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General practitioner with 18 years of military service as Medical Officer and Senior Medical Officer. Sat on the medical boards that decide fitness for entry, deployment and continued service, with first-hand knowledge of how military medical standards are applied and how an injury affects a service career.

Four seasons in Antarctica and 15 in the Arctic, treating freezing and non-freezing cold injury in the field. Sits on the UK working group on frostbite and non-freezing cold injury.

Appointed MBE for medical support and mentoring in Iraq and Syria. Senior advisory roles with the ICRC and the HALO Trust, and CBRN course design for UK Defence, the WHO and the ICRC.

• Military recruitment and fitness for service standards
• Loss of military career
• Military and veteran health
• Non-freezing cold injury and frostbite
• Hypothermia and exertional heat injury
• Expedition medicine
• General practice
• Toxicology and major trauma

General Practitioner by background, on the GMC General Practitioner Register since 2006, with a career in the medicine of cold and remote environments. Medical Director of Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions from 2003 to 2025, responsible for medical cover of deep field Antarctic operations.

Emergency medicine in the French Pyrenees and doctor to the PGHM mountain rescue service. Faculty for the UK Diploma in Mountain Medicine, and editor of the polar medicine section of Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine.

Read jurisprudence at Oxford and qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court before medicine.

• Non-freezing cold injury
• Frostbite and hypothermia
• Altitude and mountain medicine
• Polar, expedition and remote medicine
• Medical planning and evacuation in austere environments

Medical Director of Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions, responsible for medical care and medical risk management across its Antarctic operations from Union Glacier to the South Pole, with nine seasons in Antarctica. He and his teams manage ten to twenty cases of frostbite and five to ten of polar thigh each season. He wrote and operationalised the Antarctic frostbite management protocols, and leads the clinical care and follow-up.

General Practitioner in Cornwall, splitting his NHS work between general practice and the emergency department.

Faculty for the UK Diploma in Mountain Medicine and the University of Exeter MSc in Extreme Medicine, and a mountain guide tutor on the prevention, recognition and management of cold injuries. Thirty years as an expedition leader and doctor in polar and high altitude regions, including an unsupported 2,000 km snow-kite crossing of Greenland in 2022.

• Frostbite
• Non-freezing cold injury
• Hypothermia
• Polar, expedition and remote medicine
• Medical planning and evacuation in austere environments
• General practice

Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary, and Medical Director of AVA Clinics, Manchester. On the GMC Specialist Register in vascular surgery since 2022. Greater Manchester Lead for Op RESTORE, the NHS veterans’ physical health and wellbeing service.

Reports 60 to 80 instructions a year, including high value negligence claims, split roughly three to one between claimant and defence. Has prepared joint statements under CPR 35.12 and given oral evidence under oath. Holds Bond Solon civil procedure and report writing certificates.

• Aortic aneurysm, open and endovascular repair
• Peripheral arterial disease and critical limb ischaemia
• Varicose veins and chronic venous insufficiency
• Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism
• Carotid artery disease and stroke prevention
• Diabetic foot disease and amputation
• Vascular trauma and injury assessment
• Venous and arterial imaging

GP Partner, on the GMC General Practitioner Register since 2006 and a trainer recognised by the General Medical Council. GP Trainer and Educational Supervisor, Child Protection Lead and Prescribing Lead. NHS Practice Lead for the Armed Forces and Veterans Recognition Scheme.

Military medicine as a Civilian Medical Practitioner and Army Recruit Medical Examiner, with particular expertise in medical appeals, and currently contracted to the Army Personnel Centre on medical appeals.

• General practice standard of care
• Military and veteran health
• Recruit selection, fitness for service and medical appeals
• Prescribing and medicines governance
• Safeguarding and child protection
• Women's health, paediatrics and mental health
• Cold injury

Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Raigmore Hospital, Inverness from 2002, specialising in trauma and spinal surgery, and clinically active since retiring from full-time NHS practice in 2024. On the GMC Specialist Register since 2000 and a trainer recognised by the General Medical Council.

Lieutenant Colonel, Royal Army Medical Corps, retired, with operational service from the first Gulf War through to Iraq.

Surgical Lead for UK-Med, and vice-chair of the Faculty of Remote, Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Appointed OBE in the 2023 New Year Honours.

• Trauma and orthopaedic surgery
• Spinal injury and surgery
• Fracture management and outcomes
• Limb injury and amputation
• Blast and ballistic injury
• Military and veteran health

Dental surgeon in NHS general practice in Leeds since 2013, with a special interest in oral surgery. Master of Dental Surgery in oral and maxillofacial surgery, and a Fellow in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England since 1997.

Honorary Clinical Professor in Extreme Medicine at the University of Exeter Medical School, author of the dental chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine, and dental surgeon to the British Antarctic Survey across three Antarctic seasons. Lead tutor on facial trauma training in a conflict setting.

• Dental and facial trauma
• Dentoalveolar and maxillofacial injury
• Dental negligence and standard of care
• Emergency dentistry
• Dental and facial pain
• Treatment related complications and prognosis
• Expedition and remote dentistry

Consultant Neuroradiologist at Royal Preston Hospital since 2019, on the GMC Specialist Register in clinical radiology since 2018.

Leads the neuro-oncology and complex spinal imaging multidisciplinary teams, and performs spinal intervention under fluoroscopic and CT guidance.

Reports on the imaging and on its interpretation by others: whether a finding is there, whether it was reported to standard, and above all whether the trauma caused it or it was already present.

• Causation from imaging: traumatic versus pre-existing
• Traumatic brain injury
• Spinal trauma and complex spinal imaging
• Stroke, including delayed or missed diagnosis
• Neuro-oncology
• Imaging interpretation and reporting standards

Consultant Anaesthetist at East Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and Consultant in Prehospital Emergency Medicine with the North West Air Ambulance. GMC subspecialty accreditation in prehospital emergency medicine.

Deputy Chair of the Clinical Standards Committee at the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, and a Fellow of the Faculty of Remote, Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare, both Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Humanitarian deployments with UK-Med, awarded the Humanitarian Medal.

• Prehospital emergency medicine
• Retrieval medicine
• Patient transfer, including critical care transfer
• Anaesthesia and critical care
• Major trauma
• Military and veteran health

General practitioner in single handed practice in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, on the GMC GP Register since 2008. Also provides topside medical cover to remote and offshore facilities.

Twenty five years of medical planning and on-location cover for expeditions in the Arctic, the Antarctic, the Himalayas and Alaska, including Everest expeditions, ski patrol and mountain rescue, and seasonal postings as search and rescue officer in the sub Antarctic.

Formerly Chief Medical Officer at the BBC, Medical Advisor to BBC Studios and Medical Associate for 1st Option Safety Group, covering pre-production medical planning, training and risk assessment. Awarded a Royal Humane Society testimonial for the management of a helicopter crash in the Himalayas. MSc in Sports and Exercise Medicine, University of Bath.

• Remote and rural general practice
• Cold injury, frostbite and hypothermia
• Altitude and mountain medicine
• Polar, expedition and remote medicine
• Medical planning, risk assessment and evacuation in austere environments
• Medical risk and duty of care in film and television production
• Sports and exercise medicine

Began his clinical career as an intensive care nurse. Now an experienced general practitioner, on the GMC GP Register since 2016, whose work spans the civil service, research, military medicine and acute specialties.

Military work includes exercises on the Canadian prairies, in the UK winter and in Norway.

• General practice
• Military and veteran health