Dr Gavin Tunnard

GMC Specialist Register - Emergency Medicine 2015

Fellow of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine

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Emergency Medicine Consultant posts

Emergency Medicine Consultant NHS Grampian, Scotland – 2017- present

Major Trauma Consultant Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton 2016-2017

Emergency Medicine Consultant, University Hospital Lewisham, London 2015-2017

 

Pre-hospital (HEMS) Consultant posts

Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS) Prehospital and Retrieval Consultant, Scottish Ambulance Service – 2019 - present

 

University posts

Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer & Year 4 deputy lead University of Aberdeen school of Medicine and Dentistry – 2022 - present

 

GMC roles

Emergency Medicine Expert Witness January 2024 - present

 

Medical Training

ST1-6 South East Thames rotation 2009-2015 (Kings College Hospital, Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital, University Hospital Lewisham)

Clinical fellow Emergency Medicine and ICU, Maroondah Hospital, Melbourne, Australia – 2008-2009

UK Foundation programme West Yorkshire - 2006-2008

MBBS 2nd Medical Faculty, Charles University, Prague 2000-2006

 

Teaching/Examiner roles

UK ATLS instructor

FRCEM examiner

MRCEM examiner

 

Publications

-European Society of Emergency Medicine 2018 – Morbidity and mortality in patients transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary from Dr Gray’s ED post return of spontaneous circulation (2016-17) a retrospective cohort study

-Mediterranean Conference of Emergency Medicine September 2013 - Procedural sedation practice amongst adult patients in a London emergency department

-International Conference of Emergency Medicine June 2012 (lead author) - Post-arrest therapeutic hypothermia in a London ICU

-Mediterranean Conference of Emergency Medicine September 2011 (lead author)

1) Thermal epiglottitis requiring emergency tracheostomy after ingestion of boiling water

2) Pulmonary embolism presenting as lactic acidosis

-Boland A, Tunnard GJ, Bazaz R. Over-the-counter kaolin and morphine: two hazards in one. Case Reports 2010;2010:bcr0720092117.

-Tunnard G.J., Biyani C.S. An unusual complication of a Hem-o-Lok clip following laparoscopic radical prostatectomy. J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2009; 19(5): 649–651.

 

 

Medicolegal Training and CPD

Medico-Legal Conference 2026 – 6 hours CPD

Inspire Medilaw annual medico-legal conference 2025 – 6 hours CPD

Medico-Legal conference 2025 - 6 hours CPD

MedCo annual CPD 2023/2024 – 6 hours CPD

Bond Salon expert witness conference 2022

MedCo mandatory accredited training June 2020 – 40 hours CPD

Inspire Medilaw expert witness training 2020 – 20 CPD points