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Chair: Dr Pamela Hardy 
Dr Pam Hardy is Lead Consultant in Emergency Care at Dr Gray’s Hospital, Elgin, where she established a consultant-led service in Scotland’s smallest District General Hospital. She also works as a Retrieval Consultant for the Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (North) covering the islands and highlands of Scotland in both a primary and secondary retrieval role.
She is a graduate of Sheffield University, trained in paediatrics and emergency medicine, and has worked as an emergency medicine and HEMS consultant in the East Midlands before moving to the “Far North of Scotland” 10 years ago.
A founder member of the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, she has held roles as Chair of the regional groups, elected member of the executive committee and Co-vice Chair.
Pam holds the Fellowship in Immediate Medical Care and is a member of the Faculty of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, as an examiner for the DipIMC and FIMC examinations and is a member of the Pre-hospital Examinations Advisory Board.
She has represented FPHC and RCPCH on the Intercollegiate Board for Training in Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine since its inception in 2009.
Pam is a member of BASICS Scotland, and has previously received a BASICS Award, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and a Chief Constable’s Commendation for her work in pre-hospital care.
Pam now loves living in rural Scotland and spends her time off hill walking, running on the beach, cycling in the Outer Hebrides and being at sea, visiting the Scottish Islands.
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Secretary: Dr Andy Smith 
Dr Andy Smith holds the Fellowship in Immediate Medical Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. A Yorkshire Ambulance BASICS doctor, examiner for Dip IMC and FIMC, Educational Chair for the Yorkshire Branch of the Faculty of Pre Hospital Care and FPHC Crowd Doctors Course Director.
He holds the Diploma, Masters and Fellowship of Sports & Exercise Medicine being the Field of Play Clinical/Immediate Care Lead at Twickenham Stadium, RFU England Counties Doctor and Yorkshire County Doctor. Previous 12 years’ experience medical care for club rugby.
He has been the Immediate Care Lead for the Rugby World Cup England 2015, Junior World Championship Manchester 2016 and the Women's World Cup 2010. Also was field of play team leader for the London 2012 Olympics and Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
He is the programme director of the RFU Immediate Care in Sport Course, WRU Immediate Care in Rugby and Technical Director and Senior Medical Educator for World Rugby Immediate Care in Rugby being a member of the immediate Pitch Side working Group. He is the clinical governance advisor to Premiership Rugby.
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Doctor Co-Vice Chair: Dr Fionna Moore 
Dr Fionna Moore is a Consultant in Pre-hospital Care and Emergency Medicine. Fionna is currently employed as a Senior Medical Advisor by Air Ambulance Kent, Surrey and Sussex (AAKSS)
Dr Moore previously served as Executive Medical Director for the South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) and as Chief Executive Officer of the London Ambulance Service (LAS), which is the largest public ambulance service in Europe.
Joining the Service in 1998 as the first Medical Director, Fionna has worked closely with the Service with responsibility for Clinical Governance, Clinical Audit and Research, and the Service’s Cardiac and Trauma Care strategies. She was London Trauma Director from 2009-2013, implementing the major trauma networks in the capital. After joining SECAmb she focused on service improvement and developing critical care and urgent care specialist paramedics.
Dr Moore is a founder member of the Global Resuscitation Alliance and the European Association of EMS.
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Non-Doctor Co-Vice Chair: Chris Shaw 
Clinical Nurse Specialist in Pre Hospital Emergency Medicine.
Professional background is in acute-sector healthcare.
Experience in specialty roles within the public, private and third sectors; spanning emergency medicine, critical care, prehospital and retrieval medicine, resuscitation practice, public health, research, clinical education and high-fidelity simulation.
Primary area of clinical interest is prehospital emergency medicine.
Diverse range of operational experience across [helicopter] emergency medical services, lowland search & rescue, maritime/offshore, industrial sites and event & mass gathering medicine settings; with specific experience across incident command and delivery of clinical care in less permissive environments (confined spaces, work at height, and remote settings with prolonged extrication & transport times).
