Karim Brohi  FRCS FRCA is the clinical director of the London Major Trauma Network, Professor of Trauma Sciences at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and a consultant vascular and trauma surgeon for Barts Health NHS Trust at the Royal London Hospital. He was founding director of the Centre for Trauma Sciences, and Director of the pan-faculty Crisis Prevention, Management and Recovery Network. He is also a Non-Executive Director of the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

At QMUL, Professor Brohi founded the MSc in Trauma Sciences programme at the Centre for Trauma Sciences. Professor Brohi is very active in trauma education through online media and as a keynote speaker at many events both in the UK and overseas.

Professor Brohi founded the website, Aftertrauma.org, in order to provide research and resources to individuals and family members who have been affected by injury and trauma.

Professor Brohi’s research has focused on the human biological response to injury, and especially critical bleeding and its effects. His work on failure of blood clotting after injury has led to very significant changes in the management of bleeding over the past decade.   He coined the term 'acute traumatic coagulopathy' to describe how coagulopathy caused by traumatic injury results in more severe bleeding and organ failure.

Professor Brohi was instrumental in the development of the London Major Trauma System in 2010, and has been its clinical director since 2016. In 2018, Professor Brohi received the American Heart Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Resuscitation Research for this work.

Martin P Griffiths CBE DL FRCS FFSTEd FRSA is a consultant Trauma and Vascular Surgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust where he developed the nation’s first ward-based intervention programme for the victims of interpersonal injury.

He is also National Clinical Director for Violence Reduction (NHS England) & Clinical Director for Violence Reduction Network (NHS London) and has led the expansion of the public-health approach to violence reduction in the capital. He has an interest in integrating peer groups in the co-design of community and healthcare-based prevention and education programmes.

He is an ambassador to the Mary Seacole Trust, Charlton Athletic Community Trust Trustee, Vice-President of the Hope Collective, and is a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London.

Clinically, he remains an active trauma surgeon and trainer, teaching on multiple RCS courses, and is the Director of Medical education at Barts Health as an examiner for the FRCS.

Professor Porter was educated at Marlborough College and St Thomas’s Hospital, London. He was appointed Consultant Trauma Surgeon at Birmingham Accident Hospital in 1986, a service that is now delivered at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, where he was the Clinical Director of the Major Trauma Centre from 2010-2018 and Professor of Clinical Traumatology until February 2023.

He was the clinical lead for injured soldiers returning to the UK for the last decade, including both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.   

Professor Porter has been a leader in the development of the new medical subspecialty of Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine and in recent years has been the Chairman of the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care and also the Intercollegiate Board for Training in Emergency Medicine.  He is the Honorary Secretary of Trauma Care and until recently the co-editor of the journal “Trauma”.

Professor Porter has over 200 peer review publications and has co-authored/edited numerous books.

For his services to the military, he was knighted in the 2010 Queen’s New Year’s honours list.

Professor Nott is a Consultant Surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital London. 

For more than twenty-five years, he has taken unpaid leave each year to work for the aid agencies Médecins Sans Frontières, the International Committee of the Red Cross and Syria Relief, providing surgical treatment to patients in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Chad, Darfur, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Central African Republic, Gaza and Nepal.

He has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charitable causes and teaches advanced surgical skills to local medics and surgeons when he is abroad.

 In 2015 Professor Nott and his wife established the David Nott Foundation which supports surgeons in developing their operating skills for warzones and austere environments.

He was awarded an OBE in 2016.  In 2019, Picador published David’s memoir, War Doctor.

David Alexander was Emeritus Professor of Mental Health at Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen. He undertook specialist postgraduate training at the Universities of Aberdeen and Birmingham and at the FBI Academy, USA.

In 1988, he led the psychiatric team following the Piper Alpha oil platform disaster and subsequently established the regional traumatic stress clinic at Royal Cornhill Hospital (Aberdeen). In 1999, he founded the Aberdeen Centre for Trauma Research (ACTR). His expertise was regularly sought in the wake of many major incidents and disasters worldwide, including the 1998 Nairobi terrorist bombing, the Sirkorsky S76 helicopter crash in 2002, the crash of the British Antarctic Survey Super Puma helicopter in 2002 and the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2005.

He acted as advisor in mental health to the governments of Nigeria, Pakistan (following the Kashmir earthquake) and Turkey and visited Iraq to advise on mental health capability at the request of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

In 2017, he was awarded a Doctor of Science by Abertay University in recognition of his distinguished career.