Commodore Jason Smith

Surgeon Commodore Jason Smith CBE KHP is the Medical Director to the UK Surgeon General and Head of Research and Clinical Innovation for the Defence Medical Services. A consultant in emergency medicine at University Hospitals Plymouth, he is the Emeritus Defence Professor of Emergency Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Military Health. He is the Chief Investigator of SWiFT, a multi-centre randomised controlled trial of whole blood in frontline trauma recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2025.