Wilderness and Mountain Medicine
18th Annual WMS Winter Meeting of the Wilderness Medical Society
Overview Invitation Program Schedule Pre-Conferences Workshops Evening Events Faculty CME/FAWM Travel & Lodging Registration EVENING EVENTS
PHYSIOLOGY AND THE EVOLUTION OF HIGH ALTITUDE MOUNTAINEERING
George Rodway
Saturday, February 20, 2010 · 7:00-8:00 pm
The history of high altitude mountaineering is incomplete without considering the contributions of high altitude physiology and medicine to its evolution. This presentation will review many of the significant developments in both fields of high altitude endeavor, from the nineteenth century onward, in order to show how climbing accomplishments at extreme altitude have often benefited from advancements in high altitude-oriented medical science research.
THE DISAPPEARING CRYOSPHERE
Mark Williams
Sunday, February 21, 2010 · 8:00-9:00 pm
Mark will discuss how climate change in the Rockies will affect one of our most precious resources: SNOW. He will discuss future skiing conditions for Aspen Mountain and Park City Mountain Resort, the occurrence of more wet snow avalanches and how changes in seasonal snowpack will affect water availability.
WILDERNESS MEDICINE AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD – EVEREST RESCUE
Luanne Freer
Monday, February 22, 2010 · 8:00-9:00 pm
Every year brings a larger crowd to climb on Everest and every year calamities claim lives. The 8th season for Everest ER sees it’s volunteers growing the mission of the clinic to extend to rescue on the mountain. Listen as the clinic’s founder describes the genesis of Everests’ first rescue team.
LIMITLESS COMPASSION
David Shlim
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 · 8:00-9:00 pm
Compassion is a quality that is valued in medicine. However, within medicine there is no clear definition of what it means to be compassionate. The compassion that each practitioner has is limited. Our compassion is unstable-even from morning to afternoon. We are often selective in whom we treat with compassion. If we could increase our capacity for compassion, the result could be a kind of compassion that is much more vast and effortless. However, the concept of training one’s capacity for compassion is new in the West. Dr. Shlim had the opportunity to learn how to train in compassion at the same time that he was running an extremely busy and stressful practice. Because the training helped him, he helped create the book Medicine and Compassion: A Tibetan Lama’s Guidance for Caregivers with Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. The book has now been translated into four other languages. The aim of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy is to help individuals increase their compassion. Dr. Shlim’s lecture will explore the origin of compassion, the reasons why it can be increased, and present a view that one’s compassion can eventually become limitless, if one trains in the right way.
