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CCAT Instructors
Course Director
Dr Terry Martin
 The CCAT concept was designed and developed by Dr Terry Martin, a former Royal Air Force Medical Officer with a broad-based background in anaesthetics, intensive care, emergency medicine, general practice, and aviation medicine. He has been involved in the organisation, practice and teaching of both civilian and military aeromedical transport since 1984 and was Medical Director at Europ Assistance (UK) in 1991. In 1992 he worked as a trauma registrar on the London HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service) and, between 1994 and 1998, he was Senior Medical Officer in the Aeromedicine and Neuroscience Department of the Centre of Human Sciences (formerly the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine) in Farnborough. Since leaving regular RAF service, he has been Deputy Squadron Commander and Senior Medical Officer with 4626 Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force based at RAF Lyneham. More recently, Terry worked as a paediatric and adult critical care transfer doctor for Pacific Air Ambulance based in Auckland, New Zealand, as well as for the Air Medical Evacuation service of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Terry currently works full time as an intensivist and anaesthetist in Winchester and is a part-time Flight Physician with various air UK-based ambulance organisations. He also teaches emergency medicine, critical care and aviation medicine courses in his spare time, as well as acting as medical adviser to several aeromedical companies. He has lectured worldwide and published extensively in the fields of emergency medicine, neuroscience and aviation medicine. Terry also directs the Medical Emergencies in Flight (MEF) course and the Helicopter Medical Flight Crew (HMFC) training course for helicopter flight paramedics, nurses and physicians. Between 2004 and mid 2008, Terry was also the lead academic coordinator and tutor for aeromedical retrieval and transport distance learning courses run by the university of Otago in New Zealand. During this time he designed, taught and examined various postgraduate suites of courses, up to Masters level, for doctors and other health care professionals in air ambulance work. Finally, in his spare time, Terry flies an ex-Navy Westland Wasp helicopter and a vintage DH Chipmunk aerobatic aircraft.
Course Instructors
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Dr Geoff Tothill
With a background in emergency medicine, Geoff is now the Chief Medical Officer of First Assist, a Surrey based medical assistance company. He has a wide experience and knowledge of aeromedical matters and maintains a passion for teaching which has given him opportunities to lecture in the UK and overseas. He worked with Terry for the University of Otago aeromedical retrieval courses between 2007 an 2008, and eventually succeeded Terry as the academic lead in July 2008.
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Dr Mike Glanfield
Having started in the NHS as a trauma surgeon, Mike's love of flying soon prompted a career change. He has subsequently worked almost exclusively in aviation medicine and aeromedical transport, with such historical names as British Caledonian, Dan-Air, Alert Assistance (the Automobile Association's medical assistance service), and latterly with British Airways, the Civil Aviation Authority, and the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency Altitude Physiology Research Group. Mike is also a graduate engineer and maintains clinical currency by part-time clinical sessions in emergency medicine.
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Ian MacLennan
Ian is a fixed wing pilot and registered nurse with many years experience of routine and critical care transfers. He maintains aeromedical currency as a part-time freelance nurse escort but also holds the position of Clinical Nurse Manager at the Royal Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals Trust in Shropshire, England.
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Virgin Atlantic Personnel
Virgin Atlantic Airways Aviation Medicine Instructors
 Since its inception, CCAT has enjoyed a close and successful association with Virgin Atlantic Airways. Thanks to the enthusiastic and forward thinking help of Charlotte Rogers (VAA's first Medical Department Training Manager), every CCAT course has included a day at the Virgin Headquarters for what has become widely regarded as a unique and exciting training opportunity with a major international airline. The relationship with Virgin is two-way traffic, in that at least one AvMed training instructor joins every CCAT course as a delegate.
