Wilderness Medical Society
Medical Conference and Annual Meeting
Snowmass, Colorado - July 24-29, 2009

Invitation & Overview	Program Schedule	Pre-Conferences	Small Group Sessions	Misc. Information
Faculty	CME/FAWM	Travel & Lodging	Recreation and Tracking Classes	Registration

FACULTY

	Wayne Askew, PhD Director, Div of Nutrition, College of Health, Univ of Utah; past member, US Olympic Cmte& US FDA Advisory Cmte on Food Safety; author, 100+ articles and book chapters in the field of nutrition; teaches advanced course in Wilderness Nutrition at Univ of Utah
	Paul Auerbach, MD, MS, FACEP, FAWM Co-Founder and Past President, Wilderness Medical Society; Editor, Wilderness Medicine; Editor Emeritus, Wilderness & Environmental Medicine; Professor of Surgery, Div of Emergency Medicine, Stanford Univ Medical Center
	Satchit Balsari, MD, MPH Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; Emergency Physician, New York - Presbyterian Hospital; Member, Managing Committee, Times Center for Disaster Mgmt, University of Mumbai
	Brad Bennett, PhD, NREMT-P, WEMT, FAWM Captain, US Navy (Ret.); Adjunct Asst Professor, Uniformed Services Univ; Co- Director, Academy of Wilderness Medicine; Board Member, Wilderness Medical Society; Chief Editor, WMS Education Lecture Series; Tactical Medicine Consultant
	Jolie Bookspan, MEd, PhD, FAWM A sports medicine specialist known for her innovative techniques to improve training, and prevent and rehabilitate injuries; named “the St. Jude of the Joints” by Harvard Medical School clinicians
	Timothy Burdick, MD, FAAFP, FAWM Asst Professor of Family Medicine, Univ of Vermont College of Medicine; Past Board Member, Wilderness Medical Society; Team Physician, Stowe Mountain Rescue and FEMA Urban Search & Rescue MATF-1
	Michael Callahan, MD, DTM & H (U.K.), MSPH Assoc Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital; Program Manager, Biodefense & Mass Casualty Care, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)
	Brian Chesebro, MD Physician, Oregon Anesthesiology Group, Portland Providence Medical Center, Portland, OR; Member, Portland Mountain Rescue
	Brian Clothier, MD, MS Wilderness Medicine Fellow, University of Utah; Emergency Physician, Salem, OR
	Jonathan Conard, DO, AOBEM Emergency Medicine and Hyperbaric Medicine, Memorial Hospital, Colorado Springs, CO; Fellowship in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine, Duke University
	Joy Crook, MD, MPH Asst Professor of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University; Fellow, Center for Disaster and Refugee Response, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Chair, WMS Disaster Medicine Committee
	Gregory Cummins, DO, MS Hospitalist, North Kansas City Hospital; Director and founding member, Midwest Mountain Bike Patrol, branch of the International Mountain Bike Assn’s Natl Mountain Bike Patrol (basically ski patrol on bikes)
	Dominique Davenport, DO MAJ, Medical Corps, US Army; Medical Dir, 2-4 Aviation Regiment MEDEVAC, Texas; US Army Flight Surgeon and Family Medicine Physician; Sr Editor/Contrib Author, Lonestar Dustoff Flight Medic Handbook 2008
	Thomas DeLoughery, MD, FACP Professor of Medicine; Pathology & Pediatrics; Medical Director, Anticoagulation Clinic, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon; Board Member, Wilderness Medical Society.
