David Naumann is a Consultant General Surgeon with the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine and the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, and is an Associate Clinical Professor with the Department of Inflammation and Ageing at the University of Birmingham. His main research interest is in trauma and emergency general surgery. His PhD thesis was entitled “Early microcirculatory dysfunction following traumatic haemorrhage”. Dr Naumann is on the Editorial Board for BMJ Military Health, the BJS and BJS Open. He reviews for multiple journals, and has authored >150 peer reviewed articles.