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Join us for an evening with guest speaker Professor Chris Imray (St 72-77) to talk about Medicine at the Extremes.
Chris is a vascular and renal transplant surgeon at UHCW with a long-standing focus on medicine in extreme environments. A member of the Alpine Club and Climbers Club, he also serves on the Mount Everest Screening Committee and recently completed the Seven Summits. A leading authority on cold injuries, he has run the UK telemedicine frostbite service for over twenty years and recently established the UK Frostbite Service.
He co-founded the Global Polar and Altitude Metabolic Research Registry in 2017 and is a coauthor of The Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine. With more than 215 peer‑reviewed publications across altitude medicine, cold injury, and transplantation, he continues to be an active mountaineer, back country skier, polar traveller, and environmental physiology researcher.
Date: Wednesday 20 January 2027
Time: 18:30–21:00
Venue: The Oriental Club, 11 Stratford Place, London W1C 1ES.
Nearest Tube: Bond Street
We very much look forward to seeing you there.
Kind regards
William Dennes (Sh 81-83) and Samara Hammond (S 83-85)
