GWAAC Symposium
2024 Theme: Team Performance
We are excited to be back at Aerospace Bristol to bring you the 2024 GWAAC Pre-Hospital Emergency Medical (PHEM) Symposium – an informative and friendly conference for healthcare professionals wanting to learn about all things PHEM-related.
Friday, 4 October
Aerospace Bristol
Featuring a range of speakers from PHEM, aviation and wellness sharing their expertise on team performance under pressure. A must-attend event for any clinician interested in Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine.
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What to expect at the GWAAC Symposium 2024
Arrive for a tea and coffee before settling into a day of informative and inspiring talks focused on team performance in PHEM.
The day will feature eight talks from experts in their fields with a focus on PHEM but also including wellbeing, team management, extraordinary accomplishments, and a live demo from the GWAAC crew.
Tea, coffee is included, along with a special sit-down lunch, dining under the wings of the Concorde, with the opportunity to explore inside the iconic plane as well.
Industry vendors will also be demonstrating their products.
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2024 GWAAC Symposium Speakers
Theme: Team Performance
Dr Stephen Hearns
Stephen is a consultant in emergency and aeromedical retrieval medicine. He has been a Scottish mountain rescue team member for over 20 years and has acted as medical officer on 7 international expeditions in mountain, desert, jungle and arctic environments. He established the first expedition medicine course in the UK. Based on his experiences of performing under pressure in these environments, Stephen's book, Peak Performance, was published in 2019. Stephen is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the University of Glasgow and led the team establishing the Diploma in retrieval and transfer medicine for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Stephen is attracted to the challenges of emergency medicine in demanding remote environments with limited resources. Stephen’s main interest is optimising team performance in high pressure situations. He researches, writes and speaks on both of these topics and provides advice to a wide range of commercial and government organisations. Stephen is a Fellow of The Royal College of Emergency Medicine, The Royal College of Surgeons, The Royal College of Physicians and The Royal Geographical Society.
His talk – “Communication under pressure”
Why pressure compromises our ability to communicate with team members.
Tools to improve effective communication, effective teamwork and collaborative decision making.
Dr Tom Evens
Tom is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine having worked at St Mary’s in London and London’s Air Ambulance, before moving to Sydney as acting Executive Director of Medical Services and Research, NSW Ambulance Staff Specialist in Prehospital and Retrieval medicine, NSW Ambulance.
Tom was previously a coach for the British Rowing Team; and have worked with coaches from England Football, Rugby, and British Sailing, Canoeing, Cycling, Paralympic and Motorsport organisations.
Dr Evens will explore some key concepts and techniques from the discipline of performance psychology, which will be useful to clinicians practicing in high-consequence, high-load situations. Drawing from experience working with athletes and coaches across a range of elite sport and business organisations, we will identify performance and mindset skills relevant to both individual and teams.
Floss Andrews
Floss is a Personal Development & Mindset Coach helping footballers, their families and those in the industry to thrive on, off and beyond the pitch.
With a 22 year career working in boardrooms, pitchside, at training grounds and in the tunnels in Premier League football, she was afforded a unique perspective of the industry and its intensity and pressures. Her clients range from directors to backroom staff and business execs to players. Her work is focussed on building up the human to thrive, no matter what position they hold.
Floss is an Accredited Mindset Coach and Certified Therapeutic Coach, founded Mindset Five in 2021 and lives in Norfolk on a working farm with her husband and two children.
Floss will be bringing her unique perspective to performing as an individual so that you can contribute to the team in high pressure, high performance environments.
Dr John Martin
Dr John Martin was appointed Chief Executive of South Western
Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust in December 2023.
John has joined the organisation on secondment from his role as Chief Paramedic and Quality Officer and Deputy Chief Executive at London Ambulance Service NHS Trust.
An experienced Executive Board member with a wealth of clinical and operational experience across ambulance, acute, community and mental health NHS services, John is also a Visiting Professor in
Paramedic Science at the University of Hertfordshire.
John joined London Ambulance Service NHS Trust in March 2021 and was the first Chief Paramedic to sit on an ambulance Trust Board.
John was formerly a director at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and has dedicated his career to improving patient care and developing the paramedic profession.
John has been active in developing the College of Paramedics for many years, and in May 2023, he finished his second term as the College’s President.
John will be sharing his vast wealth of experience as a clinical paramedic in addition to the lessons that can be learned from team performance at a trust/system level.
Olivia Patel
Olivia is a SENR registered Performance Nutritionist, and is the current nutritionist with Brighton & Hove Albion WFC and former nutritionist to Aston Villa Women's FC. She has a wealth of experience across a breadth of sports working in elite sporting environments. Olivia is passionate about supporting the athlete in a range of circumstances to ensure their performance is always at the top of their game.
Olivia will be sharing her experience and knowledge around fuelling for performance and lessons that can be learned for maintaining energy levels, concentration and the ability to perform around the clock.
Christian Wiggin
Christian is a dual qualified Specialist Paramedic in Critical Care with GWAAC and and Advanced Critical Care Practitioner at the Royal Devon and Exeter ICU. Christian has extensive pre-hospital experience and is now layering his knowledge and experience from in-hospital to his clinical practice. Christian is a previous winner of the Churchill Scholarship where he travelled to Australia and New Zealand to compare and learn from different critical care systems.
Christian will be sharing his knowledge and shared experiences around CRM and how “to get things done” on scene, as well as his reflections on what we can learn from other models around the world.
Dr Harvey Pynn
Harvey is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Bristol Royal Infirmary and a pre-hospital Emergency Medicine Consultant with GWAAC. He has been the Defence Consultant Advisor for PHEM and has served in the field on multiple operational deployments.
Harvey will be sharing his unique insights into elite clinical team performance both in the military and civilian worlds and lessons learned and shared between the two.
Dan Davis
Dan is a Specialist Paramedic in Critical Care with Great Western Air Ambulance Charity, having joined in 2020 from London Ambulance Service, where he worked on the Motorcycle Response Unit, London’s Air Ambulance and Essex and Herts Air Ambulance, and was one of the original Advanced Paramedics in Critical Care. Through his experiences working as a solo practitioner and in small clinical teams within wider multi-disciplinary systems, Dan has developed an interest in how we best operate as a team and how we can get the most out of ourselves and others in high performing systems.
Dan’s talk will focus on “Creating a culture for Team Performance”, and will hopefully draw upon the lessons learned throughout the day from our expert panel of speakers to provide a blueprint for developing your own high-performance teams.
Find out more about the GWAAC Symposium by reading 2022 Symposium blog
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