2023 Presenters

2023 Sierra Nevada Conservation & Wilderness Medicine Conference Presenters.

Anne Walker, MD, FAWM

Presenter

Anne is an Clinical Faculty/Emergency Physician at St. Josephâ€™s Medical Center, Kaiser Oakland/Richmond

Ann Willis, PhD

Presenter

Regional Director, American Rivers

Avinash Patil, MD FAWM

Presenter

Associate Professor Emergency Medicine, Stanford University

Ben Hunt, MD, FACS

Presenter

Stanford University BS/MS biology, UCSF medical school, Swedish Medical Center (Seattle, WA) General Surgery residency and fellowship in minimally invasive surgery.

Daniel Gragert, DO, MPH, MSC

Dr. Gragert is a Family Medicine and ER physician located in Kalispell Montana.

Jeff Kepple, MD

Cofounder & Host of the Sierra Nevada Conservation & Wilderness Medicine Conference

Dr Kepple practiced Family Medicine and Obstetrics for 20 years in Quincy, California.

Jordan Rode, MD

Presenter

University of Utah Emergency Medicine

Ken Zafren, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FAWM

Keynote Speaker

Associate Medical Director - Himalayan Rescue Association - Kathmandu, Nepal; Clinical Professor - Department of Emergency Medicine Stanford University Medical Center; Staff Emergency Physician Alaska Native Medical Center - Anchorage, AK USA

Lynn E. Yonge MD, FAAFP, FAWM

Presenter

Wilderness Medicine Director; University of South Alabama Emergency Medicine

Mary Bing, MD, MPH

Presenter

Mary Bing MD MPH is an Associate Clinical Professor for the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of California: Davis.

Mike Chaves, MD

Presenter

Current Wilderness Medicine Fellow at University Nevada Reno

Shanna (Shay) Strauss, MD, MSc

Presenter

Resident Physician; Brown Emergency Medicine

Tatiana Havryliuk, MD, FAWM

Presenter

Tatiana Havryliuk MD is an emergency physician in New York City, Founder of Hello Sono, and a POCUS program implementation consultant

Tony (Arthur) Islas, MD

Presenter

University of Nevada Head Team Physician, Sports Medicine Fellowship Director, Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Director, Professor - Dept. of Family & Community Medicine, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Medical Director Great Basin National Park

Zina Semenovskaya, MD, FAWM, ISTM

Cofounder & Host of the Sierra Nevada Conservation & Wilderness Medicine Conference

Dr. Zina Semenovskaya, MD completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate/ Kings County Hospital in NYC and fellowship in wilderness medicine at Stanford University Medical Center.