Dave Johnson, M.D.
Executive Director of the Wilderness Medical Associates
Peter Kummerfeldt
Owner and Chief Instructor, OutdoorSafe, Inc.; Past Survival Training Director,
United States Air Force Academy, Colorado.
Ian McCammon, Ph.D.,
Sponsored by WMI of NOLS
President, SnowPit Technologies
Field Instructor, National Outdoor Leadership School
Chris Moore, M.D.
Life Member of WMS and WMS Board of Directors. Board Certified in Family
Practice. Manager of Special Wellness Programs for UnumProvident Corporation
in Chattanooga, TN. He has served as trip doc for expeditions to Belize,
Tadjikistan, Nepal and India and was the Medical Director of the 1996 Olympic
Whitewater Venue.
Sheryl Olson, RN, BSN
Flight Nurse, Flight for Life, Colorado; Instructor, Wilderness
Survival and Navigation
Phil Rasori MD
Philip C. Rasori is the Director of Global Survival International and the Medical
Director of Village Hopecore International.
Tod Schimelpfenig
Former Director of the National Outdoor Leadership School's Rocky Mountain
operations, NOL's Risk Management Director. Past member of the WMS Board
of Directors. Recipient of the WMS Warren Bowman Award. Founder of the
Wilderness Risk Managers Committee. Co-author of NOLS Wilderness First Aid
and Risk Management for Outdoor Leaders. Curriculum Director of Wilderness
Medicine Institute of NOLS.
Robert Schoene, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Program Director, Internal Medicine
Residency, UCSD, School of Medicine;
President, WMS 2001-2004.
WMS Board of Directors
Shana Tarter
Assistant Director of the Wilderness Medicine Institute of NOLS.
Christopher VanTilburg, M.D.
Editor, Wilderness Medicine
Board Member, WMS
Medical Committee Member, Mountain Rescue Association
Staff Physician, Mount Hood Meadows Mountain Clinic; Hood River, OR.
Eric Weiss, M.D., FACEP
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Associate Director of Trauma,
Director of Continuing Education, Director, Wilderness Medicine Fellowship,
Stanford University School of Medicine; Author of a Comprehensive Guide to
Wilderness and Travel Medicine; Co-author
of Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine.
James Wilkerson, M.D
Editor, Medicine for Mountaineering and Hypothermia, Frostbite, and Other Cold
Injuries; Climber, Skier, Whitewater Rafter, and Scuba Diver
WMS Board of Directors
Ken Zafren, MD, FACEP
Chairman, Medical Committee of the Mountain Rescue Association
Associate Medical Director - Himalayan Rescue Association
Vice President - International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine
(ICAR MedCom)
Clinical Assistant Professor - Division of Emergency Medicine -
Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
Staff Emergency Physician - Alaska Native Medical Center - Anchorage, AK
WMS Board of Directors
David E. Anderson, Ph.D.
Dave Anderson `s involvement with wilderness medicine started in 1986 when
he took a Wilderness First Aid Course while attending the University of Maine.
During the past twenty years Dave has been guiding people up mountains
and down rivers both nationally and internationally. Since 1996 he has been
a senior instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School. Dave is also
a professional photographer and writer and is presently writing a book on
Wilderness Expedition Planning.
Paul S. Auerbach, M.D., M.S.
Clinical Professor of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine,
Stanford University Medical Center
Editor, Wilderness Medicine
Editor Emeritus, Wilderness and Environmental Medicine
Author, Medicine for the Outdoors
National Medical Committee, National Ski Patrol System
Medical Advisor, Divers Alert Network
Advisor, Healthline.com
Jerome Bidinger
J.D., Ph.D., Attorney
Jolie Bookspan, Ph.D.
A sports medicine specialist known around the world for her innovative
techniques to improve training, and prevent and rehabiliate injuries. Her
methods, used by top military and orthopedic centers are so successful that
Harvard Medical School clinicians named her The St. Jude of the Joints"
Michael Callahan, M.D.
M.D., DTM&H (U.K..), MSPH, Biological Threat Defense & Mass Casualty Care,
Defense Science Offices/DARPA
Lt. Colonel David Della-Giustina, M.D.
Chairman of Emergency Medicine, Madigan Army Medical Center
Thomas DeLoughery, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Division of Hematology/Medical
Oncology and Laboratory Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University,
Portland, OR.
WMS Board of Directors.
William W. Forgey, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
Past President, Wilderness Medical Society
Education Award 1997, Founders Award 2004
Director, International Association of Medical Assistance
for Travelers (IAMAT)
Luanne Freer, MD, FACEP
President, Wilderness Medical Society
Medical Director, Yellowstone National Park
Founder and Director, Everest Base Camp Medical Clinic
Gordon G Giesbrecht, Ph.D.
Professor of Thermophysiology
Board Member, WMS
Head of the Laboratory for Exercise and Environmental Medicine
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Colin Grissom, M.D.
Critical Care Physician and Associate Medical Director of Life Flight, LDS Hospital,
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Associate Professor of Medicine (Clinical), University of Utah School of Medicine.
WMS Board of Directors
Richard Ingebresten, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Physics, Adjunct Instructor,
Department of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine.
Anthony Islas, M.D.
Community Medicine Division Director, Dept. of Family and Community
Medicine, Texas Tech, El Paso. WMS Board of Directors.
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