Directors, Senior Instructors & Associates
We’d like to introduce you to our expert team including WMT’s directors, senior instructors and valued associates.
Dr Jon Dallimore, Medical Director
MSc, MRCGP, MCEM, DCH, DRCOG, FFTM RCPS (Glasg)
Jon is a GP and Specialty Doctor in the Emergency Department of Bristol Royal Infirmary. Jon’s expedition experience started twenty-two years ago and since then he has spent more than two years living and working in the field as a doctor and/or leader. He has worked in the deserts of Namibia, Sinai and Northern Kenya; the jungles of Sulawesi, Belize, Thailand and Ecuador; and high altitude climbs and treks to Nepal, Greenland, Pakistan, Iceland, Morocco, East Africa and the Andes. Jon is an international Mountain Leader, a member of the Alpine Club and a member of faculty on the UIAA Diploma in Mountain Medicine. Jon is medical consultant to five British expedition companies and advises medical students at the University of Bristol on their overseas electives. He is a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (published September 2008).
Barry Roberts BSc BEd, WMT Commercial Director
Barry is a professional expedition leader who has maintained a long-standing interest in wilderness medicine since ski patrolling in Canada in his late teens 30 years ago. Barry has 25 diverse international expeditions to his credit, mainly to the mountains. He is an advanced diver, paraglider pilot, skydiver, a climber, qualified Day Skipper, a BASI ski instructor and ski mountaineer. He is formerly a Director of Raleigh International. He is the co-author of Staying Alive Off Piste (a Kindle book) and a contributing author to the OUP expedition medicine handbook. From ’04 to ’08 he was sponsored by The North Face and he has lectured widely to corporate and public audiences about his expedition life. He now writes all the technical product copy for their European e-commerce website. Expedition highlights include reaching the summit of Mount Everest in May 2004 and paragliding off Gunnsbjornsfjeld in Greenland after guiding the first winter ascent in 2006. Barry is a Fellow of the RGS and a Member of the Alpine Club.
WMT’s Senior Instructors have been teaching with us the longest. They contribute to both Explorer and Medic courses and teach WMT open and private programmes independently.
James Moore, Senior Instructor
RN BSc (Hons) Dip TN Dip TM (A)MFTM FRGS
James is an Emergency Nurse Practitioner with considerable hospital, expedition, travel health and teaching experience. He has worked as an expedition medic in Borneo, the Sinai, North and Central Africa, Nepal, South America and Papua New Guinea including TV work with Ben Fogle and Joanna Lumley. He has qualifications in tropical and travel Medicine and consults for several expedition companies. He is a qualified nurse prescriber. James is a contributing author to the OUP Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine and Paul Auerbach’s textbook, Wilderness Medicine. He is the Deputy Secretary of the British Global and Travel Health Association, and in January 2012 he was invited to join the Royal Geographical Society Medical Cell. James is equally comfortable in the mountains as he is in a jungle hammock. James runs Travel Health Consultancy in Exeter
Dr Harvey Pynn, Senior Instructor MA MCEM DMM (UIAA) DMCC
Harvey is currently working as an Emergency Medicine Registrar and hopes to conclude his consultant exams in November 2011. He has undertaken several operational tours in Afghanistan. Harvey has been teaching on WMT courses since 2004. Harvey has completed 10 expeditions worldwide – mainly in mountain and jungle areas (both as leader and doctor). He holds the Mountain Leader award and is an ALS, APLS and BATLS Instructor. Harvey has particular interests in trauma, environmental and tropical medicine and has completed the diplomas in mountain medicine and the medical care of catastrophes. He completed the diploma in tropical medicine in London in 2011. As WMT’s Head of Research & Publications Harvey co-edited a 3000 word WMT article for the British Mountaineering Council’s Summit Magazine (no. 55 autumn 2009 edition – online at www.thebmc.co.uk) involving six authors, a task akin to herding fish. In April 2010 Harvey completed the grueling Marathon de Sables in Morocco for the charity Mencap. Harvey leads WMT’s Jungle Medicine UK weekend courses and the Emergency Medicine for Hostile Environments course.
