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Jonesy is an adventurer, presenter, documentary producer and motivational speaker. He’s an avid bushwalker, spear-fisherman, Brazilian Jiu jitsu enthusiast and husband to beautiful wife Lauren. “I’m a pretty average bloke, I’m not the smartest guy in the room, not the fittest and definitely not the best looking but I’ve been lucky to have such amazing adventures.” WEM's Education Lead, Dr Will Duffin, interviews Jonesy to what makes him tick, his motivations and plans for the future. Find out more about Jonesy...

Join WEM Trauma Lead Paramedic Eoin Walker to hear from two inspiring pre-hospital clinicians and WEM Faculty, Ollie Neece and Claire Fitchett, and find out how they have navigated an adventurous career in pre-hospital care and into critical care.

WEM founder Mark Hannaford interviews Ilan Moss the maker of a remarkable film - A doctor’s dream: A pill for sleeping sickness Winner at Health for All Film Festival Dr. Victor Kande Betu Kumesu is a Congolese doctor who has spent the last 40 years of his life working to combat sleeping sickness and led clinical trials for fexinidazole, the first oral-only drug that is expected to accelerate the elimination of the disease in Sub-Saharan Africa. As the former director of the DRC’s sleeping sickness program, Dr. Kande spent decades treating patients with sleeping sickness when the only available drug was melarsoprol, an older, arsenic-based medicine that kills one in every 20 patients. . Frustrated by the lack of medicines and refusing to accept that melarsoprol was the only option, Dr. Kande partnered with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and their newly formed Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) to research better sleeping sickness treatments, which led to a 15-year collaboration and clinical tri

WEM Academy Live Session #11: Humanitarian Careers Panel Host: Eoin Walker Panel: Erin Kilborn & Josie Gilday Length: 1 hour 30 mins Ideal for: Health professionals of all grades, stages and training backgrounds . The world faces new crises every day, both manmade and natural - the most recent pandemic proving that a global humanitarian disaster can happen at any time. If it's got you thinking about branching out in your career, this one if for you! . Join Paramedic and WEM Trauma Lead, Eoin Walker, alongside MSF medic Dr Erin Kilborn, and MSF and Red Cross tropical diseases nurse, Josie Gilday to have your questions answered about how to enter into the intensely rewarding career of Humanitarian Medicine.

Mark Robert Visser is an Australian professional big wave surfer, author, keynote speaker and ocean adventurer. Visser is best known for being the first person to surf Hawaii’s most dangerous wave Jaws, Maui, at night in 2011. Documented in a film called ‘Night Rider’. Facebook>  https://www.facebook.com/MarkVi55er/  Instagram> https://www.instagram.com/mark__visser/  Website>     www.markvisser.net Documentary probes big wave night surfing of Mark Visser By CASSANDRA MURNIEKS THEAUSTRALIAN NOVEMBER 25, 2011 TALK to any big wave surfer about their adventures and you will almost certainly be moved to consider them crazy. But what if they were to take on the big waves at night? Sunshine Coast's Mark Visser had it on his list of "things to achieve in life" and in January this year crossed it off after taking on monster waves, some with 50-foot faces in the dark at the famed Jaws break in Maui. Visser is one of the brightest big wave talents in the world, pushing his body physically and focussing men

Today's release concentrates on Technology and the revolution of healthcare in austere environments. It's presented by Stacy Welker of Remote Health Solutions* in the US highlighting how technological advances are putting clinical diagnosis capacity into your hands in places formerly considered impossible. *To be clear. This is not a paid feature or endorsement rather one which highlights the emergence of new clinical technologies. Listen> WEMcast Watch> WEMAcademy #BeExtreme #WEM https://worldextrememedicine.com https://rhsusa.com/batdok™   Stacy Welker, NP Vice President of Clinical Services Remote Health Solutions. As Vice President of Clinical Services, Stacy is responsible for growth and strategy for RHS's Clinical Services division. Stacy earned her Nurse Practitioner degree from Graceland University and has been serving the medical field for over 7 years.   She has a vast emergency medicine background and has worked in various roles including director of ER education and a trauma RN.  Sh

In this episode, Professor Mike Smith provides a whistlestop tour of 'Prolonged Field Care', the necessity for innovation in the field and where his research is headed.   Mike presented this talk at the World Extreme Medicine Conference in Edinburgh 19. . Defence Professor of General Practice & Primary Care with a doctorate in engineering-led research into knowledge-based AI systems. Prof Smith has developed extensive experience and understanding of the delivery of general practice and primary care in remote, austere and often hostile environments while providing close medical support to light role combat troops. . His work has influenced clinical protocols and governance for delivering prolonged care to critically ill or injured casualties. This has included the use of tranexamic acid and blood products in remote unsupported combat environments. . Current research themes include developing evidence-based guidelines for the prolonged care of the critically ill and exploiting innovations in emerging

