Aebhric O'Kelly
Aebhric is a former US Army Green Beret and a board-certified Wilderness Paramedic.
He is the Founder and Dean Emeritus for the College of Remote and Offshore Medicine Foundation and a member of the Faculty Advisory Board for the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh.
Andrew Nicol
Professor Andrew Nicol (MBChB, FCS(SA), PhD) is the Director of the Groote Schuur Hospital
Trauma Centre and a Professor of Surgery at the University of Cape Town.
He obtained his PhD from UCT in 2011 with a thesis entitled; “The current management of
penetrating cardiac injuries”.
He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Trauma, and the author of over 100 trauma peer review publications. He is the congress organizer of the Cape Town Trauma Conference."
Anne Weaver
Anne is one of the UK's foremost female pre-hospital care doctors.
Anne’s career has been notable for a number of firsts, becoming the youngest female doctor to become
a helicopter emergency medicine Consultant in the UK
in 2004 and going on to be London’s Air Ambulance’s first female Lead Clinician, Trauma Director for
London and Medical Director for LAA.
Anne has played a key role in establishing infrastructure and
driving innovation in the wider sector of pre-hospital medicine. She co-founded the first pre-hospital
care programme in the UK for medical students, helping to educate the next generation and was pivotal
in the introduction of blood on board. Introduced in 2012 under Anne’s direction, this pioneering
initiative marked the first instance in the UK where blood could be transported in an air ambulance.
Anne’s commitment to innovation continues to this day, playing a key role in the ongoing SWIFT trial.
Along with colleagues at NHSBT and other air ambulances nationwide, the trial examines how changes to
the type of blood carried by trauma teams can help improve patient outcomes.
Claire Park
Dr Claire Park MBE is a Consultant in Prehospital Care with London HEMS and in Critical Care and
Trauma at Kings College Hospital. Claire is also a reserve army consultant with 23 years of previous
regular army experience. Claire is the London HEMS lead for Major Incidents and the Chief Investigator
on a national research project looking at ‘Improving patient outcomes in the hot zone of major incidents.’
She is also the Medical Adviser for the Metropolitan Police Service, sits on the National Police Clinical Panel, and is a Member of the Guidelines Committee for the US based Committee for Tactical Emergency Care (CTECC).
Dr Park has worked closely with all of the emergency services in London on developing the joint response to high threat incidents. This multiagency work has included the development of a new primary scene triage tool which has now been implemented by all UK emergency services as well as the military and many voluntary aid organisations known as “Ten Second Triage.“
Cosmo Scurr
Dr Cosmo Scurr is a Consultant in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesia, dividing his time between London’s Air Ambulance (Barts Health NHS Trust) and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, where he serves as Major Trauma Anaesthesia Lead. His clinical work spans the continuum of trauma care, from the roadside to the operating theatre, with a focus on delivering high-quality, patient-centred care in high-acuity environments.
At London’s Air Ambulance, Dr Scurr leads on Education and Digital Transformation, driving innovation in clinical training, operational efficiency, and data-informed practice. Beyond his NHS roles, he has extensive experience in event medicine and crowd doctoring, and is an active volunteer with the BASICS charity, providing immediate care in the community.
His professional interests centre on advancing pre-hospital and trauma systems, integrating technology into clinical practice, and developing the next generation of clinicians through education and mentorship.
Craig Wylie
Craig is the Director of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) for the Western Cape Government, South Africa,
overseeing one of the busiest prehospital systems in the country. A seasoned Advanced Life Support
practitioner with over two decades of clinical and leadership experience, he has played a pivotal role in
strengthening trauma care systems and enhancing emergency response outcomes in resource-constrained settings.
He holds a Master’s in Emergency Medical Care as well as an Advanced Diploma in Healthcare Management.
His academic work bridges operational challenges with evidence-based solutions. As an Honorary Lecturer
at the University of Cape Town, he supervises postgraduate students in the Division of Emergency Medicine,
including research on aeromedical services and airway management.
Craig’s published research spans a wide range of topics. He is particularly interested in data-driven decision-making,
system performance metrics, and translating research into policy.
Darren Braude
Darren Braude is a tenured Professor of Adult and Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of New Mexico
where he is also the Tim Fleming Endowed Professor of EMS and holds an academic cross-appointment in the Department
of Anesthesiology. He serves as Medical Director for UNM Lifeguard Air Emergency Services, Rio Rancho Fire Rescue
and Corrales Fire Department. Dr. Braude has been a licensed EMS provider since 1986 and regularly responds in the
field as part of the UNM EMS Consortium and as a flight physician.
As Co-Director of the Center for Prehospital Resuscitation he has helped bring ECMO, cerebral oximetry and TEE
to the prehospital setting. Dr. Braude is passionate about airway education and is the International Medical
Director for the Difficult Airway Course: EMS and faculty for the Difficult Airway Course: Emergency.
