FACULTY & FELLOWS

Who we are

Endeavour Medical draws it’s expertise from a wide range of experienced and talented individuals, whether they’re leading expeditions, helping to develop our courses or ensuring what we learn can be shared with like-minded people.

Learn more about our Leadership Team, Faculty and Fellows below.

ENDEAVOUR MEDICAL LEADERSHIP TEAM

    • MBCHB MRCS MCEM MRCGP MSC (SPORT AND EXERCISE MEDICINE) DTM&H DIMC FBES FRGS

    • INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CONSULTANT (LSTM)

    • ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH GLOBAL AND REMOTE HEALTHCARE

    Lucy is passionate about supporting and inspiring people to achieve their personal goals.

    She has over twenty years experience in the field of Expedition Medicine and Global Health and established her niche working with those facing physical or mental challenges. Great privileges of hers have included being able to summit Kilimanjaro with amputees, cycle across Cambodia with 15 individuals with Parkinson’s disease, and sail the North Sea with 24 young people all in care with disadvantaged backgrounds. She supports them in accomplishing the immense challenges they set themselves, whilst simultaneously inspiring her to set new goals in her own life.

    When in the UK Lucy works clinically as an Emergency Medicine doctor and GP, and also as a volunteer doctor for the Devon Air Ambulance.

    In her academic career she is Associate Professor and Programme Lead for the Global Health and Leadership Masters at Plymouth University.

    She completed a post graduate qualification in International Health Consultancy at the Liverpool school of Tropical Medicine and works with governments and NGOs to achieve a holistic approach to health system strengthening, locally and globally. Having founded the charity Future health Africa in 2011 she completed a decade as chair and then trustee of the charity, subsequently leading the Community health workstream, whilst also supporting the development of Global Emergency Medicine fellowships.

    She holds a range of consultancy posts; she is the senior medical advisor for British Exploring Society, medical technical advisor for Northern Rangelands Trust, and an elected member of the Royal Geographical Medical Cell. Lucy has worked with numerous production companies including BBC, Silverback and Humblebee and regularly works with Sir David Attenborough in his overseas ventures.

    Lucy is married with two young kids and loves nothing more than finding new adventures with them in tow. She is a terrible cook so never take her up on a dinner invitation unless it involves a campfire!

    • MBCHB FRCEM DIPIMM DSEM

    Brought up to believe in the philosophy that, ”There’s no such word as can’t!” Anna has always been driven to take on challenges and push herself. Through participating in one of the earliest Wilderness Medicine courses in 2002, Anna was inspired by the challenges of working in remote environments and became determined to combine work as a hospital emergency physician with working in the field as an expedition medic and pre-hospital doctor. With a strong belief that medicine provides a unique possibility to combine a rewarding career with travel, Anna has worked hard to seek and take opportunities to do something a little different along the way.

    She signed up as an expedition medic in 2004 and has travelled to Peru, China, Iceland, Tanzania, Cambodia and Vietnam and Morocco with charity groups striving to push themselves to achieve a challenge. It is that which motivates her the most – seeing people achieve things they didn’t think they could-and team work to make things happen.

    Anna was also chief medical officer for the jungle marathon in Brazil in 2011 and the Olympic torch doctor for the team of 350 people who were involved in the extraordinary procession leading up to the games in the summer of 2012. Looking after yourself and team members to avoid the need for a medic is the key to being a successful expedition medic!

    Anna’s love of skiing, climbing and all things mountain led to her complete the diploma in mountain medicine and take on some rather large personal challenges including mountaineering expeditions to Aconcagua and in spring 2007 to the summit of Mount Everest!

    Whilst completing her training in emergency medicine she maximised her opportunities to work abroad, including time working in aeromedical retrievals down under. Working for the Royal Flying Doctors gave an amazing insight into the contrast of facilities available in “the bush”, in comparison to the coastal cities of Australia and the role of a retrieval doctor really hones your clinical skills.

    Back in theUK Anna kept up her interest in working in pre-hospital care, becoming the first doctor to fly regularly with the Cornwall Air Ambulance and providing training and clinical governance for the paramedic teams also.

    It is Anna’s love of teaching practical skills in addition to wanting to give others the opportunities to get involved that led to her being involved in this exciting venture.

    Anna is an Emergency Medicine and Trauma Consultant at Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro.

    • BM BCH, FRCP, MA (PHYSIOL), MA (ED)

    Lucy has been a consultant stroke physician since 2013, currently working at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust. She was Clinical Lead for Stroke 2015-2018, and Clinical Director for Specialty Medicine 2017-2020 including playing a lead role in the Trust response to the coronavirus pandemic. Lucy believes in education and empowerment to develop individuals and teams, thereby promoting the provision of excellent evidence-based healthcare.

    Since 2011 Lucy has been a part of Wessex-Global Stroke Partnerships, co-lead since 2024. WGSP supports the development of stroke services to improve patient care, with partners in Ghana, The Gambia, and Zambia. The partnership facilitated the opening of the first dedicated stroke unit in West Africa in 2014 at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra and now focuses on disseminating skills and knowledge both nationally and internationally. WGSP is currently developing online modules in order to make stroke care training available globally via wgstroke.org

    As a keen mountaineer, runner and outdoor enthusiast Lucy believes that greater potential can be achieved through connecting with nature, appreciating and redefining capability through adventure.

    • BMBS MSC

    Imara is passionate about global health having lived in seven countries during her childhood: born in Kenya and subsequently moving to Italy, the USA, Sudan, Laos, Thailand and the UK. She is determined to use her medical training to help improve healthcare across the globe and to encourage others to do the same!

