Carver Haines, MD, FAWM, DiMM, DiDMM: Carver grew up participating in outdoor activities including mountaineering, canyoneering, caving, diving, backpacking and more. In college he obtained his EMT, Wilderness EMT, mountain rescue and swift water rescue certifications. Carver worked as a Wildland Firefighter and Wildland EMT, responding to many large fires and firefighter rescue operations in the Northwestern United States. During this time, he was part of the Medical Reserve Corps and pursued additional training in disaster medicine and search and rescue.
Carver has been involved in equestrian sports since a young age, competing in 3-Day Eventing across the southwest and pacific northwest, and eventually becoming the chair and coach of the Oregon State University's equestrian teams. Carver completed family medicine residency training at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences where he was a chief resident.
Carver attended his fellowship in wilderness medicine at Virginia-Tech Carilion Clinic and is now faculty with the program. He has completed his FAWM, DiMM and DiDDM certifications, and has a strong interest in wilderness medical education. He is an L3 ACA SWR Instructor. 

CJ Waasdorp, DO, FAWM, DiMM: CJ completed a combined emergency medicine and family medicine residency at Jefferson Health Northeast in Philadelphia, PA before becoming a formal Wilderness Medicine Fellow at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA.  In medical school, he completed an honors track that involved continuous additional training in Rural and Wilderness Medicine in Colorado.  He is very active in education and maintained interested in teaching within his residency and with medical students, having served as a resident director for the WMS student elective.  During his fellowship, he completed his FAWM through the WMS, continued training with the military mountain medicine DiMM, did scuba training, and enjoyed fostering safety and medical training through teaching and training others.  He has previously worked in outdoor settings including a Colorado ski resort and a Hawaii ocean sports tour company and continues to enjoys outdoor sports in a multitude of settings from mountains to marine, frontcountry to backcountry: splitboarding, mountain biking, rock climbing and sailing.  Continued topics of interest and development include: hypothermia, race/event medicine, wilderness/technical rescue with Fire EMS, working toward a Master Diver and completing a second DiMM through the WMS. He is an L4 SWR Instructor through ACA.

Stephanie Lareau, MD, MFAWM, DiMM, DiDMM: Stephanie is an emergency medicine physician at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke Virginia and Professor at the VT-Carilion School of Medicine. She completed a Wilderness Medicine Fellowship at Georgia Health Sciences and completed her EM residency and medical school at Wake Forest University. She is the Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Director at VT-Carilion.
Stephanie earned the Fellowship of Wilderness Medicine and Diploma in Mountain Medicine. She the president of the WMS Board of Director, is part of the WMS DiMM Faculty. She served as a director for the WMS Student/ Resident Elective in Virginia for 10 years and is currently the director of the VTC/Radford WM Student Elective.As a medical student, she co-founded the Southern Student Wilderness Medicine Conference. She is a past president of the Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine.Her research interests include injuries in endurance mountain biking races, the effectiveness of high fidelity simulation in wilderness medicine education, student WM elective curriculum and Lyme disease within SW Virginia.She is a certified Level 4 Swift Water Rescue Instructor through the ACA. She is a WMP course designer and instructor. She is also a WFA and CPR/AED instructor through ECSI. She has dive physician training through UHMS/NOAA. She volunteers as an instructor for local EMS.
Outdoors, Stephanie enjoys mountain biking, sailing, rock climbing, skiing, horseback riding and SCUBA diving.

Henderson McGinnis, MD, FAWM: A former river guide, Henderson McGinnis is a Professor of emergency medicine at Wake Forest University. He is the medical director of AirCare, Wake Forest University’s air medical service. Henderson served on the Board of Directors for the Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine. He is a novice at most outdoor activities and instead of getting better at these activities he just adds more activities to his list of potential adventures. Given his desire to be active outside he has a vested interest in promoting wilderness medicine education and medical support through BRAM. Henderson is an L4 ACA SWR instructor.