Dr Caroline Patterson is a graduate of Nottingham Medical School who is undertaking specialist training in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine on the North West Thames Rotation. She is a full time doctor with the Royal Air Force and as such is involved in the aeromedical evacuation of high dependency patients from around the globe, including theatres of war. She is currently undertaking post-graduate research into the use of biomarkers and comprehensive cardiopulmonary computed tomography in acute medical admissions. She is a contributory author for the Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine, the Oxford University Press online MRCP educational programme and the Department of Health E-Learning for Health programme.

Dr Meg Coleman graduated from Royal Free and University College London Medical school in 2002 after completing MBBS and an intercalated BSc in Physiology and Pharmacology. After her senior house officer rotation and MRCP (2005) she spent a year working in Intensive Care in New Zealand. She returned to the UK in 2007 to start specialist training in Respiratory and General Internal Medicine on the Northwest Thames rotation. She recently returned from a year working and teaching in Malawi where she undertook research into the causes of pleural effusions in patients with Kaposi's Sarcoma. She is now working as an ST6 at the Royal Brompton Hospital.