Aebhric O´Kelly

Aebhric is a former US Army Green Beret, a Psychologist and a board-certified Critical Care Paramedic. He is a founder of the College of Remote and Offshore Medicine Foundation which offers academic programmes for the remote, austere and offshore industries. Aebhric taught on the NATO Special Operations Combat Medic course in Pfullendorf, Germany and taught Battlefield Advanced Trauma Life Support (BATLS) for the MoD. Well known speaker at high profile conferences like SOMSA, CMC etc. He is also a member of the Faculty Advisory Board for the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Make sure to listen to him on the COROM podcasts!

Caroline Leech
@leechcaroline

Caroline Leech is Deputy Clinical Lead of The Air Ambulance Service and has 25 years of prehospital clinical experience. She is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at University Hospital Coventry, the West Midlands Trauma Network Director, and the Trauma Lead for the Institute for Applied & Translational Technologies in Surgery (IATTS). Caroline is currently undertaking a NIHR funded Clinical Research Scholarship with Warwick University. Her research interests include maternal out of hospital cardiac arrest, calcium in traumatic haemorrhage, and frailty in major trauma. She is committed to improving equality and diversity in PHEM, and promoting strategies for supporting the wellbeing and psychosocial care of prehospital responders.

Chris Hicks

Chris is an emergency physician and trauma team leader at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. He has innovated in several areas of resuscitation and psychological skills, including mental practice, stress inoculation training. These days he enjoys a quieter life, free from the problematic corporate jib-jab of academic deliverables. In 2018, as a partial rebuke of the status quo, Chris co-created and chaired resusTO, an inter-professional simulation-based resuscitation conference in Toronto with international acclaim. In 2020, he co-founded Advanced Performance Healthcare Design, consulting with hospitals and industry using simulation to inform the design of systems, spaces and teams. Chris is an avid speaker and lecturer, staunch #FOAMed supporter, occasional runner and cyclist, fledgling boxer, semi-retired pianist, and proud father of three lunatic boys.

Eric Acevedo

Eric Acevedo is a critical care paramedic and police officer serving as the lead Special Operations Division paramedic for the Fairfax County Police Department (Fairfax, Virginia). Responsible for the medical operations of SWAT, EOD, Dive, and Public Order, the team performs over 160 high-risk operations annually.

Eric is passionate about the integration of emergency medicine within the police service. In 2022, his team implemented a whole blood transfusion program, becoming one of the first police departments in the Nation to bring blood products to the scene of high-risk events.

Eric Benoit

Trauma, acute care and surgical critical care specialist. Medical director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, MA, USA. Eric is also Assistant professor of surgery at the prestigious Tufts University School of Medicine and has served as assistant Medical Director for Boston Medflight, world leaders in critical care transport.

Ewoud Ter Awest

Dr Ewoud ter Avest is a prehospital- and emergency physician and an assistant professor in Emergency Medicine, currently employed by the University Medical Centre Groningen in the Netherlands, and by London’s Airambulance in the UK. He has enjoyed working in prehospital environments since 2018 with Kent, Surrey and Sussex Airambulance and London HEMS, and combines his clinical work with research in the field of critical- and prehospital care (preferably combined). He has published almost 100 papers, teaches on several courses, and is the author of “Expert Life support”, a 300-page evidence based interdisciplinary acute-care textbook that will be published later this year. When not writing or flying, he can be found running, cycling, speedskating or rowing….

Iryna Rybinkina

Iryna Rybinkina is a UK- and Ukraine-based cardiothoracic anesthesiologist and medical humanitarian. She co-founded and leads SMART Medical Aid, delivering ambulances, equipment, and medical training across Ukraine. Since the war began, she has split her time between UK clinical work and organizing life-saving support for Ukrainian hospitals.

Iain Beardsell

Iain has been a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at University Hospital Southampton for 15 years and a Consultant in Pre Hospital Emergency Medicine with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance since 2013. Iain qualified in 1998 and over the past 20 years has trained and practised medicine in major teaching hospitals both in the UK and overseas.

Iain has a strong interest in undergraduate and postgraduate education and as well as being an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Southampton, is also a member of the editorial board of St Emlyn’s – an online blog and podcast.

An acclaimed speaker, Iain has spoken at prestigious international conferences in Australia, Ireland, Austria and Germany as well as across the UK. You will find him on Twitter as @docib.

Jakob Stensballe, MD, PhD

Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Copenhagen

Senior Consultant, Trauma Centre & Department of Anaesthesiology, Rigshospitalet

Professor Jakob Stensballe is a leading international expert in trauma anesthesiology, critical bleeding, and transfusion medicine. Based at the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet’s Level-1 Trauma Centre, he is known for translating frontline clinical experience into innovative, evidence-based strategies for managing severe hemorrhage.

