Dr Amel Alfulaij BA (Hons), MBChB, DTM&H – WMT Medical Adviser London based Amel has been a GP for 10 years though her first degree was in European Studies and Italian. She speaks Italian, Spanish and Arabic. As a GP she specialises in chronic kidney disease (CKD) and diabetes. In parallel to her role as a GP, Amel has doggedly pursued a commitment to humanitarian medicine including completing the Diploma in Tropical Medicine in ’22. Amel spent the last year working for MSF (Médecins Sans Frontier), first in Tripoli, Lebanon and then in Mosul, Iraq. Both postings involved supporting clinical programmes for refugees in dangerous and complex situations. In London, Amel continues to provide clinical support to refugees and asylum seekers. She is currently studying towards the Diploma in Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine with a view to undertaking future overseas postings. Highlights of Amel’s expedition experience include being an expedition doctor with Raleigh International and Operation Wallacea (Honduras and Madagascar). With Raleigh, in Costa Rica, she led an arduous 3 week 210 km trek and then helped manage the challenging expatriation of all personal when Covid shut down the expedition. Amel’s sporting passions are many and varied, and include competitive tennis, snowboarding, surfing, long distance cycling and hut to hut trekking in the Alps. Amel has been a familiar face to WMT since 2018 when she attended our Chamonix summer medic course and later joined us on the Morocco expedition. She has since taught on Explorer courses so she knows what WMT is about. Amel brings to WMT a wealth of experience garnered through adventure travel, humanitarian medicine and expedition medicine.
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 nearly 40 years ago. Barry has 50+ diverse international expeditions to his credit, mainly to the mountains. He is an advanced diver, paraglider pilot, lapsed 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 contributing author to the OUP expedition medicine handbook 3rd edition and author of a dozen feature magazine articles. From ’04 to ’08 he was an ambassador for The North Face and he has lectured widely to corporate and public audiences about his expedition life. Expedition highlights include reaching the summit of Mount Everest in May 2004 and paragliding off Gunnsbjornsfjeld in Greenland (its highest peak) after guiding the first winter ascent and later fighting off a polar bear attack.
Associate Instructors
WMT is fortunate to count many great people as associate instructors who contribute to our courses, even if infrequently. They love to teach and they are active doctors, expedition leaders and mountain instructors 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.
Dr Duncan Gray MBChB DA FRCS FRCEM After 18 years as an A&E consultant in Glasgow, Duncan moved to the Highlands to pursue his love of outdoor sports, travel and wilderness medicine. His expedition experience is vast and includes the Chinese Himalayas, a ski crossing of South Georgia and climbing Denali in Alaska. In Antarctica he worked for Adventure Network International, visiting the South Pole four times, and provided medical cover for the first marathon to the South Pole. He has worked widely in Australia including hospital based helicopter rescue and the RFDS. In Canada he worked in the medical centre in Whistler and was a part time ski patroller for three seasons. He has also worked and travelled in Pakistan, Nepal, India and Saudi Arabia and in Vietnam worked for an emergency repatriation company. His aviation medical experience also includes nine months with HEMS in London. He was in the British Army Airborne Forces and served in the second Gulf war.
In recent years he has provided medical cover for treks in China and Costa Rica, three treks in the Sahara and two ascents of Kilimanjaro. His jungle experience includes Myanmar, Guyana and Panama and he has instructed on jungle trips in Guatemala for junior doctors. He has helped to provide running race medical cover in Rajistan, and twice in Guatemala and Peru.
When not working as the medic, he enjoys adventure trips that have included hut to hut ski trips in Norway, pulk hauling across Svalbard, white water kayaking in Slovenia, Italy and northern Finland and numerous wilderness canoe trips in the Canadian Yukon. His other achievements and pursuits include a transatlantic yacht race, scuba diving and free fall parachuting. He holds the summer and winter Mountain Leader awards and the Advanced Sea Kayak leader qualification. In 2023 he trained as a raft guide in Austria and attained the Coastal Skipper sailing qualification.
Mr Dan Morris BSc (Hons) MBChB FRCSEd(Ophth) MFSEM(UK), consultant opthamologist and high altitude researcher, is the founding director of the Ol Malo Trust in Kenya.
Dr Paddy Morgan is an anaesthetic consultant 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 Carron Scrimgeour is an emergency medicine consultant in Sallanches, France, and a former Chamonix PGHM helicopter rescue doctor and champion mountain ski racer.
Dr Jamie Goodhart is a GP who first attended an Explorer course then retrained as a doctor to follow his passion for mountain medicine and high altitude climbing. He holds the Diploma in Mountain Medicine.
Dr Alex Reid BSc (Hons) PGCE MBChB
Alex is based in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, mixing life as an ACCS anaesthetics trainee, with mountaineering and skiing adventures. He holds the highest UK instructional qualifications in winter climbing, mountaineering, ski mountaineering and mountain biking. He has led several expeditions for Outlook Expeditions and World Challenge from Malawi to Bolivia, with personal first ascents in Kyrgyzstan and a ski elective in New Zealand.
Dr Craig Miller BM BMedSci DMCC DTM&H is an Emergency Medicine doctor with an interest in global health and expedition medicine with experience across a range of environments from marine to desert to jungle and high altitude. Craig teaches WMT’s Advanced Medicine course and private Far From Help programmes. Craig was profiled in the Christmas 2020 Newsletter. He recently moved to Australia and is enjoying life in the sun!
Dr Anna Wallace is an emergency medicine trainee in Glasgow with a broad global clinical experience on expedition and in resource poor communities. She recently spent two months in a remote Tanzanian clinic undertaking aeromedical retrieval work and attending to dozens of snake bite patients. She studied the Diploma in Mountain Medicine in Nepal. Most recently she was the expedition doctor and medical instructor on the WMT Morocco expedition (Sept. ’24) and Advanced Medicine course instructor in Kendal.
Dr Elspeth Murray MBChB, MRCS is an Orthopaedic Registrar with an interest in trauma, expedition medicine and medical education with experience in desert and high altitude medicine.
Adam Finlayson until recently, served as the lead for Avon and Somerset Police’s tactical medicine programme and he holds a keen interest in the medical response to major incidents. He was also an Emergency Medical Technician performing frontline ambulance work around the Southwest. He has returned to university and is a student paramedic. He contributes to WMT’s Advanced Medicine courses.
Luc Bellon is our authentic Chamonix high mountain guide and ski instructor who was formerly a helicopter-based professional with the PGHM.
Sara Chakir is our lead Morocco mountain guide who supports WMT’s annual expedition to the Atlas Mountains.
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