Adapted from the incredibly popular session at WEM18 and WEM19, this virtual Expedition & Expedition Medicine panel will cover how to get into the industry as an Expedition Medic or Remote Medic. There are many amazing opportunities all over the world and (more…)
World-renowned experts across the medical and expedition disciplines are gathering online in October for the largest 2-day medical event in the world and so could you. Welcome to #VirtualWEM20 – split over two action-packed days on 17th and 18th October, you’ll encounter the biggest and best content we had planned for the stage at WEM20, plus we’re adding brand new panel sessions and speakers.
Throughout the 2020 Virtual World Extreme Medicine Conference you’ll have the opportunity to find out more on Extreme, Expedition and Wilderness Medicine, Disaster & Humanitarian Medicine and Extreme Pre-Hospital Care and Retrieval Medicine ; as well as discovering cutting-edge research, get hands-on with industry-leading practical techniques and network with like-minded medical mavericks from around the globe.
Get a world-class virtual experience with many of the usual ‘in-person’ WEM Conference benefits moved into the virtual space:
Join one of the most energetic and unique networks in the universe and be part of the world’s greatest gathering of extreme medics and thought-leaders; dedicated to inspiring and sharing medical knowledge with you.
Book your place now: www.extrememedicineexpo
N.B. If you are unable to attend this year’s conference, you can catch up on many of the talks through our podcast – ‘WEMcast’ or watch past conference sessions on our dedicated YouTube channel.
We are delighted that Expedition Medicine world authority Prof. Chris Imray is coming back and chairing the morning Day 1 of our 2018 World Extreme Medicine Conference.
Chris is a Consultant Vascular and Renal Transplant Surgeon at UHCW NHS Trust and a Professor at Warwick Medical School, Coventry University and Exeter University. He has a Diploma in Mountain Medicine is an Expedition Medicine expert and is a world-renowned expert on frostbite and cold injuries; as well as having medical interests in extreme altitude physiology and the brain at high altitude. Chris will also take to the main stage to talk about new research into the effects of altitude on brain activity.
Chris started climbing while at school, and has continued to travel all over the world to indulge this passion; climbing as far afield as the sea cliffs of Cornwall to the volcanoes of Chile. He began working with the Birmingham Medical Research Expeditionary Society in the late 1980s, which is where his interest in altitude research became a passion. Chris now continues his research with the Caudwell Xtreme Everest Research Group and more recently has become involved with the UCL team at The Centre for Altitude Space and Extreme Environment Medicine (CASE).
Having been one of the medical officers taking part in the 2006 Xtreme Cho Oyu expedition to Tibet, Chris went on to be the Deputy Climbing Leader of the 2007 Caudwell Xtreme Everest Expedition. He summited both Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world (8201m) and Everest (8848m), and has the dubious distinction of having the second lowest arterial gases ever recorded in an adult (at 8400m)! This was the first ever measurement of the level of oxygen in human blood at 8400m, on the balcony of Everest and was the centrepiece of an extensive and continuing programme of research into hypoxia (low oxygen levels) and human performance at extreme altitude.
Chris has published over 130 peer review papers on various subjects including altitude medicine, expedition medicine, cold injury, vascular surgery and renal transplantation, and remains an active mountaineer and altitude researcher.
Join us this year where for the first time in WEM history, we’re hosting a virtual conference (17th & 18th Oct) – so you can be inspired from the comfort of your sofa (or, frankly, from wherever in the world you can get online). Book your place today!
