STORM™ Course - The Instructors 

Dr Alastair Nicol - Course Director

Dr Alastair Nicol has served in the British Army as a medical officer for the past twenty years and has travelled extensively around the world, delivering a medical capability in some of the most challenging and remote environments.  He is an experienced sports physician and pre-hospital care practitioner, with particular expertise in planning and co-ordination of medical support operations, including Humanitarian Assistance operations.  His travel experience includes climbing volcanoes in Mexico, high altitude trekking in Nepal, rock climbing in the Alps, as well as numerous military trips to many continents, including Botswana, Kenya, The Congo, Rwanda, Belize, Brunei and the Middle East.  Returning recently from an expedition to the Skeleton Coast in Namibia, he is well qualified as the Course Director of the STORM Course.

Dr Malcolm Russell

Actively practicing pre-hospital immediate care for over ten years, Dr Russell has served most of his career as a doctor in the British Army working extensively with some of the UK's most elite military units. He was central in the development of concepts of combat casualty care.  He held the prestigious post of Senior Lecturer in Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine at the UK Royal Centre for Defence Medicine.  As a civilian Dr Russell has worked with several ambulance services including the London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service and been involved in training paramedics and emergency care practitioners.  An experienced GP, Malcolm has also worked in emergency medicine and anaesthetics in a hospital environment.  He has been actively involved in pre-hospital emergency medicine (part of the charity, the Mercia Accident Rescue Service). He has planned and managed medical support to various expeditions including the Army Everest West Ridge expedition, 2006.

Andy Purdie

Andy is an experienced state registered paramedic with particular expertise in Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Medicine where he helped develop new procedures for dealing with casualties in CBRN environments. He is recently retired from the British Army where he served for 21 years as a Combat Medical Technician with the Royal Army Medical Corps serving in a variety of operational theatres, as well as working with UK Special Forces. In the past year, Andy has worked as a medic in Pakistan, Europe and extensively throughout Africa and was expedition medic on the recent Tiger Aspect Production 'Stephen Tompkinson's African Balloon Adventure' in the Serengeti, past Victoria Falls, and over the Okavango Delta before finishing on Namibia's Skeleton Coast.

 

In addition, Prometheus uses an extensive network of Paramedics, Nurses, Emergency Medical Technicians, Intensive Care Doctors and Emergency Medicine Specialists to provide specialist advice, training and consultancy.