The Prometheus Team
As well as Dr. Russell, the Prometheus Medical team
contains a number of experts in expedition medicine, mountain rescue,
pre-hospital emergency car and situational awareness. Drawing on their wealth of experience each member
of the team will provide you with specific input over the weekend,
adding to your overall appreciation of surviving adventure. Most
of the instructors in the team have worked with a wide variety of
specialist medical units within the Army or on medical research
expeditions. Most also have years of experience in planning and
delivering both emergency and primary health care to some of the
UK's most elite soldiers in remote areas around the globe. This
has given them all a unique appreciation of how to survive adventure,
and how to apply standard medical and first aid procedures in remote
environments. This course aims to pass this valuable information
on to you.
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Dr. Sundeep Dhillon Dr. Dhillon holds degrees in Physiology and Medicine from Oxford and is currently working as a General Practitioner with an interest in Pre-Hospital Care. In 2000 Sundeep was awarded the British Association of Immediate Care Schemes Medal by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Having a passion for climbing, Dr. Dhillon summited Everest in 1998, becoming the youngest person in the world to climb the Seven Summits. He has had first-hand experience of extreme environments, from the mountains of Antarctica to the Sahara desert, were he completed the 140-mile Marathon des Sables desert ultra-marathon (2000). In 2002, Dr. Dhillon was the Medical officer for the scientific diving expedition to Pitcairn Island, in the South Pacific for which he was awarded the British Sub Aqua Club Jubilee Trust award. He summited Everest for the 2nd time in 2007 as part of the Caudwell Xtreme Everest Expedition. An accomplished climber, Dr. Dhillon has a book dedicated to him, called ‘Cloud Sailors’ written by Dr Hugh Montgomery.
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Dr. Malcolm Russell Actively practicing pre-hospital immediate care for over ten years, Dr Russell has served most of his career as a doctor in the British Army working extensively with some of the UK’s most elite military units. He was central in the development of concepts of combat casualty care. He held the prestigious post of Senior Lecturer in Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine at the UK Royal Centre for Defence Medicine. As a civilian Dr Russell has worked with several ambulance services including the London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service and been involved in training paramedics and emergency care practitioners. An experienced GP, Dr. Russell has also worked in emergency medicine and anaesthetics in a hospital environment. He has been actively involved in pre-hospital emergency medicine (part of the charity, the Mercia Accident Rescue Service). He has planned and managed medical support to various expeditions including to Mt McKinley (Denali) 2004, and the Army Everest West Ridge expedition, 2006.
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Andy Purdie
Andy is an experienced state registered paramedic with particular expertise in Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Medicine where he helped develop new procedures for dealing with casualties in CBRN environments. He is recently retired from the British Army where he served for 21 years as a Combat Medical Technician with the Royal Army Medical Corps serving in a variety of operational theatres and environments, as well as working with UK Special Forces. In the past year, Andy has worked as a medic in Pakistan, Europe and extensively throughout Africa and was expedition medic on the recent Tiger Aspect Production 'Stephen Tompkinson's African Balloon Adventure' in the Serengeti, past Victoria Falls, and over the Okavango Delta before finishing on Namibia's Skeleton Coast.
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