    Imara completed a MSc in Nutrition for Global Health at LSHTM, with a focus on child and maternal undernutrition, and was a Bristol Global Emergency Medicine fellow in 2021-22 spending two months in an ED in Nanyuki, Kenya. She has since been back to North-Eastern Kenya to scope health needs in remote communities and organise medical electives in collaboration with the NGO Northern Rangelands Trust, Dharura Charity and Endeavour Medical.

    Her happy place is by the sea with a love for swimming, diving, and sailing! Expeditions include a Trans-Atlantic sail and a medic for the BBC on an upcoming production filmed in the Bahamas.

ENDEAVOUR MEDICAL FACULTY

    • MBCHB

    Holly is an anaesthetics trainee, spreading her career so far across the UK. From Jersey in the Channel Islands to a year in the Southern Alps and now the West of Scotland.

    She has been involved in expeditions in the rainforest, with IPPG at altitude in the Himalayas and supported many in their impressive endeavours running ultras in austere environments.

    She has volunteered in both a medical and leadership capacity in the European refugee camps and has a strong interest in making medical partnerships in this setting bidirectionally beneficial.

    When not working she is found racing triathlon for GB or hunting out new ski touring routes.

    • MBBS BSC MRCP PGCERT (MED. ED.)

    Ben is a rheumatology registrar based in North London who escapes the smoky confines of the capital as often as he can to adventure home and abroad in both a personal and professional capacity. With 15 years of experience in alpine mountaineering, his primary interest is in the high-altitude arena and in his free time he can most often be found hiking, climbing or ski touring.

    Whilst at university, he assisted in MRI studies investigating high altitude cerebral oedema with the Centre of Altitude, Space and Extreme Environment (CASE) group in University College London and wrote his undergraduate thesis on the pathophysiology of acute mountain sickness. Since qualifying, he has gone on to work as a doctor with charity and youth groups in locations including Kilimanjaro and the Yukon.

    He is a passionate educator and when not teaching with Endeavour, he is also involved in postgraduate assessment and medical education within a more conventional medical setting.

    • BSC MBBS

    Becky is an adventurous soul with a love for Prehospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM) and teaching. Inspired by her trauma elective in Johannesburg and a placement with the Essex and Hertfordshire Air Ambulance, she has embarked on pursuing a career that combines remote medicine/prehospital care with travel.

    As a Clinical Fellow, Becky immersed herself in the mountains of Eryri while building on her skills in Emergency Medicine/Critical Care. Following this she undertook an 18 month deployment as a medical officer for the British Antarctic Survey; including time as the ship’s doctor on the RSS Sir David Attenborough (fondly known as BoatyMcboatface) and spending a whole polar winter at the remote research station of Rothera.

    Now, Becky sets her sights on the wild Scottish Highlands with the aim of pursuing the Diploma of Mountain Medicine alongside her clinical and expedition work. Outside of this, she is a keen hiker and climber and is soon to complete her Summer Mountain Leader qualification.

    • FRCA MSC MBBCH BSC DTM&H

    Zoë is a consultant paediatric anaesthetist at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Her expedition medical work has taken her to Antarctica, the Himalayas, Peruvian Amazon, Kenya and Arctic Svalbard. She has a longstanding interest in improving delivery of anaesthesia in low and middle-income countries which has included volunteering as a Visiting Lecturer in Ethiopia, running anaesthetic conferences in West Africa and working with Operation Smile. Her career path has encompassed extensive trauma and aeromedical work in South Africa and with AMREF’s Flying Doctor service in Kenya. Personal exploration has involved trans-Atlantic sailing, channel swimming, exploring Kyrgyzstan and ski-mountaineering in Spitsbergen.

    • MBCHB FRCEM

    Suzy is a consultant in Emergency Medicine at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. She instructs on APLS, is the ED QI lead and is passionate about improving staff well-being. She is the LMA for Plymouth RNLI and also volunteers for Festival Medical Services.

    Suzy lives on the edge of Dartmoor with her 2 girls & husband. She spends her time off cycling, running, swimming ( badly) and crewing on Plymouth Sound.

    Suzy and 3 friends set up skiedconference.com, which has been running since 2017. She is often forced into being single hand support crew for her husband on long distance running events!

    • MB BS (LONDON), MSC, MRCEM, MRCGP, FFTM RCPS (GLASG), DCH, DRCOG, DIP MOUNT MED (UIAA)

    Jon works as a General Practitioner in Chepstow and a Specialty Doctor in the Emergency Department of Bristol Royal Infirmary. He has been on many expeditions as a doctor and or leader and has spent more than 2 years in the field on various expeditions. These expeditions have been in many different environments – from the deserts of Namibia, Sinai and Northern Kenya to the jungles of Sulawesi, Belize, Thailand and Ecuador. He loves the mountains and has undertaken many 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 has taught on the UK Diploma in Mountain Medicine since 2004. In 2016 Jon became a Director of the International Diploma in Expedition and Wilderness Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

    Jon is medical consultant to World Challenge Expeditions and has taught about expedition medicine since 1991. He is the lead editor of the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (third edition) and a longstanding member of the Royal Geographical Society’s medical cell.

    Since becoming semi-retired, Jon has become the medical officer for Severn Area Rescue Association (involving lifeboats, land searches, cliff, flood and swift water rescue).

    • MBChB, MSc (Global Health), DTMH

    Iain is interested in global health and expedition medicine and currently works as a Senior Clinical Fellow in Global Health/Expedition Medicine at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. He completed an MSc in Global Health and Management, with an interest in development, and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine.

    Iain has worked with NGOs in Kenya and South Africa, with a focus on One Health through working with Conservation groups. He has also been on expeditions in Tanzania and Ethiopia, with an upcoming expedition planned for a tall ship based around the UK.

