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.
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.
New speakers added regularly
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Speaker submissions open
World Extreme Medicine Conference 2026
2026 Speakers
Aaron Asay
Physician Assistant
Adrian Hayes
Adventurer & Author
Alex Gaspar
Advanced Critical Care Practitioner
Amelie Schoenenwald
Scientist, Explorer, Founder, and ESA Reserve Astronaut
Andrew Brown
Chief Security Officer
Barbara LeRoy
Researcher, cognitive engineer
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
Ben Lyon
Combat Medic & Paramedic
Bryn Kroto
Physician Associate | Disaster & Mass-Casualty Systems Leader
Burjor Langdana
Dentist
Camella Main
Consultant Midwife
Chase Becker
Chris Imray
Vascular/Renal Transplant Surgeon
Christian Clot
Explorer-researcher, author, speaker
Claire Grogan
Emergency Medicine Doctor
Chloe Lanthier
High Performance Sport Scientist and Consultant
Colin Smart
Founder
Daniel Eggington
Expedition Leader
Daniel Grace
GP, Expedition Doctor and Travel Health Physician
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
Erin Kilborn
Emergency Medicine Consultant
Gareth Grier
Associate Medical Director, consultant in Prehospital Medicine
Garth Miller
Pilot, Adventurer
Gary Marlow
Community First Responder – Director
Gemma Aldridge
Nurse & Mountain Leader
Giovanni Cappa
Emergency Physician
Grace DeBusschere
Aerially-delivered wildland firefighter, wilderness emergency medical & rescue technician
Harrison Carter
Conservation Biologist
India West
Resident Doctor
Inna Demiter
Doctor
Jakob Mühlbacher
M.D., PhD
Jan Becker
Registered Nurse & Midwife, Captain
Jamie Pattison
UKISAR Medic
Joe Garrett
Emergency Medicine Registrar
John Apps
GP, Search & Rescue, Wilderness Medic
Joe Dituri
Dr Deep Sea
Jonathan Fearne
Adventure Performance Coach
Jon Turner
Survival Instructor
Josh Bakker-Dyos
Doctor
Joshua Merson
Program Director – Extreme Medicine
Juan Lopez Tiboni
Humanitarian Physician
Kam Khan
GP
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
Matthew Walton
Emergency Medicine Doctor, Hypothermia & Altitude Medicine
Michael Fries
Head of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Mike Barratt
Astronaut
Mike Southworth
Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Nicole Freya
Doctor
Nick Wright
Lecturer in Mountain Medicine
Paola Barros Delben
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)
Ross Moy
Consultant in Emergency and Pre-Hospital Medicine
Ryan Atkinson
Paramedic. Cinematographer
Sam Allen
Doctor
Sal Montgomery
Physiotherapist, Adventurer
Sam Slishman
Emergency physician
Sarah Spelsberg
Director Of US Operations
Sean Hudson
Medical Director
Shawna Pandya
Doctor
Simon Jeffries
Founder & Coach
Francesca Conte
Doctor
Renana Bruckstein
Medical Doctor
Tamara Gonzalez Benitez
Registered Nurse
Thomas Brunell
Chair and Attending Physician
Thomas Pols
Doctor
Thomasz Lachowicz
Doctor
Tim Sanders
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Mountain Medicine, Team Doctor Penrith Mountain Rescue Team
Toby Gilbert
Paramedic and Co-founder