Dr Tariq Qureshi, Senior Instructor BMBCh MA(Oxon) DPhil DMM (UIAA) FRGS
Tariq’s enthusiasm for expeditions began during his school days some 20 years ago. Since then he has participated in a range of expeditions, which have primarily been mountaineering and sea kayaking in the Arctic. He is a faculty member for the “Acute Life-threatening Events Recognition and Treatment” (ALERT) course. Tariq is the Medical Adviser to Oxford University Expeditions Council and is a contributing author to the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine. He holds the Diploma in Mountain Medicine (UIAA) He has worked with WMT for over 12 years and is also WMT’s Head of Student Liaison.
Dr Lucy Obolensky MB ChB MRCS DTH&M DSEM
Lucy is a GP Trainee and A&E staff grade in the south-west with five years’ experience as an orthopaedic registrar. Lucy specialises in remote medicine and trauma in Kenya where she set up her first clinic in 1997. Lucy is the founder and director of the charity EGHO (Exploring Global Health Opportunities) which encompasses Rural Health Care, Kenya Orthopaedic Project, trauma training and Global Health Conferences. Each year Lucy coordinates four trips to Kenya taking over 50 health care professional volunteers with her.
Lucy maintains an active interest in wilderness medicine and enjoys working with challenging groups including disabled and adolescents. Lucy’s expedition experience is extensive and varied. She has led an off road overland trip across Africa, four Mt. Kenya climbs and a Kilimanjaro climb with Help for Heroes. She has also be on expeditions to the Tatra mountains of Poland, the Spitti Valley of North India and Tibet and jungle expeditions to Guatemala plus diving expeditions to Belize. Most recently Lucy was involved with back to back expeditions trekking through Norway, on a tall ship expedition in the North Sea and ice climbing and mountaineering in the Andean Cordillera.
Valued Associate Instructors
WMT is fortunate to count many other great people as valued associate instructors who contribute to our courses. Though we may only call upon them once a year, they make a special impact on our students. They love to teach and they are active doctors, nurses, expedition leaders and mountain guides with a passion for travel and adventure. They’ve been there, see it, done it – but they are hugely approachable. Three words sum them up – expert, expert, expert. They write for leading publications, consult for travel companies, conduct related research, teach other doctors (in hospitals and on the Diploma in Mountain Medicine), operate private travel clinics, work with mountain rescue teams, serve in war zones and run charitable medical projects and clinics in the developing world. They also find time to pursue their own overseas dreams and ambitions so they are very much active “in the field”. These friends include;
- Mountain medicine expert and Olympus sponsored photographer Dr Nick Mason does great work with the International Porter Protection Group (IPPG).
- Mr Dan Morris, consultant opthamologist and high altitude researcher, is the founding director of the Ol Malo trachoma eradication project in Kenya.
- Dr Patrick Morgan who plays an active role in mountain, sea and swift water rescue operations and training – he’s also Honourary Medical Advisor to Surf Lifesaving GB.
- Dr Patrick Avery is GP trainee who grew up in Kenya and has spent most of his life barefoot, on 4×4 African adventures and extreme fishing trips.
- Dr Jeremy Evans is a GP that specialises in supporting school expeditions.
- Mr Ali Cobb is qualified as a dentist and a doctor and specialises in maxillofacial reconstructive surgery. His work is truly breathtaking.
- Dr Polly Jacobs is a GP with particular experience of youth development expeditions. She regularly contributes to the RGS Far From Help annual course.
- Dr Andy Watt is a consultant in geriatric medicine and has a long history of whitewater kayaking expeditions and film projects, especially in Nepal.
- Dr Rob Casserley has climbed Everest 7 times and counting!
- Dr Rose Drew has packed half a dozen diverse expeditions into the last 2 years.
- Dr Andy Grieve is a RAF GP who sub-specialises in pre-hospital care and has expedition medic experience in Madagascar, Uganda, Ethiopia and Lesotho.
- Tim Burton is a polar specialist and guide who has spent more than four years in Antarctica.
- Luc Bellon is our authentic Chamonix-based mountain guide and ski instructor who was formerly a helicopter-based professional rescue policeman.
- Dominic Hall of Fieldskills is WMT’s very own jungle boy who delivers our Jungle Medicine courses with Harvey Pynn and in June 2011 he also ran the jungle skills component of the 7-day Expedition Skills course and managed the camp.
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