Brian Burns
Professor Brian Burns is an emergency medicine specialist in Sydney. Specialist in prehospital and retrieval medicine with Sydney HEMS (NSW Ambulance) and it's Research Co-Lead. Trauma specialist at Royal North Shore Hospital-MTC and the state SCI and major burns centre.
Clinical Professor at Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Sydney University and Clinical Professor Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University. Clinical researcher in shock, trauma, resuscitation and bleeding with >100 peer-reviewed publications. Faculty with Resuscitology, STRESS and ATACC. Motto: mediocritatum detestor. Twitter/X: @HawkmoonHEMS
Professor Brian Burns is an emergency medicine specialist in Sydney. Specialist in prehospital and retrieval medicine with Sydney HEMS (NSW Ambulance) and it's Research Co-Lead. Trauma specialist at Royal North Shore Hospital-MTC and the state SCI and major burns centre.
Clinical Professor at Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Sydney University and Clinical Professor Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University. Clinical researcher in shock, trauma, resuscitation and bleeding with >100 peer-reviewed publications. Faculty with Resuscitology, STRESS and ATACC. Motto: mediocritatum detestor. Twitter/X: @HawkmoonHEMS
Emily Holmes
Professor Emily Holmes, PhD, DClinPsych is a mental health scientist at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University. Her focus is reducing intrusive memories (“flashbacks”) after trauma, such as those experienced by intensive care staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Intrusive memories are the hallmark symptom of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and take the form of mental images. Moving from laboratory studies to clinical trials, Emily has pioneered a new method to reduce intrusive memories using an imagery-competing task. As we will explore, this new form of treatment targets the brain’s visual system in a brief 3-step digital intervention including a computer game (Tetris®) – and there is no need to talk about the trauma in detail. Given the scale of trauma worldwide, she is passionate about using science to develop scalable interventions to make treatment more accessible.
Emily completed her clinical psychology training at Royal Holloway University of London, a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, and became Professor in 2010 at the University of Oxford. She is the recipient of several international awards, including from the American Psychological Association and the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Emily serves on the Board of Trustees of the research charity "MQ Foundation". She is a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien) and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts UK.
For some key publications that Emily will refer to in her talk on reducing “flashbacks” see: Kanstrup et al. 2024; Iyadurai et al., 2023; Ramineni et al., 2023; Patel et al., 2024;
For more information about Emily’s research, please visit her website: www.emilyholmes.net
She loves science, art and nature but has never managed a black run without falling over.
Professor Emily Holmes, PhD, DClinPsych leads PERCEPT – Mental Imagery and Mental Health at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University. Holmes received her BA (Hons) in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, UK, and her Masters in Social Sciences at Uppsala University, Sweden.
She is also a clinician and completed a clinical psychology training doctorate at Royal Holloway University of London, and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. She became Professor in 2010 at the University of Oxford. She is the recipient of several international awards, including from the American Psychological Association, the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Rudbeck Medal from Uppsala University.
Holmes serves on the Board of Trustees of the research charity "MQ Foundation". She became a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien) in 2018. She was elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts UK in 2023. Her research is underpinned by a core interest in mental health science, and the translation of basic findings to create innovations to improve psychological treatments. She is particular interested in the persistence of intrusive memories after trauma exposure (e.g. for healthcare workers in the COVID-19 pandemic), and deriving novel ways to more easily treat this that could be scalable and brief.
Halden Hutchinson-Bazely
Halden is an intensive care and pre hospital care doctor in England, currently working in Leicester Glenfield doing ECMO. He completed HEMS training with East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) where he is a clinical supervisor and faculty member. He is a volunteer with the North West Prehospital Care Charity (NWPCCC).
Halden has a deep interest in simulation and medical education, in particular optimising human performance in pressurised critical situations. He is an ATACC course director which allows him to combine this with cutting edge trauma care. His research interests include the physiology of exsanguination, endovascular resuscitation, and cardiac arrest.
He is part of the team delivering the ERICA-ARREST trial assessing REBOA for non-traumatic cardiac arrest at EAAA, and a faculty member of the EndoVascular resuscitation and Trauma Management (EVTM) society.
