Dr Etherington served in HM Armed Forces as the Director of Defence Rehabilitation and Defence Consultant Advisor in Rheumatology, Rehabilitation and Sport and Exercise Medicine. He was also Clinical Director at the Defence Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court and received a CBE for services to military medicine. He has also served as National Clinical Director for Rehabilitation NHS England and as President of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine. 

Mark Ormrod is a former Royal Marine Commando, Invictus Games athlete, author and motivational speaker. He joined the Royal Marines aged 17 and after service in Iraq was deployed to Afghanistan in 2007. On Christmas Eve that year whilst conducting a foot patrol he stepped on an improvised explosive device loosing both legs and his right arm.  He would become the first service person from Afghanistan to survive a triple amputation.In 2017and 2018  he won 13 medals at the Invictus Games. He was appointed MBE in 2020 .

Andy is a paramedic and is the Head of Research at West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust. He is a member of the West Midlands CARE team. Holding a Masters Degree in Advanced Critical Care Medicine and will graduate summer 2022 with a Masters Degree in Business Administration (Healthcare).  Andy is passionate about improving patient outcomes, something that he supports through clinical research and through teaching.  Andy is a tutor at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care and a member of the West Midlands Care Team.  

Dr Clinton Jones is a consultant anaesthetist at Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and a serving member of the  Defence Medical Services

Mr Tim Stansfield graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 2001. He has completed a fellowship in trauma and endovascular surgery at UC Davies Medical Centre, California. He is a vascular and trauma consultant at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, a consultant general surgeon with the UK military and the resuscitative surgical clinical lead in Leeds.

Ian is a consultant in paediatric emergency medicine, lead for academic emergency medicine and professor of practice (Paediatric Emergency Medicine) at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. From 2014 to 2017 Prof Maconochie was chair of the Paediatric Section of the European Society of Emergency Medicine. He is also a member of the steering committee of the American Heart Association’s Saving Children’s Lives programme and a member and former chair of Paediatric Emergency Research in the United Kingdom & Ireland (PERUKI)

Peter is a consultant in intensive care medicine and anaesthesia at the Royal London Hospital.

Prof Mark Wilson OBE (Neurosurgery) is qualified in both neurosurgery and pre-hospital care. He works with both at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and for Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance Trust. He is clinical lead for neurotrauma at Imperial and co-director of the Imperial Neurotrauma Centre. Professor Wilson is chair of the trauma committee for the Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS). He is professor of practice of brain injury at Imperial College and is honorary professor (the Gibson Chair) of pre-hospital care at the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. He is co-founder of GoodSAM.org.

Major General Hodgetts is the current Surgeon General of the UK Armed Forces, Master General of the Army Medical Services and Chair of the Committee of Military Medical Chiefs in NATO (COMEDS). An emergency physician by clinical background, he has a career-long passion for improving trauma care outcomes from point of wounding to hospital in both military and civilian environments. The Surgeon-General is ex-officio, a patron of Trauma Care.

Carl joined the West Midlands service as an ambulanceman in Birmingham in 1976 and qualified as a paramedic in 1986. He has held a number of posts, including leading ambulanceman, control room officer, incident commander and clinical support officer. Carl is a past president of the Ambulance Services Institute, Ambulance Services Co-ordinator for the Remembrance Day Parade at the Cenotaph Whitehall, a trustee and board member of the Ambulance Staff Charity and a trustee of the West Midlands Care Team. 

Jeff Garner is a consultant surgeon at the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust .  He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1990  and s served in Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Afghanistan before retiring in 2015.
He  to maintains an active interest in trauma, working as major trauma consultant at the Major Trauma Centre in Sheffield, is a Regional Course Director for the Royal College of Surgeons Definitive Trauma Skills Course and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal ‘TRAUMA’.  He has published widely on his trauma research interests of blast injury and the management of the open abdomen. 

Linda qualified from Newcastle Medical School in 1996, trained in the North East & Mersey regions, and is dual-qualified in both emergency medicine & general practice. Linda also spent two years working regular shifts in Ambulance Control and has been involved in the development of telephone algorithms via a short secondment to NHS111 Cymru/Wales.    Formerly a consultant at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor where she was very actively involved in pre-hospital care, Dr Dykes is now consultant in emergency medicine in Hereford.

Dushy the director of Clinical Audit, TARN
 and Consultant in Critical Care, Pre-hospital Care and Anaesthesia
at University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire He is the Royal College of Anaesthetists representative on the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee (JRCALC). As an Honorary Associate Clinical Professor at Warwick University he led the creation of the Critical Care Paramedic Programme and is the course director of the Coventry Adult Transfer course at UHCW..
 He is the Chief Medical Officer for the British round of the Formula E Championship. 

Andrew is an emergency medicine consultant at Pinderfields Hospital Wakefield, technical director and senior medical educator with Immediate Care in Rugby, Twickenham Stadium immediate care lead and clinical governance advisor to premiership rugby.  He is an examiner for the Faculty of Prehospital Care  and sub-chair of the Faculty.

The daughter of a nurse, Gerry Ley joined West Midlands Ambulance Service in 1977. She became a paramedic in 1989 and as a mobile officer was actively involved with the pioneering West Midlands Care team.  Gerry has been a volunteer for Trauma Care since its inception and has been especially active since her retirement from the ambulance service in 1996. In 2019 Gerry was made an honorary life member of Trauma Care.

