Wilderness Medical Society
Medical Conference and Annual Meeting
Snowmass, Colorado - July 23-28, 2010


FACULTY

Jonathan Allen, MD, FAAEM, FAWM
Jonathan is board certified, Emergency Medicine faculty at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Centers. He also has special interests in the fields of tactical and disaster medicine. He is an instructor at the International School of Tactical Medicine, operator/medical director of Lafourche Parish SWAT team, and an active member of Florida-1 DMAT.

Paul Auerbach, MD, MS, FACEP, FAWM
Co-Founder and Past President, Wilderness Medical Society; Editor, Wilderness Medicine; Editor Emeritus, Wilderness & Environmental Medicine; Professor of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center.

Sachit Balsari, MD, MPH
Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Emergency Physician, New York Presbyterian Hospital; Member, Managing Committee, Times Center for Disaster Management, University of Mumbai.

Brad Bennett, PhD, NREMT-P, WEMT, FAWM
Captain, US Navy (Ret); Adjunct Asst Professor, Uniformed Services University; Co-Director, Academy of Wilderness Medicine; Board Member, Wilderness Medical Society; Chief Editor, WMS Education Lecture Series; Tactical Medicine Consultant

Aaron Billin, MD, MS, FAAFP, FAWM
Emergency Medicine Physician, Riverton , WY; 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 Preventive Medicine.

Cindy Bitter, MD, MA, FACEP, FAWM
Emergency Physician and Member of Ethics Committee, Missouri Baptist Medical Center; Adjunct Faculty, St. Louis University; Masters Degree in Bioethics from Medical College of Wisconsin; Volunteer experience in multiple countries in the Caribbean and Central America.

Jolie Bookspan, MEd, PhD, FAWM
A sports medicine specialist known for her innovative techniques to improve training and prevent and rehabilitate injuries; named “the St. Jude of the Joints” by Harvard Medical School clinicians.

Michael Callahan, MD, DTM & H (U.K.), MSPH
Assoc Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital; Program Manager, Biodefense and Mass Casualty Care, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA).

JenFu Cheng, MD
Staff Pediatric Physiatrist, Children’s Specialized Hospital; Assistant Professor, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey; Founder, Peak Potential, Inc. (non-profit organization that provides adaptive rock climbing programs for children with disabilities); Medical Advisor, Stay-Focused, Inc. (non-profit organization that provides adaptive SCUBA diving programs for mobility-challenged young adults).

Jonathan Conard, DO
Emergency and Hyperbaric Medicine, Memorial Hospital, Colorado Springs, CO; Fellowship in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine, Duke University.

Joy Crook, MD, MPH
Asstistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University; Fellow, Center for Disaster and Refugee Response, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Chair, WMS Disaster Medicine Committee

Ronald G. Crystal, MD
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Genetic Medicine of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, where he is also the Bruce Webster Professor of Internal Medicine, and Chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Weill Cornell-New York Presbyterian Hospital. After first focusing his research on the pathogenesis and therapy of inflammatory diseases of the lung, Dr. Crystal became a pioneer in the field of gene therapy and, more recently, has developed a program in the genetics of susceptibility to lung disease. Outside of his professional activities, Dr. Crystal is an active mountain climber.

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.

Angela Gardner, MD, FACEP
President, American College of Emergency Physicians; Asst Professor, Surgery/Emergency Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX.

Joan Garrett
The founder of MedAire, Ms. Garrett was awarded Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2001. She serves on the Board of Governors for the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF), consults with the US Federal Aviation Administration, has provided congressional testimony, and was awarded the Business Aviation Meritorious Service Award for innovative contributions to corporate aviation safety.

James Geiling, MD
Chief of Med Service and Dir of Intensive Care Unit, VA Medical Center, White River Jct, VT; Assoc Prof of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School; Adjunct Asstistant Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University; former Director 200-person medical clinic in the Pentagon where he served on 9/11/2001.

Andrea Gravatt, MD, FAAP, FAWM
Attending Physician, Mary Bridge Children’s Hosp, Dept of Emergency Medicine; Asst Prof of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine; contributor author, Wilderness Medicine and Hypothermia Frostbite and other Cold Injuries.

Loren Greenway, PhD, FCCP, FAWM
CEO, Wilderness Medical Society.

Dominique Greydanus
Served 20 yrs in the US Army Special Forces, Senior Medic-Alpha Team; First Sergeant, JTTC; Program Manager TCCC; Administrative Officer for the Joint Theatre Trauma System/Registry.

