Professor Brian Burns is an emergency medicine specialist in Sydney. Specialist in prehospital and retrieval medicine with Sydney HEMS (NSW Ambulance) and it's Research Co-Lead. Trauma specialist at Royal North Shore Hospital-MTC and the state SCI and major burns centre. 

Clinical Professor at Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Sydney University and Clinical Professor Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University. Clinical researcher in shock, trauma, resuscitation and bleeding with >100 peer-reviewed publications. Faculty with Resuscitology, STRESS and ATACC. Motto: mediocritatum detestor. Twitter/X: @HawkmoonHEMS

Professor Emily Holmes, PhD, DClinPsych leads PERCEPT – Mental Imagery and Mental Health at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University. Holmes received her BA (Hons) in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, UK, and her Masters in Social Sciences at Uppsala University, Sweden.

She is also a clinician and completed a clinical psychology training doctorate at Royal Holloway University of London, and a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. She became Professor in 2010 at the University of Oxford. She is the recipient of several international awards, including from the American Psychological Association, the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Rudbeck Medal from Uppsala University.

Holmes serves on the Board of Trustees of the research charity "MQ Foundation". She became a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien) in 2018. She was elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts UK in 2023. Her research is underpinned by a core interest in mental health science, and the translation of basic findings to create innovations to improve psychological treatments. She is particular interested in the persistence of intrusive memories after trauma exposure (e.g. for healthcare workers in the COVID-19 pandemic), and deriving novel ways to more easily treat this that could be scalable and brief.

Halden is an intensive care and pre hospital care doctor in England, currently working in Leicester Glenfield doing ECMO. He completed HEMS training with East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) where he is a clinical supervisor and faculty member. He is a volunteer with the North West Prehospital Care Charity (NWPCCC).

Halden has a deep interest in simulation and medical education, in particular optimising human performance in pressurised critical situations. He is an ATACC course director which allows him to combine this with cutting edge trauma care. His research interests include the physiology of exsanguination, endovascular resuscitation, and cardiac arrest.

He is part of the team delivering the ERICA-ARREST trial assessing REBOA for non-traumatic cardiac arrest at EAAA, and a faculty member of the EndoVascular resuscitation and Trauma Management (EVTM) society. 

Karina is Certified MSc in Psychology & Specialist in Psychotherapy. She is specialised in Psychology and Mental Health in Emergency Settings, and conducts training and education in areas such as Communication Skills for Emergency Situations, Crisis Intervention and Psychological First Aid, Disaster Mental Health Response, Resilience Training and Stress Management, Self-care Practices, Communication with Patients and Relatives etc.

Karina is affiliated with the Danish Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, as HEMS psychologist where she is also doing research. Additionally, she is the lead psychologist in the Danish REPEL-concept (Resilience in Pediatric Life Support) and former crisis psychologist in the Danish Military. Furthermore, she offers supervision, counseling, and therapy.

Surgeon Captain Kate Prior is a consultant anaesthetist in the Royal Navy and at King’s College Hospital in London. Her particular interests are the provision anaesthesia for the multiply injured patient and leading the trauma team in the initial assessment, resuscitation and management of both adult and paediatric trauma patients. She is also the Medical Lead for Resuscitation Services and an Associate Director of Medical Education. She was the recipient of the Medical Women’s Federation Centenary Award for an Established Doctor and is a Member of the Order of St John in recognition of her work in Afghanistan.

In her thirty-one years in the Royal Navy, her operational military role has taken her to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, Sierra Leone during the Ebola crisis, working in the UN in South Sudan and to sea with the aircraft carrier HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH as the Clinical Director for the Role 2 Afloat Surgical Team. Outside of the hospital, she provides medical care at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and mass sporting events in the UK. She is a keen theatregoer, tries not the get killed cycling to work and indulges in holidays, shoes and handbags.