    Through his work with Endeavour Iain has taught remote and rural medicine skills to junior doctors, mountain leaders and to film crews working with the BBC.

    • MSC, DIP IMC, DTLLS, MCPARA

    Dave is a paramedic with over 20 years experience in a variety of frontline NHS roles. He was a Hazardous Area Response Team operative required to deliver care in a range of hostile environments working with various rescue and emergency services. Dave spent eight years as a critical care paramedic with the Devon Air Ambulance, where he was also the clinical manager for the last three. He has a wealth of experience delivering prehospital care to the sickest patients in challenging environments. Dave gas recently started a new challenge working in Integrated and Urgent Care in Cornwall. He holds an Msc in Prehospital Critical Care Retrieval and Transfer (Plymouth University) the Diploma in Immediate Medical Care (RSC Edinburgh) and the Diploma to Teach in the lifelong learning sector (Canterbury Christ church University)

    Dave is passionate about education and has held a number of educational posts both within the NHS and for external agencies. His teaching experiences have ranged from taking foundation degree students through overnight exercises on Dartmoor to delivering pre-deployment courses for government agencies. He Guest lectures for Plymouth University on both Bsc and Msc programmes, has contributed to FOAM resources such as PHEMcast and recently edited part of the upcoming edition of the ABC of Prehospital Emergency Medicine. Dave’s places emphasis on communication and clinical human factor, when delivering education, following his experiences gained in this with Devon Air Ambulance.

    Dave is a happily married father of two living in the South West. When not exploring outdoor places with the family Dave will be found chasing waves to surf along the southwest coastline.

    • BSC (HONS), MBCHB, DIPTROPMED

    Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Bella has always loved the outdoors and adventure and now she is currently fascinated by all things Global Health. She has worked up and down the UK, from Shetland as a medical student, to Cornwall, where she completed a Clinical Fellow in Global Health and Emergency Medicine. Along the way, she has spent time in Peru volunteering and providing healthcare in prisons and with Venezuelan refugees. She has worked in Kenya on a couple of occasions and is currently part of a small team in South Africa looking at how Conservation can be used to improve healthcare for local communities. In August she will be moving to Panama for 6 months to help provide medical care to remote and indigenous communities.

    Bella has a certificate in Climate Change in Healthcare from Yale University and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. She is excited about working with Endeavour and hopes that the current and future generations of healthcare professionals can use adventure and nature as a means to stay passionate about their careers!

    • MB BCHIR MA (CANTAB) PROF.DIPTH FEWM FRSA FRGS

    Nathan is an expedition doctor, climate advocate and photographer from London. He has provided medical support to numerous international expeditions, from high altitude mountaineering in the Himalayas, to providing support as a PADI Divemaster and dive doctor to remote parts of West Papua. His particular interest lies in supporting expeditions with an environmental focus. Highlights include working as the doctor and photographer for a multi-national diving and ecology research expedition to the Chagos Archipelago, and working as the doctor and assistant photographer for a National Geographic research expedition to unexplored parts of the North Greenland coastline. Nathan is also the founder of Eco Medics, a non-profit startup that aims to put healthcare professionals at the forefront of the response to the climate crisis.

    • MBCHB BSC

    Shona is an Emergency Medicine trainee in the South West. She’s worked on expeditions in the mountains, jungle, desert and at sea and supported sports events around Europe. She led the APEX 4 international altitude research trip and has volunteered on projects in the Philippines, India and Uganda. Now living a UK version of her NZ lifestyle she’s often micro-adventuring with spritely dips at any opportunity or planning trips to the mountains. Writer, editor and now Head of Operations at award-winning magazine Adventure Medic, she looks forward to hearing your tales.

    • BMBS BA MPHIL MA (CANTAB)

    Lou is an Anaesthetics Registrar and PADI Divemaster and has worked extensively supporting and leading remote dive expeditions throughout Asia, Central America and the South Pacific. In 2022 she completed a Fellowship at the Dive Diseases Research Centre in Plymouth, which included working as the first point of call for dive emergencies across the UK and delivering medical training for offshore saturation divers and superyacht crews.

    Her previous expedition roles include working as the manager of a dive live aboard research boat surveying the Sulawesi Tenggara Province in Indonesia whilst teaching local and international students about sustainable marine conservation. Other overseas experience includes working with displaced Burmese migrants in Thailand, researching child labour in the Bolivian altiplano, climbing Mount Kinabalu in Borneo, providing medical support for a marathon in Nepal, and jungle and altitude trekking in Central and South America.

    Prior to retraining as a Doctor, Lou studied Geography at Cambridge University and worked for the United Nations in Geneva, in addition to a very short-lived spell in the finance and corporate world! Lou is passionate about teaching and has previously designed and delivered a Medicine summer camp which nows runs annually for international students in Oxford. She is an ALS and EPALS instructor for RCUK.

    • MBCHB, BSC, PGCERT (CLINICAL EDUCATION)

    Having grown up in the Peak District, Jonny has always spent most of his time in the hills and mountains: running, climbing, skiing and cycling.

    Since qualifying as a doctor Jonny has been trying to combine this passion for the outdoors with his academic interests in pre hospital medicine, trauma and expedition medicine.

    He has led as a medic on expeditions to Peru, Tanzania and Nepal; developing a keen interest in altitude medicine. He is also a keen educator and regularly teaches on the Remote Medical Responder and Remote and Restorative Medicine courses.

    He is currently working as a clinical fellow in Perioperative Medicine alongside completing the Diploma in Mountain Medicine.

    In the next year he is working as the medic for an expedition to Island Peak, and is applying for the next stages of his training.

    • MBBS RCGP DIMM HN

    Having successfully ruined my medical career by prioritising climbing, adventure and fun times over work I am convinced that everyone should do the same….

