WEM26 Speakers
World Extreme Medicine Conference 2026

WEM26 Speakers

Meet the people shaping the future of extreme, expedition, humanitarian, and operational medicine.

Discover who you’ll learn from at WEM26, explore their work, and find out how to join the speaker line-up.

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2026 Speakers

Who you’ll learn from at WEM26

We’re currently building the speaker line-up for the World Extreme Medicine Conference 2026, with new speakers being confirmed and added to the programme over the coming weeks.

Check back regularly as we reveal more of the people joining us to share their insights, experiences, and stories from the frontlines of extreme medicine.

If you have a perspective or experience that could inspire our global community, speaker submissions for WEM26 and our upcoming webinars are still open.

We’d love to hear from you.

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World Extreme Medicine Conference 2026

2026 Speakers

Aaron Asay
Physician Assistant
Adam Gent
Developer & Consultant
Adrian Hayes
Andrew Brown
Chief Security Officer
Ben Cooper
Emergency Nurse Practitioner, Emergency Department Charge Nurse, WEM Patron
Ben LaBrot
Founder/CEO Floating Doctors, Professor of Global Medicine at USC Keck SOM, Global Medical Affairs Lead for HIV/HXV Molecular Dx for Roche Diagnostics
Bryn Kroto
Physician Associate | Disaster & Mass-Casualty Systems Leader
Burjor Langdana
Dentist
Camella Main
Consultant Midwife
Chase Becker
Chris Imray
Vascular/Renal Transplant Surgeon
Claire Grogan
Emergency Medicine Doctor
Chloe Lanthier
High Performance Sport Scientist and Consultant
Damiano Presciani
Prehospital Emergency Physician & Mountain Medicine Practitioner
Daniel Olaiya
Doctor
Dave Gregory
Paramedic
Ed Powers
Chief Medical Officer, Center for Aerospace and Extreme Environments Medicine (CASEEM)
Emmanuel Urquieta
Vice Chair of Aerospace Medicine and Director of the Center for Aerospace and Extreme Environments Medicine (CASEEM)
Emergensea Duo
Doctors
Erik Seedhouse
Associate Professor in Spaceflight Operations
Gareth Grier
Associate Medical Director, consultant in Prehospital Medicine
Garth Miller
Pilot, Adventurer
Gary Marlow
Community First Responder – Director
Gemma Aldridge
Nurse & Mountain Leader
Ibrahim Mutyaba
Health Systems Innovator
Jakob Mühlbacher
M.D., PhD
Jan Becker
Registered Nurse & Midwife, Captain
Jamie Pattison
UKISAR Medic
Jon Turner
Survival Instructor
Joshua Merson
Program Director – Extreme Medicine
Julian Zedler
Doctor
Lotte Stoffels
Physician in Global Health and Tropical Medicine
Luca Carenzo
Medical Consultant
Mary Sabados
Flight Nurse/Medic Specialist & Medical Advisor Chair
Manashri Dhore
Offshore Medic
Megan Hudson
Doctor
Michael Fries
Head of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Nicole Freya
Doctor
Patrycja Jonetzko
Consultant in cardiothoracic anaesthesia, critical care and transfers with expertise in high altitude expedition medicine.
Pavandeep Singh
Consultant Ophthalmologist and Oculoplastic Surgeon, NHS and British Army (Reserve)
Ryan Atkinson
Paramedic. Cinematographer
Sal Montgomery
Physiotherapist, Adventurer
Sam Allen
Doctor
Sarah Spelsberg
Director Of US Operations
Shawna Pandya
Doctor
Simon Jeffries
Founder & Coach
Francesca Conte
Doctor
Renana Bruckstein
Medical Doctor
Thomas Brunell
Chair and Attending Physician
Thomas Pols
Doctor
Thomasz Lachowicz
Doctor

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