Academic Wilderness Medicine: Fundamentals and Implementation of Curriculums into Medical School and Residency: Research and Academic Production in Wilderness Medicine

Authors

  • Lara Phillips, MD

    Thomas Jefferson University

    Dr. Lara Phillips is a clinical Associate Professor at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital where she works as an emergency medicine physician. She is the faculty advisor of the Wilderness and Disaster Medicine Interest Group at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at TJU. She completed a fellowship in Wilderness Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. During this fellowship, she worked at Health Aid Posts in the Annapurna Mountains through the Himalayan Rescue Association and continued to volunteer with relief efforts in Kathmandu after the Nepal earthquake in spring 2015. She has also worked in rural Dillingham, Alaska through the Indian Health Service and in Guyana at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. She has a passion for teaching and service to the underserved in rural areas. Currently, she is one of the directors for the Breckenridge Wilderness and Environmental Medicine Elective for senior medical students. Her experiences have also led her to help with numerous covid initiatives, serving as part of the Regional Congregate Care Assistance Teams during the pandemic. She continues to pursue an academic career by combining patient care and teaching in traditional and non-traditional emergency medicine settings.

  • Hillary Irons, MD, PhD

  • Isabel Algaze Gonzalez, MD

  • Tracy Cushing

    University of Colorado School of Medicine

  • Katja Goldflam

    Katja Goldflam, MD

    Yale University School of Medicine

    I am excited to apply for the position of VP of membership after working as co-chair of the Membership Committee for the last two years. I have really enjoyed my work with AWAEM and feel this is a group with not only a great track record, but also further potential to make a significant difference in the professional and personal lives of women in academic EM. As such, I believe recruiting new members at the faculty, as well as resident level, is critical to further this mission: I initially heard about AWAEM through word of mouth from a colleague and while this is an important way to spread the word, I believe further promotion of our group through avenues including a greater presence on social media will help encourage new members to learn about all the resources and community we have to offer. Thank you for your consideration and I am looking forward to hopefully greater in-person opportunities for membership recruitment in the coming year.

  • Sanjey Gupta, MD

    Northwell Health

    Sanjey Gupta, MD, is the Chairperson of Emergency Medicine at South Shore University Hospital/Northwell Health and professor of emergency medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He was named the 2016 ED Director of the Year by the Emergency Medicine Foundation/American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Gupta helped to establish new residencies at New York Presbyterian Queens and South Shore University Hospital, and assisted with the merger of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center/North Shore University Hospital residencies. He previously served as core faculty at New York Presbyterian Queens, Long Island Jewish Medical Center and South Shore University Hospital; assistant residency director at New York Presbyterian Queens (as well as clerkship director, research director, simulations, scheduler/payroll, and associate chairperson); and director of wilderness medicine at New York Presbyterian Queens, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, and South Shore University Hospital.

  • Stuart N. Harris, MD, MFA

    Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

    Stuart is the founder and Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Wilderness Medicine, and the Director of the MGH Wilderness Medicine Fellowship. He is a full-time clinician (attending physician) in the MGH Emergency Department and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He an affiliated faculty member at the Arctic Initiative at the Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is the primary investigator of NO COV-ED, a clinical trial investigating use of inhaled nitric oxide to treat acute COVID in the emergency department.

  • Henderson D. McGinnis, MD

    Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

    Dr. Henderson D McGinnis is a Professor at Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Department of Emergency Medicine. He is the Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Director as well as the Medical Director for the hospital’s air and ground critical care transport service. He has extensive experience in the delivery of pre-hospital and wilderness medicine as well as educating medical providers at all levels of training.

  • Christopher Peluso, DO

  • Walter A. Schrading, MD

    University of Alabama

    Dr. Schrading is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the Director of the Office of Wilderness Medicine and directs the Wilderness Medicine Track in the UAB EM residency training program. He has extensive experience teaching WLS:MP and other wilderness medicine educational programs. His publications have focused on wilderness medicine core-content for residency education and the accuracy of devices for use by an austere medical provider. He is the faculty advisor to the Wilderness Medicine Interest Group at the Heersink University of Alabama Medical School and is the course director for student Wilderness Medicine Special Topics courses.

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