A true thought leader in haemostatic resuscitation, Professor Stensballe has been instrumental in shaping modern approaches to trauma-induced coagulopathy, including balanced transfusion concepts, whole-blood initiatives, and viscoelastic-guided management. He has authored more than 100 scientific publications and contributes actively to national and international guidelines.

Beyond his impressive academic and clinical achievements, Professor Stensballe is widely appreciated as an exceptionally collaborative, inspiring, and genuinely awesome person, qualities that make him a highly valued colleague and an engaging, sought-after speaker.

Jörgen Melau

Norwegian viking with 10 years’ experience as a rescue paramedic in the Norwegian Air Ambulance. PhD and extreme physiology expert. Currently working in the Norwegian Armed Forces at the Cold Weather Operations Medical Research Office.Doing research in Arctic TCCC, Hypothermia, cold water swimming, SIPE, Special Forces Operations and Emergency Medicine. He is also the chief of the medical and safety crew at the Norseman race, which is widely considered to be one of the hardest, most extreme multisport events in the world.

Karim Brohi

As a surgeon, Karim provides care for patients with vascular diseases and traumatic injury. As a scientist, Karim conducts research in the field of Trauma while supervising a range of researchers who are investigating different aspects of traumatic disease.

Karim completed several years of training and became qualified in both Anaesthetics and Surgery. Viewed as unusual in many cases, Karim has an extremely useful set of skills for trauma patient management. Karim has worked for the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) in London and spent two years working at a Trauma Hospital in San Francisco. Following this, Karim obtained a Consultant post at The Royal London Hospital and returned to the UK to set up a trauma research department. When he is not at work, he enjoys watching movies and enjoying good restaurants.

Karina Damsgaard

Karina Damsgaard is a psychologist specializing in Emergency Medicine, with expertise in mental health in high-stress environments, crisis intervention, and psychological first aid. She is the HEMS Psychologist with the Danish Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, where she supports frontline personnel and conducts research on trauma-exposed professionals. Karina is a former Crisis Psychologist in the Danish Defense.

Lio

Lionel is a retired elite operator from DSU (the Belgian Federal Police Directorate of Special Units, formerly Group Diane), where he spent more than 15 years as assaulter, breacher/explosive-expert, and team leader of its Intervention Unit.

During his tenure he led high-risk counterterrorism raids, hostage rescues and other critical operations, mastering leadership under pressure and precision tactical planning.

Luca Carenzo, MD, MSc, EDIC

Dr. Luca Carenzo is an anesthesiologist and intensive care specialist working in the General Intensive Care Unit at IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan.

He completed specialist training in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, followed by a Master of Science in Disaster Medicine and the European Diploma in Intensive Care. He undertook a year-long Trauma and Critical Care Fellowship at the Royal London Hospital and a Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) Fellowship with London’s Air Ambulance, gaining extensive clinical exposure to major trauma and prehospital emergency care. He has also worked with Médecins Sans Frontières in security-sensitive environments. He is one of the medical doctors responsible for the European Space Agency’s CAVES training programme, providing medical oversight and training support in an extreme-environment operational setting.

Luca’s research interests include major trauma, healthcare organisation during large-scale events, medical education, and simulation. He is the founder and organiser of SIMCUP, a national simulation competition for anaesthesia and intensive care trainees, and has developed multiple trauma and emergency medicine simulation programmes. He also works in endurance medicine collaborating with World Athletics on heat-related illness prevention and management.

As an adjunct teaching professor at Humanitas University, he teaches undergraduate emergency medicine and contributes to postgraduate training in anaesthesia and intensive care. He is a regular speaker at national and international courses in trauma care, prehospital medicine, resuscitation, and team performance

Michael Möller

Danish! Consultant Trauma Orthopedics. TECC, PHTLS national Medical Director. Member of the ATLS Promulgation Committee. Extensive trauma experience from Denmark and abroad. Military Surgeon. Owner of Tactical Medicine Consulting, DK. The place where you will meet all sorts of interesting people.

Nathalie Pattyn

MD, MPsy, MSc, PhD, has a mixed clinical, research and operational background. She has been deployed with special forces teams as a medical officer in the Middle East and the Sahel; and on numerous occasions as the sole physician to Antarctica stations. The longest of these Antarctic deployments lasted for 15 months, during which she served as the physician at the Halley VI station (British Antarctic Survey), while setting up a new Life Sciences lab for the European Space Agency. In all these deployments, she combined clinical work with research on human performance. She is still a practising emergency physician and flight surgeon. In 2010, she founded the first multidisciplinary research unit in the Royal Military Academy in Belgium, VIPER, with Professor Xavier Neyt, to promote a 360-degree approach to human performance by combining engineering, psychology and biomedical science. Their main research axes include remote health care; sleep and fatigue; and human performance in extreme environments, which led to the edition of the “Handbook of Mental Performance” (Routledge) in 2024. She is currently an Invited Researcher at the Université de Montréal (Centre d'études avancées en médecine du sommeil, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur), beyond her usual academic appointment as an Associate Professor in Human Performance at the Royal Military Academy. She also serves as a Med Lt Col in the Belgian Defence (Medical Component).