Karina Damsgaard Norby
Karina is Certified MSc in Psychology & Specialist in Psychotherapy. She is specialised in Psychology and Mental Health in Emergency Settings, and conducts training and education in areas such as Communication Skills for Emergency Situations, Crisis Intervention and Psychological First Aid, Disaster Mental Health Response, Resilience Training and Stress Management, Self-care Practices, Communication with Patients and Relatives etc.
Karina is affiliated with the Danish Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, as HEMS psychologist where she is also doing research. Additionally, she is the lead psychologist in the Danish REPEL-concept (Resilience in Pediatric Life Support) and former crisis psychologist in the Danish Military. Furthermore, she offers supervision, counseling, and therapy.
Karina is Certified MSc in Psychology & Specialist in Psychotherapy. She is specialised in Psychology and Mental Health in Emergency Settings, and conducts training and education in areas such as Communication Skills for Emergency Situations, Crisis Intervention and Psychological First Aid, Disaster Mental Health Response, Resilience Training and Stress Management, Self-care Practices, Communication with Patients and Relatives etc. Karina is affiliated with the Danish Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, as HEMS psychologist where she is also doing research. Additionally, she is the lead psychologist in the Danish REPEL-concept (Resilience in Pediatric Life Support) and former crisis psychologist in the Danish Military. Furthermore, she offers supervision, counseling, and therapy.
Kate Prior
Surgeon Captain Kate Prior is a consultant anaesthetist in the Royal Navy and at King’s College Hospital in London. Her particular interests are the provision anaesthesia for the multiply injured patient and leading the trauma team in the initial assessment, resuscitation and management of both adult and paediatric trauma patients. She is also the Medical Lead for Resuscitation Services and an Associate Director of Medical Education. She was the recipient of the Medical Women’s Federation Centenary Award for an Established Doctor and is a Member of the Order of St John in recognition of her work in Afghanistan.
In her thirty-one years in the Royal Navy, her operational military role has taken her to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, Sierra Leone during the Ebola crisis, working in the UN in South Sudan and to sea with the aircraft carrier HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH as the Clinical Director for the Role 2 Afloat Surgical Team. Outside of the hospital, she provides medical care at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and mass sporting events in the UK. She is a keen theatregoer, tries not the get killed cycling to work and indulges in holidays, shoes and handbags.
Surgeon Captain Kate Prior is a consultant anaesthetist in the Royal Navy and at King’s College Hospital in London. Her particular interests are the provision anaesthesia for the multiply injured patient and leading the trauma team in the initial assessment, resuscitation and management of both adult and paediatric trauma patients. She is also the Medical Lead for Resuscitation Services and an Associate Director of Medical Education. She was the recipient of the Medical Women’s Federation Centenary Award for an Established Doctor and is a Member of the Order of St John in recognition of her work in Afghanistan. In her thirty-one years in the Royal Navy, her operational military role has taken her to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, Sierra Leone during the Ebola crisis, working in the UN in South Sudan and to sea with the aircraft carrier HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH as the Clinical Director for the Role 2 Afloat Surgical Team. Outside of the hospital, she provides medical care at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and mass sporting events in the UK. She is a keen theatregoer, tries not the get killed cycling to work and indulges in holidays, shoes and handbags.
Luciano Gattinoni
Professor Gattinoni is currently working as Gastprofessor at the University of Göttingen, GER, and as the Director of the Experimental Research Laboratory of Acute Respiratory Failure. He invented the “Extracorporeal CO2-removal” and promoted the “Baby Lung” and mechanical power concepts. He has previously served as President for the Italian National Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, The European Society of Intensive Care, and the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine.
His research focuses on the pathophysiology and treatment of acute respiratory failure, sepsis and acid-base disorders. He is an Honorary Member of the German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He has published more than 600 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and been awarded the Life Time Achievement Award by the American Society of Anesthesiology.
Professor Gattinoni is currently working as Gastprofessor at the University of Göttingen, GER, and as the Director of the Experimental Research Laboratory of Acute Respiratory Failure. He invented the “Extracorporeal CO2-removal” and promoted the “Baby Lung” and mechanical power concepts. He has previously served as President for the Italian National Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, The European Society of Intensive Care, and the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine. His research focuses on the pathophysiology and treatment of acute respiratory failure, sepsis and acid-base disorders. He is an Honorary Member of the German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He has published more than 600 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and been awarded the Life Time Achievement Award by the American Society of Anesthesiology.
