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About THE AUTHORS
The Authors have a combined experience of over fifty years in humanitarian and military surgery.
PETE MATHEW
FRCS(ENG), FRCS(SN), DTM&H(TropMed), RAAF
Co-author and Illustrator of the HES Book
Pete was a Consultant Neurosurgeon in Adelaide in
Australia and Dundee in Scotland before taking the
Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H)
in 1999. He trained as a trauma surgeon in South
Africa and subsequently embarked on a career
working in conict areas – rst as a military surgeon
in the Royal Air Force (RAF), for ten years, then as a
humanitarian surgeon with Médecins Sans Frontières
(MSF) and the International Committee of the Red
Cross (ICRC). His humanitarian work continues, and
between his missions he teaches anatomy at Dundee
University. Before the Covid-19 pandemic he regularly
worked for part of the year in Alice Springs Hospital
in Australia.
DAVID NOTT OBE
FRCS, MD, DSc, DMCC, RAAF
Co-author of the HES Book
David is a Consultant General and Vascular Surgeon and Professor of Humanitarian Surgery at Imperial College in London. For the past thirty years he has worked in conict areas as a military and humanitarian surgeon with the Royal Air Force (RAF), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). In 2015 he co-founded the David Nott Foundation, which promotes the teaching of surgical skills to local doctors working in areas affected by conflict and natural disasters. He also founded the Hostile Environment Surgical Training (HEST) course, and is the author of a best-selling memoir War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line (Picador, 2019).
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