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About Us

Welcome to CU Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

The Section of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine is a university-based enterprise to promote research, best practice, education, and outreach to promote health and wellness in extreme or austere environments. Our work includes attention to the greater policy issues of environmental change in health, and we are committed toward advancing the conversation based upon the best scientific evidence to improve discourse and understanding. Our constituents are the community and students of the health sciences in all levels, including seasoned medical practitioners seeking to augment their skill sets. We have robust collaborations with different organizations in order to bring forth diversity of experiences and perspectives in our mission to advance the field of wilderness and environmental medicine. Our goal is to have the most comprehensive program of its kind in the world, setting the standard of excellence in scholarship in our field.

Faculty

Jay Lemery MD FACEP FAWM

Section Chief, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Wilderness Medicine Education
Climate Change & Human Health
Remote Medical Direction

Elaine Reno MD DTM&H

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Wilderness Medicine Education
Tropical Medicine & Hygiene

Todd Miner Ed. D FAWM

Senior Instructor of Emergency Medicine, Education Director of Section of WEM

Wilderness Medicine Education
Backcountry Guiding

Martin Musi MD

Collaboration Director, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Wilderness Medicine External Collaborations
Frostbite
Mountain Medicine

Chris Davis MD DTM&H

Medical Director of the TEAM Clinic, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Remote Medical Direction
Altitude Medicine
Telemedicine

Breanna McKercher

Administrative Assistant, Section of Wilderness Medicine

Graphic Design
Coordinating

Meagan Rivers

Administrative Assistant

Course Coordination
Marketing

Barbara Blok MD FACEP

Associate Residency Director, Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine

Wilderness Medicine Education
Resident Education

Certified by Certifications Here

David Braun, PA-C

Volunteer Clinical Faculty

Wilderness Medicine Education, Expedition Medicine, Wilderness Skills

Vaughn A. Browne, MD, Ph.D.

Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine, Chairman of the School of Medicine Admissions Committee

Ultrasound Education
Emergency Medicine

Tom Califf MD

Emergency Medicine Resident at Denver Health Medical Center

Andrew Clithero DO FAWM

Family Medicine Hospitalist

Family Medicine
Wilderness Medicine
High-Altitude Physiology

Rick Cole MD MPH

Volunteer Clinical Faculty
Aerospace Medicine
Ultrasound
Isolated, Confined, and Extreme Environments

William K. Cornwell III MD FAHA

Assistant Professor of Medicine-Cardiology

Sports Cardiology
Altitude Training
Altitude and Environmental Medicine

Tracy Cushing MD FACEP FAWM

Fellowship Director, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Wilderness Medicine Education
Epidemiology
Remote Medical Direction

Erin Drasler MD

Volunteer Clinical Faculty

Wilderness Medicine Education
Global Health & International EM

Benjamin Easter MD MBA

Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine
Aerospace Medicine
Remote Medical Direction
Isolated, Confined, and Extreme Environments

Elisabeth Edelstein MD FACEP FAWM

Volunteer Clinical Faculty

Kurt Eifling MD FAWM

Emergency Medicine Physician

Medical Director of the Institute for Field Research

Ryan Gray MD

Volunteer Clinical Faculty

Kristopher Karnauskas Ph.D.

Co-Director, CU Boulder

Volunteer Clinical Faculty

Linda Keyes MD

WM Fellowship Research Advisor

Jacqueline Kiernan PT DPT

Emergency Department Physical Therapy

Wilderness Medicine
Physical Therapy

Dan Lack MBBS PhD

Volunteer Clinical Faculty

Benjamin Lantow RN EMT-P

Emergency Department Registered Nurse

Wilderness Medicine
Search and Rescue

Dana Levin MD MPH

Volunteer Clinical Faculty
Aerospace Medicine
Hyperbaric Medicine
Isolated, Confined, and Extreme Environments

Kjell Lindgren MD

Physician, Astronaut

Space Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Telehealth

Justin Mclean, MD, FAWM

Helicopter EMS
Mountain Rescue Operations

Chris McStay MD FAWM FACEP

Chief of Clinical Operations, University of Colorado Hospital Emergency Department, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine Operations
Endurance Physiology
Wilderness Medicine Education

Nick Nolen WEMT Paramedic

Clinical Quality Manager, EMS Division Chief

Clinical Quality Manager
EMS Division Chief

Terry O’Connor MD FACEP DIMM

Volunteer Clinical Faculty

Blogger-in-Chief
Adventure Medicine
Wilderness Medicine Education

Ryan Paterson MD, DiMM, DTM&H

Volunteer Clinical Faculty, Director of DiMM

Wilderness and Expedition Medicine
International / Global Health Medical Ethics
Tropical Medicine & Hygiene

Katie Saxon MD FAWM DiMM

Volunteer Clinical Faculty

Wilderness Medicine
Low-Resource Environment Practice of Medicine

Thomas Seibert MD, MS, FAWM

Emergency Medicine Physician

Prof. Volker Schöffl MD, MHBA, FAWM

Volunteer Clinical Faculty

Wilderness Medicine Injury and Prevention
Sports Medicine
Global Health

Alison Sheets MD

Technical Rescue Advisor for WM Fellowship

Jennifer Starling MD DTM&H, DiMM

Volunteer Clinical Faculty

Wilderness Medicine Education
High Altitude Medicine
Travel Medicine

Jon Steller MD

Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellow
Children’s Hospital Colorado

Space Medicine
Reproductive Health

S. Terez Malka MD FAAP FAAEM FACEP FAWM

Emergency Medicine Physician

Emergency Medicine
Pediatric Emergency Medicine

David Twillmann RN BSN

Emergency Registered Nurse
National Ski Patrol Volunteer

Joel Vaughan EMT-B AWLS

EMT-B

Wilderness Medicine/Education
Pre-hospital Medicine

Angela Widler MHS PA-C FAWM Candidate

Wilderness Medicine

Michael Yaron MD

Professor of Emergency Medicine

Wilderness Medicine
Pediatric High Altitude Medicine
Expedition Medicine

David Young MD MS FAWM

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Wilderness Medicine Education
Race Medicine