Zac Adair
Instructor MA, WEMT-B |
A climber, backpacker, and paddler, Zac is the executive director of the National Center for Outdoor & Adventure Education.
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Aaron Ball
Instructor MA, WEMT-B |
A climber, mountaineer, skier, rafter, and mountain biker, Aaron owns Southwest Rescue where he sponsors and teaches WMTC wilderness medicine courses and Rescue 3 International swiftwater rescue courses. Aaron also works year round for San Juan Mountain Guides where he guides rock climbing, alpine mountaineering, and backcountry skiing trips and teaches Level 1 and Level 2 avalanche courses. Aaron is an American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education instructor trainer, an adjunct faculty member for Fort Lewis College, and a member of the La Plata County Search and Rescue team.
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Josh Cole
Instructor MS, WEMT-B |
A climber, mountaineer, and skier, Josh is an outdoor program wilderness risk management consultant who regularly presents at numerous national conferences, a professional mountain guide for North Cascades Mountain Guides, a professional ski guide for North Cascades Heli Skiing, and and a member of the AeroMethow Rescue Service. Josh has a former life as the Washington Program Director for the Northwest Outward Bound School and a research geologist—he still likes to talk about the fascinating geology of the Pacific Northwest.
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Jonathan Cooper
Instructor BA, WEMT-B |
Jonathan Cooper is an avid backcountry splitboarder, climber, and mountaineer. He spends his winters teaching avalanche courses for the American Institute for Avalanche Research and Education in the Pacific Northwest and Southwest Colorado. When he is not teaching wilderness medicine for WMTC, he can be found chasing alpine rock and good skiing throughout the year.
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Alexis Folkinga
Instructor BS, WEMT-B |
A climber, skier, canyoneer, rafter, and mountain biker, Alexis works as a ski patroller for the Arizona Snowbowl and a River Guide for Mountain Travel Sobek when not teaching for WMTC. When not working or on a personal trip Alexis spends her time fly fishing and in one of Idaho's many super secret hot springs.
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Jerome Gabriel
Instructor Ed.D, WFR |
A climber, caver, and backpacker, Jerome is Assistant Professor in the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism Management at the University of St. Francis. Prior to working for the university Jerome directed the outdoor program at Bowling Green State University and a professional climbing, caving, and backpacking guide for Vertical Ventures in British Columbia, Canada.
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Garrett Genereux
Instructor BS, WFR |
A climber, mountaineer, paddler, and backpacker, Garrett works for the University of Wyoming Outdoor Program.
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Larry Goldstein
Physician Adviser MD, WFR |
A paddler, canyoneer, and world explorer, Larry spends his time doing locums work at Emergency Departments throughout the country, instructing NOLS and Outward Bound courses, and taking personal wilderness trips. Every now and again you can find Larry playing his guitar and singing around a remote campfire with friends.
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Tedra Hamel
Instructor BS, WFR |
A paddler, climber and skier, Teddi works for the Northwest Outward Bound School and the Athenian School. When not working or playing in the backcountry, she enjoys drinking coffee and watching the birds.
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Cameron Johnson
Instructor BS, WEMT-B |
A skier, climber, and mountaineer. Cam works as an Avalanche Mitigation Technician out of Salt Lake City Utah during the winter. Along with this he is a member of Wasatch Backcountry Rescue. During the summer he guides for Alaska Alpine Adventures as well as an Instructor for the Northwest Outward Bound School in Washington.
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Erika Halm
Instructor BS, WEMT-B |
A paddler, climber, skier, and mountaineer, Erika is the Washington Program Director for the Northwest Outward Bound School.
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Leah Hillbrand
Instructor BA, WEMT-B |
A rafter, caver, and mountain biker, Leah is the Program Coordinator for EPIC Adventures at Eastern Washington University. She has worked as a professional rafting, caving, and mountain biking guide and as a field instructor for youth-at-risk programs.
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Scott Jordan
Instructor PhD, WEMT-B |
A climber, mountaineer, paddler, and canyoneer, Scott is a Wilderness Education Association instructor trainer and academic faculty for the Outdoor Recreation Leadership and Management Program at Northern Michigan University. He is also an accomplished storyteller and musician.
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Aaron Kent
Instructor MA, WEMT-I |
A climber, mountaineer, mountain biker, and whitewater kayakar, Aaron teaches swiftwater rescue courses when not working for WMTC. In a past life, Aaron taught technical rescue, pre-hospital medicine, and outdoor education at Union College, in Lincoln NE where he was the coordinator for the college's Disaster Response Team (DiRT). DiRT has provided aid during hurricanes Katrina, Sandy, and Ike, the tornados in Lady Lake, FL and Birmingham, AL, and the earthquake in Haiti. Aaron has also worked in remote clinics in Papua New Guinea, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti.
