The Extreme Medicine Conference is home to the world’s most adventurous doctors, medics and experts in remote, expedition and pre-hospital medicine. These global thought leaders have gathered to share universally relevant knowledge and experience, research and techniques in a stimulating, interactive and accessible forum.
Extreme medicine’ refers to medical treatments providing medical care and techniques used outside of a conventional hospital setting, typically in low resource environments that exist as a consequence of sudden onset disasters, conflict zones or being expeditionary locations.
It is medicine that saves the lives of not only the single remote explorer but also entire populations devastated by natural and man made disasters.
The effects of climate change mean these types of disasters are expected to continue. We can do little to prevent this, but the world’s leading specialist medics provide essential and life-saving care in these most extreme conditions.
With sessions on everything from prosthetics, nanotechnology, biotechnology and the future of medical transplantation, the World Extreme Medicine Conference is also at the forefront of medical innovation.
The Extreme Medicine has partnered with some of the world’s most active organisations and charities pushing the edge of human endeavour including War Child, Medicines Sans Frontiers, NASA and the Society for Experimental Biology