Professor Alasdair Corfield
MBChB MRCP (UK) FCEM Dip.IMC DipRTM
Alasdair is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Retrieval Medicine based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Alasdair completed his training in Emergency Medicine in the UK and Australia, with a specialist interest in critical care delivery. The combination of working in Australia and critical care delivery led him to be involved in the inception and development of the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service. He had led research within the service from the outset, developing a programme of research that spans a broad range of topics and involves multiple agencies and professions. This research portfolio has produced over 55 peer reviewed publications, secured grants and informed practice in this field of medicine at a global level. He has been the champion of quality improvement within the service, implementing robust performance indicators, ensuring a rolling audit cycle and keeping the service at the forefront of research. The work done by Alasdair and his team has been presented at conferences nationally and internationally.
When he is not working, Alasdair is a keen cyclist and skier.
Dr Stephen Hearns
MB ChB FRCEM FRCS FRCP FRGS DIMC DRTM
Stephen is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and an internationally recognised helicopter retrieval medicine specialist. He is a fellow of three medical and surgical Royal Colleges and has extensive experience of service development, training, research and clinical governance.
In 2003 he conceived the concept of an aeromedical adult critical care service for rural Scotland. For 15 years he led the establishment of the UK’s first aeromedical retrieval team, the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service. This national service deploys a consultant led team by helicopter, plane or response car to stabilise patients with life threatening injuries and illnesses in small remote and rural hospitals or at the scene of their accident. Starting from a voluntary service with no budget, the now fully government funded service has an international reputation for the highest clinical governance, training and academic standards. EMRS won the British Medical Journal Group Award for the top UK hospital team in 2010.
Stephen is regularly instructed as an expert witness in emergency medicine and pre-hospital care cases. He is instructed by the General Medical Council, The Procurator Fiscal, the Scottish Ombudsman, NHS Scotland and by pusuers’ solicitors.
In addition to emergency and retrieval medicine, Stephen has over 20 years of experience in search and rescue and remote medicine. He has provided medical support to seven international expeditions, working in remote arctic, mountain, desert and jungle environments. Stephen founded the first Expedition Medicine course in the UK. He has been a member of Arrochar Mountain Rescue Team, since 1997.
Dr Ross Moy
BMSc MBChB FRCEM FIMC DipRTM
Consultant in Emergency and Pre-Hospital Medicine
Ross joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 2001 as a medical cadet at Dundee University before graduating in 2004. In 2005, he attended the Postgraduate Medical Officer’s Course, before being deploying to Iraq. He then served as a Regimental Medical Officer before starting his specialist training in Emergency Medicine.
He trained in Emergency Medicine in the Northeast of England, and the West of Scotland. This included fellowships in critical care, transfer and retrieval and pre-hospital medicine. During training, he deployed twice to Afghanistan, one to the Camp Bastion Emergency Department, and once on the Medical Emergency Response Team.
He was a Consultant in EM at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford from 2016 before returning to Scotland in 2021. He currently works as an EM Consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow, and as a Pre-Hospital and Retrieval Consultant with the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service. He is also the British Army’s Consultant Advisor in Pre-Hospital Emergency Care. He has deployed operationally several times as a consultant, in both EM and PHEM roles.
Ross is married with two enthusiastic sons, and a lazy Labrador. He enjoys running, climbing, skiing and mountain biking.
Dr Neil Hughes
MB ChB MRCP FRCEM DRTM
Neil is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine & Retrieval. He trained in Scotland, Wales and Australia and now lives in Glasgow with his young family.
His main interests in Emergency Medicine are Critical Care, Paediatrics and Procedural Sedation. He regularly teaches trainee doctors and medical students and is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Glasgow.
His current main focus of interest in the pre-hospital environment is the use of blood products in resuscitation of trauma patients.
Outside of work, Neil is a film buff and attempts to keep a semblance of fitness beyond running after a very fast wean.. Johnson
Dr JP Loughrey
MBChB FRCEM DipRTM(RCSEd)
JP is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Prehospital & Retrieval Medicine, based in Glasgow, Scotland.