Mark Forrest
Dr Mark Forrest (@obidoc) is a consultant in anaesthetics, critical care & prehospital care from the North West of England where he is also Associate Medical Director for Emergency care in his NHS Trust. He has over 35 years experience in these fields and additionally aeromedical retrieval (incl. Paeds & ECMO), diving/hyperbaric medicine and tactical medicine. Mark flies each week as a consultant on Helimed 29 and responds day to day as a ‘Fire & Rescue Doctor’.
He is passionate about trauma and critical care, especially in the prehospital arena and he has a specialist interest in vehicle extrication as a Road Traffic Collision Extrication Instructor. He is Medical Advisor to the National Fire Service College and National Fire Chief’s Council. Mark was the first appointed Medical Director for Fire & Rescue in the UK, over 18 years ago and now oversees 10 UK Police Forces and 3 Fire and Rescue Services, through The ATACC Group.
Dr Forrest is the Founder and Medical Director of the internationally renowned ATACC course (Anaesthesia Trauma & Critical Care) and he is the First President of the Faculty of Trauma & Critical Care. He wrote the comprehensive ATACC Immediate Emergency Care programme for emergency services and he is a huge advocate for immersive simulation, unique training and innovation. He has written over 30 various courses for The ATACC group, which he has established as an approved Royal College Surgeons (London) Education Centre, including the new Simulation in Trauma & Critical Care, Endovascular Clinical Simulation course and Mountain Trauma & Critical Care (MTACC).
Matt Morgan
Matt is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Honorary Professor at Cardiff University and Curtin University in Australia and regular BMJ columnist. He has contributed to >50 scientific articles following his PhD in artificial intelligence.
He has spoken at some of the largest book festivals in the world, written articles for diverse publications from The Guardian to Esquire magazine, featured on radio programmes including The Today Program as well as appearing on many television programs from CNN to The BBC. He gave the 2023 Woodridge Lecture and was nominated for the Royal Society’s David Attenborough prize for public engagement.
His first book CRITICAL tells remarkable stories of patients in the intensive care unit. His second book, ONE MEDICINE, explores how understanding animals can help treat human disease. His third book LIFE 2.0, will tell the stories of patients after surviving a cardiac arrest and what these can teach us about our own lives.
His is a member of the BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS and is the medical advisor for The National Theatre’ in London’s production of "Nye", the story of Aneurin Bevan starring Michel Sheen. He lives in Cardiff with his family and loves ice cream.
Michael Heller
Michael is the Chief Commercial and Strategy Officer of corpuls from Germany. He has worked in the field of Emergency Medicine since 2002 as a Paramedic in both Germany and the United States. He got his degree in Recue Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne and joined corpuls in 2010 where he started as a Product Manager.
From there he got involved in various research projects based around perfusion during mechanical chest compressions, monitoring of vital signs during resuscitation, transcutaneous pacing and defibrillation. Michael has been part of the corpuls management team in various roles since 2015 and has been involved with the TBS congress from the very beginning.
Michael J. Lauria
Michael Lauria started working in emergency services in 2002 as a Firefighter/EMT-I. In 2005, he graduated from Dartmouth College and enlisted in the Air Force, completed the rigorous Pararescue (PJ) training pipeline, and served at the 321st Special Tactics Squadron. During his service he deployed to OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM as the primary medic assigned to a Combat Search and Rescue Team, Joint Special Operations Task Force, and in support of C Company, 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne). In October 2012, he returned to New Hampshire after accepting a position as a Critical Care/Flight Paramedic for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Advanced Response Team (DHART).
Michael graduated with honors from the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine in 2018 and completed Emergency Medicine residency at the University of New Mexico. Currently, he has completed a fellowship in EMS and is currently a fellow in Critical Care Medicine. Outside of clinical responsibilities, he writes for the EMCrit podcast, consults for various emergency service organizations, and speaks around the world on clinical human factors and improving clinical performance in stressful situations.
