Speakers and Bios

Major General (rtd) Professor Tim Hodgetts CB CBE OStJ DL  

PhD MMEd MBA CMgr FRCP FRCSEd FRCEM FFPH FIMCRCSEd FRGS FCMI HonDSc HonFRSM HonFEPS 

Major General Professor Tim Hodgetts is the Master General Medical; a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of West Midlands; a Trustee of three charities; and Honorary Professor of Emergency Medicine at both the University of Warwick and the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade. Tim retired in December 2024 after 41 years of commissioned service, having held the strategic appointments ofSurgeon General of the UK Armed Forces, the elected Chair of the Committee of Military Medical Chiefs in NATO, and Honorary Surgeon to His Majesty the King. Tim has authored 37 books, most recently launching his book of original war poetry at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2024, with royalties to The Poppy Factory. 

Ms Camella Main

Camella Main is Consultant Midwife for East Midlands Ambulance Service and Lead Midwife for London Ambulance Service. She also co-chairs the National Prehospital Maternity and Newborn Group. In these roles she focusses on empowering ambulance clinicians to deliver high quality and safe care to women and families that require urgent or emergency pre-hospital maternity care during or after pregnancy. She has a Masters in Enhanced Maternity Care and a postgraduate certificate in Neurobehavioural Physical Assessment of the Newborn. She has previously held clinical and leadership posts at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust where she still practices as a midwife. She has also worked in New Zealand, Tanzania, the Netherlands and Haiti and is on the UK-MED register.

Professor Tim Nutbeam 

Tim is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine working in the southwest of the UK. He is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Post-Collision Care at the University of Plymouth and leads IMPACT – the Centre for Post-Collision Research, Innovation and Translation (www.post-collision.com). Tim recently led the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Consensus Guidelines on Extrication and chairs the Spinal Immobilisation Consensus Group. His work focuses on improving post-collision care through research, innovation, and the translation of evidence into practice.

Dr Jo Larkin

Dr. Jo Larkin is a Consultant in Sport and Exercise Medicine with a wealth of experience spanning elite athletics, military rehabilitation, and high-performance medical leadership. Dr Larkin has held previous roles as the Global Medical Director for SailGP and Chief Medical Officer for the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). She served as the team physician for the men's and women's GB rugby sevens squads, with the men securing a silver medal at the Rio2016 Olympics. Her tenure with England Rugby included roles as International Performance Doctor for England Sevens and Women's XVs Rugby. Her current appointment is the Tournament Medical Director for RWC2025, overseeing the delivery of medical care for 16 teams travelling to England to compete in the Women's Rugby World Cup, hosted across 8 different venues. 

Dr Ben Shippey

Ben Shippey's father was marshalling at Silverstone when his mother went into labour, and he has been involved in motorsport ever since. He has supported circuit racing, rallying and cross country events as a doctor since 1995, and has been Chief Medical Officer for the British round of the World Rally Championship and Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the British Grand Prix. In his spare time he is a neuro-anaesthetist and critical care physician, and has been heavily involved in medical education, as Director of the Dundee Institute for Healthcare Simulation, Lead Tutor for the Royal College of Anaesthetists and Senior Lecturer at both Dundee and St Andrews Universities. He was a Royal College Examiner, and contributed to both the European Intensive Care Medicine and the UK post-graduate anaesthesia curricula. He has published extensively on medical education and simulation.

Dr Sophie Riley

Sophie is the current Chair of the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care (FPHC) Student and Trainee Group. From 2022-2024, she was the Junior Examinations Officer for the FPHC, a role which involved recruiting and coordinating the supporters for the DIMC and FIMC examinations. From 2020-21, she completed an intercalated BSc in Pre-Hospital Medicine, a degree which is run in partnership between the London's Air Ambulance, the Institute of Pre-Hospital Care and Barts and the London medical school. In 2024, she commenced a 12-month Major Trauma fellow role at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham.

Professor Danë Goodsman

Professor Danë Goodsman is the Academic Lead for Prehospital Medicine at Queen Mary University of London. Within this role she is the co-designer and convener for both the MSc and iBSc in Prehospital Medicine - both programmes run in collaboration with London's Air Ambulance. She is also the academic lead and co-founder of the long-standing Prehospital Care Programme (PCP), a 4-year, integrated series of student selected components. She is the first person in the prehospital field to be recognised as a Professor of Prehospital Medical Education and is a fully qualified educationalist having both first degree and PhD in Education, and a Masters in Innovation, Creativity and Leadership. She has worked in all sectors; from schools through to universities - specifically in the field of medical education since the early 1990s. Alongside her responsibilities to prehospital medical education, she has a well-established professional interest in faculty development and curriculum innovation - within which she has created a range of pioneering programmes. Her specific foci has been on creating learning environments to enable individuals to consider and enhance their practice. She has particularly championed, innovation, praxis, participant voice, and the promotion of individual agency within ethical frameworks. She is a member of the Faculty of Pre-hospital Care at the College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, where she sits on a range of committees, and is Faculty Undergraduate Lead. She also supervises PhDs and speaks regularly about A.S. Neill’s Summerhill School and education generally to a wide range of audiences.

Dr Harriet Tucker

Dr Harriet Tucker trained at Oxford University Medical School before training in emergency medicine in London where she is now an emergency medicine consultant at St George's Hospital, one of the four London Major Trauma Centres. She completed PHEM sub speciality training at Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex, where she is currently a doctor and clinical governance lead. She completed a secondment at London's Air Ambulance and is now the LAA Exsanguination fellow. Her PhD focused on the use of pre-hospital combined red cells and plasma in traumatic haemorrhage, and she is a senior lecturer at QMUL and SGUL.