Matt is a senior emergency physician with a clinical practice shaped as much by mountains and wild places as by emergency departments. He has worked across hospital systems in Australia and the United Kingdom, with additional experience in prehospital and retrieval medicine — including time with prehospital services and wilderness medicine teams operating in remote and austere environments.
The OffChartCPD programme grew out of a straightforward frustration: that most medical CPD is designed to be consumed, not applied. The expeditions, e-learning modules, and resources on this site are built around the opposite idea — that the best learning happens when the stakes are real, the environment is demanding, and the people around you genuinely push your thinking.
Outside the department, Matt's time is split between ski touring, rock climbing, scuba diving, and planning trips to places with bad mobile signal and excellent wine. He brings that same opinionated, practical approach to expedition kit design, altitude medicine, and wilderness first aid — which is the basis for the 1:1 Expedition Advice service offered through this site.
“A lot of CPD takes you somewhere exciting and then leaves the destination outside the room — you fly somewhere incredible, then sit through slides in a conference centre that could be anywhere. And most conferences are so large that the small-group learning that actually changes how you practise gets lost in the crowd. I wanted to weave the two together — real CPD, delivered in small groups, in environments that generate real pressure — not a simulation of it. Not a resort trip with a lecture bolted on, and not a conference with a nice backdrop. One offering, built around both.”— Matt Forbes, FACEM, Founder, OffChartCPD
Company leadership
Kate keeps OffChartCPD running. While the clinical team is busy debating kit lists and acclimatisation profiles, Kate handles the operational reality of making expeditions actually happen — logistics, planning, coordination, and the thousand things that would otherwise fall through the cracks. The programme would not exist in its current form without her.
She brings an extensive background in project management and emergency and disaster planning, and is a PADI Divemaster — which means she is equally at home coordinating a complex multi-agency incident and navigating a liveaboard dive deck.
Course facilitators
More facilitators will be added as the programme grows.
Also on the payroll
Non-voting members of the leadership team. Attendance at board meetings is irregular but enthusiastic.
