Clinical Director, Severn Major Trauma Network
Dr Julian Thompson
MA(Oxon) BMBCh MD(Res) MRCP FRCA FFICM EDIC DMCC DipIMC RCSEd
Dr Julian Thompson is a Consultant in Intensive Care at Southmead Hospital Bristol, Clinical Director of the Severn Major Trauma Network, Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway, and a Critical Care Doctor for the Great Western Air Ambulance.
Julian was trained in Oxford and London, completed a doctorate in hypoxia and genetics at University College London and has worked in a range of international healthcare systems. Previous leadership experience includes being Executive Director of London’s Air Ambulance from 2011-15, working as a medical officer in the British Army and leading expeditions that include reaching the summit of Mount Everest. He is Deputy Editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine and his research interests include critical care, major trauma and extreme environment medicine.
Clinical Lead, Severn Major Trauma Centre
Dr Nirosha De Zoysa
Severn Major Trauma Operational Delivery Network, Major Trauma Centre, and HART Manager
Shabba Vaithianathan
Severn Major Trauma Network Quality Governance Lead
Dr Nick Blundell
Dr Nick Blundell is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Southmead Hospital in Bristol and Quality Governance Lead for the Severn Major Trauma Network. He completed his medical degree in Cardiff, and his Emergency Medicine training in South Wales, Sydney and Severn. He has a MSc in Trauma Sciences and a PGC in medical education / simulation.
Severn Major Trauma Network Training Lead
Dr Fran Verey
Dr Fran Verey is the training lead for the Severn Major Trauma Network. She is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Trauma Team Leader at North Bristol NHS Trust. She oversees, develops, and delivers training in all aspects of trauma care along the patient's journey from arrival to discharge, across all healthcare groups. She has developed a specialist interest in older trauma and the difficulties it poses compared to more traditional trauma; and through this she has developed an older trauma specific study day. Her aim is to ensure trauma training is accessible to all health care professional groups, as well as develop training specifically to get junior doctors interested in trauma training. Fran is keen on working on inter specialty training in trauma with the aim of setting up more training in which ED and surgical specialities train together.
Specialist Clinical Psychologist (Lead Psychologist for Major Trauma & Plastics Services)
Dr Joanna Latham
DClinPsy, PGCert, BSc
Dr Joanna Latham is a Specialist Clinical Psychologist chartered with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) and registered with the British Psychological Society. Jo has been working in the NHS with people experiencing mental health difficulties since 2010. After qualifying with a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology with Lancaster University in 2017, Jo has pursued additional post qualification training in post-traumatic stress disorders and has expertise in treating psychological difficulties arising after a traumatic injury. Since 2019 she has supported hundreds of people who have sustained life-altering or life-changing damage as a result of accident or deliberate attempt to harm. Jo has extensive experience of working with people after such traumatic events which can have significant effects on their body, mind, relationships and how the individual lives the rest of their lives.
Severn major Trauma Network Director of Rehabilitiation/ Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine and Clinical Specialty Lead for the Bristol Centre for Enablement
Dr Shigong Guo
LLM MSc(Orth Eng) MRCS
Shigong Guo is a Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine specialising in trauma, vascular and amputee rehabilitation. He is also Clinical Specialty Lead for the Bristol Centre for Enablement. With an academic background in bioengineering and medical law, as well as previous higher surgical training in trauma & orthopaedics, Dr Guo has a keen interest in the biomechanical and medico-legal aspects of musculoskeletal trauma and amputations, and their effects on clinical practice and rehabilitation.
Severn Major Trauma Network AHP Lead
Denise Axelsen
Denise Axelsen is qualified as a physiotherapist in 2010 (from University of the West of England), having worked within the fields of intensive care, neurosurgery and Major Trauma, where she has been working as a Major Trauma Practitioner since 2018. She supports the Network as Allied Health Professional Lead with the goal of uniting the delivery of rehabilitation across our region and throughout our Trauma Units.
Severn Major Trauma Network Support Coordinator
Daniel Fletcher-Walliss
Dan has been working in the NHS for more than 6 years starting in an administrative apprenticeship role progressing into an Assistant Patient Pathway Co-ordinator, which lead him to becoming a TARN Data Administrator which he had been doing for a year developing his skills in data management, entry and analysis, learning about the Major Trauma Network, the Major Trauma centre at Southmead and developing relationships with a variety of colleagues at Southmead. Which has helped within the role of the Network Support Coordinator, developing relationships in the wider network and helping contribute to work projects in the Severn Major Trauma Network.