	Robert Derlet, MD, FAAEM Professor of Emergency Medicine, UC Davis; Director, UCD Sierra Nevada Mountain Water Research; Intl wilderness experience in 50 countries; Faculty, John Muir Institute of the Environment
	Angela Gardner, MD, FACEP President-elect, American College of Emergency Physicians; Asst Professor, Surgery/Emergency Medicine, Univ of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
	Flavio Gaudio, MD Asst Professor of Medicine, Section of Emergency Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York; Physician Advisor and Instructor, Cornell Outdoor Education, Ithaca, NY
	James Geiling, MD Chief of Med Service and Dir of Intensive Care Unit, VA Med Ctr, White River Jct, VT; Assoc Prof of Medicine, Dartmouth Med School; Adjunct Asst Prof of Military and Emer Med, Uniformed Services Univ; former Director, 200-person medical clinic in the Pentagon where he served on 9/11/2001
	Andrea Gravatt, MD, FAAP, FAWM Attending Physician, Mary Bridge Children’s Hosp, Dept of Emer Med and Clin Asst Prof of Pediatrics, Univ of WA School of Medicine; contrib author, Wilderness Medicine and Hypothermia Frostbite and other Cold Injuries
	Loren Greenway, PhD, FCCP, FAWM CEO and Board Member, Wilderness Medical Society; Chair, American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Allied Health Network
	Colin Grissom, MD, FAWM President, Wilderness Medical Society; Critical Care Physician and Asst Medical Director of Life Flight, IMC Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah; Assoc Professor of Medicine, Univ of Utah School of Medicine
	Peter Hackett, MD Director, Institute for Altitude Medicine, Telluride, CO; Clinical Director, Altitude Research Center, Univ of Colorado School of Medicine; Director of Emergency Services, Telluride Medical Center
	Seth Hawkins, MD, FACEP, FAWM Sr Ed, Wilderness Medicine mag; Exec Director, Appalachian Ctr for Wilderness Medicine; Medical Director, Burke EMS Special Operations Team; Asst Professor, Wilderness Emer Care Program, Western Carolina University
	Carl Heine, MD, PhD Clinical Instructor, Emergency Medicine, Univ of Washington; Asst Medical Director, Skagit Valley Hospital Emergency Dept; Founder and Past Chair, ACEP Section on Wilderness Medicine; Member, ACEP Ethics Committee
	George Hertner, MD, FACEP Medical Director, Memorial Hospital North Emergency Dept, Colorado Springs, CO; Dept of Hyperbaric Medicine, Vice- President of EMS PC
	Mary Jo Hessert, DO, MPH Lieutenant, Medical Corps, US Navy; Flight Surgeon and Fleet Marine Force Qualified Officer; Emergency Medicine resident, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA
	David Hile, MD MAJ, Medical Corps, US Army; Dir, Wilderness Medicine and Asst Residency Dir, Dept of Emer Med, Madigan Army Med Ctr, Ft. Lewis, WA; Asst Prof, Dept of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services Univ of the Health Sciences (USUHS) F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine
	Jim Ingwersen, MS Director of Information Technology, Wilderness Medical Society
	Gil Irwin, MD Practicing internist; Founder and President, Medical Missionaries, a volunteer, non-profit organization that provides healthcare for the poor
	Kenneth Iserson, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAAEM Prof Emeritus of Emer Med, The Univ of Arizona; Med Dir, So Arizona Rescue Assn; Physician, Arizona’s Disaster Medical Assistance Team (AZ-1); Member, Amer Red Cross disaster response team; author of 300+ scientific articles on emergency med, biomedical ethics and numerous books
	Arthur (Tony) Islas, MD, MPH, FAWM CAQ-Sports Medicine; Assoc Professor, Dept of Family and Community Medicine, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech, El Paso; Board Member, Wilderness Medical Society
	J David Keitz, DO, DiMM, FAWM Emergency Physician; Medical Director, High Plains Outdoor Institute, Laramie, WY
	Tom Kessler, MD Family Physician, served 30 years with US Public Health Service; participated in humanitarian/mission trips to Latin America, Asia, Africa and Caribbean; Co-Director, WMS Student Elective
	Alexander Kucewicz, DO Emergency Physician; Medical Director, Bethesda Paramedic Training Program, Cincinnati, OH
	Jay Lemery, MD, FACEP, FAWM Program Chair; Faculty, Emergency Medicine; Director of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine; Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College; Secretary, Wilderness Medical Society
	Phillip Levy, MD, MPH, FACEP Asst Prof and Assoc Dir of Clinical Research, Dept of Emer Med, Wayne State Univ School of Med; Board of Dir, EMEDEX Intl, Intl Society for Emer Care and Soft Power Health; Medical Advisor, World Wide Trekking; Member, WMS Education Committee
	George Luber, PhD Epidemiologist and Assoc Director for Global Climate Change, Natl Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Co-Chair, Human Contributions Interagency Work Group, US Climate Change Science Program
