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

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

PRE-CONFERENCE: Wilderness Medicine Institute of NOLS
Friday, July 24, 2009
8:00–8:45 Introduction: Wilderness v Urban Medicine (05-001-.75)*
8:45 –9:30 Patient Assessment in the Wilderness (12-002-.75)*
9:30–10:30 Shock and Chest Injury: Assessment and management (07-002-.5,12-015-.5)*
10:30–11:30 Spine Injury: Lifting and moving; patient packaging and immobilization with commercial litters (06-008-.5,06-008-.5,12-033-.5)*
11:30–12:00 Head Injury Assessment and Management: Evacuation decision guideline (12-032-.5)*
12:00–12:30 Spinal Assessment and Management: Use of the NEXUS protocol in the wilderness (12-033-.5)*
12:30–1:30 LUNCH (on your own)
1:30–2:30 Spine Injury: Immobilization and transport with improvised litters (12-011-1)*
2:30–3:30 Wound, Burn and Infection Management (10-002-.25,12-012-.25,12-014-.5)*
3:30–5:00 Fracture Management: Improvised extremity splints (12-008-.75,12-009-.75,12-011-1)*
5:00–6:00   Dislocations: Management of dislocations, including field reduction techniques (12-008-.5,12-009-.5)*
 
Saturday, July 25, 2009
8:00–8:45 Wilderness Scenario: Skills practice (06-001-1)*
8:45 –9:30 Small Group Leadership, Teamwork and Communication: Managing a scenario in the wilderness – the prepared pack, what to carry into the wilderness (11-015-.5)
9:30–10:30 Cold Injury: Hypothermia recognition and treatment; field management of frostbite and non-freezing cold injury (09-002 -.5,09-019-.5)*
10:30–11:00 Heat Illness: Recognition, prevention and treatment (07-002-.25,09-009-.25)*
11:00–11:45 Altitude Illness: Recognition, treatment, prevention (03-002-.25,03-004-.5)*
11:45–12:45 LUNCH (on your own)
12:45–3:00 The Medical Patient in the Wilderness: Evacuation decision strategy (09-013-.75*,12-001-.5*,12-023-.75,12-044-.75)
3:00–4:00 Final Wilderness Scenario (06-001-1)*
 
PRE-CONFERENCE: WMS Disaster Medicine Symposium - Beyond the Algorithm
Saturday, July 25, 2009
11:00–11:15 Introduction and Symposium Overview – Joy Crook
11:15 –12:00 The Greatest Disaster Myths – Ken Iserson (11-014-.75)
12:00–12:45 Department of Defense Role in Disaster Deterrence and Response – Brad Bennett (11-007-.75)
12:45–1:15 BOX LUNCH (included in fee)
1:15–2:00 CBRNE 101 – Updates on Disaster Medicine – Jim Geiling (11-014-.75)
2:00–2:45 Disaster Preparation in Developing Nations – Chris Tedeschi (11-001-.75)*
2:45–3:30 Engagement, Empowerment and the Ethernet: Community Participation in Disaster Response – Satchit Balsari (11-001-.75)
3:30–3:45 BREAK
3:45–4:30 The Day After Tomorrow: Why Disaster Planning Is Not Enough – Angela Gardner (11-012-.75)
4:30–5:15 The Calm After the Storm... Situational Awareness in Disaster Response – Charley Shimanski (11-015-.75)
5:15–5:30 Q&A and Closing Remarks – Moderator: Joy Crook
   
CONFERENCE: Wilderness Medicine 2009 and WMS Annual Meeting
Saturday, July 25, 2009
  SMALL GROUP SESSIONS
8:00 – 9:20 Lessons Re-learned: US Army and Tick-Borne Illness - John Westhoff (02-002-1)*
8:00 – 9:20 Wilderness Medical Kits - Will Smith (02-023-1)*
8:00 – 9:20 Wilderness Medicine Skills in Global Health Settings Gil Irwin
9:30 – 10:50 E-911 – The Cellphone as a Lifesaving Tool - Dan Schlager (06-013-1)
9:30 – 10:50 Glisse Mountaineering: Ski, Snowboard, etc Medicine - Christopher Van Tilburg (03-013-1)
9:30 – 10:50 Wilderness Airway Management - Brian Chesebro (12-017-1)*
  SMALL GROUP  HANDS-ON SESSIONS
8:00 – 10:00 Anaphylaxis in the Backcountry - Carl Weil (09-013-2)*
8:00 – 10:00 Orthopedic Injuries in the Wilderness - Doug Weiss (12-021-2)
8:00 – 10:00 Tourniquets and Hemostatic Agents - Brad Bennett (12-012-1*, 12-046-1)
  SESSION MODERATOR - JAY LEMERY
5:45 – 6:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks - Jay Lemery
6:00 – 6:30 State of the Wilderness Medical Society - Colin Grissom
6:30 – 7:15 “MacGyver Medicine”: Improvising Patient Care When Other Options Don’t Exist - Ken Iserson (10-002-.75)
7:15 – 9:30 WELCOME RECEPTION (& T-Shirt Exchange)
Heart of the Rockies Band Pizza & Beer!
 