Gordon Ingram is the Head of Operations at Great North Air Ambulance Service.  He also holds the position of Regional Advisory Group Chair for the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care.  Gordon qualified as a Paramedic in 2007 and has held roles in education, management and operations.  He has deployed as a remote area paramedic working in many countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Kenya, Fiji amongst others.  He is a SME regarding pre-hospital care often called upon to deliver talks and education.  He has previously been a trustee for the College of Paramedics and is proud to hold the Diploma in Immediate Medical Care (RCSEd).

Dame Julie Moore is Director of the Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation and a member of the Board of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. She became CEO of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation trust as Chief Operating Officer in 1998. 
She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 New Year Honours and  was included in the BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour list of the 100 most powerful women in the UK. 

Prof Ian Greaves is a consultant in emergency medicine in Middlesbrough. Previously he was a consultant in emergency medicine in the British Army and  head of emergency medicine across all three Armed Services. He has written or edited standard textbooks on immediate care, major trauma, major incidents and terrorism and military history.  A fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, Emergency Medicine and Surgeons of Edinburgh, he is a regular examiner in pre-hospital care and emergency medicine.  Until 2022, he was the chief medical officer of St John Ambulance.

Prof Jason Smith joined the Royal Navy  in 1992. He was appointed as a consultant in emergency medicine at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth in 2005. He has extensive operational experience, and is currently the Defence Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine. He was also appointed Royal College of Emergency Medicine Professor in 2013, and is an Honorary Professor at Plymouth University Peninsula Medical School.  He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and the Royal College of Physicians of London.  His research interests include the treatment of pain  and the management of traumatic cardiac arrest.

Stuart is managing director of  Boundtree Medical Europe Limited, the major medical equipment supplier. He has provided Trauma Care with free corporate and commercial advice for more than twenty years and the occasional Stuart Edmonds Lecture given at our annual conference is named in his honour.

Caroline is a consultant in emergency medicine at the Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.

Jo is a consultant anaesthetist at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals NHS Trust

Richard is a consultant thoracic surgeon at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. He is a vocationally trained GP and an enthusiastic  practitioner in immediate medical care with a particular interest in trauma. He is a past Chairman of the British Association for Immediate Care.  Richard is an honorary associate professor at the University of Warwick in 2005, vice-chairman of the NHS England National Clinical Reference Group for Thoracic Surgery and a member of the Thoracic Surgery sub-committee of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery of Great Britain and Ireland.  He has a particular interest in tactical medicine and the use of force. 

The current Trauma Care Trustees are:

Prof Sir Keith Porter

Prof Ian Greaves

Mrs Claire Burdett

Mr Carl Ledbury

Formerly Joint Professor of Military Surgery at the Royal Army Medical College, London, Prof Jim Ryan's war and disaster experience covers military and humanitarian operations in Northern Ireland and Cyprus, Professor Ryan was the first Leonard Cheshire Professor in Conflict Recovery at the Department of Surgery, University College London. In 2002 he became International Professor of Surgery at the United Services University in Maryland. He was awarded the OBE in 2011.

With Prof Ian Greaves and Prof Jim Ryan, Sir Keith Porter was one of the Founders of Trauma Care in 1996. He is professor of clinical traumatology at the University of Birmingham. He established the pioneering West Midlands Care Team in the 1980’s and has held senior positions in both the British Association for Immediate Care Schemes and the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care.  Keith was knighted for his services to Defence personnel in 2010. Sir Keith is a fellow or honorary fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, Surgeons of Edinburgh, Emergency Medicine, and General Practitioners. 

Dr Ben Hall qualified from Birmingham University Medical School in 2005 and undertook the majority of his specialist training in the West Midlands before being appointed as a consultant at the University Hospital of the North Midlands, Stoke on Trent in 2015. His has a particular interest in major trauma and works as a HEMS Doctor on the Midlands Air Ambulance. Dr Hall is a fellow of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and the Royal Geographical Society and a serving Army medical officer.

Denise is an anaesthetist and pre-hospital care doctor

Andrew is a consultant intensivist with the UK Defence Medical Services   working at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine. He has extensive deployed experience.

Jamie is a paramedic with an interest in prehospital, critical care and geriatric research.

David is a consultant in paediatric emergency medicine at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and has trained in paediatric major trauma centres in the UK and Australia. David is committed to building strong multi-disciplinary teams both inside and outside the emergency department. In addition to working on the floor in ED, David holds roles within quality improvement and clinical audit in University Hospitals Bristol. 

Richard spent many years working for the London Ambulance Service, firstly as an operational paramedic and then as a training manager.  He was also an associate clinical director in South East Coast Ambulance Service. Richard was the first lead paramedic at NHS England and led the development and implementation of the current clinical quality indicators and ambulance quality indicators. He has worked in an acute trust responsible for two emergency departments and has worked for a group of CCGs as a System Resilience Lead. Richard has been a trustee of the College of Paramedics since 2019, is a long serving member of the Army Medical Service Reserves, and was, until recently, chief paramedic of St John Ambulance.