
Beth Healy
British medical doctor who spent a year in Antarctica at Concordia Station, a French-Italian base, as a Research MD.
This annual event will showcase the work of the Defence Medical Services to those considering a career as a regular or reserve in the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force or Army.
You will:
Keynote speaker
Beth Healy is a UK trained doctor who has recently returned from Antarctica where she was working as a researcher for the European Space Agency at spaceflight analogue Concordia ‘White Mars’. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and patron of Expedition Medicine with an interest in polar environments, she has worked as part of logistical and medical support teams for ski mountaineering expeditions and endurance races in Svalbard, Greenland, Siberia and at the North Pole. Beth will be giving this event's keynote lecture. Hear her TEDX talk here.
This event will also be of interest to Medical Students and Junior Doctors already serving in the armed forces to highlight potential career pathways.
British medical doctor who spent a year in Antarctica at Concordia Station, a French-Italian base, as a Research MD.
Defence Deanery Dean
Defence Consultant Advisor in CBRN Medicine
Lieutenant Colonel Ian Gurney, President, Military Medicine Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Surgeon Commander Steven Bland
Surgeon Lieutenant Gerard McKnight, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Captain Peter Harper
Surgeon Lieutenant John Norsworthy
Squadron Leader Sophie Foxen, RAF GP, RAF Cosford
Major Nabeela Malik, Medical Officer, 212 (Yorkshire) Field Hospital
Major Jon Barratt
Brigadier Robin Simpson, Dean, Defence Postgraduate Medical
Major Max Marsden, Clinical Research Fellow, Centre for Trauma Science, Queen Mary University of London and the Alexander Duckham Memorial Schools Trust
Dr Beth Healey, British medical doctor
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