Walter A. Schrading, MD

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.