His academic interests include airway management, cervical spine immobilization (or hopefully the lack thereof),
air medical transport and critical care in non-ICU settings. He has authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed
publications as well as written and edited textbooks.
Dave Weber
Dave Weber has worked as a rescue technician, remote site medic and skills instructor for over two decades.
Dave is the founder of Mountain Rescue Collective, a technical training and program assessment firm dedicated to ground
and air SAR operations.
He also works as a climbing ranger in Grand Teton National Park and a flight paramedic and hoist rescuer for
Intermountain Life Flight. Dave lives in Park City, Utah with his wife and daughter during the fall, winter
and spring months before transitioning to rescue work for the National Park Service in Jackson, Wyoming for the summer months.
Eleanor Overgaard-Brown
Eleanor is a very experienced nurse working for both London's Air Ambulance in her role as Patient Liaison Nurse,
and at King's College Hospital Children's Critical Care as a Senior Sister. She is committed to understanding more
about the patient's experience and firmly believes that it is only by listening to our patients and their families
can meaningful change and progress be made at every stage of the trauma journey. These vital lessons continue to
influence the training and ethos at London's Air Ambulance.
Eleanor's particular areas of interest include paediatric major trauma management, bereavement care,
human factors in pre-hospital medicine and violence reduction in young people. Notable publications
include "12 Memories of Sudden and Unexpected Loss" and "When Someone I Love is in Hospital".
Eleanor is the creator and director of the "Paediatric Major Trauma Course: From Roadside to Recovery"
held annually in London.
When not at work, Eleanor enjoys classical music, running and hosting dinner parties. She lives in London with her husband Thomas, and Charles the Cat, both of whom offer boundless support and joy.
Emily Holmes
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 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.
Eric Akrish
Lieutenant Commander Eric Akrish, RN BSN CEN CTMP, has over 25 years of prehospital,
Emergency Trauma and Critical Care experience, with over 16 years in the military as a enroute
care flight nurse.
He is also an experienced endovascular specialist and ultrasound specialist,
with advanced skills in vascular access and point-of-care ultrasound.
James Price
Dr James Price is an emergency physician at Cambridge University Hospitals
and a HEMS Consultant with the East Anglian Air Ambulance, UK.
As EAAA’s Research and Development Lead, he drives innovation in out-of-hospital
cardiac arrest, prehospital emergency anaesthesia, and hyper-acute
traumatic brain injury management.
He is one of the Principal Investigators for the
ERICA-ARREST
trial and the Clinical Lead for the
Brain First study, a world-first
programme using prehospital whole-blood brain biomarkers to improve diagnostic
accuracy and guide triage in suspected intracranial haemorrhage.
Jeff Kerrie
Jeff is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia,
practicing acute care internal medicine on Vancouver island. He also works in
dive/hyperbaric medicine at the provincial chamber in Vancouver. Jeff holds a Master’s in Clinical Bioethics, and is the Executive Medical Director for
Quality, Safety, Research/Innovation, and Ethics at Island Health.
He has an interest in medicine in extreme environments,
and his experience includes 18 years on the largest ski patrol in North America,
high-altitude research on Mt Everest, space medicine studies, and international health
missions in remote locations.
Jennifer Dow
Jennifer Dow began her medical career as a ski patroller in 1983.
This experience informed her ultimate choice of pursuing emergency medicine.
It also drove her to continue practicing medicine in wild places - not just the hospital.
While still practicing in the emergency department, she serves as the medical director for
multiple agencies - including the National Park Service - Alaska Region,
National Ski Patrol (United States) - Alaska Division, Guardian Flight Alaska,
The Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, in addition to multiple guide services and small EMS units.
Her passion for rescuer safety manifests by providing training to field medics,
streamlining clinical practice guidelines, and direct work in the field.
Working and training with the Denali Mountaineering Rangers continues to be a highlight of her career
Jelsche Apel
Jelsche Apel is a Senior Physician Anaesthesiology and Prehospital Emergency Medicine at the
trauma center Chur located in the eastern part of the Swiss Alps. Additionally he works on
HEMS at the Swiss Air Rescue REGA for more than six years and has particular experience in
the care for trauma patients in the mountains.
Jelsche specializes in airway management, medical
education and prehospital emergency medicine. If not in hospital or in the helicopter cabin you
will find him together with his wife and kids on the skis or bike in the mountains next to his hometown.
John N. Kheir
Dr. John Kheir is a pediatric cardiac intensivist and translational scientist at
Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His clinical practice focuses
on the care of critically ill neonates and children with complex congenital heart disease.
Dr. Kheir is also an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
Over the past 15 years, Dr. Kheir has led a research program dedicated to advancing
oxygen therapeutics. He is the lead inventor of injectable oxygen microparticles and
has pioneered their development from concept through to preclinical efficacy, safety studies,
and regulatory readiness for human trials.
