Speakers
2025 Speakers
We’re working hard behind the scenes to get the WEM26 speaker line-up ready to share with you. Until then, scroll below to see who joined us at the World Extreme Medicine Conference in 2025.
If you’ve got a story, insight, or experience that could inspire our global community, you can still put yourself forward for WEM26 or one of our upcoming webinars.
We’d love to hear from you.
Adam Gent
Developer & Consultant
Aisha Malik
GP
Alexandre Rosado
Professor of Bioscience (Microbiology)
Andrew Darby-Smith
Anaesthetics, Intensive Care Medicine and PHEM Senior Registrar
Axel Ernir Vidarsson
Firefighter/AEMT
Barry McKenna
GP
Ben Alba
Doctor
Ben Cooper
Emergency Nurse Practitioner, Emergency Department Charge Nurse, WEM Patron
Ben LaBrot
CEO
Ben Lyon
Combat Medic & Paramedic
Brock Jenkins
Bruno Barcella
Doctor
Burjor Langdana
Dentist
Caroline Leech
Consultant Emergency Medicine & PHEM
Cat Burford
Dentist
Chase Becker
Chris Imray
Vascular/Renal Transplant Surgeon
Christian Dean
Doctor
Colin Smart
Founder
Dave Gregory
Paramedic
Damien Lecouvey
Herpetologist, Adventurer, and Safety Consultant
David Fairbanks
Chief Medical Officer, Emergency Medicine Physician, Chairman Medicine
Elisa Reiterer
Doctor
Erik Seedhouse
Associate Professor in Spaceflight Operations
Gemma Aldridge
Nurse & Mountain Leader
Hareen De Silva
GP
Henry Paisey
Freelance photographer and videographer
Jamie Pattison
UKISAR Medic
Jamie Willson
Doctor, NHS Emergency Consultant
Jan Becker
Registered Nurse & Midwife, Captain
Joe Rowles
Doctor
Jon B. Christensen
DMSc PA-C, FAWM, FEWM, DiMM
Jon Turner
Survival instructor/ food systems educator
Kate Beaven-Marks
Katie Beck
Lecturer
Laura Penhaul
Physiotherapist & Performance Consultant
Luca Alfatti
Luca Carenzo
Medical Consultant
Lucy Gossage
Oncologist
Lydia Potter
Doctor
Mark Hannaford
Founder & CEO
Matthew Lee
Doctor
Mina Arsanious
Doctor
Mitch Hutchcraft
Record Breaking Adventurer
Mohamad Hamim Mohamad Hanifah
Associate Professor & Consultant Emergency Physician
Neil Ganatra
Medical Doctor
Niccolò Stomeo
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Resident
Noemi Welsch
Doctor
Norm Rooker
Paramedic
Pavandeep Singh
Consultant Ophthalmologist and Oculoplastic Surgeon, NHS and British Army (Reserve)
Peter Wilson
Partner
Rebecca Burn
Doctor
Rosa Vasquez Espinoza
Scientist & Founder
Rudie van Vuuren
Conservationist
Ryan Atkinson
Paramedic. Cinematographer
Sam Pattison
Doctor
Sarah Spelsberg
Director Of US Operations
Sean Hudson
Medical Director
Si Murray
Search and Rescue Helicopter Pilot
Tamara Gonzalez Benitez
Registered Nurse
Tim Gargan
Global Medical Officer
Thomas Brunell
Chair and Attending Physician
Travis Kaufman
Emergency Management and Global Health Professor, DMSc, APA-C
Will Duffin
GP & Joint Medical Director
Zoë Allen
GP, Humanitarian and Expedition medic
Zoe Clift
Burns & Plastics Physiotherapist