	Andrew Luks, MD Asst Professor, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle; Volunteer Physician, Himalayan Rescue Association
	Scott McIntosh, MD, MPH, FAWM Board Member, Wilderness Medical Society; Asst Professor and Director of EMS and Wilderness Medicine Fellowship; Assoc Medical Director, AirMed Transport Service, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Utah
	Christopher McStay, MD Asst Professor of Emergency Medicine, NYU/Bellevue Department of Emergency Medicine. Assistant Director, Bellevue Hospital Center Emergency Department
	James Padfield, PhD Assoc Professor of Exercise Sciences (Exercise Physiology) and JINS leadership instructor, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO
	Gary Podolsky, MD Director, Skylark Sports and Travel Medicine Clinic, Winnipeg, Manitoba; newspaper columnist, Winnipeg Sun; author, A Cruise Passenger’s Guide to Health
	Gates Richards, WEMT-I Special Programs Manager and Director, WEMT Programs, Wilderness Medicine Institute of NOLS; NOLS Field Instructor
	Eloy Rodriguez, PhD James A. Perkins Professor, Biology Chemistry and Natural Products Medicine, Plant Biology and Environmental Toxicology, Cornell University, NY
	George Rodway, PhD, CRNP Asst Professor, Schools of Nursing and Medicine, University of Utah; Honorary Research Fellow, University College London (UK); External Examiner, British Diploma of Mountain Medicine; Board Member, Wilderness Medical Society
	Tod Schimelpfenig, WEMT, FAWM Curriculum Director, Wilderness Medicine Institute (WMI) of National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS)
	Dan Schlager, MD, FACEP Emergency Physician, San Francisco; Founder and CEO, Zoltar Systems and Zoltar Injury Prevention Institute
	Robert “Brownie” Schoene, MD, FACP Clin Prof of Med, Div of Pulmonary and Critical Care Med, Univ of WA, School of Medicine; PCCM practitioner and WWAMI Assoc. Dir, Bozeman Deaconess Hosp; Past Pres, Wilderness Med Society; Co-author, High Altitude Medicine and Physiology
	Daniel Sedillo, MD, FAAP Private Practice, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Baptist Regional Children’s Center, San Antonio, TX; Regional Faculty, Pediatric Advance Life Support Program, Texas
	Eric Shaw, MD, FACEP, FAAEM Major, Medical Corps, US Army Reserve; Contributor, Wilderness Medicine magazine; Member, WMS Intl Medicine Committee; Medical Director, Beaver Falls& Croghan Ambulance Corps; VP, North Country Physicians
	Cherie Shehata, MD Family Medicine Physician, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii; Faculty Member, Univ of Hawaii John A Burns School of Medicine; has served as physician on the Hokule‘a for two voyages; involved with Polynesian Voyaging Society since 2003
	Charley Shimanski Regional Chief Executive Officer, American Red Cross, Denver, CO; President, Mountain Rescue Association
	Will Smith, MD, EMT-P, FAWM Med Dir, Grand Teton Natl Park, Teton Cty SAR, Jackson Hole Fire/EMS; Clinical faculty, Univ of WA School of Medicine – Seattle, WA; Wilderness Advanced Life Support Instructor, Wilderness Medical Associates; Emer Med, St. John’s Med Ctr, Jackson, WY
	David Snow, MD Psychiatry private practice, Maryville, TN; Wilderness Medical Society member since 1997
	Debra Stoner, MD Emergency Medicine physician; Medical Educator and Advisor, Himanchal Educational Foundation in Nepal; Assoc Editor, Wilderness Medicine magazine and a proponent of public education on wilderness medicine
	Shana Tarter, WEMT-I Asst Director, Wilderness Medicine Institute of NOLS; Chair, Wilderness Risk Managers Conference; NOLS Field Instructor
	Christopher Tedeschi, MD, MA Clinical Asst Professor, Emergency Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
	Fred Trayers, DO, FAWM Lieutenant Commander, US Navy; Emergency Medicine Resident, Naval Medical Center San Diego; Battalion Medical Officer, 2D Battalion/1st Marines 2006-2007
	Christopher Van Tilburg, MD, FAWM Editor, Wilderness Medicine magazine; Author, Mountain Rescue Doctor and seven other books; Active Member, Hood River Crag Rats. Hood River, Oregon; Past Board Member, Wilderness Medical Society
	Tommy Walker, NREMT-B IV Swiftwater Rescue Tech (SRT); President, EASPA’s Fdn; Board Member, Argentine Soc of Mountain Med (SAMM); Founder, Wilderness Leadership Institute; Asst Instructor at Colorado Mountain College EMT-B class
	Carl Weil, EMT-W I/C IV/MAST, NREMT EMT/ FR, FAWM Director, Wilderness Medicine Outfitters; a founding member of Alpine Rescue Team; author of six Wilderness Medicine books; Dir, Anaphylaxis Education Assn; Dir, Professional Outdoors Medical Educators
	Doug Weiss, MD Orthopaedic Surgeon and Sports Medicine Physician, Jackson, Wyoming; Team Physician, US Ski and Snowboarding Association
	John Westhoff, MD, FACEP Major, US Army; Chief, Division of Primary Care and Community Medicine, General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital, Missouri