Wilderness and Mountain Medicine
18th Annual WMS Winter Meeting of the Wilderness Medical Society

Overview	Invitation	Program Schedule	Pre-Conferences	Workshops
Evening Events	Faculty	CME/FAWM	Travel & Lodging	Registration

DISTINGUISHED FACULTY

	Wayne Askew, PhD Director, Div of Nutrition, College of Health, Univ of Utah; past member, US Olympic Cmte & US FDA Advisory Cmte on Food Safety; author, 100+ articles and book chapters in the field of nutrition; teaches advanced course in Wilderness Nutrition at Univ of Utah.
	Paul Auerbach, MD, MS, FACEP, FAWM Co-Founder and Past President, Wilderness Medical Society; Editor, Wilderness Medicine, 5th edition; Editor Emeritus, Wilderness & Environmental Medicine; Professor of Surgery, Div of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center.
	Aaron Billin, MD, MS, FAAFP, FAWM Emergency Medicine Physician, Riverton Wyoming; Medical Director, Wind River Health Systems, Inc.; Fremont County (Wyoming) Search and Rescue; Auxiliary Faculty, University of Utah School of Medicine, Clinical Instructor in Family and Preventative Medicine.
	Jennifer Dow, MD, FACEP, FAWM Medical Director, Denali National Park; Medical Advisor, Alaska Pacific University-Outdoor Studies Program; Guide Service throughout Alaska; Medical Director, Wrangell-St Elias National Park; Volunteer, National Ski Patrol – predominantly as instructor and backcountry patroller; All of  the director positions are volunteer positions giving the opportunity to promote wilderness medical education within Alaska raising the standard of remote medical care within Alaska.
	Mark Elstad, MD Professor of Medicine, University of Utah; Pulmonologist/Intensivist, Salt Lake City VA and University of Utah; Medical Director 2002 Olympic Games Polyclinic; extensive backcountry medical, research and rescue experience.
	Luanne Freer, MD, FACEP, FAWM Medical Director, Yellowstone National Park; Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge; Past-President, Wilderness Medical Society; Founder and Director, Everest Base Camp Medical Clinic.
	Gordon Giesbrecht, PhD Professor of Thermophysiology; Head of the Laboratory for Exercise and Environmental Medicine; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
	Loren Greenway, PhD, FCCP, FAWM CEO and Board Member, Wilderness Medical Society; Chair, American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Allied Health Network.
	Colin Grissom, MD, FAWM President, Wilderness Medical Society; Critical Care Physician and Assistant Medical Director of Life Flight, IMC Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah; Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine.
	Peter Hackett, MD Director, Institute for Altitude Medicine, Telluride, CO; Clinical Director, Altitude Research Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Director of Emergency Services, Telluride Medical Center.
	DeVon Hale, MD Professor of Medicine and Medical Director, Travel Medicine Clinic, University of Utah.
	Arthur (Tony) Islas, MD, MPH, FAWM CAQ-Sports Medicine; Assoc Professor, Dept of Family and Community Medicine, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech, El Paso; Board Member, Wilderness Medical Society
	Eric Johnson, MD, FAWM Past-President, Wilderness Medical Society; Staff Physician, Teton Valley Hospital, Driggs, Idaho; Medical Director, Teton Co. Fire & EMS.
	Linda Keyes Wilderness and Environmental Medicine Editorial Board member, Associate Clinical Professor at University of Colorado, Emergency Medicine Physician.
	Ian McCammon Ian  has a background in mechanical engineering, and has worked in the fields of robotics, Microsystems, and aerospace.  He has also worked as a field instructor for several wilderness and avalanche programs and is the founder of SnowPit Technologies.  His current research is focused on risk communication and decision making.
	Scott McIntosh, MD, MPH, FAWM Conference Chair and Board Member, Wilderness Medical Society; Assistant Professor and Director of EMS and Wilderness Medicine Fellowship; Associate Medical Director, AirMed Transport Service, Div of Emergency Medicine, Univ of Utah.
	Marty Radwin, MD Professional member of American Avalanche Association. Presently practices at the Granger Medical Clinic, Salt Lake City. Previously served as Medical Advisor and active member of the Weber County Sheriff Search and Rescue Team.
	George Rodway, PhD, CRNP, FAWM Asst Professor, Schools of Nursing and Medicine, University of Utah; Honorary Research Fellow, University College London (UK); External Examiner, British Diploma of Mountain Medicine; Board Member, Wilderness Medical Society.
	Tod Schimelpfenig, WEMT, FAWM Curriculum Director, Wilderness Medicine Institute (WMI) of National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).
	Robert (Brownie) Schoene, MD, FACP Clinical Prof of Medicine, Div of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, School of Medicine; PCCM practitioner & WWAMI Assoc. Director, Bozeman Deaconess Hospital; Past President, Wilderness Medical Society; Co-author, High Altitude Medicine and Physiology.
	David Shlim, MD David R. Shlim, MD’s love of the mountains, and his interest in altitude illness, led him to work in the Himalayas for 19 years, first as a volunteer near the base of Mt. Everest, and later as Medical Director of the world’s busiest destination travel medicine clinic in Kathmandu.  During that time, he offered free medical care to a Tibetan monastery.  His close relationship with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, the head of the monastery, led to their collaboration on the book Medicine and Compassion A Tibetan Lama’s Guidance for Caregivers.  In addition, Dr. Shlim has authored over 40 original papers on travel medicine topics, including the discovery of a new intestinal pathogen (Cyclospora).  He moved to Jackson Hole, WY in 1998, where he currently resides with his wife and two children.  He practices travel medicine, lectures frequently on medicine and compassion, is one of the chief editors of the CDC’s Healt Information for International Travel, and is currently working on his second book, a memoir of his experiences in Nepal.
	Geoffrey Tabin, MD Professor of Surgery and Ophthalmology, University of Utah School of Medicine; Co-Director, Himalayan Cataract Project.
	Mark Williams Dr. Williams is a snow expert.  He studies snow and considers all the implications changes in snow may have, from avalanche stability and release to melt-water runoff and release of solutes from the snowpack.  He is a Fellow at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTARR) and a Geography professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  Before becoming an academic, Mark was a wilderness ranger for the USFS (Sierras), a naturalist for the NPS in Alaska, and ran his own backcountry ski resort in the Sierras, Rock Creek Winter Lodge.  He still teaches  Level I and II courses for the Silverton Avalanche School in the heart of the San Juan Mountains.  His current research activities include glacial retreat in the Himalayas, ecological response of high-elevation areas to changes in snow cover, and how a changing climate will change surface/groundwater interactions in the Rockies and in Tibet.
Faculty Disclosure: All participating faculty are required to disclose any real or apparent conflicts of interest related to the content of their presentations. It is the policy of the Wilderness Medical Society to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Wilderness Medical Society acknowledges the following organizations and staff for their expertise and participation in this conference. They are invaluable. Advanced Wilderness Life Support® Canyons Ski Patrol Life Flight AirMed Utah Mountain Adventures (UMA)