MSF medic and WEM faculty Dr Erin Kilborn joins us from Gaza to about the realities of working as an MSF doctor, how to follow in her footsteps and what drives her to follow a career pathway in humanitarian medicine. Erin is a regular speaker at the annual World Extreme Medicine Conference and also our WEM's Expedition and Wilderness Medicine courses. You will find quite a resource of learning resources available on the WEM Academy site.  Access requires the creation of an account but most assets are free to access. Listen to Erins TEDx Talk Dictionaries define a humanitarian as someone who works to better humanity. In this talk, Erin challenges this mainstream definition and argues that it is much more than that. Through her own journey, she shares a few key points that can either make or break one’s experience as a humanitarian. MSF UK | Médecins Sans Frontières UK  

The WEM Expedition Medicine Careers Live Session #9 . Host: Eoin Walker Joined by: WEM Founder Mark Hannaford, Emma Figures and Taryn Anderson Ideal for: Health professionals of all grades, stages and training backgrounds . Find out how you can break into the incredibly rewarding world of expedition medicine by hearing from our extreme panel of specialists who have done it all! . WEM trauma lead Paramedic Eoin Walker, is joined by WEM Founder Mark Hannaford, Trainee GP Emma Figures and Nurse Taryn Anderson to cover your answers, including: . Find answers to: - What experience and qualifications do I need? - What kind of personal qualities are essential for expedition work? - What resources are available for me to upskill? - How do I fit expeditions around my other clinical and family roles? - Where do I stand with medical indemnity? - How will this pandemic change the expedition and travel landscape? Listen > WEMcast Watch > WEM Academy WEM Courses | WEM Academic* | WEM Conference *with Exe

JD Polk, NASA's Medical Director, on the Dragon, the Moon & Mars. WEM founder Mark Hannaford chats to NASA Medical Director JD Polk. 'Its phenomenal, no matter how many times I watch a launch its never gets old, the butterflies in your stomach.'   Hot on the heels of the historic Dragon Capsule Launch WEM founder Mark Hannaford was given fantastic access to NASA's Chief Medical Officer JD Polk.   'The exact thermographic sensing that we use on planets is the same type of technology that we are using to detect COVID-19.' JD has engaged in Space Medicine since the Expedition 06; 'I'm the single-digit guy having been involved in launches since Expedition 06'...  The pair discuss exploration, COVID, collaboration with the private sector and SpaceX, plans for the Moon and much much more. . Listen > WEMcast Watch > WEMAcademy #BeExtreme WEM https://worldextrememedicine.com . Show Timings 0.50   Dragon Launch. 1.54    Being NASA's CMO. 5.44    NASA's collaboration with the private s

'If the camels die, we die'.  Julian Woodall joins us this week to discuss his experiences in the remote and expedition worlds. Alongside WEM Trauma Lead Eoin Walker, Julian explores how he fell into medicine during his career in the Army, and hasn't looked back since. Julian dives into some of his work treating catastrophic injuries, considering how advancements in the kit available has improved the quality of patient care. Julian details how he transitioned from his military career to civilian life and re-finding his sense of purpose teaching first aid to remote workers. The pair also reflect on Julian's desert expedition with Seb Coulthard FRGS, as they replicated the journey that Lawrence the his Army took to Aqaba, Jordan on July 6th, 1917. His trip took him from Wadi Rumm, his mode of transport was the same as Lawrence had used - camels, and there would be no vehicle support, no back up - everything was to be done as if it was 1917.   Find out more about Julian's work as part of Medical Services In

In this episode, Chris Imray discusses the effect of altitude on brain activity. He explores the history behind his research, as well as the concept of high altitude cerebral pathologies. Chris will then introduce a new idea - the concept of 'extreme altitude cerebral dysfunction'. 

What does it takes to have the mindset of an explorer? ‘If we succeed at every single thing we’ve ever tried, we haven’t tried anything particularly ambitious’. Mountaineer, the first woman to have summited Everest from both sides, author and professional speaker Cathy O'Dowd is this week's guest on WEMcast. WEM Education Lead Will Duffin chats to Cathy about her career and how she's forged a successful career from adventure.  They start with the global obsession of Everest and the outsourcing of risk and skill as it becomes a commercial climb swamped with novice climbers and long queues. The reflect on Cathy's first ascents in the 1990s, and how this decade, with it's developments in technology and logistics, proved the turning point in drawing the media's attention to the mountain.  Cathy reflects on her epic climbing attempts - the successes, setbacks and difficult decisions made (plus avalanches, broken bones and unchartered descents). The pair also discuss the artificial concept of 'turn-back time' a

Dr Shawna Pandya's ambition is to become an astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency. On her road, this gaol Shawna has developed her leadership, project management and problem-solving skills to an impressive degree alongside progressing as a clinician using both pathways to interlink with each other to make her not only a remarkable medic but also an extremely suitable astronaut candidate. In this episode Mark Hannaford, WEM Founder, and Shawna in a wide-ranging discussion talk about maintaining a strong mental focus, the value of outside interests in making you a better clinician and overcoming adversity to achieve success. Listen > WEMCAST WEM Conference   Dive Medicine on Aquarius Reef Base ..... From Shawna's webpage. Dr. Shawna Pandya is a physician, speaker, martial artist, citizen-scientist astronaut candidate with Projects PoSSUM & PHEnOM, and prime crew aquanaut with Project Poseidon. Through her involvement with Project PoSSUM, Dr. Pandya was part of the first crew to test a commercial s