Professor Gattinoni is currently working as Gastprofessor at the University of Göttingen, GER, and as the Director of the Experimental Research Laboratory of Acute Respiratory Failure. He invented the “Extracorporeal CO2-removal” and promoted the “Baby Lung” and mechanical power concepts. He has previously served as President for the Italian National Society of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, The European Society of Intensive Care, and the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine.

His research focuses on the pathophysiology and treatment of acute respiratory failure, sepsis and acid-base disorders. He is an Honorary Member of the German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He has published more than 600 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and been awarded the Life Time Achievement Award by the American Society of Anesthesiology.

Matt is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, Honorary Professor at Cardiff University and Curtin University in Australia and regular BMJ columnist. He has contributed to >50 scientific articles following his PhD in artificial intelligence.

He has spoken at some of the largest book festivals in the world, written articles for diverse publications from The Guardian to Esquire magazine, featured on radio programmes including The Today Program as well as appearing on many television programs from CNN to The BBC. He gave the 2023 Woodridge Lecture and was nominated for the Royal Society’s David Attenborough prize for public engagement.

His first book CRITICAL tells remarkable stories of patients in the intensive care unit. His second book, ONE MEDICINE, explores how understanding animals can help treat human disease. His third book LIFE 2.0, will tell the stories of patients after surviving a cardiac arrest and what these can teach us about our own lives.

His is a member of the BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS and is the medical advisor for The National Theatre’ in London’s production of "Nye", the story of Aneurin Bevan starring Michel Sheen. He lives in Cardiff with his family and loves ice cream.

Michael Lauria started working in emergency services in 2002 as a Firefighter/EMT-I.  In 2005, he graduated from Dartmouth College and enlisted in the Air Force, completed the rigorous Pararescue (PJ) training pipeline, and served at the 321st Special Tactics Squadron. During his service he deployed to OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM as the primary medic assigned to a Combat Search and Rescue Team, Joint Special Operations Task Force, and in support of C Company, 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne). In October 2012, he returned to New Hampshire after accepting a position as a Critical Care/Flight Paramedic for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Advanced Response Team (DHART). 

Michael graduated with honors from the Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine in 2018 and completed Emergency Medicine residency at the University of New Mexico.  Currently, he has completed a fellowship in EMS and is currently a fellow in Critical Care Medicine. Outside of clinical responsibilities, he writes for the EMCrit podcast, consults for various emergency service organizations, and speaks around the world on clinical human factors and improving clinical performance in stressful situations.

Michael is a CLINICIAN !!

....handling patients with all sorts of AIRWAY-challenges at the Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet – referral center for Ear-Nose-Throat- /Maxillo-Facial-/Trauma- and Cancer-patients in the Capital Region of Denmark.

Michael's professional dedication is optimizing the MANAGING OF THE DIFFICULT AIRWAY in all its aspects and different settings and he drives continuous research, development and international collaboration worldwide. He is heading the annual Scandinavian, international, course

“Airwaymanagement for Anaesthesiologists” backed by the webpage www.airwaymanagement.dk, offering free educational resources. Michael is a member of the Board of Directors of both EAMS (European Airway Management Society, past president) and SAM (Society for Airway Management, USA) and co-editor of the new textbook “Core Topics in Airway Management!” that summons up what a clinician needs in 2024 to manage the airway of his patients safely.

(Some of Michael’s PubMed publications can be found here.

Neil is the Director of Paediatric Intensive Care and Anaesthetics in Glasgow and the former Scottish Patient Safety Lead for Paediatrics. He is originally from The Highlands, trained in Edinburgh but soon defected West to start his somewhat bumpy career at Glasgow Children's. After living in Tauranga, Sydney and Vancouver he bizarrely returned to Glasgow where the weather is terrible but the people are positive and funny.

His physiological interests include oxygen delivery, this and that but mostly that. However, his psychological interests, and real passion, lie in workplace behaviours, culture, resilience engineering and being glass half full.