Sanjey Gupta, MD, FACEP
Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Weill Cornell College of Medicine; Assistant Director Emergency Medicine New York Hospital Queens; Faculty and Researcher for Cornell Wilderness Medicine; Active road and trail runner, paddler, and adventure racer.

Seth Hawkins MD, FACEP, FAWM
Senior Editor, Wilderness Medicine magazine; Exec Director, Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine; Medical Director, Burke EMS Special Operations Team; Asst Professor, Wilderness Emer Care Program, Western Carolina University

Jeremy Hess, MD, MPH, FACEP
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Emory University Schools of Medicine and Public Health; Consultant, Office of the Director, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC.

Arthur (Tony) Islas, MD, MPH, FAWM
Program Chair; CAO-Sports Medicine; Assoc Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech, El Paso; President Elect, 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.

Richard Jones, MD, MSPH
Private Medical Consultant, Durney Medical Services; Medical Review Officer; North Carolina Academy of Family Physicians; Speaks French, German and Japanese.

Ron Kaplan, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA; Attending Physician, Emergency Department, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA.

Linda Keyes, MD, FACEP
Since 1991 when Linda convinced her medical school dean to send her to Whistler for a WMS conference she has been scheming ways to combine medicine, research, and outdoor adventure. She began studying pregnancy at high-altitude as a medical student and completed a research fellowship on this topic after residency. In addition to pregnancy, Linda’s high-altitude research experience and interests include the pathophysiology and prevention of acute mountain sickness, and the dangers of carbon monoxide in snow caves. She worked as a volunteer physician at the Himalaya Rescue Association clinic in Pheriche, Nepal and served for several years as co-physician advisor for Rocky Mountain Rescue Group in Boulder, CO. She is a member of the Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Editorial Board and an Associate Clinical Professor at University of Colorado. When she is not playing outside with her family, she practices emergency medicine near Denver.

Jay Lemery, MD, FACEP, FAWM
Program Chair; Faculty, Emergency Medicine; Director of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine; Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College; Secretary, Wilderness Medical Society.

Phil Levy, MD, MPH, FACEP
Asst Prof and Assoc Dir of Clinical Research, Dept of Emergency Medicine, Wayne State University School of Med; Board of Dir, EMEDEX International, International Society for Emergency Care and Soft Power Health; Medical Advisor, World Wide Trekking; Member, WMS Education Committee.

Rebecca Love, MD
Experienced Emergency Physician; has worked in large urban hospitals, suburban and small rural hospitals; Residency and board certified in internal medicine; employed in Moab, UT by Allen Memorial Hospital to provide physician services in both the emergency department and primary care clinic.

Robert Mabry
MAJ Mabry enlisted in the US Army in 1984. Before attending medical school he served for 11 years as a US Army Ranger and Special Forces Medical Sergeant. He is also a paramedic, diving medical technician, high angle rescue instructor, and flight surgeon. He served as the senior search and rescue medic for Task Force Ranger in Mogadishu, Afghanistan. His military awards include the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart. He is a graduate of the US Army Emergency Medicine residency and EMS Fellowship in San Antonio, Texas.

Vicki Mazzorana, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, FAWM
Associate Clinical Professor, University of Nevada School of Medicine; Nevada State Athletic Commission, Ringside Physician; Southern Nevada Wilderness Medical Society, Vice-President; University of Nevada School of Medicine, Medical Student Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director; “Survivor” Medical Student Wilderness Medical Experience Elective, Course Director

Scott McIntosh, MD, MPH, FAWM
Board Member, Wilderness Medical Society; Assistant Professor and Director of EMS and Wilderness Medicine Fellowship; Assoc Medical Director, AirMed Transport Service, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Utah.

Chris McStay, MD
Board Member, Wilderness Medical Society; Asst Professor of Emergency Medicine, NYU/Bellevue Department of Emergency Medicine, Assistant Director, Bellevue Hospital Center Emergency Department.

Anil S. Menon, MD
Graduate of Stanford School of Medicine; Completed the Stanford-Kaiser Residency in Emergency Medicine; Fellow in Wilderness Medicine at Stanford; Member of the Emergency Medicine team from Stanford that responded to the Haiti earthquake under the auspices of International Medical Corps; Pilot and Flight Surgeon with the Oregon Air National Guard

Todd Miner, EdD
Miner has climbed the 7 highest peaks on the continent and logged more than a thousand days of outdoor leadership and education. After 20+ years in Alaska, he moved east to serve as the Executive Director of Cornell (University) Outdoor Education, where continues to lead expeditions to the Greatland, the Southwest, and around the world.

