Meet Our Team
Dr. Alex Oldman BMBS. BSc (Hons). MSc. FRCA.
Director and Intensive Care Lead
Alex trained in Medicine at the University of Southampton and holds a Masters in Medical Sociology from King’s College London. He is currently a higher trainee in Anaesthesia within the prestigious Wessex Deanery in the United Kingdom. During his seven years of clinical experience in Anaesthesia, Alex has developed a strong commitment to evidence-based medicine, authoring several publications on oxygen physiology and function, reflecting his academic interest in the science underpinning anaesthesia and critical care medicine. His passion for Global Health started in Ethiopia, where he conducted qualitative research into the socio-political factors influencing HIV/AIDS prevalence in rural communities. This experience has shaped his broader commitment to health equity and system-level change. Now working toward consultant-level practice, Alex aims to contribute meaningful change within the broad field of Anaesthesia and Critical Care medicine. He is driven by a desire to use his nearly two decades of training to improve emergency and perioperative care in underserved populations worldwide.
Dr. Amy Hutton MBChB. PGDip. MRCEM
Director and Emergency Medicine Lead
Amy is an Emergency Medicine Registrar currently working in the North West of England. She graduated from Liverpool Medical School in 2016, and later returned to achieve a Diploma in Tropical Medicine at LSTM. Throughout her Emergency medicine training she has time out to gain skills and experience in Global Health, first working as a team leader in refugee camps in France and later as part of medical teams delivering basic healthcare to remote communities in the Philippines and rural Ecuador. When at home she is passionate about education and public health, delivering sessions on Women's health and first aid to refugees and asylum seekers. Her commitment to Global Health stems from a drive to combat health inequality, and her ambition for OCEAN is to be a platform to build meaningful international relationships and improve health outcomes globally.
Dr. Abhash Shrestha MBBS. MD. FRCA.
Director and Lead for Anaesthetics
Abhash is a Senior Registrar in Anaesthetics based at University Hospital Southampton. He obtained his medical degree from Kathmandu Medical College (KMC) under Kathmandu University and completed advanced training in Anaesthetics and Critical Care at the B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), Dharan. To expand his expertise, Abhash undertook roles as a Senior Trainee across various NHS Trusts in the UK, and he is now progressing toward becoming a Consultant in Anaesthetics. With over a decade of clinical experience, he has a strong commitment to quality improvement initiatives, actively contributes to teaching and learning activities, and has recently developed a keen interest in Global Health.
Dr. Crystal Oldman CBE. EdD. RN. RHV. QN. FRCN.
Specialist Charity Advisor to the Executive Team
Crystal is a former Chief Executive of the Queens Nursing Institute (QNI), a national charity that promotes high-quality nursing care across the UK. Crystal has worked in the NHS for 18 years, the majority of which was in the field of community nursing, working with some of the most deprived communities in the UK. Crystal enjoyed an academic career for a further 18 years, completing her Higher Education career as Dean of Enterprise and Business Management in the Faculty of Society & Health, where her role included the development of partnerships with external agencies to promote research and assist in workforce development. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2017 for services to community nursing and her leadership of the QNI. In 2020, she was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing and in 2023 she became a Trustee of the independent health think tank, The Nuffield Trust. She now takes on the role as Specialist Charity Advisor to the OCEAN Executive Team, helping secure funding and advise on the strategic management of future projects.
Dr. Alyssa J. Young MSPH. PhD.
Specialist Global Health Advisor to the Executive Team
Alyssa is an Infectious disease epidemiologist, tropical disease specialist, and health data scientist. She has over 15 years of experience in developing and implementing international infectious disease programs, and conducting clinical and epidemiological research across Africa and the Caribbean. As a regional epidemiologist in Haiti, she advised Ministries of Health on effective targeting, implementation, and evaluation of large-scale malaria surveillance and vector control programs throughout Mesoamerica and Hispaniola. She has also provided direct support to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in modeling access to healthcare to improve the interpretation of routinely collected health data. Ms. Young also was a technical advisor and clinical research manager in Sierra Leone during the 2014-2016 West African Ebola Virus Outbreak, as well as a public health advisor and malaria epidemiologist with the United States Peace Corps in northern Benin. She completed her PhD in Tropical Medicine at Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans in 2025 and comes to the OCEAN team as a Specialist Global Health Advisor, applying her expertise and wealth of experience in Lower and Middle Income Countries to help the executive team navigate OCEAN’s Global Health projects.
Dr. Daniel Paul MBBS. MSc. iBSc. FRCA.
Quality Improvement Advisor to the Executive Team
Dan is a Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia in the Wessex Deanery in the United Kingdom. He graduated from University College London Medical School in 2013 and holds a Master’s in Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety. Dan has a career long interest in Healthcare Improvement and has completed fellowships in both Healthcare Improvement and Simulation with Quality Improvement. He has a strong interest in the application of improvement methodologies to real world workstreams. In doing this he has a proven track record in both leading and managing projects which have achieved tangible and sustainable improvements across a variety of domains of perioperative care. In more recent times he has focused on mentoring others in achieving their improvement objectives, has been involved in improvement themed educational programs, works as a committee member of the Wessex Quality Improvement Collaborative, and as a Chapter Editor for the Royal College of Anaesthetists Quality Improvement compendium. He is passionate in applying these experiences and skills to support OCEAN’s global health projects in achieving sustainable and equitable co-designed improvements.