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. He is also the lead academic coordinator and tutor for aeromedical retrieval and transport distance learning courses run by the university of Otago in New Zealand. 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 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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Dr Robin Weller
Robin has been a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Frenchay Hospital Bristol, since 1975. He was a founder member of the British Aeromedical Practitioner's Association, and remains the Senior Medical Officer of Wings Aeromedical, a Bristol based medical assistance company. Robin is a writer of distinction, being widely known for his regular columns as wine correspondent for 'Today's Anaesthetist', as well as for his works on aeromedical transport and disaster medicine. This picture shows Robin on the 'whole body vibrating chair' at Farnborough.
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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.
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Dr Colin Myers
Colin is an emergency physician in Darwin. He has been involved in Queensland's retrieval services for many years, initially involved in prehospital work including helicopter winch rescue but latterly concentrating on inter-hospital critical care. He also works with the health department attempting to standardise and develop services throughout the state.
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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 Mike Finch
Mike is Director and Senior Medical Officer of Goldfinch, a provider of medical services to the assistance industry.
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Dr Carmen de Andrés
Carmen is an emergency medicine physician who specialises in prehospital care. She was course co-ordinator and presented case studies on CCAT 2004, and works for SAMUR (a national ambulance organisation) in Spain. Carmen was nationally recognised for her excellent work during the aftermath of the terrorist atrocities in the city of Madrid in March 2004.
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Dr Sabeena Quershi
Anaesthetist and intensive care physician with the London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service.
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Andrea Buisman
Andrea was course co-ordinator in 2003 and 2002. She also lectured on oxygen equipment. She is an intensive care flight nurse working for International SOS in New Zealand.
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Dr Peter Shirley
Consultant anaesthetist and intensive care physician with extensive military and civilian aeromedical transfer and retrieval experience.
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Dr Anne Weaver
Anaesthetist and intensive care physician with the London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service.
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Dr Mike Finch
As above.
Angela Simpson
Angela is a freelance flight nurse and equipment manager for Goldfinch.
Irvine Gibson
Irvine is a paramedic who joined CCAT 2003 to teach ambulance lifting and loading skills.
2002 Guest Speakers |
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Dr James Walter
With a background in emergency medicine and aerospace medicince, Jim is a Flight Surgeon with the US Air Force and NASA.
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Dr Sami Massoud
Sami was Senior Medical Officer of International Medical Rescue, a provider of medical services to the assistance industry.
Dr Anne Weaver
As above
Dr Colin Myers
As above
2001 Guest Speakers
Mr John Firth
John is a consultant neurosurgeon in the Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, but also an enthusiastic flyer and expert on aircraft crash dynamics and their relationship to head injuries.
Dr Paul Beven
Paul is Co-Director and Senior Medical Officer of Healix International, a provider of medical services to the assistance industry.
Dr Juergen Rayner-Klein
Juergen is a consultant anaesthetist and former trauma registrar on the London Helicopter Emergency Medical service. He co-ordinated the CCAT 2000 visit to the HEMS helipad at the Royal London Hospital.
2000 Guest Speakers
Dr Paul Beven
As above
Dr Juergen Rayner-Klein
As above.
1999 Guest Speakers
Dr Paul Beven
As above
Dr Mark Overton
Mark is Senior Medical Officer, International SOS, Beijing, China.
Dr Tania Abreu
Tania was a staff grade anaesthetist at Medway Hospital and part-time aeromedical escort with CEGA, specialising in paediatric transfers. She now works as an anaesthetist in Spain.
1998 Guest Speaker
Dr Claudia Pauloni
Claudia is a Consultant Anaesthetist in Southampton who has had extensive aeromedical transport experience with the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Australia.
Former Instructors |
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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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