The Aviation Medicine team at Virgin consist of a training manager (Linda Porter), co-ordinator (Melanie Newnam) and 10 training Instructors. The training Instructor team consists of 80% registered nurses and 20% with appropriate affiliated experience and qualifications. All the team are trained as a minimum in ILS, ALS, ATLS and during their time in the department will undergo PALS and CCAT training. All of the team are qualified trainers and some have a professional qualification with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. The Virgin Aviation Medicine department also has professional connections with the Eastbourne District General and Hastings Hospitals and regularly undergo clinical updates at the Trust. All Aviation Medicine department staff are trained as cabin crew and fly regularly as AvMed Quality Inspectors to evaluate training and procedures. The training team use the Systematic Training Cycle as a system of producing gold standard best practice training programmes. The 'training need' is identified via current hospital and pre hospital practices and also statistical analysis of on board events. The courses are delivered making best use of the group's experiences and learning styles. Evaluation is constant and involves course feedback, post event debrief and clinical audit plus on the job feedback achieved from the team flying. The Medical Training team is also responsible for developing aircraft onboard medical equipment and for introducing the revolutionary 'Tempus 2000' remote diagnostic equipment on to the Virgin fleet. |
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Linda Porter
Linda joined VAA in 1996 as an Av Med Instructor - she previously worked as a consultant to VAA and coordinated their AED programme at this time. Linda is a Registered Nurse who trained and worked in the areas of critical and intensive care mainly prior to joining VAA. In addition to this she also had a sabbatical working out of Harare with the Medical Air Rescue Service (MARS) in 1996. She is an ALS and PALS Instructor. She is ATLS trained and completed the CCAT course in 1999. Linda was promoted to Training Manager in 2001. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and as has a professional qualification in Training Practice. Linda actively teaches Advanced and Immediate Life Support and has a clinical placement of one day per week with East Sussex Hospital Trust. Along with the professional connection, she has a personal interest in old and new aeroplanes and aviation history.
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Melanie Newnam
Mel has an extensive airline background including customer service training and has also worked as cabin crew for Emirates. Her present role involves a mixture of responsibilities including day to day AvMed course co-ordination as well as full co-ordinatation of external courses including CCAT.
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The Training Instructor Team
AvMed training instructors
Ben Moore
Lynnie Moore
Fiona Kiernan
Debbie Preece
Fran Harris
Josie Lazenby
Jane Cronk
Steven Sneddon
Dawn Dart
Geraldine Lundy
SEP (Safety Equipment and Procedures) instructors
Lisa Condell
Keith Holloway
Jane Lewis
Jo Hampshire
Lianne Buchanan
Darren Avery
Nikki Cakebread
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Dr Mark Green (1997-2002)
A full-time Consultant Anaesthetist and Intensivist at the East Surrey Hospital, Mark has had many years experience of airborne intensive care transfers. He has held positions with several major medical assistance companies and lectures extensively on aeromedical transport.
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Dr Howard Rodenberg (1977 and 1997)
Until recently, Howard was Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida. Concurrently he was Medical Director of ShandsCair Flight Program (a primary helicopter air ambulance service), and part-time flight surgeon for NASA. He subsequently moved to South Africa to work as Special Projects Manager at Medical Rescue International, and has now returned to the USA where he continues to work in, and write about, emergency medicine and aeromedical transport.
Dr Fiona Jewkes (2001 and 2002)
Fiona was the course co-ordinator for CCAT 2000. She is a GP in Hampshire, but was previously a consultant paediatrician at the University Hospital of Wales with a special interest in the emergency care of children outside hospital. She is an active BASICS (prehospital) doctor, treating both adults and children at the roadside, and has extensive experience with neonatal and paediatric primary retrieval and interhospital aeromedical transfers in the UK and Australia.
Dr Fiona Gilroy (1998 and 1999)
Fiona is a GP and member of BASICS with extensive prehospital immediate care experience. She has frequently acted as civilian medical officer at large international air shows and subsequently developed an interest in aeromedical transport. She has worked for 'Wings Aeromedical', a Bristol based medical assistance company, for several years, and is actively involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
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