Annual Scientific Meeting 2022 “Innovation in Trauma”

Talk: “Development of WHO Academy, creating Global Mass Casualty programme”

Dr Olim graduated from the University of Lisbon before pursuing General Surgery training. Dr Olim has been on numerous missions including: Indonesia, East Timor, Kosovo, South Sudan. He is a navy medical officer and the former field hospital medical coordinator of the Portuguese Civil Protection. He has served as a Senior Surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross and is currently the head of simulation learning for the World Health Organization Academy.

Talk: “Development of WHO Academy, creating Global Mass Casualty programme”

Dr Veen, born in Holland and trained in General, Vascular and Trauma Surgery. He has served as the Chief Surgeon of the International Committee of the Red Cross for which he was responsible for all the surgical programs of the organization. He has been on over 30 medical missions in war zones around the world. He currently serves as a consultant to the World Health Organisation providing input into the emergency medical team project of the WHO.

Talk: “High fidelity trauma simulation advances”

Prof Pallister is a clinical academic trauma surgeon, his interest in trauma surgery began as medical student in student in Thailand in 1987. This was consolidated working at the Birmingham Accident Hospital. After Trauma Surgery Fellowships in Denver and Oxford, and completion of an MD researching the inflammatory response to major trauma, he started work in Swansea, initially as Senior Lecturer, becoming Professor in 2012.His clinical work focuses on major trauma, pelvic and acetabular fractures, and Ortho-Plastic reconstruction of complex limb injuries. Recovery from these injuries and major trauma remain his main research interests. Professor Pallister is also heavily involved in education, helped establish the Damage Control Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery Course and is President of AOUK&I.Lorem ipsum odor amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aac donec posuere fermentum diam quisque imperdiet dui. Ultricies sodales dis aenean nisi finibus senectus neque ipsum euismod. Natoque mauris natoque justo ex, iaculis iaculis dignissim

Talk: “AI in trauma. Decision making in identifying the high-risk patient and bleeding patient”

Major Marsden trained at Imperial College London . He was commissioned into the British Army while at medical school and deployed as a General Duties Medical Officer to Afghanistan in 2012. In Afghanistan he realized he wanted to pursue a career looking after the injured patient. After obtaining a training number in General Surgery he took three years out of programme for research at the Centre for Trauma Sciences.

He has completed his PhD which examines the impact of a machine learning system on effective decision making in pre-hospital trauma. The research was conducted with the London’s Air Ambulance and several Major Trauma Centres. His clinical interests include the management of haemorrhage and blood replacement.

Talk: “Update in the field of Neurosurgery in Trauma”

Prof Wilson is dual qualified in Neurosurgery and Pre-Hospital Care. Professor Wilsons specialist areas include acute brain injury (mostly traumatic brain injury) and its very early management. His main research uses hypoxia as a model of brain injury in order to improve our understanding of basic physiological principals and subsequently its use in the intensive care setting. He has worked extensively overseas (India, Nepal, South Africa, Australia, a researcher for NASA and as an expedition doctor on Arctic and Everest expeditions).

Talk: “Gun and knife crime – are we losing the battle?”

Mr Griffiths is a consultant Trauma and Vascular Surgeon at the Royal London Hospital, he is the first clinical director for violence reduction. Mr Griffiths has spent over 15 years as an influential advocate for violence control, including visiting schools to warn pupils of the dangers of knife and gun crime. Mr Griffiths is passionate about medical education and teaches undergraduates at both Barts and the London and Brighton University.

Talk: “The future of ATLS and how you can help shape it”

Dr Bush graduated from Oxford University and the Royal London Medical School before pursuing Emergency Medicine. Dr Bush is a consultant in Emergency Medicine working at Leeds Teaching Hospital. He is the medical director for operations unplanned care chair of the ATLS European association. He has loved teaching ever since his days as a camp counselor. His favourite part of the job is meeting new people, all of whom have a shared desire to find new ways to care for patients.

Dr. Bush represented the United Kingdom in Archery at the European Student Games. He also is an avid X-Box gamer. His career has rubbed off on his children, as his son attends his alma mater Oxford University, and his daughter is currently in medical school.

Talk: “Update on key orthopaedic research and what it has changed”

Prof Costa was appointed Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma, University of Oxford in 2015. He was previously Professor of Trauma and Orthopaedics at University of Warwick. Matt is also Honorary Consultant Trauma Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

Matt’s research interest is in clinical and cost effectiveness of musculoskeletal interventions and he is Chief Investigator for a series of randomised trials and associated studies supported by grants from the UK National Institute of Health Research. His work has been cited widely, and informs many guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

Talk: “The impact of trauma and critical illness on the ageing process”

Prof Lord is the Director of the MRC-Versus Arthritis Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research and Professor of Cell Biology.

Her research focusses on the dysregulation of immunity in old age, in particular the decline in neutrophil function and how this compromises the response to infection and tissue injury. She aims to understand the mechanism involved and to develop novel therapies to improve immunity in older adults.