World Extreme Medicine Podcast

by World Extreme Medicine

We’re committed to ensuring extreme medicine education can reach all medical, healthcare and supporting professionals working in austere environments.

With regular updates, our team brings you the latest from across the broad spectrum of extreme medicine disciplines, including expedition, space, remote, pre-hospital and humanitarian medicine as well as a range of topics across performance and non-technical skills. Enhance your ability to tackle challenges with new skills you can take home or out into the field.

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Nursing Without Borders: Leadership, Crisis, and Compassion in Extreme Healthcare

In this episode, host Eoin Walker is joined by Clare O’Brien, a registered nurse whose career spans more than three decades across the NHS, humanitari...

35m

•Mar 17, 2026

Infection Control in Extreme Environments: Lessons from MERS, COVID and Saudi Arabia’s Frontline

In this episode of the World Extreme Medicine Podcast, host Eoin Walker sits down with infection control specialist Muhammad Halwani to explore what i...

42m

•Mar 3, 2026

Surf, Science, and Survival: A Doctor’s Life in Remote Medicine

From remote surf camps in Indonesia to some of the most isolated islands in the South Atlantic, Gemma van Huyssteen has built a career shaped by curio...

1h 15m

•Feb 17, 2026

Pre-Hospital Hypothermia: Italy’s Nationwide HEMS Study with Luca Carenzo & Laura Leuci

In this episode, Sarah Spelsberg speaks with Luca Carenzo and Laura Leuci from Humanitas University in Milan about their research into the pre-hospita...

52m

•Feb 3, 2026

From Clinics to Conservation: Vet Medicine in Extreme Environments

In this episode of the World Extreme Medicine Podcast, host Eoin Walker speaks with Corinne Palma, a recently graduated veterinarian from University C...

26m

•Jan 20, 2026

Beyond the Ambulance: Paramedics in Primary Care with Simon Robinson

In this episode of the World Extreme Medicine Podcast, host Eoin Walker speaks with Simon Robinson, former Royal Marine Commando Paramedic turned Head...

28m

•Jan 6, 2026