Peter is a full-time Critical Care Doc who suspects nobody reads bios. Just in case, he is a tenured full Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Medical Ethics, with over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, over 30 book chapters, and over 100 other articles, including regular opinion pieces for the British Medical Journal. He has written one book and co-hosts a podcast, The Critical Care Commute. He has presented to audiences in 15 countries during approximately 650 invited presentations, 50 plenaries and 10 named lectures. He is convinced happiness comes from finding meaning and showing gratitude. His is proudest of two feral kids, neither of whom give a hoot about his work-related achievements.

Preston is a board-certified Emergency Medicine and EMS physician dedicated to operational medical support for commercial spaceflight and unconventional EMS environments. He currently serves as the EMS Medical Director for Tesla in North America and as a console flight surgeon for Axiom Space. A combat veteran, Preston is also a flight surgeon for the US Air Force’s Detachment-3, a specialized unit providing worldwide rescue coverage for astronauts.

Previously, he was the founding EMS Medical Director for SpaceX, where he supported rocket manufacturing, offshore astronaut recovery, disaster and rescue planning, and human spaceflight medicine. His extensive prehospital background includes work with federal disaster response, helicopter rescue, mass gatherings, and numerous EMS and law enforcement agencies across the United States.

Dr. Levitan was in the first class of Emergency Medicine residents at Bellevue Hospital in NYC (1990-1994).  Frustrated with his training and skills in emergency airway management, in 1994 he invented a head-mounted camera system for imaging laryngoscopy called the Airway Cam.  He used this device to perform research on laryngoscopy techniques, capturing laryngeal view from the operator’s perspective.  This device allowed the video display and recording of direct laryngoscopy for the first time (preceding video laryngoscopes by ten years).  He worked at inner city level 1 trauma centers in NYC (Bellevue, Lincoln Hospitals) and Philadelphia (Penn, Einstein, Jefferson) for twenty-three years before switching to working in rural hospitals in the mountains of New Hampshire and Colorado. 

Over the last three decades he has taught more than 10,000 people in his airway procedure courses about the US and around the world. He is perhaps best known for his monthly Baltimore airway procedures course, which used 20 cadavers per course and ran for twenty years from 2000-2020. Since 2022, the now runs cadaveric courses in Texas (scheduled 8 times per year in 2024). He has also taught cadaveric airway courses in Australia regularly for twelve years. 

In addition to the Airway Cam, he has approximately twenty patents on surgical airway devices and tube introducers. He is the inventor of the recently released Universal Style Bougie (Intersurgical Ltd.) and the Control Cric Surgical Airway (Pulmodyne Inc.). He has performed prototype testing and device development work with many supraglottic airways and video laryngoscopes.  The I-gel and the AMBU A-scope (the world’s first disposable endoscope) were both initially tested in his lab; he wrote the first paper on the I-gel in 2005.  Dr. Levitan invented and pioneered many airway techniques and terms now in common use including: epiglottoscopy, bimanual laryngoscopy, ear-to-sternal notch positioning, nasal oxygenation during efforts securing a tube (i,e, , apneic oxygenation using standard nasal cannulas—NO DESAT) and the laryngeal handshake.  He volunteered in NYC during the Covid surge in April 2020, and subsequently wrote numerous articles on Covid addressing “Silent Hypoxia” and the utility of pulse oximetry monitoring; these received worldwide attention in popular media.  In 2021, Dr. Levitan was commissioned as a Commander in the Medical Corps, US Navy.

Dr. Keenan is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services, with a particular interest in wilderness, remote, and austere medicine. He serves as the Assistant Director; Prehospital, Trauma and Operational Strategy for the CU Anschutz Center for COmbat Medicine and BATtlefield (COMBAT) Research at the University of Colorado in Aurora, Colorado.  He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, CU Anschutz, Aurora, CO, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD. 

