Meet our time travellers
The Time Travelling Operating Theatre involves a large group of people, from practicing and retired clinicians to ethicists, policy makers, historians and academics from all over the UK. Here you can find information on our team as well as our panel guests and project contributors.
Sharon-Marie Weldon is the principal investigator on the Time Travelling Operating Theatre project. She is a registered nurse and senior academic researcher at Imperial College London. She has worked in a variety of healthcare settings including as an operating theatre practitioner and for the Health Protection Agency as a specialist in infectious diseases. Her work at Imperial College focuses on the use of simulation in healthcare and engagement.
Roger Kneebone has worked as a general and trauma surgeon in the UK and Africa, a general practitioner and is an expert in simulation and engagement science. He co-founded the Imperial College Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science in 2014 and has worked with the Science Museum, Wellcome Trust and Royal Institution on many innvovative engagement projects.
Harriet Palfreyman is an historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century medicine. After completing a PhD focused on visual culture and disease in nineteenth-century Britain she is currently working with Roger Kneebone on a project examining the changing world of surgery in the twentieth century and beyond.