Michael Seltz Kristensen
Michael is a CLINICIAN !!
....handling patients with all sorts of AIRWAY-challenges at the Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet – referral center for Ear-Nose-Throat- /Maxillo-Facial-/Trauma- and Cancer-patients in the Capital Region of Denmark.
Michael's professional dedication is optimizing the MANAGING OF THE DIFFICULT AIRWAY in all its aspects and different settings and he drives continuous research, development and international collaboration worldwide. He is heading the annual Scandinavian, international, course
“Airwaymanagement for Anaesthesiologists” backed by the webpage www.airwaymanagement.dk, offering free educational resources. Michael is a member of the Board of Directors of both EAMS (European Airway Management Society, past president) and SAM (Society for Airway Management, USA) and co-editor of the new textbook “Core Topics in Airway Management!” that summons up what a clinician needs in 2024 to manage the airway of his patients safely.
(Some of Michael’s PubMed publications can be found here.
Neil Spencely
Neil is the Director of Paediatric Intensive Care and Anaesthetics in Glasgow and the former Scottish Patient Safety Lead for Paediatrics.
He is originally from The Highlands, trained in Edinburgh but soon defected West to start his somewhat bumpy career at Glasgow Children's. After living in Tauranga, Sydney and Vancouver he bizarrely returned to Glasgow where the weather is terrible but the people are positive and funny.
His physiological interests include oxygen delivery, this and that but mostly that. However, his psychological interests, and real passion, lie in workplace behaviours, culture, resilience engineering and being glass half full.
Peter G. Brindley
Peter is a full-time Critical Care Doc who suspects nobody reads bios. Just in case, he is a tenured full Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Medical Ethics, with over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 30 book chapters, and over 100 other articles, including regular opinion pieces for the British Medical Journal. He has written one book and co-hosts a podcast, The Critical Care Commute. He has presented to audiences in 15 countries during approximately 650 invited presentations, 50 plenaries and 10 named lectures. He is convinced happiness comes from finding meaning and showing gratitude. His is proudest of two feral kids, neither of whom give a hoot about his work-related achievements.
Pierre Muller
Pierre is an emergency medicine doctor and an IFMGA mountain guide. He is combining his passion for mountains with medical expertise. He has been an active member of the French Alpine Rescue Team with the Gendarmerie in the Northern Alps for over two decades, participating in more than 500 daring rescue operations.
He works as an emergency room doctor in Sallanches, near Chamonix, where he regularly treats patients with altitude-related illnesses and injuries from mountain accidents.
As an experienced mountain guide, Pierre has climbed some of the biggest walls in the Alps, including the north face of the Eiger and the Matterhorn in winter. His expeditions have taken him to diverse locations including Madagascar, the Sahara, Pakistan, and Yosemite.
Pierre has served as the team doctor for Salomon TV expeditions, accompanying crews to Svalberg, Norway and the Greenland ice sheet. He continues to ensure safety during freeride competitions and movies in the Alps, the Caucasus, and the Arctic.
Robbie Lendrum
Robbie is Scottish Cardiothoracic Anaesthetist and Intensivist working at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London and as a Bart’s Health NHS Trust Prehospital Care Consultant working with London’s Air Ambulance.
His research interests are focused on interventional therapies to address the problem of exsanguination following major injury.
Rob Mac Sweeney
Rob Mac Sweeney is an intensivist at the Regional Intensive Care Unit in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast; an Honorary Professor of Practice at Queen's University Belfast; and the founder of Critical Care Reviews.
He is best known for his efforts to disseminate evidence in critical care, which he does through the various components of the Critical Care Reviews platform. Between the annual Critical Care Reviews Meeting in Belfast and CCR Down Under in Australia, CCR has hosted 19 major trial results in 2024, all freely livestreamed.
Samy Sadek
I work as a consultant in emergency medicine at The Royal London Hospital and in pre-hospital Care with London's Air Ambulance. I also led the clinical governance at Essex and Herts Air Ambulance, our charity's neighbouring network, for many years, a far more rural set up than the urban London system.
