Students & Organizations Impacting Remote & Wilderness Medicine

  • The Heart of the Mission: How Steve Gumaer Brings Medicine to the Forgotten

    For Steve Gumaer, a life’s mission began with a single child. Twenty-six years ago, pro-democracy soldiers in a tribal area of Myanmar found a four...

  • The Life He Chose: 30 Years of Guiding on Water and Snow

    For three decades, Tim Abate has built a life in the great outdoors, a career that has flowed from the open ocean to the snowy slopes of the mounta...

  • The Safety Net for Big Change: A Conversation with Eli Loomis

    "I've been outside as much as I can for pretty much my whole life," says Eli Loomis, and his career is a testament to that fact. From a post-colleg...

  • How Adam Hawkins Bridges Two Worlds

    For Adam Hawkins, the path to medicine wasn’t about choosing one career, but about enhancing every part of his life—from the lab to the side of a m...

  • Annie Schinnell on Leadership and Medicine in the Wild

    For Annie Schinnell, a senior member of the Lake View Interagency Helitack Crew, a simple moment in a briefing room changed her perspective entirel...