Dr Brian Robertson OStJ, TD, MIEM
Managing Director
Dr Brian Robertson is Managing Director of The Event Medicine Company Ltd., a company he founded in 2002 following 22 years in General Practice in Aldershot, Hampshire. He is also owner of BR Consultancy, a company that provides consultancy services in relation to the planning for mass gathering, event medicine and major incident management.
He has wide experience of pre-hospital emergency medical care and with a keen interest in the accident field he works closely with the emergency services in his local area with the voluntary Immediate Care Scheme he founded in 1979. He has a major interest in the medical aspects of Major Incident Planning. In addition to numerous major incident exercises practical experience has been gained by attendance at a number of large scale incidents including the M4 (1986); the Hungerford Multiple Shooting (1987); the Clapham (1988), Purley (1989) and Ufton Nervet (2004) railway accidents and the loss of the Marchioness on the River Thames (1989).
He lectures widely both nationally and internationally on pre-hospital care, mass gathering medicine, medical major incident management, and the use of railways in disasters. He was awarded a 1992 Churchill Travelling Fellowship to study aspects of major incident management in Europe and America. In addition, he has provided major incident management consultancy and training for several NHS Trusts.
In 1997 he was awarded the Haywood Medal by the British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS) for his contribution to pre-hospital care in the UK and in September 2000, he was elected National Chairman of BASICS. In 2002 he was awarded the highly prestigious Asmund Laerdal Award for “outstanding services to immediate care.
After 8 years service, he left the Regular Royal Army Medical Corps in 1979 and served in Army Medical Service Territorial Army Specialist Units until December 2006. Between 1985 and 1994 he served as Squadron Commander of the Ambulance Train Squadron RAMC(V), a Unit responsible for running British Army Ambulance Trains in Europe. Subsequently promoted to the rank of Colonel L/RAMC, he was appointed Commanding Officer of 306 Field Hospital (V), a 200 bed TA Field Hospital, an appointment which he held until December 1999. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1989. In late 1992 he was admitted as an Officer Brother of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. He was awarded the Volunteer Reserves Service Medal in 1996 with a first clasp in 2001.
He has been the Medical Director of the Farnborough International Air Show since 1996. As such he is responsible for all medical planning for this biennial event and the integration of a number of different agencies into a comprehensive medical plan to cope with all aspects of mass gathering medicine and major incident response to such a high profile event.
He was the Tactical Medical Commander (Silver Doctor) for the funeral of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother in London.
Between 2002 and 2008 he was a member of the Board of the Football Licensing Authority.
Between January and July 2005 he was Medical Co-ordinator (Civil) by the Ministry of Defence (Royal Navy) for the summer series of events to commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar held in Portsmouth.