    I am an expedition doctor specialising in Polar and Mountain medicine. I have worked in the Himalayas, the Andes and for five seasons in Antarctica. I have also worked as a mountain guide in the greater ranges on and off for over twenty years.

    Amongst other expeditions I have recently completed a 2000km traverse of Greenland by snow-kite. Me, my wife and our 2 and 3 year old children spent a year driving overland from Cornwall to Cape Town in our decrepit 26 year old land cruiser.

    In the UK I work as a locum in General Practice and Emergency Medicine. I hold the post-graduate UK UIAA/ICAR/ISMM Diploma in Mountain Medicine and am a member of the teaching faculty. I was the

    doctor and medical trustee for the Cornwall Search and Rescue Team for several years.

    Based in Cornwall, I surf, climb and try to share my love for an adventure with my two children. I am a great believer in the micro as well as the macro adventure.

    • MSC FFTM RCPS (GLASG) FRGS

    After a successful career as an Emergency Department Charge Nurse/Nurse Practitioner here in the UK and overseas, James left the National Health Service to combine previous training and experience and create an independent travel clinic. The Exeter Travel Clinic supports a wide range of companies, charities, individuals and educational establishments.

    In conjunction with his colleague Dr Jon Dallimore, five years ago James co-wrote and launched the UKs first post-graduate Diploma in Expedition and Wilderness Medicine. This was based on the British Medical Journal award-winning Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine, of which James is a co-editor. With a home in the Faculty of Travel Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, this Diploma attracts Doctors, nurses and paramedics from numerous countries. James is a contributing author to Paul Auerbach’s definitive textbook ‘Wilderness Medicine’, now in its 7 th edition.

    Following the successful completion of a Masters’ degree in Global Health from the University of Plymouth, James has been involved in several overseas projects delivering healthcare education in low/middle income countries. Further to this he continues to write articles, both research and educational, on areas such as high-altitude, expedition, wilderness and travel medicine. Most recently he has been a centre lead for the international BRACE trial, investigating links between the BCG vaccine and protection against Covid-19.

    As well as running the clinics and Diploma, James teaches expedition medicine to medics and non-medics alike. This work is frequently updated as he continues to provide on-site healthcare on expeditions across the globe. His expeditions have taken him from the jungles of Bolivia, Brazil and Papua New Guinea, to the mountains of Nepal and the length of Africa. He has worked with production companies such as the BBC Natural History Department and National Geographic, private companies, schools and charities.

    As a Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine James sits on the Executive committee, where he has been involved in the writing of national standards guidelines for the practice of travel medicine. He is a Fellow and member of the medical cell of the Royal Geographical Society, former Secretary of the British Global and Travel Health Association and consults for a number of expedition companies across the UK.

    When not working, James enjoys an outdoor life in Devon, where he shares his passion for surfing, wild camping, off-road driving and generally anything non-ordinary with his exhausted family.

    • BSC (HONS) | PGCERT CLIN ED | MSC | AFHEA

    Beth is a physician associate by training with a background in clinical education.

    Beth completed an undergraduate degree in Physiological Sciences at the University of Bristol before embarking on a PgDip in Physician Associate studies at the University of Plymouth, graduating in 2017. She has recently completed an MSc top up with the University of Birmingham, focussing on the role of simulation in medical education. Over the last few years, Beth has worked as a lecturer in clinical education at the University of Plymouth, gaining associate fellowship with the Higher Education Academy. She is also Lead Physician Associate at Yeovil District Hospital and works in acute medicine.

    In her spare time Beth is a keen climber, cyclist and spent last winter in the French Alps doing a ski season, and even got engaged on an alpine summit! Her favourite place to climb is the Verdon Gorge, followed by a glass of wine to recover from the terror!

    • MSC, PGCERT

    Rin is both a registered sports dietitian specialising in endurance and expedition nutrition and a HCPC registered paramedic. She has a love for the outdoors and over the years has undertaken her own expeditions from the polar regions to the Himalayas and the tropics of Borneo as well as being a keen runner which has taken her on many a long jaunt including the marathon des sables. This combination of sports nutrition theory, logistics and practical application in the field is what sets Rin apart and has led her to work with ultra-runners, ocean rowers and polar explorers including the Ice Maidens who were the first all female team to cross antarctica in 2018 and finished in top physical condition. Her work with the team has since been published in multiple journals and she has both written and presented on various sports nutrition topics to teams, conferences and budding future explorers. Her passion to enable athletes and explorers achieve their goals is her main drive, whilst working pre-hospitally and of course practicing what she preaches.

    • BSC (HONS) MBCHB MRCGP FRGS FRSA CF

    Sophie is a GP with special interests in mental health and remote and wilderness medicine. She has supported a number of expeditions as a doctor, most recently accompanying groups to Antarctica and Costa Rica onboard traditional Tall Ships. Alongside clinical work, Sophie works for the organisation 4 Mental Health Ltd. as a Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Response trainer, delivering teaching to other health and allied health professionals internationally. She also conducts her own research into differing global approaches to emotional wellbeing, most recently through a Churchill Fellowship exploring indigenous attitudes to mental health in the US. Findings from this study have informed the development of a retreat programme supporting health and social care workers suffering from pandemic-related ‘burnout’. Sophie also uses her research and field experiences to inform her teaching on mental health in remote environments, seeking to provide practical and context-specific guidance to expeditions.

    When not in the office, Sophie can usually be found behind her camera, hiking a mountain, dipping in cold water or playing the ukulele!

    • MBCHB BSC (HONS) PGCE

    Alex is a is a winter mountaineering, ski touring and mountain bike instructor working for various organisations including Glenmore Lodge. Holds the highest UK instructional qualifications in winter climbing, mountaineering and ski mountaineering, the Winter Mountaineering and Climbing Instructor and Mountain Ski Leader.

