The team
Built by operators, clinicians and organisers.
The difference is not only medical experience. It is operational ownership.
The difference
An operator on both sides of the table.
Most event medical providers approach operations from the clinical side alone. GEM also understands the organiser’s side: duty of care, logistics, financial exposure, the responsibility when conditions deteriorate. That perspective changes the plan.
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The organiser's view changes the plan
Movement, extraction timings, comms resilience, checkpoint operations, staffing pressure, escalation, continuity. The people designing the system have carried those responsibilities themselves.
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Clinical standards remain uncompromising
Operational understanding does not replace medical quality. Expedition and remote medicine experience, structured governance, deployed capability, clinically credible leadership.
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The whole operation matters
An organiser-owned medical operation plans for the entire undertaking, not simply the casualty. The difference shows long before the event begins.
The team on deployment
The same people, every season.
GEM deploys clinicians and risk operatives who return season after season, to the same standard, on the same events. Continuity is part of the cover: the people who wrote the plan are the people who run it.
Who runs GEM
The people behind the operation.
GEM is run by a board of directors, an operational leadership team and non-executive directors.
Directors
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Dr Daniel Bunce
Medical Director
Holds the clinical standard across every GEM deployment: clinical governance, protocols, and the review after every event.
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James Bartlett
Operations Director
Runs the operation end to end: planning, deployment, logistics and the 24/7 medical control point.
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Archi Stewart
Director
Brings the organiser’s view. Archi runs world-class endurance events; that both-sides-of-the-table perspective is what GEM is built on.
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Simon Davies
Director
Bio tbc
Operational leaders
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Dr Tun Myint
Prescribing
Leads prescribing: the medicines, the protocols and the controlled-drugs governance behind every deployment.
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Dr Sophie Boles
Policy
Leads policy: the standards and procedures every GEM deployment runs to.
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Dr Heather Churchill
Clinical Governance
Leads clinical governance: named oversight, audit, and the clinical review after every event.
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Dr Sam Perry
Research and Clinical
Leads research and clinical practice, keeping GEM’s medicine current and evidence-based.
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Mary Kellan
Equipment and Inventory
Leads equipment and inventory: the kit is right for the environment and ready to deploy.
Non-executive directors
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Dr James Gagg
Clinical
Non-executive director. Independent senior clinical oversight.
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Steven Brown
Security and Risk
Non-executive director. Independent oversight of the security and risk discipline.
The team is the cover.
Work with GEM
Join the team
GEM is a team of doctors, paramedics, nurses and risk operatives who work the hardest endurance events and expeditions on earth. We are always glad to hear from strong people who want that work. If that is you, introduce yourself.