Chair: Matt Wilkes
Chair for Session 1 - Introduction: Aviation Physiology in Context
MSc MCEM FRCA FAWM FRGS
I am a PhD student at the Extreme Environments Laboratory, University of Portsmouth and a Research Fellow at CASE Medicine. I am passionate about paragliding and, in 2016, I founded the Free Flight Physiology Project to improve paraglider pilot safety, performance and accident management. The project is supported by the Royal Aeronautical Society’s GP Olley Award.
As a anaesthetics registrar with special interests in remote medicine and extreme physiology, I have been the Lead Doctor on several large international expeditions, practiced anaesthesia in New Zealand and Nepal and flown all over East Africa with the AMREF Flying Doctor Service. In 2017, I returned to Nepal as a volunteer physician at the IPPG(UK) high altitude clinics at Machermo and Gokyo for the post-monsoon season. I completed the Master of Clinical Sciences (Mountain Medicine) in 2016, investigating cerebral altitude illness in the Bolivian Andes.
I am the Altitude Module Lead on the RCPSG Diploma in Expedition and Wilderness Medicine, a medical advisor to the Airbus Perlan Project, a member of the Royal Geographical Society Medical Cell and the Director of Adventure Medic Ltd.
