Dr. Gareth Davies

Emergency Medicine / Pre-Hospital Care

Royal London Hospital & London Air Ambulance

Consultant in Emergency Medicine; lead pre-hospital doctor for London HEMS.

Dr Gareth Davies is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Pre-hospital Care at the Royal London Hospital with long-standing leadership in London's Air Ambulance.

Roles & experience: Long-serving Medical Director of London's Air Ambulance and senior HEMS clinician, leading the team through major service transformation and multiple system-wide incidents.

Major incidents & public service: Senior clinical leadership during the 7 July 2005 London bombings, acting as Medical Incident Officer at Aldgate.

Clinical innovations: Pioneered physician-paramedic, doctor-on-board pre-hospital models and advanced procedures including resuscitative thoracotomy, rapid sequence induction and the early adoption of REBOA within defined protocols.

Teaching & outreach: National faculty for pre-hospital and trauma systems, with extensive publications and public education on bystander response and trauma survivorship.

Service & systems: Designs standardised tasking, on-scene governance and post-incident review frameworks linked to trauma-system audit and rehabilitation pathways.