WMS News
January 1, 2008 the business office for
WMS moved from Lawrence, Kansas to Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr.
Loren Greenway is the Chief Executive Officer. New contact
information follows:
WILDERNESS
MEDICAL SOCIETY
2150 South 1300 East, Suite 500
Salt Lake City, UT 84106
Phone: 801-990-2988
Fax: 801-990-2987
E-mail: wms@wms.org
Loren Greenway
Chief
Executive Officer
Loren@wms.org
801-913-2613
The Spring 2008
issue of Wilderness Medicine
magazine, Volume
25, Number 2, is available online to members.
The WMS
Dive Conference in Cozumel, Mexico (June 10-14, 2008) has
been postponed until 2009.
Watch this website for further
details. Registration for the Wilderness & Travel
Conference: Learn to Dive! in Maui, Hawaii, November 1-4,
2008, will be available soon!
POSTPONED UNTIL 2009. October 22-24, 2008, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Northeast Wilderness Medicine Conference
(New York-Presbyterian Hospital & Cornell Outdoor Education)
CME/FAWM
The Northeast
WM Conference is postponed until 2009. Our collaboration
with Cornell Outdoor Education has grown significantly in
several areas, with a commensurate demand on our resources.
Rescheduling will allow us to dedicate our full energies to
build on the success of our inaugural Conference last year.
2003 WMS Research
Training Award recipient, Dr. Tri Tong, has published his
research in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Tong TC, et al.,
Comparative treatment of alpha-amanitin poisoning with
N-acetylcysteine, benzylpenicillin, cimetidine, thioctic
acid, and silybin in a murine model. Ann Emerg Med,
2007. 50(3): p. 282-8."
Ethnobotanist honored for contributions to wilderness
medicine
http://news.mongabay.com
August 8, 2007
Renowned ethnobotanist and
conservationist Dr. Mark Plotkin of the Amazon Conservation
Team was honored Wednesday with the 2007 Paul S. Auerbach
Award, a distinction awarded by the Wilderness Medical
Society (WMS).
Read the full article.
THE INFORMED PATIENT
By LAURA LANDRO
Adventures in Medicine
On a trek
to the base camp at Mount Everest last year, Brenda Tiernan
woke up in her tent at 1 a.m. feeling "like someone had put a
hatchet through my head." (read
the entire Wall Street Journal Article featuring Dr. Paul
Auerbach)
The Highest Hospital in the World--BBC
News reports on the Everest Base Camp
"It's really very satisfying to take a
situation - an illness or an injury that would make many
doctors throw their hands up and say, 'I don't have my
nurses, I don't have my hospital' - and make it work in a
really hostile and austere environment."
--Luanne Freer
Deadly Ascent--WMS member
featured on PBS
Congratulations to Dr. Peter
Hackett, WMS member, who was recently featured on
the PBS program NOVA.
NOVA joins a team of
medical researchers, rescuers, world-class mountaineers,
military special forces, and an astronaut taking part in a
study by Dr. Peter Hackett, who turns the mountain's
vertical arctic landscape into a high-altitude lab.
The program featuring this
climb aired January 17. Visit the
Deadly Ascent Web site where you can read about the
research, Denali, and altitude effects as well as purchase a
DVD of the program.
HURRICANE KATRINA
Per requests from
practitioners working in the areas affected by hurricane
Katrina, the Wilderness Medical Society is providing here
some information about water disinfection. There are two
documents, both PDFs:
The CIDwaterdisinfection.pdf,
originally published in Clinical Infectious Diseases quickly
provides broad information on water disinfection. Chemical
disinfection Products.pdf is a draft of an appendix
for a forthcoming publication. While not a complete article
in and of itself, it provides the most current information.
Both of these articles have been provided by Dr. Howard
Backer.
The New Scientist picked
up an article entitled "GI Outbreak Among Mountaineers
from WEM Vol. 16, No. 2. Follow this link to read
the article:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7492
Announcing several new changes to
the Web site
The Fellows On-line System is Fully
Operational!
The Fellows of the Academy of Wilderness
Medicine (FAWM) pages are ready for use. Go here
to Enter FAWM credits, check your status and have your other
questions answered quickly and efficiently.
New Criteria for Affiliation with the
Fellows program Posted
If you direct a Wilderness Medicine organization
or teach a workshop, find out how to have your future courses
reviewed for FAWM credit eligibility here.
The new FAWM affiliation guidelines offer equitable options
to all types and sizes of WM educational organizations irrespective
of their profit or non-profit status.
Renew your membership, view
the directory, update your information, make donations, and
more at
http://wms.org/members
