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A proud South African, I was born and educated at the continent’s tip in Cape Town. My professional fields of interest have centered upon acute and critical care, trauma, anaesthesia, aeromedical, emergency, wilderness and expedition medicine. I has worked extensively as an expedition doctor, including serving as overwintering Expedition Leader and doctor for the South African National Antarctic Expedition, and am co-founder and medical director of WildMedix, South Africa’s first company to offer accredited training in wilderness medicine. After shifting my predominant focus to anaesthesiology and perioperative medicine, I spearheaded the development of the first African Fellowship in Airway and Thoracic Anaesthesia and am now Associate Professor and Airway Lead for the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at the University of Cape Town. My clinical and research interests include all facets of airway management, aeromedical and prehospital care, remote and expedition medicine, point-of-care investigation, thermoregulation and extreme physiology. I have secured research and educational grant funding from the South African Society of Anaesthesiologists, Wilderness Medical Society, University of Cape Town, and medical industry. I am a keen course director, instructor, dynamic international speaker, and #FOAM (free, open-access medical education) enthusiast, with over 60 publications. When not providing care in the hospital or abroad, I'm is usually to be found with my family in the wilds, committing random acts of aviation and/or adventure.

Listed skills include Emergency Medicine, Medicine, Healthcare, Critical Care, and 44 others.