    Currently based in the Scottish Highlands, mixing a full time role as a Clinical Fellow in Intensive Care, Inverness with freelance instructional work. Previously Alex has worked in small Scottish Rural General Hospitals.

    Other clinical highlights were a ski elective on the South Island in New Zealand, based on the ski fields around Queenstown.

    Led several expeditions for Outlook Expeditions and World Challenge varying from Malawi to Bolivia, with personal first ascents of mountains in Kyrgyzstan.

    • MBCHB BSC(HONS)

    Francis is an ACCS anaesthetics trainee based in southwest England. During a recent expedition medicine role at Bristol Royal Infirmary, Francis enhanced his academic interest in altitude and expedition medicine while working on trips up Kilimanjaro, cycling around South Africa, ski touring in the French Alps, trekking to Everest Base Camp, and finally summitting Island Peak in Nepal.

    He brings his experience as a qualified Physiotherapist into the remote medicine sector through offering a dual role as doctor and physio to promote the health of expedition participants. He also uses these same skills to provide pre-hospital medical care at major UK festivals each year.

    Francis is passionate about the value of expedition medicine and its ability to instil passion, resilience and leadership skills in the NHS workforce. He was awarded HEE funding to run the first (of many!) Endeavour ‘Remote and Restorative Medicine’ courses for junior doctors in the South West. He also leads a student selected component for Exeter University medical students interested in expeditions.

    Francis is at his happiest surfing peeling right handers on a quiet Cornish beach, or in a high mountain hut on the hunt for fresh powder.

    • MBCHB MSC(IDEWM) DTM&H SUMMER ML

    Alex is an Emergency Medicine registrar in Severn who believes in taking the road less travelled. She is passionate about expedition medicine and global health and recently returned from working as a global health fellow in rural South Africa (and living in a game reserve!) She has also worked as an expedition medicine fellow and in New Zealand.

    She holds qualifications in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Expedition and Wilderness Medicine, Global Health, and Remote Healthcare, and plotting adventures around even the tightest medical roster. She co-authored the chapter in the oxford handbook of sports medicine on expedition medicine, and edits for the website Adventure Medic.

    Alex has been teaching as a Wilderness Medicine instructor for 5 years teaching fellow medics, the local mountain rescue service, and lay people.

    She has accompanied expeditions on all seven continents. Destinations include Kilimanjaro, Antarctica, the Amazon, Costa Rica, Fiji, the Great Wall of China and most recently skiing in Greenland with youth development charity Polar Academy.

    She has a passion for the outdoors and holds Summer Mountain Leader, Advanced PADI, and Competent Crew qualifications. She is an aspiring ski tourer, climber and mountain biker.


  • Annie is a two-time World Champion and Olympic silver medallist rower. Following an eight-year career as an elite athlete, during which she went to two Olympic Games (Beijing 2008 and London 2012), she wrote Mind Games: Determination, Doubt and Lucky Socks – An Insider’s Guide to the Psychology of Elite Athletes, winner of the 2020 British Sport Book Awards. She explores the psychology of elite sport through her lived experience and the research for her book, in particular how athletes train their mental skills in exactly the same way that they train their physical skills. She believes that although there are universal principles for how we approach physical training, mental training and performance is unique and bespoke to each individual.

    • MBCHB(HONS) RCGP (2018) MFTM RCPS (GLASG) (2022) IDEWM

    Jack is a Cheltenham-based GP and ED Doctor with a special interest in expedition, remote and wilderness medicine. He endeavours to combine his career with his love for adventure, travel and the natural world.

    Growing up in Kenya helped to foster his passion for wildlife and wild places. His adventurous spirit was born whilst summiting Mt Kenya on a primary school trip and, with this, came the curse of eternal wanderlust! He is currently involved in the design of an exciting new Endeavour safari skills course with the aim of sharing his obsession for African adventure with others!

    Jack was motivated to study medicine after witnessing health and social inequalities as a child in East Africa. This also fostered a keen interest in Global Health. In 2017 he worked for a year in a remote hospital on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. The range of emergency, evacuation and remote medical skills he learnt and developed have proved invaluable in both expedition medicine and during his regular work on remote Scottish Islands such as Shetland and the Outer Hebrides.

    His personal travel has taken him to over 100 countries including around the world twice. Driving from the UK to Mongolia, seeing gorillas in the DRC, living and working in New Zealand and hiking in Antarctic Chile.

    Luckily, his understanding wife and young children manage to keep his eternally itchy feet under control (mostly!). Parental leave has provided an opportunity for a different kind of adventure- 3 months around Europe in their self-converted off-grid campervan- an expedition with its own unique challenges.

    • MBCHB(HONS) RCGP (2018) MFTM RCPS (GLASG) (2022) IDEWM

    Nics has been a doctor in the regular army for over 10 years, having been deployed to many remote locations with the military such as Kenya, Canada, Norway, Antarctica, Iraq. Since qualifying as a GP in 2019, she has served with some extreme remote teams, training the medics in advance and providing reachback service.

    Since completing the diploma in mountain medicine and medical care in catastrophes, she has recently established a military expedition medicine advisory group. Nics is passionate about using medical knowledge to prevent health issues arising in remote locations, but still having the skills to treat when required; something that has proven invaluable on many mountainous expeditions.

    Her unhealthy enthusiasm for cross country skiing and cold locations ultimately led her to creating the first all female team to cross Antarctica in 2018. Since then, Nics’ passions for cold survival and cold conditions has continued to grow, including research and advising other polar teams.

