Dr. Cannon is Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania where he serves as the Surgeon Champion for the Penn Medicine-US Navy Trauma Training Partnership. He is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy and Harvard Medical School and holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. He served on active duty in the US Air Force from 2006 to 2015 as a trauma surgeon. He deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan during that time and retired as a Colonel in the US Air Force Reserve in 2023. His research interests include improving outcomes from hemorrhagic shock, developing technology for the management of acutely injured patients, and military-civilian trauma training partnerships.
Col Prof Tom Woolley is the Emeritus Defence Professor of Military Anaesthesia and Critical Care and Honorary Professor at Beth University of Plymouth.. He is a consultant anaesthetist in the Army who’s NHS work takes place at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. Tom has an interest in Hepato-biliary and colorectal anaesthesia. Research interests include Trauma resuscitation, with a focus in blood based resuscitation and the management of trauma induced coagulopathy. He is a member of The Trauma Hemostasis and Oxygenation research network and a member of the NATO Blood Panel, lead for the MOD’s Blood Far Forward programme, Oxygen Far Forward and a Co-Investigator in the SWIFT Trial (Study of Whole blood In Frontline Trauma)