
Meet the Team
Meet WEM HQ

Mark Hannaford
Founder & CEO

Amy Green
Education & Engagement Manager

Eoin Walker
Advanced Paramedic Practitioner, Pre-Hospital Lead

Holly Paul
Office Coordinator

Ione Carnell
Finance Manager

Joe Rowles
Joint Medical Director, Emergency Medicine Doctor, Conflict & Catastrophe,

Katie Harwood
Marketing Manager

Nick Struthers-Frost
Operations Director

Richard Lewis
Chief Operating Officer

Sarah Spelsberg
Director of Field Operations: USA

Sue McDonagh
Course Co-ordinator

Tim Green
Director of Finance

Will Duffin
Joint Medical Director, GP
Meet the Faculty

Aaron Gao
Emergency Medicine Registrar

Amy Webster
Senior Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Emergency Medicine

Andy Hughes
Remote Area Paramedic

Barry Mckenna
Portfolio GP & Expedition Doctor

Ben Cooper
Emergency Nurse Practitioner, Emergency Department Charge Nurse, WEM Patron

Ben Lyon
Combat Medic & Paramedic

Benjamin Watts
Advanced Retrieval Practitioner

Beth Moos
GP, Tropical Medicine, WHO Consultant

Burjor Langdana
NHS Dentist, Wilderness Expedition Dentistry, Expedition & Wilderness Medicine

Cat Burford
Dentist

Clare Fitchett
Expedition Medic, Specialist Paramedic in Critical Care

Charlie Fleury
Emergency Medicine Doctor & Ocean Rower

Chris Imray
Consultant Vascular & Renal Transplant Surgeon, Professor, Expedition & Wilderness Medicine

Claire Grogan
Doctor in Emergency Medicine

Danielle Brining
Emergency Medicine Doctor, Ski Patroller, Dive Physician, & Expedition Medic

Dave Gregory
Paramedic

Daniel Grace
Portfolio GP, Travel Health Physician

Deb Swann
Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine, Expedition Medic

Donna Finnis
Paramedic

Elizabeth Wood
GP and expedition medic

Ella du Breuil
Paramedic

Emily Foyle
International Nurse Co-ordinator, Critical Care, Tropical Medicine, Aeromedicine

Emma Figures
Global Health & Humanitarian Medicine, Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, Assistant Professor

Ffyon Smith (née Davies)
A&E Doctor

Gemma Aldridge
Nurse & Mountain Leader

Hannah Kittson
Specialty Doctor in Emergency Medicine

Hannah Lock
Emergency Medicine Registrar and High Altitude Expedition Doctor

Hareen De Silva
GP

Isla Wormald
Specialty Registrar in Emergency & Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine, Mountain & Polar Medicine Doctor

Jamie Pattison
Paramedic, Mountain Rescue Medic

Jim Walmsley
Specialist Paramedic in Critical Care

Jackie Gibb

Janet Towers
Paramedic

Jen Sherman

Jenny Dart
Mountaineering & Climbing Instructor and Mountain Rescue Casualty Carer & Dysphagia Specialist

John Apps
GP, Search & Rescue, Wilderness Medic

Jim Moonie
Expedition Medicine, Desert & Jungle Environments, Emergency Medicine Consultant

Kasper Jæger
Guide & Expedition Leader

Kathy Wilson
Emergency Dental Care

Kendal Andreason
Professional Lead for Acute and Emergency Care

Laura McArthur
GP, Remote Healthcare, Emergency Medicine

Laura Penhaul
High Performance Sports & Expeditions, Physiotherapist, Performance Consultant

Laura Jones
Global Head of Health and Wellbeing, Save the Children International

Laura Thomson
Clinical Nurse Specialist

Lizzie Thorne
ED & GP Doctor

Lucy Coulter
Emergency Medicine Consultant, Remote & Pre-Hospital Medicine

Luca Alfatti
Advanced Paramedic, Extreme Wilderness Medicine, Hostile Environments

Luke Stevens
Specialist Neuro & Critical Care Physiotherapist, UIAA/ICAR/ISMM Diploma in Mountain Medicine

Lucy Williams
Paediatric Nurse, Tropical Nursing, Infectious Diseases

Marcus Stevens
General Practitioner & Expedition Doctor

Matt Walton
Emergency Medicine Doctor, Hypothermia & Altitude Medicine

Mike Smith
GP

Nikki Hewitt
Advanced Paramedic Practitioner, Lead Rescue Paramedic

Nikki McLeary
Adventure & Human Performance Scientist, WEM Science/Project Lead

Paddy Mitton
Expedition Doctor, Polar & Mountain Medicine, Emergency Medicine

Pavandeep Singh
Ophthalmic Surgeon, NAEMT Instructor, Close Protection Operative

Rebecca Marcussen-Lewis
Clinical Midwife

Renée Farrar
Emergency Doctor

Rich Wain-Hobson
GP & Emergency Medicine SAS Doctor

Ryan Atkinson
Emergency Medical Technician, Cinematographer

Ryan McHenry
Emergency, Pre-Hospital & Retrieval Medicine Registrar

Scott King
Tactical Care Paramedic Instructor

Shawna Pandya
Physician, Aquanaut, Scientist-Astronaut candidate

Sophie Boles
Anaesthetics Trainee

Steve Jones
Expeditions Manager, Field Operations Manager, Polar Expeditions

Taryn Anderson
Remote Area Nurse, Public Health & Tropical Medicine, WHO Clinical Coordinator

Tony Cavanagh
Advanced Paramedic Practitioner

Tom Roffe-Silvester
Veterinary Surgeon, Managing Director of Veterinary Task Force & Exped Vet

Wayne Auton
Advanced Retrieval Practitioner, Search & Rescue, Mountain Rescue

Zoe Clift
Burns & Plastics Physiotherapist