africa to the high mountain ranges of the world. He has climbed two previously unclimbed peaks in Antarctica, and helped put up a new rock route on the highest mountain in Australasia.

He lectures on the BSc course in Space Medicine and Extreme Environment Physiology at University College London and is a member of the UK Space Biomedicine Steering Group. He also lectures regularly on advanced life support, major incidents and expedition medicine courses. He was awarded a medal by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2000 for the best performance in the examination in Pre-hospital Care.

Ted Lankester started his professional life as a family doctor in London, but then followed his twin interests of global health and travel medicine. These led him into work in north India for eight years, where he was involved in pioneering a model of community care in remote communities, as well as being involved in the health care of travellers and expatriates. Ted co-founded the medical charity InterHealth in 1989, where he worked as Clinical Director of a team of 23 health professionals, providing integrated travel medicine services to more than 200 organisations. He lectures on global health and travel medicine. Ted is an accomplished author; from text book chapters on expatriate health to a 400 page manual on community based health care, as well as two popular health books for travellers.Ted is a Founder Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of Medicine and Surgery of Glasgow, and is on the Leadership Council of the International Society of Travel Medicine, where he founded and chairs the special interest group on the psychological health of travellers. Ted has trekked extensively in the Himalayas, led a scientific expedition, and done the overland trip from London to India and Nepal on 3 occasions.

Theo Weston has been a full time GP and GP Trainer in Penrith, Cumbria, since 1992. Shortly after arriving he set up the local BASICS Scheme (BEEP Fund Ltd.) with the help of local volunteers. He is Chairman and has been a very active member of this scheme ever since he regularly had to attend to pre-hospital emergency calls from the Ambulance Service.

He is now also helping the Lancashire BASICS Scheme to develop BASICS Northwest, an umbrella organisation to co-ordinate all BASICS doctors in Lancashire & Cumbria. In the last few years he has attended three major Incidents: the Greyrigg train crash in 2007 (Medical Incident Commander), Keswick bus crash & the west Cumbria shootings - both in 2010.

He has been a doctor on the Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team for the last 18 years and in 2003 started working as a regular flight doctor with the Great North Air Ambulance. He now works one day a week for the GNAAS and is the lead doctor for the Cumbria base. Theo is the Medical Advisor for the Outward Bound UK Risk Management Committee.

Dr Tim Healing is a clinical scientist specialising in epidemiology and clinical microbiology and has worked as a consultant in medical humanitarian aid in wars, disasters and immediate post disaster recovery since the beginning of the 1990s. He specialises in the control of communicable disease, especially in disease surveillance, outbreak investigation and in the rehabilitation of diagnostic laboratory systems.His work has taken him to a wide range of places including Bosnia, Iraq, Tajikistan, Angola, Russia, Albania, Jordan and West Papua (Irian Jaya), working mainly for WHO and for Merlin. In recent years he has been working in Sierra Leone (initially with the UN Mission in Sierra Leone [UNAMSIL] and then for WHO) helping to develop a new Lassa Fever laboratory. He has also done consultancy work on various aspects of influenza with WHO in Geneva.

Tim has been involved with the Diploma in the Medical Care of Catastrophes at the Society of Apothecaries of London as an examiner for many years (he is Deputy Convener) and has been director of the Course in Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine at the Society for just over a year. In addition to this work, he regularly undertakes training in disease control and in various aspects of humanitarianism for the UK armed services at the Defence Medical Services Training Centre in Surrey and at the Joint Services Command and Staff College at Shrivenham.

Tim has been a Consultant in Anaesthetics & ICU at James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, since 2006. He joined the Army over 21 years ago and has been an RMO with 2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment, a Registrar with 23 Parachute Field Ambulance and is now a Consultant with 16 Medical Regiment.

He has served in Iraq twice and has deployed to Afghanistan 5 times since 2006. This included working with a far forward surgical team, working on the helicopter-based MERT, and more recently working in the UK Role 3 Hospital in Camp Bastion, Helmand Province.

Tim spent a year flying with Mediflight / South Australian Retrieval Service in 2004, and has worked as a doctor with the Great North Air Ambulance since 2006. He co-wrote the Pre-hospital Anaesthesia Handbook and is Course Director for the GNAAS Pre-hospital Anaesthesia two day course.

Yoram Klein is Director in the Department of Acute Care Surgery & Trauma, Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel. He is also a Lecturer in General Surgery at the Hebrew University School of Medicine, Jerusalem, and a member of the Israeli National Committee on mass casualty, Ministry of Health.

Yoram graduated from the Hebrew University School of Medicine in Jerusalem and carried out his surgery residency at the Rambam Medical Center, Haifa. His trauma/critical care fellowship followed at the Ryder Trauma Center in Miami, Florida, before becoming the Attending Surgeon, Department of Surgery and Trauma Unit, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, until his current appointment.

Since 2010 he has been Chairman of the Israeli Trauma Society. His fields of scientific and clinical interest include: acute care surgery, trauma, mass casualty events, hemodynaic resuscitation, hemostasis, sepsis, which have led to 40 peer-reviewed articles and 6 chapters in medical textbooks. His military position (res) has been Commander of the Israeli Airforce Trauma Unit.