He has served as Principal Investigator on multiple federally funded grants from the NIH and Department of Defense,
and holds multiple patents in the field of gas therapeutics and critical care informatics.
Dr. Kheir is internationally recognized for his contributions to resuscitation science and
innovative critical care technologies.
Katya Evans
Kat Evans is a Specialist Emergency Physician in South Africa at Mitchells Plain Hospital &
Heideveld Hospital and faculty at the University of Cape Town. Born in Kenya, grew up in
South Africa & prior to becoming a doctor had a background in prehospital care.
She spends her time looking for solutions to the EM challenges in both adults and paediatrics,
caused by a quadruple burden of disease, reflecting the evolving landscape of the city
(substance abuse, obesity/metabolic, HIV/TB & trauma/tox).
She also has a special interest in palliative medicine in the emergency care setting.
Leo Anthony Celi
Dr. Celi is the principal investigator behind the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC)
and its offsprings, MIMIC-CXR, MIMIC-ED, MIMIC-ECHO, and MIMIC-ECG.
With close to 100k users worldwide,
an open codebase, and close to 10k publications in Google Scholar, the datasets have undoubtedly shaped
the course of machine learning in healthcare in the United States and beyond.
Dr. Celi and his team have organized over 100 health data science events in 40 countries in the last decade,
bringing together students, clinicians, researchers, and engineers to leverage data routinely collected in
the process of care.
Loredana Bessone
Loredana Bessone heads the Analogue Field Training and Exploration Testing Unit at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre.
Loredana holds a MS in Information Science from the University of Turin and a MS in Space System Engineering from the Technical University of Delft.
She developed her Master Thesis at CERN, and joined ESA in 1990.
Since 1998, Loredana has developed, trained and managed instructional technologies and instructor training standards for the International Space Station.
From 2000 to 2007 Loredana was SCUBA instructor, Test Conductor and Test Director for EVA training in the ESA Neutral Buoyancy Facility. Since 2004, Loredana has developed and led human factors and operational skills, survival and expeditionary field training for astronauts, including CAVES: an expeditionary training course in earth underground and PANGAEA: a planetary field geology course in earth analogue.
Melody Bishop
Melody Bishop (B.Sc.) is a Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) and a Certified Clinical Anaesthesia Assistant (CCAA).
She has worked in diverse areas of critical care medicine for almost 20 years with special focus in
intensive care, prehospital and critical care transport and the operating room.
Her love for complex medical challenges brought her to the flight medicine world,
where she worked as a critical care first responder flying into remote communities in Northern Canada.
In her roles as a Clinical Educator for a large critical care transport company and a college professor,
she has been involved in teaching and educating a wide range of medical professionals over the last decade
at the post-secondary, post-graduate and professional level—specializing in Critical Care RN and
paramedical mechanical ventilation and respiratory education.
Her mission as a teacher is to simplify the “scary” topic of ventilation and respiratory physiology and
present it to all medical professionals in an easy to understand and approachable way.
Michael Broome
Michael Broomé, born 1961 in Stockholm. Studied Engineering Physics 1981-1983 at KTH, Stockholm and
Medical School 1983-1989 at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Specialized in Anesthesia and Intensive Care since 1994. 10 years’ experience with
cardiac anesthesia and 15 years with ECMO in neonatal, pediatric and adult patients.
Experimental research concerning Angiotensin. PhD 2001.
Medical Advisor in St Jude Medical Pacemaker/CRT Research Department 2006-2012.
Associate Professor in Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Karolinska Institutet, 2015 and
Associate Professor Biomedical Engineering, KTH, 2015. Since many years working with
real-time cardiovascular simulation models including ECMO, ventricular assist devices and cardiovascular pathophysiology in neonatal, pediatric and adult patients..
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 Rescue Engineering from the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne.
Michael 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 event from the very beginning
Mike Abernethy
Dr. Mike Abernethy is a PGY-38 Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine with a
lifelong passion for delivering patient care in austere and unconventional environments—
be it a barnyard, roadside, or rural ERs. His career path has been anything but traditional,
taking him from steel mills to carrier flight decks, and from manure pits to international podiums.
Before entering medicine, Dr. Abernethy worked as a steelworker, EMT, naval engineer, and
military flight surgeon. He’s also been a world-class marathoner and even came close (but no cigar)
to becoming a NASA astronaut. These diverse experiences have shaped his unique approach to prehospital
and emergency care.
With over 35 years under the rotors and thousands of HEMS transports to his name, Dr. Abernethy is one of
the most experienced Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) physicians in the world.
He is a popular international speaker on all topics related to EM, PHEM and HEMS.
He is also a core faculty member and instructor with the legendary ATACC (Anaesthesia, Trauma and Critical Care) course.