He trained in Emergency Medicine in Scotland, spending a substantial proportion of his time working in large teaching hospitals in and around the Glasgow area. He has worked with the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service in a variety of roles -part-time Registrar, full-time Registrar and Consultant- since 2011 and enjoys immensely the variety that Retrieval Medicine brings to his career. In particular, he recognises the hugely positive influence that remote medical advice can have in assisting our colleagues in rural and often austere locations, both in the immediate care of the patient and in the development of professional relationships and networks that these interactions generate.
His main professional interests are in major incident planning and in education. He is the Major Incident lead for the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service and has contributed to large scale incidents and myriad exercises, he is actively involved in training and education for medical and non-medical responders to mass casualty events, and has positively contributed to a number of major incident plans, plan revisions and policy changes. Throughout his career he has been an active teacher and instructor, in a variety of life-support courses (ALS, APLS, ATLS, ETC) and was the lead for Undergraduate Emergency Medicine education for 4 years, now remaining an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. He is very proud to represent to Chair the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Scottish National Board and continues to advocate for all staff of our Emergency Departments, our patients and their families.
When not working, he enjoys spending his time outdoors with his family, he trains in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and is a voracious bookworm.
Dr Kevin Thomson
MB ChB MRCS FRCEM
Dr. Kevin Thomson works as an Emergency Medicine Consultant at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow. He graduated with a BSc (Physiology and Sports Science) in 1992 and an MBChB from the University of Glasgow in 1997. After obtaining his MRCS he went onto achieve his FCEM in 2008. He trained in the West of Scotland and for a year in the busiest trauma centre in Australasia – The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne – where his interest in pre hospital medicine started. He is now an active member of the Emergency Medicine Retrieval Service providing critical care and safe transfer of patients throughout Scotland.
Dr Mike Donald
BSc MBChB MRCS(Ed) FRCEM DipIMC DipRTM
Mike graduated from St. Andrews University in 1994 and from Manchester University in 1997. Following an Emergency Medicine training programme in the North West of England Mike spent time in Sydney as a Registrar in Emergency Medicine where he was exposed to the New South Wales aeromedical retrieval services and, following further training back in Dundee, returned to work with Careflight New South Wales before returning to the UK and working with London’s Air Ambulance, Essex and Hertfordshire Air Ambulance and East Anglian Air Ambulance. He has 10 years of experience working with Scotland’s Emergency Medical Retrieval Service
Mike has over 10 year’s experience as a Consultant in Emergency and Retrieval Medicine and currently works for NHS Tayside where he is the lead clinician for the Tayside Trauma Team and the Emergency Department lead for Clinical Governance.
Dr Niall McMahon
MB ChB MRCP MRCEM DipRTM
Niall is a consultant in emergency medicine at the Royal Alexandra Hospital and in retrieval medicine / pre hospital care with the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS). He completed his training in the West of Scotland and Melbourne, Australia.
He co-authored and course directs the post graduate, advanced practice education programme for retrieval practitioners in Scotland. Experience in pre-hospital critical care led to his development of 'code red' to improve resuscitation of bleeding trauma patients, which has now evolved into a nationwide protocol. He was involved in the development of the major trauma coordination desk within ambulance control which is central to the Scottish Trauma Network. He also set up the top cover system for clinical advice to specialist aeromedical and trauma aspects of the Scottish Ambulance Service.
Niall has a longstanding interest in sports medicine which has included motorsport (F1 and MotoGP), Commonwealth Games and rugby 7s. He is involved in the medical teams for Glasgow Warriors and Scottish Rugby and has been pitchside at Champions cup final, Pro14 final as well as international matches. He instructs on sports specific immediate medical care courses such as Scrumcaps and SportPromote.
Dr Neil Dignon
Dr Alastair Baird
Dr Daniel Graham
MB ChB FRCEM
Daniel is an Emergency Medicine consultant working in Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, and alongside this works as a consultant in the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS) based in Glasgow. He graduated from Glasgow University in 2011 and completed Emergency Medicine training throughout the West of Scotland. This was followed by a fellowship with EMRS before then becoming a consultant with the service.
He also has an interest in sports medicine, having previously been the team doctor for Motherwell Football Club. His interest in sports medicine has led to instructing on pitch-side medical courses that are taught and recognised internationally.
Outside of medicine Daniel is married with 2 young girls, 4 rescue chicken and an old but crazy cocker spaniel. He enjoys keeping fit by running and playing tennis regularly.