Critical Care Practitioner, EMRTS Cymru
Immediate Care Practitioner, Medserve Wales
Clinical Support Member, West Midlands CARE Team
Assistant Medical Director, Association of Lowland Search and Rescue
All Wales PHEM Specialty Training Committee Member
Examiner, Diploma & Fellowship in Immediate Medical Care
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/tochrisshaw
Twitter: @ChrisShaw
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Treasurer: Dr Peter Holden 
Holds the Fellowship in Immediate Medical Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (2001) Dip IMC (1991)
East Midlands Ambulance Service Strategic Medical Advisor providing daily remote supervision and strategic advice for major incidents.
Formerly Senior Partner in a rural teaching and training general practice associated with the University of Nottingham and now an OOH Urgent Medical Care physician
A trained major incident commander with real experience of big bang – Tavistock Square bus bombing, Hillsborough Football Stadium disaster, and rising tide incident - Pandemic Influenza in 2009
Primary care Member of EPRR
East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme, currently a responding Physician and Trustee
21 years HEMS doctor with Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance and MAGPAS Air Ambulance retiring from the flight line in 2018
MAGPAS Air Ambulance Trustee with responsibility for Clinical Governance oversight
RCGP representative on the Intercollegiate Board for Training in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine and its immediate past Chair
Founder member of the Faculty of PreHospital Care
Involved in PreHospital Care since 1983, helped author develop and run the original PHEC Course and other BASICS Courses
Contributing Author BMA Board of Science Report: Immediate Care Schemes
Vice President BASICS
Clinical Trustee & Chair of medical committee, St John Ambulance
Recipient of The BASICS Award, The Queen’s Golden, Diamond and Platinum Jubilee Medals and King’s Coronation medal in respect of front line service on the Air Ambulances and Immediate Care Schemes. Lifetime Achievement Award from The Association of Air Ambulances 2015.
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Patron: Professor Myles Gibson OBE 
Professor Myles Gibson laid the foundation of Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine as a medical sub-speciality through the creation of the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care in 1996 based on all the work he did in the previous 10 years to develop the idea. He was the first Chairman of the Faculty and held the post for 6 years
OBE in 1992
Myles has been heavily involved in developing the medical structure of the Football League
He helped to create the Glasgow Coma Scale
In 1991 he received the BASICS award and in 1995 he received the The Asmund S Laerdal Award
He is still actively involved in the ‘Save a limb Save a Life’ Project internationally
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Patron: Professor Sir Keith Porter 
Consultant and Professor of Clinical Traumatology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham working closely with Military patients transferred to the hospital
He was knighted in 2010 for his work coordinating trauma care for British troops injured in Afghanistan
Past Chairman of the Faculty of Pre-Hospital care for six years
He has been involved in Pre-Hospital Care from 1989 and he was a founder of the Central Accident Resuscitation Emergency (CARE) Team in the West Midlands
He holds the Fellowship in Immediate Medical Care and is a past examiner
He has been Chairman of the Research Committee within the Faculty, Convenor for the Diploma in Immediate Medical Care examination and has held appointments within the College Committee infrastructure.
He was the Chairman of the Intercollegiate Board for Training in Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine.
He has been involved in the establishment of a Regional Faculty Infrastructure as well as a successful training program for Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine.
He is committed to developing and promoting the roles of non-medical practitioners to include nurses, paramedics, rescue service workers as well as first aiders.
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Elected Doctor Representative: Dr Richard Lyon
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Elected Paramedic Representative: Mr Martin Esposito
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Elected Nurse Representative: Mr Martin Eccles
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Chair of Training and Standards Committee: Dr David Bruce 
Ex RAF Medical Officer involved in BASICS and pre-hospital care since 1990
RAF Adviser in pre-hospital care 1993 – 2014
Deployed to Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the world
Chair of the Military Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) Steering Cttee
Taught in Ecuador, Jordan and India
FPHC International Development Lead 2018 - 2024
Editorial Board DipMIM
Diploma in Immediate Care 1992; Fellowship in Immediate Care 2001
Diploma in the Medical Care of Catastrophes (DMCC) Examiner
MBE 1993; OStJ 2004; OBE 2015
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Chair of Clinical Standards Committee: Dr Charlotte Haldane 
Charlotte has worked full time as a Doctor in the Pre-hospital setting since 2016. She has worked for 3 HEMS teams in the UK and is currently a HEMS consultant for the North West Air Ambulance, a Supervisor for Magpas Air Ambulance and a Paediatric Retrieval Doctor for PaNDR (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust).