He also serves as a prehospital and austere medicine consultant to the Joint Trauma System, Defense Health Agency, and U.S. Department of Defense, and is a UC Health EMS Medical Director for the greater Teller County, CO (Pike’s Peak) region covering over 1200 square miles with 14 fire and emergency medical services agencies. He spent 27 years on active duty, including 13 years directly supporting or assigned to Special Operations Forces units, with five (5) combat deployments.  He is on the Board of Directors and is the President for Special Operations Medical Association (SOMA).  

His passion is prehospital trauma education and he is a small-business co-owner and Chief Medical Officer of Ragged Edge Solutions, LLC based in Greenville, NC, and Trustee and CEO of a medical education nonprofit company, Specialized Medical Standards based in Colorado Springs, CO (www.austerecare.org) which sponsors the Austere Emergency Care curriculum and directly supports the Prolonged Field Care podcast and the popular medical website: www.prolongedfieldcare.org.

Professor Simon Carley MB ChB, PGDip, DipIMC (RCS Ed), FRCS (Ed)(1998), FHEA, FAcadMed, FRCEM, FTACC, MPhil, MD, PhD is a Consultant in Adult and Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Manchester NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a  Consultant in Enhanced Pre-Hospital Care with North West Air Ambulance, a BASICS doctor with North West Pre-Hospital Critical Care Charity and a MERIT doctor with North West Ambulance Service. He is a Professor at the Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre (University of Manchester) and visiting Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University.

He is co-founder of the BestBets website and the St.Emlyn’s social media learning platforms as Creator, Webmaster, owner and Editor in Chief of the St Emlyn’s blog and podcast. He leads the MSc in emergency medicine at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is an Education Associate with the General Medical Council. He is Dean of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. His research interests include diagnostics, Medical Education, Major incident management & Evidence based Emergency Medicine. He is on twitter as @EMManchester.

Dr. Søren Steemann Rudolph is a Danish Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist, Trauma Manager, and Prehospital Doctor at Rigshospitalet’s Level 1 Trauma Centre in Copenhagen, The Danish Emergency Helicopter Service and Emergency Medical Services in the Capital Region of Denmark.  Dr Rudolph has extensve clinical and teaching experience within emergency medicine, trauma care, and advanced airway management.

Steve Soliz serves as the EMS Segment Manager for Bell and has worked in the air evacuation industry since 1988. Steve supports Bell’s sales team as a subject matter expert in air ambulance operations and has both line and leadership experience as a civilian and military flight nurse. Steve began his aviation career in the late-1980s serving in the U.S. Air Force as a flight medic, eventually becoming a flight nurse. Through the years, he has worked as a flight nurse instructor, examiner, Chief Nurse, Director of Operations and Squadron Commander. He worked as a pediatric transport nurse and was an essential part of exponential growth of a Texas Bell 206 EMS program in the early 2000’s.

He has helped develop military and civilian doctrine and served for six years as the President of the Texas Association of Air Medical Services. Steve was appointed to the Texas Governor’s EMS and Trauma Council Air Medical Committee and the Disaster and Emergency Planning Committee. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS) and a member of the Vertical Association International Air Ambulance Working Group and the European Helicopter Association HEMS Working Group. Steve earned his BS in Nursing at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 1992 and his MBA in Leadership at the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2008. 

A former British Army Intelligence Officer Tim Bradshaw, recruited and ran foreign agents worldwide. He has influenced the outcome of numerous sensitive and dangerous situations. Tim's experience of understanding and dealing with pressure, effective decision making and building resilience, forms the basis of the work he carries out with clients and audiences globally. He served more time in Afghanistan than the UK did in lockdown!

In 2015 he was part of a team attempting to summit Mount Everest when huge earthquakes hit the Tibetan and Nepalese regions and In 2018 achieved a life long ambition by summiting the Matterhorn. In 2022 his book, “Because I Can. The robust guide to being effective” was published by practical inspiration publishing. His most recent adventure saw an attempt at the Dakar rally unsupported on a motorcycle. Sadly this resulted in a medical helicopter extraction and a broken C4 and C5. He is on the road to recovery.