Mike Greene

I live in the Lake District where I can enjoy the hills. I have been the National Medical Director for Mountain Rescue England and Wales, a team leader and a doctor for a mountain rescue team for 30 years. I hold a variety of National Governing body awards in outdoor activities. 

I am a member of the International Alpine Rescue Medical Commission and the previous Clinical Lead for the Diploma of Mountain Medicine at the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care in Edinburgh. I provide training  on the International Diploma of Expedition Medicine. I trained in London and Nottingham and was involved with Pre-Hospital Care in BASICs, NWAS and air ambulance services. I was an Emergency Medicine Consultant in a rural Hospital in Cumbria for 26 years.  I have worked on the ski fields of New Zealand and at a High-Altitude Rescue Post in Nepal. My published research has been in the areas of; acute mountain sickness, analgesia, airway care, limb injury management, traumatic brain injury, and major incident management in pre hospital care and mountain rescue. 

My mountain adventures have taken me to Africa, Kashmir, Nepal, China, New Zealand, Norway, Greenland, Peru and of course Europe. My favourite Welsh mountain is Tryfan and my ambition is to ski with more style and less fear. 

I live in the Lake District, am married to Mike and have two sons.   I trained as an anaesthetist and spent 25 years working in Whitehaven ,Cumbria.  I was also contracted to work sessions in Emergency Medicine and Post Graduate Medical Education. I have been an ATLS and ALS instructor  and taught on International Diploma of Mountain Medicine for 15 years.  I provide training on International Diploma of  Expedition Medicine.

I am an honorary member of Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team and was an active member for 25 years .

Work abroad: LAMB hospital-Bangladesh, IPPG Rescue Post-Nepal,  Hwange hospital-Zimbabwe, Mt Hutt ski field-New Zealand. 

Outdoor interests: I have walked, climbed, trekked  and biked in the European Alps, New Zealand, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Nepal, & Peru. I have skied and ski-toured in Europe and Canada.

Kayak/canoe: UK, Europe, Greenland, South Africa, Okavango delta, New Zealand. 

I have done 2 dog sled expeditions in the Swedish Arctic.

I am passionate about both the outdoors and education and really look forward to spending time with you.

Jon is a General Practitioner in Chepstow and a Specialty Doctor in the Emergency Department of Bristol Royal Infirmary. He has been on many expeditions as a doctor and or leader and has spent more than 2 years in the field on various expeditions. These expeditions have been in many different environments - from the deserts of Namibia, Sinai and Northern Kenya to the jungles of Sulawesi, Belize, Thailand and Ecuador. He loves the mountains and has undertaken many high altitude climbs and treks to Nepal, Greenland, Pakistan, Iceland, Morocco, East
Africa and the Andes. Jon is an International Mountain Leader, a member of the Alpine Club and has taught on the UK Diploma in Mountain Medicine since 2004. In 2016 Jon became a Director of the International Diploma in Expedition and Wilderness Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. 

Jon is medical consultant to World Challenge Expeditions and has taught about expedition medicine since 1991. He is the lead editor of the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (third edition) and a longstanding member of the Royal Geographical Society’s medical cell.