GMC Number
7039114
Qualifications
MB ChB,
FRCA,
FIMC RCSEd,
AFHEA
Main areas of interest
I have a wide-ranging portfolio of anaesthetic interests and pride myself in providing high level, personalised, anaesthetic and peri-operative care to patients undergoing all types of surgery – including in remote settings.
My NHS practice involves mainly anaesthesia for Major Trauma, Vascular Surgery, Hepatobiliary Surgery and Major Gynaecological Cancer Surgery.
Membership of learned societies
The Royal College of Anaesthetists – Fellow by examination
The Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh – Consultant (Level 8) Practitioner - Fellow by examination
The Higher Education Authority – Associate Fellow
The British Association of Immediate Care Specialists (BASICS) – Accredited Doctor
Research interest
I am the Anaesthetic Lead for Major Trauma at University Hospital Southampton and am passionately committed to developing the quality of trauma care delivered to our patients.
I am particularly interested in the ergonomic aspects of human factors, simplifying systems and equipment to help reduce human error in high stress situations – an area I have worked on extensively is the management of massive haemorrhage.
Teaching interest
From an early stage of training I have been passionately involved in teaching.
This has ranged from formal postgraduate and undergraduate lecturing, faculty membership on a variety of ‘life-support’ courses and the delivery of bespoke training courses for trauma and pre-hospital care.
Recently, I also travelled to Kiev, Ukraine to deliver a package of tactical trauma care in partnership with their diplomatic corps.
Biography
Qualifying from the University of Aberdeen in 2009, I served for a brief period in the Royal Navy, before training in Anaesthesia in Wessex and Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine in the South West.
My training has taken me around the world, working in: Washington D.C., USA; Auckland, New Zealand and Bristol, London and Southampton in the UK.
I am now a Consultant in Anaesthesia at University Hospital Southampton, and Consultant in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine with Great Western Air Ambulance Charity, Bristol.
Outside of work I have set up, and am Chair of Trustees, of the pre-hospital charity Bravo Medics, that provides consultant delivered volunteer pre-hospital care in the South West in support of South Western Ambulance Service. I am also a keen technical scuba diver, a skier, enjoy long countryside walks and am slowly learning to fly a helicopter.
