James de Courcy
Biography
Dr James de Courcy MB, BS, DA(UK), DCH, FHEA, FRCA, FFPMRCA
Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia, Cheltenham General Hospital, Cheltenham, UK.
James trained at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London and then, after initially heading towards a career in General Practice, changed direction into Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine and trained in Gloucester and subsequently Southampton and Newcastle upon Tyne before taking up a Consultant post in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia in Cheltenham. He has been involved in ATLS as an instructor and course director since 1991, and after teaching in Uganda in 1996 became involved in PTC, leading the first course in Kenya in 2000 and subsequently leading and teaching on PTC courses in Sri Lanka (Colombo and Jaffna), Pakistan (Peshawar and twice in Karachi), with MSF in Belgium and more recently courses in Gaza, Jordan and the West Bank; he was also involved in teaching on the PTC Instructor courses in the UK. He was one of the authors of the PTC instructor course and manual and was involved in revising the PTC course slides.
He is married to Clair, and has two daughters who are both doctors.
