Plenary Speakers

Colonel Professor Ian Greaves Biography

Colonel Ian Greaves qualified in medicine at Birmingham in 1986 and trained in emergency medicine in Yorkshire before joining the Armed Forces on appointment as a consultant in Peterborough in 1997. Since 2002, Colonel Greaves has been consultant in emergency medicine at James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough. He was appointed to a visiting professorship in emergency medicine at the University of Teesside in 2003. In civilian life, Professor Greaves leads the Academic Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Teesside and James Cook Hospital which has received a number of major grants and established a particular reputation in the field of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) research.  The department also offers a broad range of postgraduate courses including the recently established Surgical Trauma Skills in Emergency Medicine course.  Professor Greaves has published widely in the fields of trauma, pre-hospital care and military medicine. Formerly the editor of the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, he now edits the quarterly journal Trauma. Professor Greaves has written or edited eight textbooks including key texts in the field of Immediate Care and paramedic practice and contributed to a wide range of other books. He lectures widely on all aspects of pre-hospital care and trauma management.  He is member of the Executive and Faculty Board of the Faculty of Pre-hospital Care and the secretary of the charity Trauma Care and recently served on the Department of Health Clinical Advisory Group on Pre-hospital and Transfer Medicine. Still a serving officer, Colonel Greaves is now Defence Consultant Advisor in Emergency Medicine, responsible for co-ordinating the delivery of an emergency medicine capability in the UK and on operations in Afghanistan. He has deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan and visits the latter each year.

   In 2010 Colonel Greaves was made Honorary Surgeon to HM Queen Elizabeth II. He lives in a small Yorkshire Dales village with his wife, two small sons and a menagerie of assorted animals his children promised to clean up after. One day, he will finish his masterpiece on the historical architecture of north Yorkshire.

Professor Bob J. Stone Biography

BSc (Hons), MSc, C.Psychol, AFBPsS, EurErg, FErgS, FIoN, FVRS

Bob holds a Chair in Interactive Multimedia Systems within the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Birmingham. He graduated from University College London in 1979 with a BSc in Psychology, and in 1981 with an MSc in Ergonomics and holds the position of Academician within the Russian Higher Education Academy of Sciences. As well as his academic positions, Bob is the Research Director of the UK Human Factors Integration Defence Technology Centre, where many of his team’s projects originate, covering human-centred design and evaluation methodologies for applications as varied as close-range weapons training and support for surgical and mental health therapies to submarine safety awareness, IED search and disposal training and unmanned vehicle control. Bob’s pioneering surgical task analysis efforts in the mid-1990s led to the development of a suite of simulated perceptual-motor tasks for a unique lapcholy basic surgical skills VR trainer (MIST), still marketed today by Mentice of Sweden. His Human Factors efforts were also instrumental in the development of a prototype mastoidectomy simulator, funded by the EU as part of a project called IERAPSI. Between 1997 and 2005, he held the position of Director of Virtual Reality Studies for the North of England Wolfson Centre for Minimally Invasive Therapy (Manchester Royal Infirmary). From 1999 to 2002, Bob sat on a working party on behalf of the Royal College of Surgeons’ Joint Committee on Higher Surgical Training (JCHST) investigating the assessment of surgical training and competence and, in January 2000, passed the Royal College of Surgeons of England’s Basic Surgical Skills course. Bob was a Human Factors consultant to the US Office of Naval Research-funded Pulse!! Virtual Healthcare Project (led by Texas A&M University Corpus Christi). He has also acted in the role of ergonomics consultant to a MedLINK/DoH-sponsored project addressing the development of a new generation of endoscopic surgical support robots. Today, he works closely with the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, addressing future simulation opportunities for trauma and combat surgery training.

Professor Lee Alan Wallis Biography

MBChB MD DipIMCRCSEd Dip Sport Med FRCSEd(A&E) FCEM FCEM(SA)

I graduated MB ChB Edinburgh University 1993 and was awarded my MD in 2006 for a thesis on paediatric disaster triage. I have published 55 articles in peer reviewed journals, have edited one book and have authored chapters in 9 international textbooks. I have presented at numerous international conferences, and chaired the organising committee two. I sit on the editorial board of two international journals. I am Head of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cape Town, Stellenbosch University and for the Provincial Government of the Western Cape. I am President of Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa, and the African Federation for Emergency Medicine. I am 40, and married with one child and one due in 2010. In 2007 I bottled my first wine on my farm, and i received a coveted 5 star rating in the 2010 Platter guide for my 2008 Shiraz.