WEM speaks to course alumni Mariana Carmo about her experience being stranded on a small island community as a humanitarian nurse.   The medical department here on São Tomé and Príncipe off the west coast of Africa started in the middle of 2016 with Nurse João Fernandes to support international and national staff and guests.   I met João when I came to Príncipe in Jan 2017 on a mission with a Portuguese NGO and started to work with HBD that year. During this time we manage to keep the department between 3 nurses (João, Márcio and I). I was the one staying for longer periods of time.   Our relationship with the community and the Government developed during this time. We support the local hospital with training sessions for staff, medication and equipment. We became a link between NGO´s and the hospital.   João arrived in the middle of March 2019 to swap with me but with all that was happening and the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to stay both on the island to help prepare for an expected surge

'It's very hard to be the athlete but also to be objective enough of your own situation to be able to stop'.  This week, World Extreme Medicine Education Lead Will Duffin is joined by Mark Beaumont; public speaker, author, broadcaster, rower and world-record breaking cyclist (he's cycled 18,000 miles around the world….twice!). Mark considers how his life as a professional athlete has changed under lockdown and how he's staying positive.  We delve into Mark's career and how he's broken the mould to forge an exceptional career. From home-schooling on his family farm to horse-riding and skiing to taking up cycling and breaking a whole host of records. Mark explores his world-record attempts and successes, from his obsession with planning, process, margins and 'controlling the controllable' that proved fundamental to his 78-day circumnavigation of the globe. The pair also consider how Mark reconciled his setbacks with his mission. Mark details how a fall, causing a fractured elbow and broken teeth almost derai

GP Trainee and World Extreme Medicine Faculty Member Beth Moos joins WEM Trauma Lead Eoin Walker to discuss her work as a GP during the pandemic, but also to consider her life pre-lockdown and the adventures she's looking forward to once it's safe to do so. Beth considers how her day-to-day practise has been impacted, but also improved with the greater inclusion of technology in providing patient care. Beth discusses her work as an Expedition Medic, and the lessons she's taken from both General Practise and the Emergency Department in preparing her for the unexpected. Beth has a particular interest in snakebite, having spent time in Southeast Asia. The pair discuss the physical adaptations of snakes to their habitats, from sensing vibrations to thermal imaging and smelling with their tongue.  Beth explores the impact of snakebite on humans, considering how factors such as species identification can assist in treatment. She recounts the story of Joe Slowinski, who was bitten on an expedition in Myanmar. He p

NASA Astronaut Dr Mike Barratt talks to WEM Founder Mark Hannaford about the launch of the first US Astronauts in SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft. "It's tremendously exciting": NASA astronauts counting down to historic launch aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon" Opening a new chapter in human spaceflight, two veteran space shuttle fliers will blaze a fresh trail to orbit aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Wednesday, weather permitting — the first launch of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil since the space shuttle's final flight nearly nine years ago. The historic mission, the first orbital flight of a new piloted spacecraft in 39 years, is the culmination of a six-year, multibillion-dollar NASA drive to end the agency's sole reliance on Russian Soyuz spacecraft for transportation to and from the space station. Dr Mike Barratt WEM Faculty and Medical Lead for the launch for the NASA talks about how the space community are overcoming the challenges of bringing in a new era of human spaceflight exploration in the midd

World Extreme Medicine Faculty Member and Paramedic Scott King joins us this week on WEMcast.  Alongside WEM Trauma Lead and fellow Paramedic Eoin Walker, the pair discuss Scott's incredibly varied career history within healthcare, and which roles have granted him the ability to lead, shape and have a tangible impact on patient care in the long-term.  Scott also explores his role as an educator, considering how his role as a healthcare provider has prepared him for teaching, encouraging him to be dynamic, face the unknown and responding and adapting to the environment, rather than limiting it to your own comfort zone. They discuss how simulation can hugely impact the learning process, encouraging participants to engage  Scott also considers the lessons learnt from his emergency planning training, combined with his own experiences in recent years in Salisbury and during the 'Beast from the East' and how he's deploying lessons learnt in triaging calls, collating information, sharing knowledge and demand prof

In this episode, Dr Will Duffin Education Lead for World Extreme Medicine discusses the concepts of ‘fear-based’ and ‘courage based’ medicine with senior leader and clinician Dr Kathy Ryan. Kathy is the Medical Director of Brisdoc Healthcare Services, the largest provider of primary care services including Integrated Urgent Care in the greater Bristol area, UK.    Kathy is passionate about how we hold clinical risk and make good decisions and promotes ‘courage based medicine’ in everything that she does. There is a pressing need for this dialogue as we adapt to new working practices in the pandemic. The last medical, academic paper we could find on courage dates back to 1909! (Courage and Medicine, The Lancet) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2801%2911648-X/fulltext   We explore: What has lead to a climate of fear in frontline healthcare What it is we are all afraid of Why being courageous is not about heroism or being fearless Some of Kathy’s most challenging clinical dilem