Sunday, July 26, 2009
6:30 – 7:45 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST - VISIT EXHIBITS
  WMS ACTIVITIES
6:30 – 7:45 WMS Committee Meetings
  SESSION MODERATOR: WILL SMITH
7:45 – 8:15 Abstracts I – Research in Wilderness Medicine - Tom DeLoughery
8:15 – 9:00 Hemorrhage Control in the Backcountry: Military Lessons Learned - Brad Bennett (12-012-.5*,12-046-.25)
9:00 – 9:45 Update in Wilderness Medicine 2009 – The New Ideas - Paul Auerbach (05-001-.5)*
9:45 – 10:15 BREAK – VISIT EXHIBITS
10:15 – 11:00 Sidecountry Rescue: Who Should Respond to Out-of-Bounds Rescue? – Safety and Legal Implications - Christopher Van Tilburg (03-013-.75)
11:00 – 11:45 Technical Mountain Rescue and Medical Considerations - Will Smith (06-007-.75)
11:45 – 12:30 New-Members & Non-Members (Old Members Welcome Too!) Informal Luncheon with WMS Past Presidents (see Page 2 for details) - Paul Auerbach et al
  WMS ACTIVITIES
12:30 – 4:30 Editorial and Publications Meetings
4:30 – 6:30 WMS Committee Meetings
5:30 – 6:30 Student Interest Group Reception
  SMALL GROUP SESSIONS
1:00 – 2:20  Ice Ice Baby: Cold Injuries - Andrea Gravatt (09-001-1)*
1:00 – 2:20 Innovative Combat Aeromedical Techniques - Dominique Davenport
1:00 – 2:20 Lessons Re-learned: US Army and Tick-Borne Illness - John Westhoff (02-002-1)*
1:00 – 2:20 Wilderness Airway Management - Brian Chesebro (12-017-1)*
1:00 – 2:20 Wilderness Medical Kits - Will Smith (02-023-1)*
2:30 – 3:50 Medical Technology in the Wilderness - David Hile
2:30 – 3:50 Recipe for Community Wilderness Medicine Education - Deb Stoner (13-002-1)
2:30 – 3:50 Seafood Toxidromes - David Keitz (09-027-1)*
2:30 – 3:50 Sustainable Healthcare - George Hertner
2:30 – 3:50 Wilderness Medicine Skills in Global Health Settings - Gil Irwin
4:00 – 5:20 Glisse Mountaineering: Ski, Snowboard, etc Medicine - Christopher Van Tilburg (03-013-1)
4:00 – 5:20 Latin American Wilderness Training - Tommy Walker (05-001-1)*
4:00 – 5:20 Missionary and Humanitarian Medicine - Tom Kessler (11-001-.5*,11-002-.5)
4:00 – 5:20 Preventive Medicine in the Wilderness - Fred Trayers (06-022-1)
4:00 – 5:20 Wilderness Pediatrics - Brian Clothier (07-010-1)*
  SMALL GROUP HANDS-ON SESSIONS 
1:00 - 3:00 Anaphylaxis in the Backcountry - Carl Weil (09-013-2)*
1:00 - 3:00 Moulage Workshop - Shana Tarter (12-039-2)
3:20 – 5:20 Orthopedic Injuries in the Wilderness - Doug Weiss (12-021-2)*
3:20 – 5:20 Planning & Preparing Food for Expeditions - Wayne Askew et al (09-011-1)*
7:00 – 8:30 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION - Standardization of Wilderness First Aid Courses - Tony Islas
 
