Paul qualified from Guys and St. Thomas’s (GKT) in 1999 with a cadetship in the Royal Army Medical Corps and currently works at the James Cook University Hospital, a Regional Major Trauma Centre in the North East. He completed higher specialist training in 2012 and holds a dual CCT in both Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine. He has deployed on military operational duties to Northern Ireland and Iraq as an Infantry Regimental Medical Officer, to Iraq and Afghanistan as an Emergency Physician, to Sierra Leone in support of the Ebola crisis and a number of Defence Healthcare Engagement missions with international partners.

Paul is also a keen academic and enthusiastic author with a significant number of publications including textbooks, chapter contributions, and original articles. He completed his Doctorate of Medicine (University of London) in 2011 with a thesis on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. He has been a principle investigator and contributor to several national research studies and projects most recently the NCEPOD Sepsis review and currently assistant programme director for a project investigating Redistributed Manufacturing in Healthcare. His main subject matter interests are trauma critical care; Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response; traumatic brain injury; clinical leadership and decision-making. He has enjoyed working with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in several committee roles and currently sits as a fellow on the International Education Sub-Committee and is incredibly excited to be joining the QMUL Trauma Sciences team and contributing to learning in this important area of clinical practice.

Passions: Emergency Medicine. Travelling. Writing. Sci-Fi. One day he would like to successfully combine all four.

Likes: The natural world. Astronomy, puzzles, and all things geeky. The Oxford Comma. Living by the seaside. Scuba diving. Double entendre’s. Skiing. Almost anything with eggs in it. Long distance running.

Dislikes: Long distance running. Raw tomato’s. Anything ‘banana’-flavoured, except banana’s. Grammar abuse.