WMS NewsJanuary 1, 2008 the business office for WMS moved from Lawrence, Kansas to Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Loren Greenway is the Chief Executive Officer. New contact information follows:
WILDERNESS MEDICAL SOCIETY
2150 South 1300 East, Suite 500
Salt Lake City, UT 84106
Tel: 801-990-2988
Fax: 801-990-2987
Loren Greenway
Chief Executive Officer
Loren@wms.org
(801)990-2989
Preview this new CDC Original Research paper in the latest issue of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine!
Flores AH, Haileyesus T, Greenspan AI. National estimates of outdoor recreational injuries treated in emergency departments, United States, 2004-2005. Wilderness Environ Medicine. 2008;19:91-98.
POSTPONED UNTIL 2009. October 22-24, 2008, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Northeast Wilderness Medicine Conference (New York-Presbyterian Hospital & Cornell Outdoor Education) CME/FAWM The Northeast WM Conference is postponed until 2009. Our collaboration with Cornell Outdoor Education has grown significantly in several areas, with a commensurate demand on our resources. Rescheduling will allow us to dedicate our full energies to build on the success of our inaugural Conference last year.
2003 WMS Research Training Award recipient, Dr. Tri Tong, has published his research in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Tong TC, et al., Comparative treatment of alpha-amanitin poisoning with N-acetylcysteine, benzylpenicillin, cimetidine, thioctic acid, and silybin in a murine model. Ann Emerg Med, 2007. 50(3): p. 282-8."
Ethnobotanist honored for contributions to wilderness medicine http://news.mongabay.com
August 8, 2007Renowned ethnobotanist and conservationist Dr. Mark Plotkin of the Amazon Conservation Team was honored Wednesday with the 2007 Paul S. Auerbach Award, a distinction awarded by the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS).
THE INFORMED PATIENT
By LAURA LANDROAdventures in Medicine
On a trek to the base camp at Mount Everest last year, Brenda Tiernan woke up in her tent at 1 a.m. feeling "like someone had put a hatchet through my head." (read the entire Wall Street Journal Article featuring Dr. Paul Auerbach)
The Highest Hospital in the World--BBC News reports on the Everest Base Camp
"It's really very satisfying to take a situation - an illness or an injury that would make many doctors throw their hands up and say, 'I don't have my nurses, I don't have my hospital' - and make it work in a really hostile and austere environment."
--Luanne Freer
Deadly Ascent--WMS member featured on PBS
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Hackett, WMS member, who was recently featured on the PBS program NOVA.
NOVA joins a team of medical researchers, rescuers, world-class mountaineers, military special forces, and an astronaut taking part in a study by Dr. Peter Hackett, who turns the mountain's vertical arctic landscape into a high-altitude lab.
The program featuring this climb aired January 17. Visit the Deadly Ascent Web site where you can read about the research, Denali, and altitude effects as well as purchase a DVD of the program.
HURRICANE KATRINA
Per requests from practitioners working in the areas affected by hurricane Katrina, the Wilderness Medical Society is providing here some information about water disinfection. There are two documents, both PDFs:
The CIDwaterdisinfection.pdf, originally published in Clinical Infectious Diseases quickly provides broad information on water disinfection. Chemical disinfection Products.pdf is a draft of an appendix for a forthcoming publication. While not a complete article in and of itself, it provides the most current information. Both of these articles have been provided by Dr. Howard Backer.
The New Scientist picked up an article entitled "GI Outbreak Among Mountaineers from WEM Vol. 16, No. 2. Follow this link to read the article: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7492
Announcing several new changes to the Web site
The Fellows On-line System is Fully Operational!
The Fellows of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM) pages are ready for use. Go here to Enter FAWM credits, check your status and have your other questions answered quickly and efficiently.
New Criteria for Affiliation with the Fellows program Posted
If you direct a Wilderness Medicine organization or teach a workshop, find out how to have your future courses reviewed for FAWM credit eligibility here. The new FAWM affiliation guidelines offer equitable options to all types and sizes of WM educational organizations irrespective of their profit or non-profit status.
Renew your membership, view the directory, update your information, make donations, and more at http://wms.org/members