Monday, July 27, 2009
  WMS ACTIVITIES
7:00 – 1:00 Annual Board of Directors Meeting
  SMALL GROUP SESSIONS
7:40 – 9:00 Hyperbaric Medicine and Working Under Pressure - Jonathan Conard (01-002-1)*
7:40 – 9:00 Preventive Medicine in the Wilderness - Fred Trayers (06-022-1)
7:40 – 9:00 Recipe for Community Wilderness Medicine Education - Deb Stoner (13-002-1)
7:40 – 9:00 Sustainable Healthcare - George Hertner
7:40 – 9:00 Wilderness Pediatrics - Brian Clothier (07-010-1)*
9:10 – 10:30 E-911 – The Cellphone as a Life-saving Tool - Dan Schlager (06-013-1)
9:10 – 10:30  Latin American Wilderness Training - Tommy Walker (05-001-1)*
9:10 – 10:30  Navigating Change – A Voyage to Connect Science & Culture with Health - Cherie Shehata
9:10 – 10:30 Pediatric Wilderness Medicine - Daniel Sedillo (07-010-1)*
9:10 – 10:30 Seafood Toxidromes - David Keitz (09-027-1)*
10:40  – 12:00  Caring for the High Altitude Traveler with Pre-existing Medical Conditions - Andrew Luks (03-007-1)*
10:40  – 12:00   Ice Ice Baby: Cold Injuries - Andrea Gravatt (09-001-1)*
10:40  – 12:00    Innovative Combat Aeromedical Techniques - Dominique Davenport
10:40  – 12:00   Insect and Arthropod Bites: SWARMS - Alexander Kucewicz (09-006-1)*
10:40  – 12:00   Medical Technology in the Wilderness - David Hile
  SMALL GROUP HANDS-ON SESSIONS
7:40 – 9:40 Moulage Workshop - Shana Tarter (12-039-2)
7:40 – 9:40 Prevent and Fix Common Expedition Injuries - Jolie Bookspan (10-002-2)*
10:00  – 12:00   Functional Core Training for the Backcountry - Jolie Bookspan (07-001-1)*
10:00  – 12:00    Planning & Preparing Food for Expeditions - Wayne Askew et al (09-011-1)*
  SESSION MODERATOR: GEORGE RODWAY
1:00 – 1:30 Abstracts II – Research in Wilderness Medicine - Tom DeLoughery
1:30 – 2:15 Adventure Travel and the False Security of Safety and Assumed Rescue - Brownie Schoene (02-014-.75)*
2:15 – 3:00 Marine Medicine: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back in the Water - Paul Auerbach (01-004-.75)*
3:00 – 3:30 BREAK – VISIT EXHIBITS
3:30 – 4:15 Submersion Injuries: Drowning and Near-Drowning - Seth Hawkins (09-004-.75)*
4:15 – 5:00 Birds Do It; Much Better Than We – An Exploration of Comparative High Altitude Physiology and Application to the Human Condition - Brownie Schoene (03-001-.75)*
  WMS ACTIVITIES
6:00 – 7:30 Academy of Wilderness Medicine Reception Information Session and Fellow Convocation
8:00 - 9:00 EVENING PRESENTATION - Darwinian Evolution of Natural Environmental Medicines and Poisons - Eloy Rodriguez (03-001-1)*
 
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
6:30 - 7:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST – VISIT EXHIBITS
  SESSION MODERATOR: SCOTT MCINTOSH
7:30 - 8:00 Abstracts III – Research in Wilderness Medicine - Tom DeLoughery
8:00 – 8:45 Jungle Fever - Phillip Levy (09-026-.75)
8:45 – 9:30 The Medical Edge: DARPA’s Radical Military Expeditionary Medical Systems - Michael Callahan (04-002-.75)*
9:30 – 10:00 BREAK – VISIT EXHIBITS
10:00 – 11:00 The Health Effects of Climate Change - George Luber (09-024-1)
11:00 – 12:15 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION - The Scope of Wilderness Medicine - Jay Lemery
  SMALL GROUP SESSIONS
1:00 – 2:20 Evidence-Based Management of Wilderness Trauma - Timothy Burdick (12-013-1)
1:00 – 2:20 Going to Extremes: Leadership Lessons from the Edge - James Padfield (05-014-1)
1:00 – 2:20 Rhabdomyolysis and Compartment Syndromes - Mary Jo Hessert (12-007-1)*
1:00 – 2:20 Therapies and Toxins from Nature: Case Studies - Flavio Gaudio (09-010-1)*
1:00 – 2:20 Wilderness Medical Society: A Tutorial - Loren Greenway & Jim Ingwersen
2:30 – 3:50 Case Studies in Wilderness Medicine: The NOLS Field Experience - Tod Schimelpfenig & Shana Tarter (12-039-1)
2:30 – 3:50 Hyperbaric Medicine and Working Under Pressure - Jonathan Conard (01-002-1)*
2:30 – 3:50 Navigating Change – A Voyage to Connect Science and Culture with Health - Cherie Shehata
2:30 – 3:50 Nutrition for the Rescued and Rescuer - Wayne Askew (09-011-1)*
2:30 – 3:50 Tickborne Diseases—Expect the Unexpected - Gregory Cummins (02-002-1)*
2:30 – 3:50 Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers When Traveling Abroad - Eric Shaw (02-049-1)*
4:00 – 5:20 Applied Exercise Physiology: Altitude Endurance Training - James Padfield (03-007-1)*
4:00 – 5:20 Ethics of Wilderness Medicine - Carl Heine (05-002-1)*
4:00 – 5:20 In-Flight Emergencies: Is There a Doctor on the Airplane? - Gary Podolsky (02-022-1)
4:00 – 5:20 Pediatric Wilderness Medicine - Daniel Sedillo (07-010-1)*
4:00 – 5:20 Sigmund Goes Hiking – Psychiatric Emergencies in the Wilderness - David Snow (12-022-1)*
  SMALL GROUP HANDS-ON SESSIONS 
1:00 – 3:00 Improvised Splints and Litters - Gates Richards (12-011-2)*
1:00 – 3:00 Prevent and Fix Common Expedition Injuries - Jolie Bookspan (10-002-2)*
3:20 – 5:20 Anaphylaxis in the Backcountry - Carl Weil (09-013-2)*
3:20 – 5:20 Not the Same Old Stretches – Stretching Smarter Stretching Healthier - Jolie Bookspan (07-001-1)*
  WMS ACTIVITIES
6:00 – 10:00 BANQUET, AWARDS, TALK & DJ - Hackett’s Hot Rocks –30 Years of Stories - Peter Hackett
 
