Instructors

Aebhric O'Kelly

   With a background in Special Forces medicine, Aebhric brings to Ireland a unique approach to Outdoors Medicine, Survival and Bushcraft skills.

   After serving as a police officer, Aebhric spent ten years in the US Army Special Forces where he trained in austere medicine, wilderness survival and special tactics as a Green Beret. He attended Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) school in the mid 1990s and draws on that training when teaching bushcraft skills.

   Since he left the army he studied Medicine at Bastyr University and has a Master’s degree in wilderness psychology from Prescott College. He is currently working towards a Doctorate in Remote & Austere Medicine from the University of Wales, Lampeter.

   Aebhric continues to work in military medicine as a part time instructor for Deployment Medicine International. He is currently a faculty member of the Battlefield Advanced Trauma Life Support course run by the British Military, a member of the Wilderness Medicine Society, and a full member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

 

Anna O'Kelly

    Anna O'Kelly brings to her teaching a life-long love of plants and working with the land. She has learned from many who devote their life to the cause of finding a way to live in harmony with the earth – among the more well-known of which John Seymour (Self-Sufficiency course in 1996) and Rob Hopkins (Permaculture Design Certificate in 2002).

    She is in the process of establishing a homestead on marginal land in Co. Kerry, enjoying the challenge, and the good food it produces.

 

 

 

Michael "Doc" McCrudden

 

    Michael comes from Donegal where he settled after retiring from the US Special Forces. He served as a Green Beret medic before qualifying as a Physicians Assistant which is equivalent to a junior doctor here in Ireland.

   He teaches the Wilderness Emergency First Responder and the Remote & Expedition Emergency Medical Technician courses.

 

 

 

Paul Cahill

   Paul offers Remote Emergency Care courses through his company Wild Places Emergency Care. He comes to Remote Medicine Ireland to instruct the REC 4 and the Wilderness Emergency First Responder courses.

   Paul is a professional full time paramedic / firefighter who has completed various courses from Wilderness E.M.T. to Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support. Wilderness activities include sea kayaking , alpine trekking, climbing and backpacking.