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About THE AUTHORS

The Authors have a combined experience of over fifty years in humanitarian and military surgery.

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PETE MATHEW

FRCS(ENG), FRCS(SN), DTM&H(TropMed), RAAF
Co-author and Illustrator of the HES Book

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Pete was a Consultant Neurosurgeon in Adelaide in 
Australia and Dundee in Scotland before taking the 
Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) 
in 1999. He trained as a trauma surgeon in South 
Africa and subsequently embarked on a career 
working in conict areas – rst as a military surgeon 
in the Royal Air Force (RAF), for ten years, then as a 
humanitarian surgeon with Médecins Sans Frontières 
(MSF) and the International Committee of the Red 
Cross (ICRC). His humanitarian work continues, and 
between his missions he teaches anatomy at Dundee 
University. Before the Covid-19 pandemic he regularly 
worked for part of the year in Alice Springs Hospital 
in Australia.

DAVID NOTT OBE

FRCS, MD, DSc, DMCC, RAAF
Co-author of the HES Book

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David is a Consultant General and Vascular Surgeon and Professor of Humanitarian Surgery at Imperial College in London. For the past thirty years he has worked in conict areas as a military and humanitarian surgeon with the Royal Air Force (RAF), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). In 2015 he co-founded the David Nott Foundation, which promotes the teaching of surgical skills to local doctors working in areas affected by conflict and natural disasters. He also founded the Hostile Environment Surgical Training (HEST) course, and is the author of a best-selling memoir War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line (Picador, 2019).

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