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
  SMALL GROUP SESSIONS
7:40 – 9:00 Caring for the High Altitude Traveler with Preexisting Medical Conditions - Andrew Luks (03-007-1)*
7:40 – 9:00 Going to Extremes: Leadership Lessons from the Edge - James Padfield (05-014-1)
7:40 – 9:00 Nutrition for the Rescued and Rescuer - Wayne Askew (09-011-1)*
7:40 – 9:00 Tickborne Diseases — Expect the Unexpected - Gregory Cummins (02-002-1)*
7:40 – 9:00 Wilderness Medical Society: A Tutorial - Loren Greenway & Jim Ingwersen
9:10 – 10:30 Case Studies in Wilderness Medicine: The NOLS Field Experience - Tod Schimelpfenig & Shana Tarter (12-039-1)
9:10 – 10:30 Ethics of Wilderness Medicine - Carl Heine (05-002-1)*
9:10 – 10:30 Evidence-Based Management of Wilderness Trauma - Timothy Burdick (12-013-1)
9:10 – 10:30  In-Flight Emergencies: Is There a Doctor on the Airplane? - Gary Podolsky (02-022-1)
9:10 – 10:30  Missionary and Humanitarian Medicine - Tom Kessler (11-001-.5*,11-002-.5)
9:10 – 10:30 Sigmund Goes Hiking – Psychiatric Emergencies in the Wilderness - David Snow (12-022-1)*
10:40 – 12:00 Applied Exercise Physiology: Altitude Endurance Training - James Padfield (03-007-1)*
10:40 – 12:00   Insect and Arthropod Bites: SWARMS - Alexander Kucewicz (09-006-1)*
10:40 – 12:00    Rhabdomyolysis and Compartment Syndromes - Mary Jo Hessert (12-007-1)*
10:40 – 12:00   Therapies and Toxins from Nature: Case Studies - Flavio Gaudio (09-010-1)*
10:40 – 12:00   Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers When Traveling Abroad - Eric Shaw (02-049-1)*
   SMALL GROUP HANDS-ON SESSIONS
7:40 – 9:40 Improvised Splints and Litters - Gates Richards (12-011-2)*
7:40 – 9:40 Not the Same Old Stretches – Stretching Smarter Stretching Healthier - Jolie Bookspan (07-001-1)*
10:00 – 12:00   Functional Core Training for the Backcountry - Jolie Bookspan (07-001-1)*
10:00 – 12:00   Tourniquets and Hemostatic Agents: Use in the Backcountry - Brad Bennett (12-012-1*,12-046-1)
  SESSION MODERATOR: TONY ISLAS
1:00 – 1:45 Top 10 Articles in Wilderness Medicine - Scott McIntosh
1:45 – 2:30 Electrical Injuries – Physics, Injury Patterns, Treatment and Admission Decisions - Christopher McStay (12-014-.75)*
2:30 – 3:15 Heat-Related Illnesses – From Paris to Dakar - Flavio Gaudio (09-009-.75)*
3:15 – 3:30 BREAK – VISIT EXHIBITS
3:30 – 4:15 Wilderness Water from Jungle to Mountains – Myths and Evidence - Robert Derlet (05-003-.75)*
4:15 – 5:00 Medevac Morbidity & Mortality Report: 4 Cases that Transformed International Air Evacuation Medicine - Michael Callahan (06-001-.75)*
5:00 – 5:15 Closing Remarks - Jay Lemery and Colin Grissom
6:30  – 9:30 TGR FILM NIGHT - Out There