Dr Tom Adams

Deputy Research Leader

A recent graduate of UCL Medical School, Tom is taking a year out from working as a Junior Doctor to be a Deputy Research Leader for Xtreme Everest 2, where his responsibilities include helping to coordinate and shape the science, logistics and media aspects of the expedition. He is also an Honorary Clinical Teaching Fellow at UCL Medical School, where he teaches on a number of modules for medical students at the Whittington Hospital.

An early love of extreme physiology arose from watching cyclists push the limits of human endurance at the Tour de France. During his university years Tom participated in a number of mountain and medically orientated trips to ranges in Northern and Eastern Africa and closer to home in Europe.

He first joined CASE during an Intercalated BSc in Physiology at UCL, in which he gained first class honours. He then continued involvement both in the lab and in print, co-authoring a review on Exertional Heatstroke with Dr Dan Martin and participating as an investigator on the 2010 Margherita Hut expedition. Tom hopes to pursue a career in academic medicine, with current interests in infectious diseases and intensive care, which is reflected in his own research projects on Xtreme Everest 2.

Away from CASE Tom takes a keen interest in international health, travel and playing music alongside his first passion of cycling. Bringing his trumpet to Everest would therefore allow Tom to continue all of his hobbies up the mountain, whilst helping to help wake up investigators!