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Book today and join your fellow extreme medics for inspiration and engagement that is quite literally out of this world!

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World-renowned experts across the medical and expedition disciplines are gathering in Edinburgh in November for the largest 3-day medical event in the world and so could you.

Throughout the 2019 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.

Here are a few of the incredible benefits open to a professional of your calibre…

  • The potential to further your career by building lasting relationships with other significant leaders in their fields.
  • Hear from an exceptional selection of explorers, medics, armed services personnel and humanitarians as they share their experiences and educate about the key issues and challenges being faced today in the world of extreme medicine
  • Unique workshops covering a range of topics, including how to react in the first crucial minutes of a multiple casualty terrorist attack, how to get your first job as an expedition medic, expedition dentistry and IO learning sessions.
  • Exhibitions from some of the world’s most advanced innovators in extreme medicine.
  • CPD credits: for each day you attend, you receive 6 CPD credits; a total of 18 if you attend the full 3 days.

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 now: www.extrememedicineexpo

N.B. If you are unable to attend our conference, you will be able to listen to many of the talks on our podcast called ‘WEMcast’: wemcast.podbean.com.

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Chris Imray, Altitude and Frostbite Expert

Chairing Day 1 of #WEM18 – Prof. Chris Imray – Expedition Medicine Vascular Surgeon and world-renowned expert on frostbite and cold injuries

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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.

Be part of something amazing and book your #WEM18 tickets today!

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