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2024 WTN Conference Speakers

Survive to Thrive: Exploring the Challenges within Major Trauma

2024 WTN Conference

Speaker Information

Dr Deepak Ravindran
Honorary Professor, School of health, Teesside University
Deputy Clinical Lead, E-Pain
Consultant in Pain and Musculoskeletal Medicine

Dr Deepak Ravindran has over 20 years of experience in helping people overcome their pain – in the NHS and private practice. He is one of the few consultants in the UK who possesses triple certification in lifestyle medicine, musculoskeletal medicine and pain medicine. He has been a consultant in pain medicine since 2010 in one of the biggest district general medical hospitals, the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. He is currently the clinical lead for the specialist pain services for all of West Berkshire since 2015. 

Dr Deepak Ravindran is part of the award-winning Integrated Pain and Spinal Service (IPASS) service in 2016 and also the Multidisciplinary Circle Fibromyalgia Clinic. In 2020, he helped set up the Berkshire Longcovid Integrated service, one of 90 such clinics in the UK to look after Longcovid patients.


Dr Christopher Manlow
Consultant Emergency Medicine
Director of Patient Safety
Torbay and South Devon NHS FT
Clinical Director Peninsula Trauma Network


Matthew Sawyer – Advanced Care Practitioner

Matt is paramedic by profession and is an ACP at Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance (DSAA) and Portsmouth ED. His main focus is resuscitation and critical care, including an interest in delivering haemostatic resuscitation in practice. Matt has experience of military and civilian trauma systems. He is the DSAA site principal investigator for the SWiFT trial, and received the air ambulances UK CCP of the year award in 2023. He also has an interest in point of care ultrasound and the role of early regional anaesthesia in trauma. When he’s not doing that he’s probably running around after (or with) his young family or doing something outside. 


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