Good practice Conference for Healthcare professionals working on endurance events in austere environments.
EVENT
MEDICINE
WHAT
A conference combining theory and practical sessions for healthcare professionals working on endurance events in remote and austere environments.
WHEN
09:00 to 16:30 on Sunday 24th November, 2024
WHERE
The Castle Green Hotel, Kendal, Cumbria.
WHO
Healthcare professionals of any grade who are looking to increase their knowledge of common injuries and illnesses seen at endurance events with a view to becoming effective event medics. Also, recommended for progressive event organisers with a responsibility for the provision of medical services at their events.
SHARE THE ADVENTURE
Make a weekend of it. In partnership with the Kendal Mountain Festival. Come to Kendal for the UK ‘s biggest adventure festival on the 21st to 24th November.
Tickets
Your conference ticket includes breakfast baps, tea, coffee, snacks throughout the day, and a good-quality lunch. Tickets are sold on a first-come, first-served basis and are limited by the venue's size. The conference is organized on a not-for-profit basis for the benefit of the community of participants.
Meet the conference team
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Dr Nikki Sommers
Medical Director, Ourea Events
Consultant in Emergency Medicine
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Dr Rich Griffiths
Medical Director, Ourea Events
Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team.
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Dr Natalya Kennedy
Medical Director, Ourea Events
General Practitioner and Derby Mountain Rescue Team.
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Dr Abbi Forsyth
Race Control Manager, Ourea Events
Specialty Doctor in Anaesthetics and Critical Care and Derby Mountain Rescue Team.
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Morag Bowie
Chartered Physiotherapist
Specialising in Sports Injuries and ex-Team GB Olympic Physio.
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Robyn Cassidy
Research Physiotherapist
Specialising in sports injury and UK military rehabilitation.
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Shane Ohly
Event Director and Kendal Mountain Rescue Team.
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Eve Panonne
Medical Student and Researcher
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Nick Marriage
Consultant in Emergency Medicine
What we have to sharE
Ourea Events has organised extremely challenging mountain running events in the UK since 2012. Over many years, and in partnership with expert healthcare professionals, we have developed an in-house multidisciplinary team of medics who provide medical services at our events in either a professional or volunteer capacity.
During this time, we have recorded and categorised every medical intervention at our events and have a unique dataset of endurance sports illness and injury rates comprised of thousands of participants. To give you an impression, at the busiest day of the Dragon’s Back Race® in 2023, 56% of participants sought medical help and by the end of the event the medical team had recorded 556 consultations in just 6 days.
What we have to share is not just anecdotal experience, important as that can be, but evidence-based medicine that helps participants finish their event.