  • Some of George’s expeditions include:

    • 1996: Ecuador and attempt on Aconcagua

    • 1998: Inca mountains expedition – South America

    • 2000: Silk Mountains expedition – Kyrgyzstan

    • 2005: North Pole expedition – speed record with dogs

    • 2015: Catco Greenland expedition – speed record with kites"

    • MBCHB BSC DIPEWM FRCA

    Jon is an Anaesthetics Registrar working in London. With a love of all things outdoors, Jon has also completed an International Diploma in Expedition and Wilderness Medicine in 2019. A self-professed collector of hobbies, Jon loves being on land or sea. His favourite experiences in these fields have been: High speed drift dives whilst gaining his Advanced PADI in Komodo, kitesurfing the west coast of Australia; to cycling in the French Alps, trekking up Mera Peak in Nepal, and ski touring by the fjords in Northern Norway.

    As well as broad practical experience, Jon has published with the BMJ on Acetazolamide prescription, as well as with the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

    Jon balances his clinical career with a career in photography, in which he has been sponsored by Nikon Europe for the last 3 years. He combines his love of photography with professional work undertaken in health care related photo-documentary and education, as well as adventure photography. Most recently his work has been published with The Guardian, and he is currently working as Director of Media and Photography on another international online Anaesthetics course being created by a group of central London teaching hospitals.

    Jon has a passion for education, and as well as helping create educational courses, regularly teaches as faculty on educational courses in his deanery.

    • MBCHB

    Ffyon is a specialty doctor in emergency medicine working in Hereford county hospital, currently working towards a CESR CCT.

    She is a mountain rescue doctor for Longtown MRT, and also an expedition doctor and has worked on expeditions on tall ships, in the Canadian Yukon, Kilimanjaro and Everest base camp. She has previously worked in North Wales, where she was an EPIC fellow with experience in ITU and with Wales Air Ambulance. 

    • MBCHB BSc (Hons) DMMC MFTM RCPS(Glasg) PGCert DipIMC

    Chris is an Emergency Medicine Registrar who is currently completing Paediatric sub-specialty training in Bristol Children’s Hospital. Chris was also a Senior Clinical Fellow in Global Health in the Bristol Royal Infirmary where he spent 2 months with Dharura: Global Emergency Care supporting health partnerships in Kenya. He has completed Diplomas in Medicine in Conflict and Catastrophe, Expedition and Wilderness Medicine and Immediate Medical Care.

    Through his work with Endeavour Chris has taught on Remote & Restorative Medicine and Remote Medical Responder courses and is supporting juniors through the Endeavour Fellow Mentor programme.

    • MSc, PhD, Mountain Leader

    Vron originally qualified as a Physiotherapist working in the UK and abroad before going on to complete an MSc and PhD in Medical Science and moving into Higher Education, where she worked for 20+ years, most recently as Head of Postgraduate Medical Education at Peninsula Medical School, University of Plymouth.

    As a qualified Mountain Leader (ML), she loves spending time in the mountains and has completed several long-distance walks independently in the Alps, Pyrenees, and Himalayas, and most recently a Polar Expedition in Northern Norway. She has also travelled extensively in Southeast Asia, Nepal, Australia and New Zealand and has spent some time in Kenya supporting Team Talk, an Endeavour Global Health project using Tag Rugby to deliver health messages in local remote schools.

    In addition to her love of the mountains, Vron is also a keen trail runner and has completed numerous mountain marathons in The Lakes, Scotland, and North Wales, many with her children. She has also completed several cycling tours, such as the NC500, Grand Traverse of the Alps, the Pyrenees, Picos de Europa and Dolomites.

    Most recently, Vron has worked as a mountain leader on expedition with the British Exploring Society BES, spending a month in Scotland in 2023 and the High Caucasus Mountains in Georgia in 2024 on the Pinnacle Wild Leadership programme, where she supported groups of Young Explorers develop their knowledge, skills, leadership and resilience through spending extended periods of time in the mountains.

    • Level 5 Degree in Leadership and Management CMgr

    Rachel joined the Endeavour team in March 2024, supporting all things administration! Living in North Devon by the coast, Rachel has a passion for being outdoors and loves nothing more than walking her two springer spaniels on the moors and local beaches. 

    Alongside working with Endeavour, Rachel manages a busy private medical practice, dealing with all things administration and governance and was absolutely delighted to join the Endeavour team with such inspiring individuals! 

    • BSc MBBS

    Emily is a new ST1 Emergency Medicine resident  doctor and  is  committed to advancing her skills in pre-hospital and expedition medicine. 

    Beyond her clinical training she is passionate about sharing her experiences and knowledge as a medical content creator. Showing her journey through graduate entry medicine, foundation training and now starting her emergency medicine career. Through engaging, real-life content, she shares the highs and lows of a medical career, inspiring others to chase their professional goals while maintaining a personal life and work life balance. Her ultimate aim is to blend her medical career with a love for the outdoors

    She has recently returned from walking the Cleveland Way and loves long distance walks and exploring in the UK and abroad.

     She attended 2 course with Endeavour last year and is enjoying putting her social media skills to use helping to spread the word of Endeavour's work.

ENDEAVOUR MEDICAL FELLOWS

Our fellows help us plan and teach on expedition medicine courses, work with our Education Hub team, and keep our social media up to date. If you love being out in the wilderness and want to be part of our team, then see our fellows job description page for details on how to apply for an Endeavour fellowship.

Our Current Fellows

      • MBChB, BSc (Hons)

      Alice is an F2 doctor in Devon with a love of all things emergency medicine.

      She trained in Manchester where she was an active member of the Wilderness and Emergency Medicine Societies, and she also holds an intercalated degree in Urgent & Emergency Care from the University of Plymouth. She is passionate about reducing health inequality, emergency care for vulnerable groups (particularly trans patients), and public education surrounding emergency and lifesaving care.

