Dr Giles Molyneux - Company Director
Giles graduated from Edinburgh University and has been working in general medicine in West Dorset General Hospital in Dorchester since the summer of 2002. He has extensive travel experience in India, Africa, South America, Canada, Egypt, Australia and New Zealand. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He has also served as a Royal Naval Officer and Duke of Edinburgh's Award Chairman.

Before studying medicine at Edinburgh, Giles spent a year living and travelling in India and North Africa. He spent part of his final year Medical Elective in Peru and since then his travel experiences have included trekking in four of the world's major deserts and living in jungles. He travelled down the Nile in Egypt from Aswan to Luxor in a kayak, causing much local incredulity and amusement.

His passion for exploration and travel continues to be expressed as he or other Medics Away staff visit each participating hospital and location to ensure their suitability for Medical Student Electives and to arrange exciting Discovery Trips. His commitment is to quality and professionalism within the company and his vision is for Medics Away to set a new higher standard for Medical Electives to exceed the expectations of universities and students.

Seymour Jacklin - Project Coordinator in Kenya
Seymour Jacklin was born and brought up in Zimbabwe, moving to the UK with his family in 1985. He returned to Africa in 1996 to work and travel for a year before going on to study Anthropology at Durham University.
His studies included primate evolution, medical and psychological anthropology, hunter-gatherer societies, fieldwork methods, and primate behavioural ecology. His final year dissertation reviewed the behavioural ecology of the Vervet monkey and included a period of fieldwork with a vervet troop in the wild. He graduated with an Honours degree in Anthropology in 1999 and went on to a pastoral and administrative job with a church in Durham. He continued to work with students in this capacity until 2001.
He married Katherine in July 2002 and, before joining Medics Away, was volunteering with the North of England Refugee Service advising and assisting asylum seekers and refugees from all over the world.
As project coordinator in Kenya, Seymour will liaise with the local people, the hospitals and the medical students to ensure that all the projects are run well and with the full participation of the medical students.

Contact us for further information: info@medicsaway.co.uk