About Dr Jon Dallimore
MB BS (London), MSc, MRCEM, MRCGP, FFTM RCPS (Glasg), DCH, DRCOG, Dip Mount Med (UIAA)
Jon is a General Practitioner in Chepstow, SE Wales and volunteers as the Medical Officer for the local Search and Rescue Team (Severn Area Rescue Association). He worked as Specialty Doctor in the Emergency Department of Bristol Royal Infirmary for 25 years until 2023.
Jon has a longstanding interest in expeditions to remote places and has spent more than two years in the field on various expeditions as a doctor and/or leader. These expeditions have been in many different environments – from the deserts of Namibia, Sinai and Northern Kenya to the jungles of Sulawesi, Belize, Thailand and Ecuador. He loves the mountains and has undertaken many high altitude climbs and treks to Nepal, Greenland, Pakistan, Iceland, Morocco, East Africa and the Andes. Jon is an International Mountain Leader, a member of the Alpine Club and has taught on the UK Diploma in Mountain Medicine since 2004. In 2016 Jon became Director of the International Diploma in Expedition and Wilderness Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He enjoys regular trips to the Cairngorms in winter and teaches every year in Morocco, Norway and Switzerland.
Jon has taught about expedition medicine since 1991. He is the lead editor of the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (third edition) and a longstanding member of the Royal Geographical Society’s medical cell.