Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine

was awarded a personal Chair at Warwick Medical School and Honorary Chairs (Professorships) at Coventry University & Exeter University. He has been Director of the NIHR Coventry Clinical Research Unit running early phase studies since 2016. As of 2022, Chris has more than 190 peer review learned papers listed on PubMed and research interests include frostbite and non-freezing cold injury, carotid surgery, fitness for surgery, cerebral perfusion at high and extreme altitude, and polar nutrition. h-index 42.


Chris Johnson. Medical Officer, Halley Station, British Antarctic Survey 1978-1980. MD in Environmental Physiology, Aberdeen 1981. Fellow of Royal College of Anaesthetists 1988. Fellow of Royal Geographical Society 1999. Contributor to books and papers on Expedition Medicine, Anaesthesia, and Clinical Assessment. College of Anaesthetists Medal, 2011. President of the Society of Anaesthetists of South-West region, 2014.

James Moore is the Director of Travel Health Consultancy, The Exeter Travel Clinic and Course Director for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, International Diploma in Expedition and Wilderness Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Travel Medicine, and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, where he sits on their Medical Advisory Committee. He has Studied at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and holds a degree in Emergency Care and an MSc in Global and Remote Healthcare.

Shane Winser is the expeditions and fieldwork advisor for the Royal Geographical Society. In this role Shane convenes the . Society's annual expedition planning seminar RGS EXPLORE each November, and the RGS Expedition Medicine Advisory Group. Shane also chairs BSI's technical panel for BS 8848: the British Standard that specifies operational requirements for organisers of overseas ventures. These include adventurous and educational activities abroad including university and academic fieldwork, gap year experiences, adventure holidays, charity challenges and research expeditions A zoology graduate with a postgraduate diploma in Information Science, Shane assisted in the planning and organisation of the RGS's own research programmes to the tropical forests of Sarawak and Brunei, the mountains of the Karakoram, and the drylands of western Australia, Kenya and Oman.