FOUNDER & CEO of World Extreme Medicine Adventurer, pioneer, entrepreneur, founder, leader, and innovator. An honorary associate professor, & aquanaut former Coastguard Rescue Officer. Mark was awarded a prestigious EC50 Award for 'people who are changing the world that the world needs to know about'. The Explorers Club is based in New York and has recognized the world's greatest explorers with exploration's highest honors. Greeley, Amundsen, Nansen – Armstrong, Heyerdahl – Goodall, Leakey, Hillary – Roosevelt. In 2002, Mark Hannaford founded World Extreme Medicine, a global network delivering world-leading medical training and expertise in the world’s most extreme environments. In 1996, Mark set up Across the Divide, an adventure challenge expedition company that enabled tens of thousands of people to experience the thrill of being part of an expedition and facilitated the raising of £103M/$132M for a multitude of UK charities. This underscored the need to train medics to provide care in extreme environments, and so, a few years later, Mark set up World Extreme Medicine, a global platform that has since trained over 20,000 medics in extreme medicine. Mark’s leadership has also delivered the first MSc in extreme medicine taught at Russell Group University of Exeter, a graduate program at Northeastern University in Boston, USA, and the world’s only extreme medicine annual conference. In 2022, he founded Medics4Ukraine, which has delivered £3,177,350 worth of trauma supplies to frontline medical medics and trained over 829 medics in Tactical Combat Casualty Care. In recognition of his commitment to extreme medicine, in 2021, Mark was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Science by the University of Exeter.