David Metcalfe has recently joined Thames Valley Air Ambulance as a pre-hospital doctor.
As the inaugural Kadoorie Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Oxford, David is tasked with growing emergency care research within NDORMS. This secondment will ultimately allow David to study treatments that are used to help patients before as well as after they arrive at hospital.
Thames Valley Air Ambulance is a local charity that sends specially trained doctors and critical care paramedics to emergencies across Oxfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire. Expert teams deploy by helicopter or critical care response vehicle to cases that require advanced emergency skills at the scene before a patient can be safely transferred to hospital. Thames Valley Air Ambulance does not receive any government or lottery funding and NDORMS will continue to support David’s salary without cost to the charity.