Nathalie Pattyn
Nathalie Pattyn, MD, MPsy, MSc, PhD, has a mixed clinical, research and operational background.
She has been deployed with special forces teams as a medical officer in the Middle East and the Sahel;
and on numerous occasions as the sole physician to Antarctica stations.
The longest of these Antarctic deployments lasted for 15 months, during which she served as the physician at
the Halley VI station (British Antarctic Survey), while setting up a new Life Sciences lab for the European Space Agency.
In all these deployments, she combined clinical work with research on human performance.
In 2010, she founded the first multidisciplinary research unit in the Royal Military Academy in Belgium,
VIPER, with Professor Xavier Neyt, to promote a 360-degree approach to human performance by combining engineering,
psychology and biomedical science. She is currently an Invited Researcher at the Université de Montréal,
beyond her usual academic appointment as an Associate Professor in Human Performance
at the Royal Military Academy. She also serves as a Med Lt Col in the Belgian Defence.
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 Muller is an Emergency Medicine Doctor & Mountain Guide combining
his passion for mountains with medical expertise, Pierre 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.
Rasmus Hesselfeldt
Dr. Rasmus Hesselfeldt is lead consultant for the ENT/maxillofacial anaesthesia at
Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark. Daily work includes advanced airway management and
trauma team leadership. In collaboration with the rest of the TBS airway crew, he is co-hosting
an international airway management course (airwaymanagement.dk).
Dr. Hesselfeldt is a HEMS consultant and have experience from retrieval in Australia. He has
published research in the areas of airway management and preshospital care and did his PhD on
the impact of a HEMS in Denmark.
Sean Bilodeau
Dr. Bilodeau is faculty in the Master's of Austere Critical Care at the College of Remote
and Offshore Medicine. He is an attending physician with BlueWater Health working in rural,
critical access hospitals as well as a tertiary referral center.
He attended medical school at
the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, then went on to complete
emergency medicine residency at Brown University. He completed subspecialty training in
prehospital medicine at MaineHealth and is also a Fellow in the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. He worked as a nurse, paramedic, and physician in the critical care transport realm. He is the associate medical director for Portland Fire Department, and the medical director for the city's mobile medical outreach team. His work is grounded in a commitment to underserved populations and advancing prehospital and austere care through education and innovation
Sheldon Cheskes
Dr. Sheldon Cheskes is a Professor with the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of
Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, a scientist at the Li Ka Shing
Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital and an affiliate scientist at Sunnybrook Research
Institute. He is the Medical Director for the Regions of Halton and Peel with the Sunnybrook
Centre for Prehospital Medicine.
He is one of the principal investigators for the Canadian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium
(CanROC) and is a recognized international authority in the area of CPR quality and
out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation. Dr. Cheskes has published over 200 manuscripts
in high impact journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation, CMAJ and
Resuscitation that have changed resuscitation practice around the world.
He is the principal investigator of the DOuble Sequential External Defibrillation in
Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation (DOSE VF) trial exploring alternate defibrillation
strategies for refractory ventricular fibrillation during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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Tuesday
The Literature
0800 - 0830 Welcome to TBS
0830 - 0900 TBA
0900 - 0930 TBA
0930 - 1000 TBA
Critical Care
1030 - 1100 Peter Brindley
1100 - 1130 Max Bell
1130 - 1200 Katya Evans
Workshops/Own time
1300 - 1600 Workshop TBA
Airways
1700 - 1730 TBA
1730 - 1800 TBA
1800 - 1830 TBA
1830 - 1900 TBA
Workshop night
1900 - Open end
Wednesday
Ventilation
0800 - 0830 Melody Bishop
0830 - 0900 TBA
0900 - 0930 TBA
0930 - 1000 TBA
Circulation
1030 - 1100 Sheldon Cheskes
1100 - 1130 Darren Braude
1130 - 1200 Michael Heller
Workshops/Own time
1300 - 1600 Workshop TBA
Various
1700 - ???? Meet the Experts
Thursday
Trauma
0800 - 0830 Craig Wylie
0830 - 0900 Katya Evans
0900 - 0930 TBA
0930 - 1000 Christopher Edmunds
Trauma
1030 - 1100 Andrew Nicol
1100 - 1130 TBA
1130 - 1200 Mike Abernethy
Workshops/Own time
1300 - 1600 Workshop TBA
Behaviour
1700 - 1730 Emily Holmes
1730 - 1800 Loredana Bessone
1800 - 1830 TBA
1830 - 1900 TBA
Fondue
Friday
Extremes
0800 - 0830 TBA
0830 - 0900 Dave Weber
0900 - 0930 Jennifer Dow
0930 - 1000 Pierre Muller
Future
1030 - 1100 Michael Brooméé
1100 - 1130 John Kheir
1130 - 1200 Peter Brindley
Mountain Rescue
1300-1500 Air Zermatt workshop
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