With a background in mountaineering, climbing, diving and expeditions, she also runs her own company working as a Safety Adviser and Medical Lead taking teams to remote and extreme locations around the globe.
She is a Major in the Army Reserves and PHEC (Pre-hospital Emergency Medical) lead for 144 Para Med Sqn
Charlotte holds the Fellowship in Immediate Care by Examination and is an Examiner for the DipIMC and FIMC RCSEd
She is a Founder and Committee Member of the British Mountain Medicine Society (BMMS)
She has been Module lead, Examiner and Teaching Faculty for the Diploma of Mountain Medicine for University of Leicester/RCSEd/UCLAN.
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Chair of PHC Examinations Committee: Dr Laura Bland  
Dr Laura Bland is a consultant in Emergency Medicine at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton and a critical care doctor with Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance.
Laura completed her PHEM sub-speciality training with EMRTS in Wales in 2018 following successful completion of emergency medicine training in Wessex. She qualified from the University of Bristol before returning to London for foundation and core training.
Laura holds the Fellowship in Immediate Medical Care by examination and has been an active examiner since passing in 2018. She is an educational supervisor for PHEM trainees in the Severn deanery.
In September 2022, Laura took over as convenor of examinations for the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care and chair of the assessments committee. Prior to this she represented the FPHC on the Intercollegiate Board for Training in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine.
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Elected Non-Healthcare Professional Representative: Mr Simon Rogers 
Simon Rogers has over three decades of operational experience in Policing and Firearms and brings a wealth of experience in Non-Health Care provision.
Simons professional background includes leadership roles in operational theatres, Firearms command, managing Police Firearms Operations, and training and development.
As a former Senior National Firearms Tactical Advisor and National Firearms Instructor, Simon has held numerous portfolios and served as a regional lead for Pre-Hospital trauma training for UK Policing promoting best practice.
Simon was privileged to attend and successfully complete the Special Forces SAS Patrol Medics ReCred course at Hereford.
He maintains current knowledge in all his fields of expertise and is actively engaged as a member of the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care RCSE, where he holds the position of Chair to the board of the Non-Health Care Professionals.
Simon proudly serves as a CitAid Ambassador, contributing to the advancement of medical care and emergency response initiatives.
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Communications Committee Chair: Mr Neil Flowers  
Neil works for the East Anglian Air Ambulance as Head of Clinical Education and Research. He believes strongly in the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care as a leading organisation for supporting and developing Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM) as a sub-speciality. Neil is a Level 8 Consultant Practitioner in PHEM and an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
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International Development Lead: Dr Rob Russell 
Rob Russell is a military Emergency Physician with extensive operational, staff and management experience and a track record of delivering results. He was educated at Radley College, Abingdon and University College & Middlesex School of Medicine, London and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a cadet in 1987 before qualifying in 1990. He holds fellowships with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and the Royal College of Physicians. He is an examiner for the Diploma in Medical Care of Catastrophes at the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, London and is an alumnus of the Cranfield University School of Business.
Rob has been Defence Professor and Defence Consultant Advisor in Emergency Medicine. He has also been Medical Director in Field Hospitals on deployment on 3 occasions and Command Surgeon providing senior medical advice in a 2* multinational operational Headquarters. His current post is Assistant Head, Professional Regulation and Training, Army Healthcare. Other roles include International Development Representative for the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, RCS Edinburgh and member of the International Advisory Board of the Faculty of Disaster Medicine India and Nepal.
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Post Graduate Lead: David Whitmore
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Gibson Chair: David Lockey
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Chair of PHEMTA:
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Conference Lead: Gordon Ingram
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Chair of FPHC Regional Groups: Natalie Lonsdale
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Chair of FPHC Student and Trainee Group: Sophie Riley
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