Chair

  • andrea rosanesse

    Andrea Rossanese

    Chair, Expedition and Wilderness Medicine
    Italy

Steering Council

  • Dr. Jenny Visser, BSc MBChB MTrav Med FRNZCGPs
  • Howard Backer MD, MPH
  • Dr. Max Winkler
  • Dr. Jim Bond, FFTM RCPS(Glasg), FISTM
  • Dr. Doug Randell

Charter

  • Provide a professional forum for ISTM Members interested in expedition and wilderness medicine
  • Develop programs and sessions to educate travel medicine practitioners on specific issues regarding expedition and wilderness medicine
  • Foster the development of recommendations on expedition and wilderness medicine within travel medicine
  • Develop and maintain an international body of knowledge in expedition and wilderness medicine
  • Promote the importance of travel-related issues for those working in expedition and wilderness medicine
  • Advance the science of expedition and wilderness medicine
  • Review and maintain the legal parameters within which expedition and wilderness medicine is practiced

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Wilderness Medical Society Clinical Practice Guidelines

(Note: many of these are being revised and will be published again in 2024)

Epidemiology Of Injury In Adventure And Extreme Sports, Travis W. Heggie