Meet the Team - World Extreme Medicine

Campfire conversations have a magic about them. There’s something about the vastness of the great outdoors and the warm flicker of the fire that conjures up dreams – and decisions.

It was one such campfire moment in the deserts of Namibia that established the roots of this very company.

A chance conversation about the impossibility of finding good expedition medics resulted in our Founding Director, Mark Hannaford creating the very first, bespoke Expedition Medicine course in the UK – over 20 years ago.

We’re proud today to be able to share the expertise of a global community of pioneering medics for the benefit of society as a whole.

Our faculty have travelled to every corner of the earth and beyond, picking up an unimaginably vast skill set.

We are able to provide the quality of training, education and collaboration that we do thanks to this team sharing their hard-won knowledge, proven techniques and inspiring skills with such generosity, passion and enthusiasm.

Meet WEM HQ

Mark Hannaford

Founder & CEO

Amy Green

Education & Engagement Manager

Eoin Walker

Advanced Paramedic Practitioner, Pre-Hospital Lead

Ghassan El-Jabche

Finance Director

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

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

Charlie Jones

UK SAR Winch Paramedic

Chase Becker

Doctor, Midwife

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

GP, BASICs and Expedition Doctor

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

Isla Wormald

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

Jackie Gibb

Jamie Pattison

Winch Paramedic, Mountain Rescue Team Leader

Jason Zubiena

Advanced Paramedic Practitioner, Mountain Leader, Expedition Medic

Jim Walmsley

Specialist Paramedic in Critical Care

Jan Becker

Registered Nurse, Registered Midwife & Helicopter Pilot

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 Eager

Mike Smith

Moniek Mestrom

Emergency Medicine Consultant & Expedition Guide

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

Paramedic, 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