World Extreme Medicine Podcast

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 Du...

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 th...

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 abo...

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.markvis...

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 emer...

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 ha...

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 res...

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 P...

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.  ...

'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...

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 suc...

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 thi...

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 Port...

'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...

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...

NASA Astronaut Dr Mike Barratt t alks 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 spacecr...

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, c...

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...

'You're not in traffic, you are traffic'.  In this episode, Piers Carter - WEM Faculty , coach, facilitator, trainer and speaker joins WEM Education Lead Dr Will Duffin to discuss leadership and awareness - and how self-awareness can make relationships better and create a happier, healthier world. Piers considers the centrality of self-awareness in giving us a choice in controlling how we 'show up...

How to become one of the world's most accomplished Extreme Medics

This week, we're joined from Denmark by Doctor Nadja Albertson. Alongside World Extreme Medicine Education Lead Will Duffin, Nadja explores her role as a medic working remotely in Greenland, crossing the ice sheet on skis, microscoping polar bears and over-wintering in the Concordia Antarctic station. The pair also discuss some of her research on whether chronic hypoxia impairs cognitive function....

'It was like somebody had planted a seed, and each adventure was watering it a little bit more'. Expedition Leader, Mountaineer, Outdoor Instructor (and part-time Tesco Delivery Driver) Jo Bradshaw joins us on this episode of WEMcast. Jo talks us through her career and how she grew from a height-hating business advisor to discovering her true passion for the outdoors.  Jo chats with World Extreme...

In this episode, World Extreme Medicine Faculty Member and BASMU medic Bryony Pointon joins us from aboard the James Clark Ross.  Alongside WEM Education Lead Will Duffin, Bryony explores the challenge of keeping COVID off the ship as they head to Antarctica. They discuss the preventative steps taken, turning away crew and avoiding fully docking on their journey and the complexities faced if the p...