Col. Nigel Tai, MD, CBE

Dr. Tai is the UK defense professor of military surgery. He qualified as a doctor from University College London in 1991. He pursued surgical training in London, Essex, and South Africa before gaining fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1996 and commissioning in the Territorial Army in 2000.

He undertook a research fellowship in novel vascular conduits at University College London, gaining a master of surgery degree in 2001 before spending a year as a trauma fellow in Johannesburg General Hospital, South Africa. Back in the UK, he was appointed to the Royal London Hospital as consultant in trauma and vascular surgery in 2005, prior to commissioning in the Regular Army in 2006 and deploying to Helmand Province, Afghanistan as surgeon to 3 PARA Battlegroup.

Dr. Tai has undertaken numerous deployments overseas since then and has served in leadership roles as varied as director of trauma at the Royal London Hospital through to founding head of jHubMed—the Defense Medical Services' Innovation Accelerator. He is an honorary professor of surgery at Queen Mary University London, where he currently leads a team of trauma academics and computer scientists running two DoD funded projects on the development and deployment of Bayesian Network-powered decision support tools for military trauma clinicians.