Mike Stroud (physician)
| Mike Stroud | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Michael Adrian Stroud 17 April 1955 England |
| Alma mater | University College London and St George's Hospital Medical School |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Known for | Polar expeditions Human endurance expert |
| Spouse(s) | Thea (née de Moel) m. 1987 |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | http://www.cunningham-management.co.uk/artists/stroud.html |
Dr Michael Adrian Stroud, OBE, FRCP (born 17 April 1955) is an expert on human health under extreme conditions. He became widely known when he partnered Ranulph Fiennes on polar expeditions.
Stroud was educated at Trinity School of John Whitgift in the London Borough of Croydon. He obtained a degree (intercalated BSc) from University College London in anthropology and genetics in 1976, before qualifying as a medical doctor from St George's Hospital Medical School, London in 1979.
After qualifying, and working junior hospital jobs, Stroud specialised in nutrition and gastroenterology. He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1984. He has studied human endurance under extreme conditions based on personal experience - running marathons in the Sahara, and trekking across polar ice. He has worked for the Ministry of Defence researching the nutritional needs of soldiers in action. Since 1998 he has been Senior Lecturer in Medicine, Gastroenterology and Nutrition, at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust. He has taken time out from his medical career over the years to participate in various expeditions.
Stroud was the doctor on the In the footsteps of Scott Antarctic expedition in 1984-1986. He joined Ranulph Fiennes in 1986 to attempt to journey on foot to the North Pole unsupported. In 1992/3 Stroud and Fiennes made the first unsupported crossing of the Antarctic continent, though they were unable to cross the Ross Ice Shelf to reach the open sea. Drinking isotope labelled water and collecting regular blood and urine samples, Stroud discovered that their energy expenditure exceeded 10,000 calories per day
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