Associate Professor Julian Thompson

Julian Thompson (BMBCh MA(Oxon) MD(Res) MRCP FRCA EDIC FFICM DMCC DipIMC RCSEd FRGS) is a Consultant in Critical Care at Southmead Major Trauma Centre and the Great Western Air Ambulance in the UK. He is Clinical Director of the Severn Major Trauma Network, Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine and Medical Director of Critical Care International. Julian trained in Oxford and London, completed a doctorate in genetics at University College London, was Executive Director of London’s Air Ambulance (HEMS) from 2011-15 and the Network Lead of the Bristol ECMO service in 2021-22. His research interests include major trauma, critical care and remote environment medicine that have developed through working across a variety of international healthcare systems, deploying with the British Army and leading expeditions that include reaching the Magnetic North Pole and summiting Mount