My particular interests include education, design and innovation, endovascular resuscitation and changing outcomes in exsanguination. He led the REBOA project together with others at London's Air Ambulance and aims to work across industries to innovate this and other procedures. This has evolved into a strong drive to improve outcomes in exsanguination, in London, and accross the world, through innovation and education and.. basically by any means necessary! Seeing change, even if it is only tiny steps at a time is the only thing that comes close to countering the misery we face on a daily basis. But I firmly believe there is lots we still don’t know, lots we are just beginning to understand and huge hope for the future, especially with regular meetings of minds, ideas and energy like The Big Sick.
Having flown with many different air ambulances, I have found a love for the culture of these close knit teams who surround ourselves with those who dare to try, to push, to learn and to try again.. and a passion for training them to do this in unpredictable and stressful situations. I really can’t believe what the people I work with are able to achieve.
Out of work I love spending time with my crazy lovely family and occasionally sneaking away to my other great love, the mountains, on my bike or my snowboard.. or any other excuse to be out there!.. so thank you for having me.
Sean Eaton
Sean is an accomplished board-certified flight and critical care paramedic in the US with over two decades of experience in prehospital emergency and critical care transport medicine. Prior to a career in healthcare, Sean served seven years in the US Coast Guard as a Maritime Search and Rescue Specialist. He currently works as a HEMS transport clinician in Colorado and is also the Founder and Chief Educator for the Mechanical Ventilation Training Institute.
Sean is passionate about improving both the patient and provider experience when caring for critically ill patients, with a particular interest in mechanical ventilation. He envisions a world where no patient suffers because of poor mechanical ventilation care, and every patient is given the best chance of returning home to their loved ones.
Sean is the course director for Basic Ventilator Life Support (BVLS), Prehospital Ventilator Life Support (PHVLS), and Advanced Ventilator Life Support (AVLS).
When he’s not flying, teaching, or studying (Sean is finishing a degree in Organizational Leadership), he loves spending time with his family exploring the beautiful Rocky Mountains. Be sure to ask about all his animals.
Sean Keenan
Dr. Keenan is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services, with a particular interest in wilderness, remote, and austere medicine. He serves as the Assistant Director; Prehospital, Trauma and Operational Strategy for the CU Anschutz Center for COmbat Medicine and BATtlefield (COMBAT) Research at the University of Colorado in Aurora, Colorado. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, CU Anschutz, Aurora, CO, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD.
He also serves as a prehospital and austere medicine consultant to the Joint Trauma System, Defense Health Agency, and U.S. Department of Defense, and is a UC Health EMS Medical Director for the greater Teller County, CO (Pike’s Peak) region covering over 1200 square miles with 14 fire and emergency medical services agencies. He spent 27 years on active duty, including 13 years directly supporting or assigned to Special Operations Forces units, with five (5) combat deployments. He is on the Board of Directors and is the President for Special Operations Medical Association (SOMA).
His passion is prehospital trauma education and he is a small-business co-owner and Chief Medical Officer of Ragged Edge Solutions, LLC based in Greenville, NC, and Trustee and CEO of a medical education nonprofit company, Specialized Medical Standards based in Colorado Springs, CO (www.austerecare.org) which sponsors the Austere Emergency Care curriculum and directly supports the Prolonged Field Care podcast and the popular medical website: www.prolongedfieldcare.org.
Simon Carley
Professor Simon Carley MB ChB, PGDip, DipIMC (RCS Ed), FRCS (Ed)(1998), FHEA, FAcadMed, FRCEM, FTACC, MPhil, MD, PhD is a Consultant in Adult and Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Manchester NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a Consultant in Enhanced Pre-Hospital Care with North West Air Ambulance, a BASICS doctor with North West Pre-Hospital Critical Care Charity and a MERIT doctor with North West Ambulance Service. He is a Professor at the Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre (University of Manchester) and visiting Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University.
He is co-founder of the BestBets website and the St.Emlyn’s social media learning platforms as Creator, Webmaster, owner and Editor in Chief of the St Emlyn’s blog and podcast. He leads the MSc in emergency medicine at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is an Education Associate with the General Medical Council. He is Dean of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. His research interests include diagnostics, Medical Education, Major incident management & Evidence based Emergency Medicine. He is on twitter as @EMManchester.