Professor Keith Willett Biography

Professor Willett has extensive experience in trauma care and medical management. He currently works as Professor of Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust. Professor Willett is widely respected in the trauma care community and, in addition to other commitments, is Chair of the British Orthopaedic Association’s Trauma Committee, a National Executive and Board Member with the Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN) and a past President of the British Trauma Society. He has an impressive research portfolio; having published work on acetabular and pelvic fractures, fractures in the elderly, limb fracture surgery, fracture biomechanics, accident prevention and clinical outcome studies of orthopaedic trauma surgery techniques.

Professor Willett has taken up the newly created position of National Clinical Director for Trauma Care on 1 April 2009 working for the Department of Health three days a week. He will lead the development of national policy for trauma care.

Chester “Trip” Buckenmaier, III, MD Biography

Colonel Chester “Trip” Buckenmaier III is the current Chief of the Acute Pain Medicine and Regional Anesthesia Service at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC. He is Program Director and Principle Investigator for the Defense & Veterans Pain Management Initiative as well as Associate Professor in Anesthesiology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and a Diplomat, with the American Board of Anesthesiology.

He attended Catawba College, on a Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship, graduating with a degree in Biology in 1986. He then attended East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., receiving a Master in Science in Biology in 1988. In 1992, he graduated from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, completing his Anesthesia Residency at Walter Reed. In addition, he completed a one year Fellowship in Regional Anesthesia at Duke University in 2002, resulting in the creation of the only Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship in the American military at Walter Reed.

In September 2003, he deployed with the 21st Combat Support Hospital to Balad, Iraq, and demonstrated that the use of advanced regional anesthesia can be accomplished in a forward deployed environment. He performed the first successful continuous peripheral nerve block for pain management in a combat support hospital. In April 2009, he deployed to Camp Bastion, Afghanistan with the British military and ran the first acute pain service in a theatre of war.

 

Dr Frank Butler Biography

Frank K. Butler, Jr, MD
CAPT Medical Corps USN (RET)
Chairman
Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care
Defense Health Board

Dr. Frank Butler graduated from Georgia Tech in 1971 and completed Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL Training in 1972. He subsequently served as a platoon commander in both Underwater Demolition Team Twelve and SEAL Team One.

After graduation from the Medical College of Georgia and internship, Dr. Butler spent 5 years as a Diving Medical Research officer at the Navy Experimental Diving Unit in Panama City, where he helped to develop many of the diving techniques and procedures used by Navy SEALs today.

He completed his residency in Ophthalmology at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda and served as the Chief of Ophthalmology at Naval Hospital Pensacola from 1990 to 1994. He also assumed the additional duty of Director of Biomedical Research for the Naval Special Warfare Command in 1990 and served in this capacity until 2004.

From January 2003 until April 2003, Dr. Butler served as the Task Force Surgeon for a Joint Special Operations Counterterrorist Task Force in Afghanistan. In April 2004, he was the first Navy medical officer selected to be the Command Surgeon at the United States Special Operations Command.

Dr. Butler now serves as the Chairman of the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care, which is a component of the Defense Health Board, the senior external advisory group on medical issues to the Secretary of Defense.

Dr. Butler's military awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and the Navy Meritorious Service Medal.

Dr. Gilbert Greenall Biography

Gilbert Greenall joined the British Army in 1973 completing his short service commission in 1976 at the age of 22. He then did the MBA course at INSEAD Fontainebleau and subsequently studied medicine, qualifying as a doctor in 1989. He has had a 30 year career in the management of humanitarian emergencies and post conflict recovery. During this time he has been to 22 humanitarian emergencies and 10 conflicts. He has been an adviser to the British military commanders in Northern Iraq, Bosnia, East Timor Sierra Leone, Macedonia, Baghdad and the UN commander of UNIFIL in Southern Lebanon. He has been a member of the United Nations Disaster, Assessment and Co-ordination team since 1997. His most recent mission has been the Bukavu earthquake in 2008 in the DRC. He was appointed CBE in 1993 and awarded an honorary doctorate in Medicine by the University of Bristol in 2006.

Professor AD Redmond OBE

Tony Redmond is Professor of International Emergency Medicine at the University of Manchester where he is the Academic Lead for Global Health at the Manchester Medical School and Hospital Dean. He has previously held consultant posts in the North West of England and is Emeritus Professor of Emergency Medicine at Keele University.

He has led medical teams to earthquakes in several countries, including Armenia, Iran, Pakistan, China and most recently Haiti, and into conflict zones, including the former Yugoslavia, Kurdistan and Sierra Leone. He was the UN appointed Medical Director of the University Hospital in Pristina, Kosovo, immediately following the NATO invasion.

Most recently he has co-founded the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester www.hcri.ac.uk – an academic institute inspired by the need to conduct rigorous research and to support postgraduate training on the impact and outcomes of contemporary and historical crises.