Captain Dave Fielding and Captain Alexander Jolly are commercial airline pilots. I met them through Project Wingman, a pandemic-induced collaboration between the UK aviation industry and the NHS. We met up over a coffee in the Whittington Hospital “First Class Lounge” and compared notes on our respective professions. In particular we discussed human factors and […]
A pilot watched us do a sim…
For me, a highlight of working through this pandemic has been the “First Class Lounge” laid on by Project Wingman. It’s a lovely little space set up at the back of our hospital canteen full of comfortable seating, ambient music, and friendly airline crew in full uniform serving the coffees. Initially, I assumed the staff must […]
PonderMed Update June 2020
Friends, Here’s what I’ve cooked up in PonderMed Studios this past month… Simon Fleming is an orthopaedic registrar, #MedEd PhD, and brain behind the #HammerItOut campaign. In this episode we take a deep dive into his work at the recently “hibernated” London Nightingale Hospital, with a focus on how the faculty tried to build the right “culture” (released 8/5/20). In […]
PonderMed #19 Prof Graham Cooke: Antibody tests and “alert levels”
Graham Cooke is a Professor of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College London and member of the WHO Essential Medicines Committee. His research has focused on HIV, TB and viral hepatitis. He is currently working on multiple large scale COVID-19 research projects. This is the second of a two-parter with Graham (here is the first part). […]
PonderMed #18 Prof Graham Cooke: Fast research and COVID-19
Professor Graham Cooke is a Professor of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College London. His research has focused on HIV, TB and viral hepatitis. He was chief investigator on the STOPHCV-1 trial and currently has clinical studies running in the UK and Vietnam. He has also been active in promoting access to medicines and is a […]
I wrote a blog for St.Emlyn’s… “Purposefully Practicing for COVID-19”
I wrote a blog post for the first time in ages… and managed to get it published on the St.Emlyn’s blog. Huge thanks to Prof Simon Carley for allowing me to pitch the idea. Check it out here. Robbie Ponder_Med PS I’m planning to do a podcast version of the blog in the next week or […]
PonderMed #17 Lt. Col. Dave Grossman: A Warrior’s Toolbox
This is the first of two pods I’ve recorded with Lt. Col. Dave Grossman – a former US Army Ranger, paratrooper, and Psychology Professor. He is the author of On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace; a book that describes coping strategies for the physiological and psychological effects of violence for people […]