Jacob Miss
ACLS, APLS, ATLS Certified; Alpha Omega Alpha, Drexel University; UCSF-FSGH Residency Area of Distinction in Wilderness Medicine.

Edward J. (Mel) Otten, MD, FACMT, FAWM
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics; Director, Division of Toxicology, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine; Past President, Secretary, Treasurer, Wilderness Medical Society; Capt. US Navy (Ret); Charter Member, Tactical Combat Casualty Care Committee.

Chris Ralphs, DVM, DACVS
Dr. Ralphs is a small animal surgeon in Rhode Island. He attended veterinary school at Cornell, did a general internship in Connecticut, a surgical internship in Texas, his residency in Minnesota and practiced in Pennsylvania before moving to Rhode Island. He has been published in multiple journals including the Annals of Improbable Research as well as the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. He enjoys a variety of outdoor pursuits and regrets that having a wife and children has rendered him less able to employ his customary poor decision-making methods when out in the woods.

Gates Richards, WEMT-I, FAWM
Special Programs Manager and Director, WEMT Programs, Wilderness Medicine Institute of NOLS; NOLS Field Instructor.

Tod Schimelpfenig, WEMT, FAWM
Curriculum Director, Wilderness Medicine Institute (WMI) of National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).

Volker Schoeffl, MHBA
Assistant Professor Priv.-Doz.; Head of Department of Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery in Bamberg, FRG; specialist and qualified general surgeon, trauma surgeon and orthopedic surgeon; member of the Medical Commission of the UIAA and the IFSC, and the Safety Commission of DAV, and team doctor to the German national climbing and ski-mountaineering team; has climbed for over 20 years, and did multiple first ascents world wide up to the grade of 8b (5.13d); was a member of various climbing expeditions to countries as Nepal, Borneo, Burma, Laos etc.; works scientifically on climbing injuries, published many papers and gives lectures regularly; beside his scientific approach to climbing he gives slide shows, has worked on movies, books and climbing gear development. He published One Move Too Many, the standard book on climbing injuries, in five languages.

Robert (Brownie) Schoene, MD, FACP
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Med, University of WA, School of Medicine; PCCM practitioner and WWAMI Association Director, Bozeman Deaconess Hospital; Past President, Wilderness Medical Society; Co-author, High Altitude Medicine and Physiology.

Robert Speiden
Virginia Department Emergency Management, Field Team Signcutter, Course Coordinator; Instructs search and rescue volunteers, law enforcement officers and government agents; Active Member of the Search and Rescue Tracking Institute, Training Officer, Operational Tracker, Instructor and Treasurer; Awarded the “Lisa Hannon” award in 2007.

Doug Sward, MD, FACEP
Attending Physician, Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Bel Air, MD; Fellow of American Academy of Emergency Medicine.

Shana Tarter, WEMT-I
Assistant Director, Wilderness Medicine Institute of NOLS; Chair, Wilderness Risk Managers Conference, NOLS Field Instructor.

Christopher Van Tilburg, MD, FAWM
Editor, Wilderness Medicine magazine; Author, Mountain Rescue Doctor and seven other books; Active Member, Hood River Crag Rats, Hood River, OR.

John Walden, MD, DTM&H
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Family and Community Health, Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine; Associate Dean of Medical School Development and Outreach; Founded the nation’s first International Health Track in a Family Medicine Residency Program in the mid-1980s; has facilitated overseas rotations in 38 countries for medical students and resident-physicians.

Tommy Walker, NREMT-B IV
Swiftwater Rescue Tech (SRT); President EASPA’s Foundation; Board Member, Argentine Society of Mountain Medicine (SAMM); Founder Wilderness Leadership Institute; Assistant Instructor at Colorado Mountain College EMT-B Class.

Andrew Watters, MD
Dr. Watters was trained in Tucson, Arizona, and is active in wilderness medicine, medical direction, EMS, and emergency medicine. He has taught wilderness medicine in several locations, including Patagonia, and is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Indiana University.

Gordon Worley, RN, CFRN
Flight Nurse, REACH Air Medical Services, Santa Rosa, CA; Training Director, Placer County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Ground Search Team, Auburn, CA; Member, Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) CA-11, Sacramento, CA.

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.