      Before and during medical school Alice worked as an event medic covering festivals, tv broadcasts, international sporting events and stadium tours. She now volunteers teaching CPR and basic first aid to schools, scout groups, search & rescue organisations and students, and is training to be an ALS instructor. In her spare time, she enjoys baking, horse riding, scuba diving, and is currently training for the 2024 London Marathon.

      Her goal is to combine an emergency medicine career with as much expedition and event medicine as an NHS job will allow. For now, she is planning an F3 in Australasia where she can gain more emergency medicine experience and continue her love affair with warm water diving and underwater photography.

      Alice’s focus with Endeavour this year will be on marketing and social media.

  • Georgina is an Emergency Medicine ST1 based in South Yorkshire. 

    She is due to complete the Diploma in Mountain Medicine this year, hoping to put her skills into practise with the ambitions of become an Expedition Doctor. She also volunteers on remote ultramarathon events, taking her all over the UK and even once to Iceland. 

    With the peak district on her doorstep, a natural love of climbing, running and cycling has developed. Despite nursing an ACL injury this year, has continued to find little adventure in the form of some very cold dips.

    Georgina's goal with Endeavour is to contribute to research in the field of remote medicine, and help set up the Wilderness First Responder course. 

    • BMBS BSc BMedSci

    Alex is a Military FY2 with a penchant for mountainous areas and difficult conditions. 

    She studied in Nottingham, with a brief interlude in London where she completed a BSc in Pre-Hospital Medicine with the London Air Ambulance. Whilst at university she spent most of her weekends cold, hungry and tired in a field somewhere with the UOTC - very good training for expedition life. She now works at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth but is gearing up to head off to Army training later this year. 

    Her love of mountains has taken her on expeditions to the Indian Himalayas and a Honduran Cloud Forest. She has spent time rock climbing all around the world; from hot Sicilian crags to freezing Scottish ice. She organised and led an expedition hiking in the Alps at university, and mentored other student planning expeditions through the UOTC. 

    Alex has also dipped her toe into Global Health. As a medical student, she spent 4 weeks at a mission hospital in remote Uganda. She has spent time in a hospital in Bulgaria, and a week in Japan learning about Disaster Medicine. She has visited remote communities in India and Ethiopia, and she shares Endeavour’s passion for global equity, sustainability and inclusion. 

    In her free time, Alex can usually be found climbing, walking, camping, cycling or running on Dartmoor. She will complete her Mountain Leader qualification later this year, and will then start her rock climbing instructor quals. 

    She is thrilled to be part of Endeavour. She is going to be helping to rewrite the Endeavour Field Manual and working on new Wilderness First Responder courses. She is also mad enough to be joining Endeavour for a polar expedition to Arctic Norway - fingers crossed the Northern Lights make an appearance!

  • Lara is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Emergency Medicine with 9 years experience in the ED. She started her journey in the NHS as nurse and concluded her MSc in ACP in 2022.

    Lara has always been interested in expedition medicine and humanitarian medicine. She pursued this by completing a PGC in Extreme Medicine and by working for several months in a remote part of Central America. 

    She has also collaborated with teaching and development of nursing programmes in Nepal.

    In her spare time she works as a nurse for U.K. based events such as ultra marathons, hikes and festivals. 

    Due to her passion for humanitarian medicine she is registered with the UK Med EMT team and is hoping to be deployed soon where there is most need.

    Lara has a passion for Freediving and is hoping to continue her journey to become a Freediving instructor. She enjoys spending time outdoors; hiking, trekking and skiing.

    She is excited to be a Fellow for Endeavour, believing it is an extremely exciting journey and a great opportunity to be part of such a dynamic and brilliant team!

    • BSc, MBBS

    Emily is an FY4 doctor currently locuming in acute medicine and A&E in Manchester. She loves being in nature, particularly wild swimming (in all weather conditions!). Emily has done a couple of long distance hikes including the Laugeveger in Iceland, and the West Highland way in Scotland. One of her goals for the next few years is to cycle the Hebridean Way! 

    She is currently completing her yoga teacher training and recently did a summer school in herbal medicine, which sparked an interest in medicinal plants and foraging. Before starting medical school she also did a summer school at the University of Groningen in Global Health. She hopes to combine her interests in a way which will benefit the world. 

    Emily has lots of experience in teaching, education and mentoring. She worked as a student ambassador at medical school, and had a particular interest in widening participation. She also taught clinical skills to other medical students and was nominated for a teaching prize by students from the University of Manchester for teaching on the wards during her foundation training!

    Emily is a big advocate for treating the whole person rather than seeing them as a list of symptoms to be gotten rid of. She recently set up an instagram account @witchy.doc in which she posts about all things holistic medicine. She thinks that being in nature and exploring the world is a big part of this!

    • BMBS, MSc, BMedSci

    Aaron is an FY1 doctor based in Surrey with a passion for the outdoors and adventure. A triathlon enthusiast, he is currently training for an Ironman next year and hopes to tackle the Marathon des Sables while raising funds for Great Ormond Street Charity. His love for exploration has taken him around the world,—most recently, he returned from a backpacking trip in Asia, where a highlight was climbing Mount Kinabalu (4095m) in Malaysian Borneo.

    Born in Sri Lanka, Aaron completed his elective in a bustling accident and emergency department in Colombo. This experience ignited his passion for prehospital care and solidified his desire to work in challenging environments. He also pursued a master’s in sports and exercise medicine at Leeds University, allowing him to delve into the physical and mental limits of human performance while working with elite athletes.

    In the future, Aaron aspires to merge his interests in sports and expedition medicine within a prehospital setting.

