Ian Davis
Biography
Dr Ian Davis is a Cotswold-based GP. He has been the doctor responsible for polar medical safety on two trips to the magnetic North Pole for the BBC (once with Dr Michael Stroud and once for the BBC programme Top Gear). He has also been the polar advisor to Discovery Channel presenter Bear Grylls. Dr Davis is one of the contributing authors to the Polar Medicine chapter in “Wilderness Medicine” regarded by many as the definitive textbook for practising medicine in extreme environments, and he also edited the Polar Medicine chapter in the “Oxford Handbook of Wilderness Medicine”.
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