WILDERNESS MEDICINE
"The premiere Wilderness and Expedition Medicine CME conferences since 1982"

ABOUT OUR OUTSTANDING FACULTY:

ERIC A. WEISS,MD, FACEP: Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director,Wilderness Medicine Fellowship, Stanford University School of Medicine; Expedition Physician, National Geographic Society; Author of A Comprehensive Guide to Wilderness and Travel Medicine.

GENE ALLRED, MD: Ashland, Oregon Emergency Physician; has taught Wilderness Medicine CME courses extensively for over 25 years on 6 continents.Professional Whitewater and Mountain Guide. Avid backpacker, trekker, sea kayaker, backcountry skier, and scuba diver. Swiftwater Rescue Instructor. Founded professional whitewater guide service specializing in expeditions for youth. Director, National Conference on Wilderness Medicine.

COLONEL JAMES P. BAGIAN, MD: Director, National Center For Patient Safety, Veterans Health Administration; Former NASA Astronaut, Discovery Shuttle Missions; Pararescue Flight Surgeon, United States Air Force Reserve.

PETER HACKETT, MD: Associate Clinical Professor, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center; Director, Denali High Altitude Research Project; President, International Society of Mountain Medicine. Summited Mt. Everest in 1983.

LUANNE FREER, MD at the Everest Medical Clinic she founded

LUANNE FREER, MD, FACEP: President, Wilderness Medical Society, Medical Director, Yellowstone National Park, Director, Everest Base Camp Medical Clinic.

JOESEPH B. SERRA, MD: Orthopedic Surgeon, Stockton, California, 25 year member, National Ski Patrol, Orthopedic Surgeon, Rotary International to Africa.

GEOFF TABIN, MD: Professor of Surgery and Ophthalmology, University of Utah School of Medicine; Co-Director of the Himalayan Cataract Project. He was the fourth person to climb the 7 Summits, the highest point of all seven continents, including the East Face of Mt. Everest. He is the author of, Blind Corners Adventures on Everest and the Worlds Tallest Peaks .

KAREN B. VAN HOESEN, MD, FACEP: Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director, UCSD Diving Medicine Center, University of California San Diego School of Medicine

LANNY JOHNSON, FNP/PA: Physician Assistant, Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Medical Advisor and former Climbing Park Ranger and Park Paramedic, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

SHERYL OLSON, RN, BSN: Outdoor Survival and Navigation Instructor, Flight Nurse, Wilderness Safety Instructor, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

DAVID BREASHEARS: Renowned filmmaker, adventurer and mountaineer, Summited Mt. Everest five times, photographed and produced the IMAX film on Mt. Everest and Kilimanjaro. Co-producer and Director of a Universal Pictures film titled, Everest.

Howard J. Donner, MD

HOWARD J. DONNER, MD: Truckee, Calif.; Member 1997 NOVA Everest expedition; NASA Consultant; expedition physician to world's third highest mountain, Kangchenjunga (28,121 feet.); Himalayan Rescue Assn. Physician; member Operation Everest II; medical officer, Denali Research project; co-author of A Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine; One of world's most experienced expedition physicians and one of the foremost authorities on wilderness medicine.

GARY KIBBEE: Navy Seal; Special Forces Survival Instructor; high angle rescue, and dive rescue instructor; specialist in tactical and wilderness medicine, escape and evasion.

SCOTT KUIPERS: Wilderness survival and skills instructor, Outward Bound and National Park Service.

PHILIP WHITE: Fire Chief City of South San Francisco Fire Department with over 30 years of experience in EMS, fire, technical rescue, hazardous materials response and special operations in both the urban and wilderness settings.

BRIAN HORNER: President, Learn to Return Survival Training Systems Inc.; US Army Special Forces Survival Instructor; University of Alaska Wilderness Survival Instructor; NASAR Wilderness Medicine Instructor; Tactical Medic, Mt. Vaughan Antarctic Expedition 1993-94; Senior Helicopter Crash Instructor, Sakhalinsk Russia; NPS Rescue Patrol, Denali National Park.

MICHAEL VAN ROOYEN, MD: Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard University; International Medical Coordinator, Samaritan's Purse International Relief/World Medical Missions.

JIM WHITTAKER: First American to summit Mt. Everest in 1963; Author of A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond; leader of the 1990 International Peace Climb; led the first successful American ascent of K2; founder of Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI), the nation's largest member-owned cooperative and outdoor retailer.

