Benger J

Professor Jonathan Benger CBE MD FRCS FRCEM. Chief Medical Officer, NHS Digital. Professor of Emergency Care, University of the West of England, Bristol. Consultant in Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. Jonathan Benger is Professor of Emergency Care in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of the West of England. He leads the Emergency and Critical Care Research Theme, and is Director of the Bristol Academic Department of Emergency Care. Jonathan is also an NHS Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Care, with a clinical practice in the Emergency Department of University Hospitals Bristol and South Western Ambulance Service. Jonathan does regular clinical work at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and with the Great Western Air Ambulance, which he helped to set up as its first Medical Advisor between 2007 and 2011. Jonathan’s key research interests relate to cardiac arrest, airway management, early diagnostic technologies, workforce, design research and pre-hospital care. He is the joint winner of two Silver IDEAs, in the 2012 and 2013 International Design Excellence Awards, for collaborative design research projects in pre-hospital care.