James Marvel, MD

Dr. James Marvel is an Emergency Medicine Physician in the Stanford University Department of Emergency Medicine. He completed his residency training in 2019 at LAC+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. After residency, Dr. Marvel was accepted to the Wilderness Medicine Fellowship at Stanford University. He used this fellowship year to further his understanding of human performance in extreme environments, completing an RCT evaluating medication dosing for altitude illness and serving as medical staff and researcher for a desert ultramarathon. During his fellowship Dr. Marvel gained a deep appreciation for the ways climate variables can impact human performance and overall health. He stayed on as faculty in the Stanford University Emergency Department, where he has turned his focus towards understanding the impacts of climate change on human health. He has co-directed a course on the topic for Stanford Undergraduates and medical students for the past 2 years, and recently formed an ED Green Team, which he co-leads with one of the department's nurse managers. Dr. Marvel has been an active member of the SAEM Climate Change and Human Health Interest Group, and is excited to continue to explore ways to blend his passion for wilderness medicine with studying climate change's impacts on health.