Tim Erickson, MD and Valerie Dobiescz, MD on the 2008 Everest CME trip

TIMOTHY B. ERICKSON, MD, FACEP: Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Chairman, Director Division of Clinical Toxicology University of Illinois Department of Emergency Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.

JAY S. KEYSTONE, MD, FRCP(C): Professor of Medicine, and Director, Tropical Medicine Unit, University of Toronto Medical Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Past President, International Society of Travel Medicine.

GRANT S. LIPMAN, MD: Wilderness Medicine Fellow and Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center.

KYLE ALLRED: Professional International mountain and river guide. Has guided extensively including Kilimanjaro, Inca Trail, Amazon Rainforest, and Patagonia. Co owner of Adventure Whitewater, a rafting outfitter in Northern California.

RYAN ALLRED, M.S.- Wildlife biologist; Professional whitewater raft and kayak guide; Professional flyfishing guide. Captain of US National Whitewater Raft team in 2000.

SKIP HORNER: First man to successfully guide climbers to top of all 7 summits the highest points on each oe Earths continents. Also made epic first descents in history of many great whitewater rivers, including Zambezi, Yangtze, Bio Bio and many others.

SCOTT LINDGREN: One of worlds best known extreme kayakers. Credited with numerous epic first descents of whitewater rivers worldwide. Emmy award winning cinematographer.

LTC SHEAN E. PHELPS, MD, FAAFP, MPH MC, FS Chief, Injury Biomechanics Branch Acting Director, Warfighter Protection Division US Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory Fort Rucker, Alabama.

LTC MARK L. HIGDON, M.D. Residency Director for the Martin Army Community Hospitals Family Medicine Residency Program at Fort Benning, Georgia. Brigade Surgeon for the 4th Sustainment Brigade at Fort Hood, Texas, which was deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

RICHARD CLARK, M.D., FACEP: Executive Medical Director, California Poison Control System; Director, Division of Medical Technology, UCSD Medical Center; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, UC San Diego

NICK BEER: University of Washington Researcher; Pacific Crest Outward Bound Senior Instructor.

MICHELE BARRY, MD, FACP: Professor of Medicine, Senior Associate Dean for Global Health and Director of Global Health Programs in Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford CA.

ANIL S. MENON , MD: Clinical Instructor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Wilderness Medicine Fellow, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford CA.

MARK R. CULEN, MD: Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford CA.

SUSAN ANDERSON , MD: Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine; Travel Medicine & Urgent Care, Palo Alto Medical Foundation.

ROBERT (BROWNIE ) SCHOENE , MD, FACP: Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UCSD; Past President, Wilderness Medical Society; Co-author of High Altitude Medicine and Physiology.

BERNARD W. DANNENBERG, MD, FAAP, FACEP: Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center and Lucille Packard Childrens Hospital.

MARK ELIS, MD: Clinical Instructor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Wilderness Medicine Fellow, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford CA.

VALERIE DOBIESZ, MD, FACEP: Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Education Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois Medical Center.

PAUL S. AUERBACH , MD , FACEP , FAWM: Professor of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; Founder and Past President of the Wilderness Medical Society; Editor, Wilderness Medicine; Author of Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine; Advisor to Divers Alert Network and the National Ski Patrol.

HOWARD BACKER , MD , MPH : Associate Secretary for Emergency Preparedness, California Health and Human Services Agency; Past President, Wilderness Medical Society.

HENRY HERRMANN , DMD , FAGD : Dentist, Falls Church, Virginia; Author of Wilderness Dental Emergencies, in Wilderness Medicine.

GARY KIBBEE : Navy Seal; Special Forces Survival Instructor; swiftwater rescue, high angle rescue, and dive instructor; specialist in tactical and wilderness medicine, escape and evasion, and confined space rescue.

DANNY KIBBE : Survival instructor specializing in training children and teens to survive.

ARON RALSTON : Author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Public Speaker, Outdoor Photographer, Guide and Mountaineer

TESTIMONIALS... "I was inspired on many levels - certainly the best conference I have ever attended... this conference is such a unique one...such a wonderful experience...It reminds me of why I went into medicine in the first place!" -Sandra Deveny, MD (Emergency Medicine) "Love this seminar! Great speakers! This is my fourth time...I always learn something new...I find the information invaluable and infinitely entertaining! Thank you!" -Denise Baskind, MD (EM) Dallas, TX "Entire faculty was incredible! The most fun course I have been to...I didn't want it to." -Catherine Worthy, FNP, Higgonum, CT