Sunny Whitfield, FRGS, FAWM, RP, WEMT

Steve (Sunny) Whitfield is a paramedic, expedition leader, geographer and writer based in Australia. During his career, he has worked for international ambulance services, on humanitarian operations, on high-altitude expeditions, and in flight and retrieval medicine. In 2015, Steve founded a platform that became Medics Beyond Borders, an international collaboration to support community healthcare in remote communities. Currently a lecturer at Griffith University School of Medicine (paramedicine), with research interests in extreme environment medicine, Steve is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a fellow of the Wilderness Medical Society, and a founding member of the Australasian Wilderness and Expedition Medical Society.