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Alison Lay
Instructor BS, BA, WEMT-B |
An avid climber, skier, mountaineer, boater and adventurer, Alison is currently a lead instructor for the Northwest Outward Bound School. Previously she was a Biological Science Technician and Wildland Firefighter at Glacier National Park, where she was involved with several large-scale Search and Rescue missions.
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Rachel Mackey
Instructor BA, WEMT-B |
A climber, mountaineer, and rafter, Rachel works for the Northwest Outward Bound School and Prescott College. In a past life she worked for residential youth-at-risk programs with outdoor programs.
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Paul Nicolazzo
President, Director, Instructor BA, WEMT-B |
A climber, skier, canyoneer, and paddler with numerous first ascents and descents in his resume, Paul now spends too much of his time in the WMTC office in front of a computer. In addition to managing WMTC's office, curriculum, and publications, Paul works part-time as an outdoor program risk management consultant and is a member of the Wilderness Medicine Education Collaborative (WMEC) who wrote the WFA, WAFA, and WFR Scope of Practice documents.
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Patrick Noble
Instructor BA, WEMT-P |
A climber, skier, whitewater kayaker, and backpacker, Patrick is a paramedic instructor for the state of New Mexico and works part-time as a DJ. Patrick worked and taught for the Santa Fe County Fire Department, as pro ski patrol, and as a medic in an urgent care clinic.
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Taito Okamura
Instructor PhD, WFR |
A backpacker, skier, climber and paddler, Taito owns Backcountry Classroom Inc. where provides outdoor leadership program to companies, professional sports teams and communities. He holds Wilderness Education Association Certifying Examiner and Leave No Trace Master Educator, established Wilderness Education Association Japan and directs Camp Hanayama sponsored by Yoshonen Camp Society.
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Derek Prill
Instructor BA, WEMT-B |
A climber, skier, paddler, and backpacker. In a past life, he was an Army medic in the Middle East, a boy scout, and ex-director of the New England YMCA outdoor programs.
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Joel Reid
Instructor BA, WEMT-B |
A climber, mountaineer, and sea kayaker, Joel works for the Northwest Outward Bound School as an instructor, staff trainer, and course director when he's not working for WMTC, COE, or on his own expeditions. Joel owns Cascade Outdoor Education in Seattle, WA.
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Drew Ross
Physician Adviser MD, MS, WEMT-B |
A climber, skier, and paddler, Drew is an ex-WMTC and -Outward Bound instructor; he now spends his time working in the hospital and outside playing with his family.
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Ian Ross
Instructor WEMT-B |
A climber, skier, mountain biker and periodic dog musher, Ian owns Masterpoint Designs; a small business making handmade backpacks for outdoor pursuits. Former lives include 11 years with Outward Bound as an instructor, course director, staff trainer and administrator, several years as a technician building prosthetic legs and volunteer work with a number of EMS and Search & Rescue organizations. When Ian is not behind a sewing machine or teaching for WMTC, he enjoys cooking and adventuring with his partner Megan.
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Josh Stratman
Instructor MS, WEMT-B |
A climber, mountaineer, skier, canyoneer, and paddler, Josh is the director of the Wilderness Leadership and Experiential Education associate degree program at Mount Hood Community College.
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A climber, mountaineer, skier, and paddler, Chad is the ex-director of Pacific Outback and currently works as a professional fire fighter in Portland, OR.
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Chad Toomey
Instructor
MA, WEMT-P
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MA, WEMT-P
Tiana White
Instructor MS, WEMT-B |
A backpacker, climber, canyoneer, and ex-NOLS instructor, Tiana prefers to spend her spare time exploring little know and remote waterways in her pack raft. Her personal adventures have taken her all over the US from Maine to Washington and internationally to India, Canada, Mexico, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, Costa Rica, and China. Tiana currently heads the outdoor program for Westminster College.
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Kerry Yancy
Physician Adviser MD, WFR |
A PADI Master Scuba Diver, certified in Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Night Diving, Deep Diving, Underwater Navigation, Underwater Naturalist, Equipment Specialist, and Rescue Diver and past canoeing and sailing instructor, Kerry's full time work is as an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Texas A & M Health Science Center College of Medicine, teaching pediatric and emergency medicine residents the art and science of the acute care of children. In her spare time, she plays outside with her family and leads Girl Scout backpacking trips.
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