John Breeze MD, PhD

Johno Breeze is a Consultant Maxillofacial Surgeon at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine and University Hospitals Birmingham and a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He has deployed to Bosnia, Oman, and three times to Afghanistan. He completed his medical and dental degrees in London, his PhD in Birmingham, and a fellowship in Craniomaxillofacial Trauma at Duke University, USA. He has been awarded the military healthcare person of the Year and the Civil Service Prize for Innovation for his work in developing military body armour. He is currently the Editor of BMJ Military Health. He is a senior lecturer at The Royal British Legion Centre for Blast Injury Studies and the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. His research centres around the medical optimisation of body armour, emergency preparedness and protection of the national infrastructure against explosive threats.