Speaking at: HRC2024

Position: Deputy Medical Director and Deputy Head of Research and Clinical Innovation, Defence Medical Services
Location: London, UK

Gp Capt Ed Nicol MStJ KHS MD MBA DAvMed FRCP FRCR FACC FRAeS MSCCT RAF is a Royal Air Force consultant cardiologist who works at the Royal Brompton and Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. He is the Defence Medical Services Deputy Medical Director and a Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging at King’s College, London. He is a King’s Honorary Surgeon, a member of the Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem, an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and a recipient of the Sir Harold Whittingham Prize and the Chadwick Military Medicine Medal from UCL for services to military and civilian collaboration in public health. He is past President of both the International and British Societies of Cardiovascular CT, past President of the RSM Military Medicine Section, previously Clinical Lead for the HSJ Award winning RAF Clinical Aviation Medicine Service and a previous member of NHS England Armed Forces Clinical Reference Group. He was previously the Deputy Lead for the Armed Forces on the Council of the Academy of Royal Colleges Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. He has been the Defence Consultant Advisor in Medicine and Medical Director of the RAF Medical Services. He chaired the NATO Aviation Cardiology Working Group from 2017-2020, and the ESC Task Forces on aviation and occupational cardiology from 2020-2024. He has deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone both in Field Hospitals and on numerous aeromedical evacuations including transferring patients with Viral Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF and Ebola) using the RAF Air Transport Isolator.