Conference Directors

Gregory H. Bledsoe, MD, MPH
Director of Expedition Medicine Conference
CEO, ExpedMed
Emergency Physician
Saint Simons Island, Georgia

Michael J. Manyak, MD, FACS
Associate Director, Expedition Medicine Conference
Center for Prostate Disease Research, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Professor of Urology, Engineering, Microbiology, and Tropical Medicine
The George Washington University

Conference Faculty

Paul S. Auerbach, MD
Clinical Professor of Surgery at Stanford University, Emergency Medicine
Editor of Wilderness Medicine textbook
Author of Medicine for the Outdoors
Chief Medical Officer for Healthline

Michael V. Callahan, MD, DTM&H, MSPH
Program Manager for Biodefense and Mass-Casualty Care at the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)

Craig Cook, MD
Medical Editor for Sport Diver Magazine
National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Consultant

Howard Donner, MD
Emergency Medicine physician
Co-Author of Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine

Timothy B. Erickson, MD
Vice Chair for Department of Emergency Medicine, UIC
Director of Division of Clinical Toxicology, UIC
Medical Relief Experience in Rwanda, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Kosovo, Chernobyl, Ukraine, Amazonian Brazil, Argentina, India, and Indonesia

Luanne Freer, MD
Medical Director Mt. Everest Base Camp Clinic

Randall N. Hyer, MD, PhD, MPH
Former Winter-Over Medical Officer, McMurdo and South Pole Stations, Antarctica, Operation Deep Freeze

Joyce M. Johnson, DO, MA
Vice President, Health Sciences
Health and Life Sciences Division, Battelle
Arlington, Virginia

Kenneth M. Kamler, MD
Served as Chief High Altitude Physician for NASA-Sponsored Research
His Treatment of the 1996 Everest Storm Survivors was Portrayed in the Best-selling Book and IMAX Film

Tracey L. Knutson
Attorney whose practice focuses on adventure and sport defense
Representative on the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee

Kristin Larson, JD
Attorney with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP whose practice focuses on business and environmental liabilities, and advising non-profit organizations.
Former Winter and Summer Manager, McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Serves on Board of Directors and Legal Committee of the Explorers Club
"Kristin Peak" (located in Antarctica) was named for Ms. Larson in 2001

Christian Macedonia, MD, FACOG
US Army Surgeon Chief of Research Operations at the Telemedicine and Advanced Technologies Research Center, Fort Detrick, MD

Alan J. Magill MD, FACP
Director of Division of Experimental Therapeutics at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
Research Coordinator for Leishmania Research, Anti-Malaria Drug Research & Development for the Military Infectious Disease Research Program.

James Marinucci
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director, Wound Management Programs
Director, Medical Education Training Programs
The Department of Emergency Medicine
The George Washington University Medical Center
Washington, DC

Martin T. Nweeia DDS, DMD
Clinical Instructor, Department of Restorative Dentistry and Biomaterials Sciences, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Christian F. Ockenhouse, MD, PhD, Colonel, Medical Corps, U.S. Army
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland

Stanley L. Spielman, MD
Chairman of the Southern Florida Chapter of The Explorers Club

Nelson Tang, MD
Medical Director of the United States Secret Service
Assistant Professor
The Johns Hopkins Department of Emergency Medicine

David Townes MD, MPH, FACEP
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Residency Program Director
Division of Emergency Medicine
University of Washington School of Medicine

Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH, FACEP
Co-director, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Director, Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

David A Warrell, MA DM, DSc, FRCP, FRCPE
Professor of Tropical Medicine and Honorary Fellow of StCross College at the University of Oxford, UK
Has been a physician, teacher, researcher and expedition doctor in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Tanzania, Thailand, Burma, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru.

Richard S. Williams, MD, FACS
NASA Chief Health and Medical Officer