Nick

Nick is a serving English police officer with a background in the army reserve and search and rescue. He has worked in both uniform and detective roles, and now oversees policy and curriculum for pre-hospital care in policing in England and Wales, but still manages to escape from the office to deploy operationally as a medic! He is an honorary lecturer and tutor on the MSc in Tactical, Military, Austere and Operational Medicine at Queen Mary University London, and marker for the Tactical Medicine module of the Diploma in Remote and Offshore Medicine for the Royal College of Surgeons of Ed.

Phil Keating

Offshore Medic and Commercial diver medic. Technical rescue subject matter expert, and advanced rope rescue instructor. Remote and austere expedition instructor. Med instructor for UK Police firearms and CT teams. HEAT instructor. Operated and trained everywhere from Afghanistan to Antarctica. PHTLS/TECC Instructor; and wrote chapters for both UK versions of the manual and courses. 12 years Army reserve. ATACC faculty. COROM faculty.

Dr Ross Moy, BMSc, FRCEM, FIMC, FFRRHH, DipRTM.
Consultant in EM and PHEM

Ross joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 2001 as a medical cadet, while a student at Dundee University. Following 2 years as a Regimental Medical Officer he trained in Emergency Medicine in the Northeast of England and the West of Scotland. During training he completed fellowships in Critical Care and Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine. He worked as a consultant in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford from 2015-2021 before returning to Glasgow.

He currently works as an EM consultant in The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow and flies with the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service. He has deployed operationally several times in EM and PHEC roles.

He is married to Pauline with two enthusiastic sons and a lazy Labrador. He enjoys running, skiing, jazz and whiskey although not all at the same time.

Sean Brayford-Harris

Sean is UK Paramedic with over a decade of combined NHS experience; currently employed by the London Ambulance Service (LAS) and seconded to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) as an Interoperability Development Officer - aiming to improve inter-service clinical collaboration.

He has an interest in the clinical development of High Threat Medicine for both clinical and policing responders (including emergency response and patrol teams, public order and specialist firearms command) and has found himself uniquely placed with a local and national reach withing working groups across policing and health.

Sean is a co-developer of the new NHS Ten Second Triage tool, an author on Public Order Medicine and undertakes his clinical work as part of the LAS Tactical Response Unit. He is currently studying at Queen Marys / Barts & The London for an MSc in Tactical, Military, Austere and Operational Medicine and during the early stages of his career, reached the dazzling heights of Corporal with the British Army Reserve.

Stephen O´Neill

Advanced Paramedic x 20 years with National Ambulance Service in Prehospital Care. Paramedic Tutor. Incident Response Team member . Tactical Medic , TEMS team lead , wilderness medic , mountain rescue. MSc. Immediate Care UCD. Dip. ATACC ATACC Faculty.

Tatjana Dill

Tatjana Dill, EDAIC, completed her training in anaesthesiology and in intensive care medicine in Switzerland. She is currently practicing as an anaesthesiologist while completing a MSc in Medical Education. She gathered experience as a full-time retrieval and as HEMS-physician with the Swiss Air Ambulance and currently supports an EMS in rural Emmental as a Pre-Hospital Emergency Physician. Tatjana is fascinated by high altitude physiology that she likes to experience herself when mountaineering in the Alps.

Dr Tim Nutbeam

Professor of Emergency Medicine and Post-Collision Care

Tim has been a consultant at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust since 2013. He works in the Emergency Department, where he has responsibility for Major Trauma and Resuscitation. Tim is the education lead for the Peninsula Trauma Network and leads The PTN, a free and open-access resource aimed at optimising accessible trauma education.

In addition to his work at the hospital, Tim is a consultant in prehospital emergency medicine, working with the Devon Air Ambulance.

Tim is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Post-Collision Care at the University of Plymouth. He has responsibility for the Emergency Medicine Academic Clinical Fellows and oversees IMPACT: The Centre for Post-Collision Research, Innovation, and Translation. IMPACT focuses on improving post-collision outcomes through research, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and practical innovations, driving improvements in care for trauma patients at every stage of their journey.

Uriah Popp

Uriah Popp is a former U.S. Army Special Operations medic whose 23-year career took him from frontline deployments to leading elite combat-trauma training.

Renowned for his ability to turn battlefield lessons into life-saving practice, he helped reshape how medics respond under extreme pressure.

After retiring, he spearheaded innovation at Womack Army Medical Center, elevating paramedic capabilities across the force.

Today, as founder of 6:8 Medical Solutions, he designs cutting-edge trauma tools and training used by military and emergency teams worldwide.