    As a proactive individual, Aaron has experience in social media management and event organization as the social media secretary for the Undergraduate Sports and Exercise Medicine Society. He also looks forward to contributing to the education hub, sharing his insights on the physical and mental aspects of expedition medicine.

    • MBCHB BSc (Hons)

    Caitlin is a Foundation Year 2 doctor based in Cornwall, with a passion for expedition and emergency medicine. A graduate of Bristol University, she was an active member of the Bristol Wilderness Medical Society, where she organized climbing trips across the Southwest. During her studies, she developed a love for outdoor pursuits such as climbing, trail running, and cycling. She also earned a BSc in Urgent and Emergency Care in Truro, all while honing her surfing and spearfishing skills.

    Spanish skills led her to spend three months in Peru, where she combined her love of adventure with volunteering at a remote clinic in the Amazon and mountaineering in the Andes. Her dedication to global equity, sustainability, and inclusion is central to her career and personal life.

    Before starting her medical career, Caitlin worked as an RNLI beach lifeguard for six summers in South Wales and Cornwall. Now back in Cornwall for her foundation training, she can often be found sailing with friends, surfing, climbing, and running in her free time. This year, she plans to complete her Summer Mountain Leader qualification and continue developing her sailing skills.

    Caitlin’s current focus is on producing a field manual for wilderness and expedition medicine and participating in marine medicine courses.

    • MBBS MRCGP DiMM

    Vicki is a GP and Speciality Doctor in Emergency Medicine who specialises in climbing. She has been the medic on expeditions across the globe, including the High Atlas Mountains, the Himalayas, an ultra-marathon in the Namib Desert and multi-day alpine expeditions in British Columbia.  She holds the UIAA Diploma in Mountain Medicine and has taught Wilderness Medicine in Canada.

    She splits her time between the sea-cliffs of Dorset and the mountains of British Columbia, Canada. When not working or teaching, she’s usually on a rock or ice-face or out on her snowboard/bike/paddleboard.

Our Past Fellows

    • MBBS MRES

    Persia Bowater is a foundation doctor currently working in Glasgow, who was recently a successful applicant for the 2023 International Diploma in Expedition and Wilderness Medicine with the Glasgow Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. She plans to spend her F3 (and beyond) completing this, traveling around Scotland in her campervan, and working towards a combined career in expedition medicine and anaesthetics.

    Whilst at Newcastle University, Persia was a committee member for the wilderness medicine society, which included helping to organise the Northern Wild Trials, where university teams from across Northern England come together in the Lake District to share knowledge of wilderness medicine through scenario based teaching.

    She has completed an intercalated Masters of Research in Global Health, and spent part of her elective conducting health improvement research for a Zanzibar based charity. She shares Endeavour’s ethos surrounding global equity, sustainability, and preserving the planet for future generations, and would like to continue her involvement with global health research in her future career.

    In her spare time, she is happiest up a hill, and is a keen runner, hiker, skier, climber, wild swimmer, and general aspiring wilderness explorer. In her role as an Endeavour fellow so far she has been involved with the education team, creating free resources for social media and the new Endeavour Education Hub.

    • BSC BMBS PHD

    Claire is an F3 Doctor currently based in London. She is driven to explore the world and is always looking to take on new challenges, both personally and in her career.

    She has an extensive academic background, having studied undergraduate Biochemistry before completing a PhD in Molecular Neurology, both at University College London, and then going on to study Medicine as a graduate in Southampton. Along the way she has dedicated a lot of time to, and remains extremely passionate about, scientific research, particularly in the field of Neurology.

    Meanwhile, her love for exploring the outdoors has led to multiple adventures including climbing an active volcano in Guatemala and many many skiing trips across the US, Canada and Europe. She also has a love for endurance sport, completing several ultramarathons and road cycling trips. When not participating in the race she wants to be involved and help others to achieve their goals, so spent part of this summer working as a medic with UltraX.

    Long term she strives to combine a career in the NHS with her love of adventure and extreme environments – thus she is currently taking some time out of training to gain further experience in expedition medicine and global health and has just returned from an epic adventure in Argentina!

    Claire shares the endeavour ethos that healthcare should be equitable, inclusive and sustainable, and so hopes to share and use her vast research skills to improve health care across the globe, including making it more accessible to remote communities and environments. This leads on to her to her next adventure planned with Endeavour Medical in Kenya – watch this space to find out more!

    • BMBS BSC

    Lucy is a foundation doctor in Cornwall and has a keen interest in emergency & expedition medicine.

    Having trained at Plymouth Medical School and completed an intercalation in urgent & emergency care in Glasgow, Lucy has made the most of opportunities to develop skills in both coastal & mountain environments. She holds a mountain leader qualification and is a keen climber & trail runner. Whilst on the coast, she pursues swimming, surfing, sailing, kayaking & triathlon and volunteers as a lifeboat crew member.

    Before working as a doctor Lucy worked on the beaches as an RNLI surf lifeguard for 8 summers. Her lifeboat & lifeguard experience have ignited her interest in remote expedition medicine yet she states the most interesting first aid experiences have not been at sea, but when working as an event medic at festivals across UK!

    Spanish language skills led Lucy to pursue several expeditions in central & South America; highlights inc coast to coast trek in Costa Rica and a community focussed trek through Andes. Lucy is keen to promote sustainable expeditions with a positive impact for local communities. She enjoys teaching to share first aid skills & knowledge within these communities and non-medical patient groups.

    Lucy has just returned from Sardinia where she was facilitating our Marine Medicine Course for a group of international sea kayak leaders and now looks forward to running similar courses in Cornwall next summer! She is lucky to be only at the start of her medical career and has her sights set on many more expeditions and exciting opportunities!