ALYSE OXENFORD, OMS3

President

Alyse is a third year medical student at Western University of Health Sciences. Her passion for medicine began in college where she earned her wilderness EMT, but her passion for the wilderness began long before that. She grew up in the mountains of Colorado, hiking and canoeing everywhere she could. In her time before medical school she worked as a canoe instructor, photographer, veterinary technician, wilderness EMT and medical assistant. Through PNWM she hopes to make wilderness medicine education available to more people from all backgrounds. Her hope is that everyone can find the joy in problem solving and creativity found in wilderness medicine. At this time, she plans to pursue residency in emergency medicine. In her free time, Alyse can be found canoeing down a river or taking her dog for a hike.

Favorite First Aid Item: Colorful KT Tape

HAYLEY GLANTZ, OMS3

Vice President

Hayley is a third year medical student at PNWU currently doing clinical rotations in Anchorage, AK. She grew up in Reno, Nevada where her love for the outdoors began with swimming in Lake Tahoe. Before attending medical school, she worked as a research technician in Seattle doing HIV vaccine research and spending as much time in the mountains and on the water as possible. She enjoys backpacking and hiking, skiing, and any lowkey watersport (i.e. swimming, paddleboarding, and just generally floating). For three years before medical school, Hayley volunteered as a sit ski instructor for Outdoors for All which peaked her interest in wilderness medicine. During the school year, you can generally find Hayley studying outdoors in her hammock, skiing, or finding any cool weekend outdoors activity in AK!

Favorite First Aid Item: KT Tape

TRANG VO, MS2

Secretary

Trang is a 2nd year medical student at PNWU. She grew up in Tacoma, Washington and attended Western Washington University to acquire an undergraduate degree in general biology. She was a ER scribe and later spent time as a rural medical intern in Bocas del Toro, Panama. She hopes to learn from others and gain experience in the wilderness medicine to support her passion for educating and increasing access to healthcare globally. She has as strong interest in pursuing a residency in emergency medicine at this time. In her free time, you can find her stopping every few minutes to identify insects and plants on hikes, teaching cooking classes, and trying restaurants in every place she travels.

Favorite First Aid Item: Sutures

NINA STASH, MS3

Treasurer

Nina is third year student at UW who grew up in the Seattle area. She loves to backpack, ski and windsurf. She was an EMT in upstate NY for several years before medical school and is interested in emergency medicine but also considering family medicine. Her interest in wilderness medicine started with getting stuck camping in a hurricane as a child and having to take care of her grandparents. In her free time she likes to force her cats to go camping with her.

Favorite First Aid Item: Ankle brace

Gergana Alteva, MS2

Communications Officer

Gergana is a second year medical student at Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, OR. She grew up in the rural New Hampshire and went to undergrad in NYC. Prior to medical school, she worked as a med-tech programmer, and then served Active Duty Army for 5 years as a comms officer. Her work as an Advanced-EMT in rural New England sparked her interest in wilderness medicine. Her hobbies include blacksmithing, climbing, and obsessing over her husky, Thor.

Favorite First Aid Item: Saline flush

Kira newell, MS4

Board Member

Kira is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She grew up in the Seattle area skiing, scuba diving, hiking, and backpacking with her family. After a 4-year detour to Chicago for an undergraduate degree in classical trumpet performance, she returned to Seattle for a gap year during which she backpacked about Washington, Yosemite, and thru-hiked the march of all larch marches, the Enchantments. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, kayaking, and foraging for chanterelle mushrooms.

Favorite First Aid Item: SAM splint

BENJamin reich, MS4

Board Member

Ben is a 4th year medical student at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. Prior to medical school, he was an open water lifeguard and rock climbing aficionado and spent much of his time climb around the state of Oregon. His interest in wilderness medicine started on backpacking trips with his family where is dad would read Harry Potter books to him while under the stars. He plans to pursue a career in Emergency Medicine with the USAF and has aspirations to complete a wilderness medicine fellowship at some point. In his free time, you can find him at your local climbing gym, whipping, or the brand new coffee shop that just opened.

Favorite First Aid Item: Moleskin

Eric schnell, oms4, EMT-B-Endorsed

Board Member

Eric is a fourth year medical student at PNWU. Before medical school living in the Flathead Valley of Montana, where he worked as an EMT for a rural fire department, as well as an ER Tech in the mountain town of Whitefish. His passion for wilderness medicine has grown over the years, beginning in college when he guided outdoor trips with his WFR certification. Having used his training in numerous circumstances, including his own mountain bike accident with significant injuries, he hopes to inspire others to be prepared, innovative, and excited to use their wilderness medicine skills. In his free time, you can usually find Eric backcountry skiing with friends, mountain biking (and hopefully avoiding big crashes in the future!), and experimenting in the kitchen.

Favorite First Aid Item: Triangular Bandages

Garvey Dooley, OMS4

Board Member

Garvey is a fourth year medical student at Pacific Northwest University. He intends to pursue emergency medicine. He spends his free time driving way too far to play on rivers in kayaks and rafts. Other interests include paragliding, backcountry skiing, mountain biking, and glow in the dark bocce ball. Before coming to medical school, Garvey spent seven years working as a project engineer managing large-scale river restoration projects to benefit salmon. That job involved lots of pouring over budgets and general number crunching which he actually enjoys and is happy to apply those skills to PNWMed and served as treasurer for the past two years.

Favorite First Aid Item: Gorilla tape

Cory Thompson, OMS3

Board Member

Cory is a third-year osteopathic medical student at Western University of Health Sciences in Lebanon, Oregon. He hopes to pursue gastroenterology, but has been also considering emergency medicine. When not actively studying, he is typically working on home improvement projects, or working on his truck. As a seventh generation Oregonian, he grew up exploring a lot of the greater Oregon forests and wildernesses, which is the inspiration of his desire to be outside. In the wilderness, Cory is passionate about exploring various peaks around the PNW that have historic fire lookouts, and camping with his wife and three dogs. Also, his favorite season is Winter, as long as there is snow!

Favorite First Aid Item: Tourniquet

Dr. CARL HEINE, MD, PhD, FACEP, FAWM

Board Member

Dr. Heine is an emergency medicine physician and the Associate Dean for Clinical Education Spokane for the Elson S Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University. He has a long standing interest in wilderness medicine that started with a wilderness EMT course in North Conway NH in 1980. He founded the ACEP section in wilderness medicine and is a long time member and leader within the Wilderness Medical Society. Additionally he has been a member of the National Ski Patrol for more than 25 years and is a senior alpine and senior nordic patroller. He also serves as the medical director for the Pacific Northwest Division of the NSP and on the national medical committee of the NSP.

Dr. TOM EGLIN, MD, FACEP

Board Member

Dr. Eglin finished undergraduate at Whitman College in 1978 and then attended Medical School at Emory University, graduating in 1982. He started an Internal Medicine Residency at UW Hospitals in 1982 but transferred back to Atlanta to work in the Grady ER for 3 years then attend ER residency until 1987. He then moved back to the Northwest in 1992 and worked in the ER in Yakima full time until 2022 when he increased his teaching commitments at PNWU. Upon moving back to Yakima, his interest in the forest and mountains grew and he joined the Wilderness Medical Society. He joined Central Washington Mountain Rescue and Yakima Search and Rescue and has been volunteer of the year for both organizations as well as past president for CWMR. Tom enjoys skiing, hiking, and biking as well as teaching with an emphasis on Clinical Skills and Emergency Medicine related topics. He likes to spend time in the Hwy 12 area hiking, biking, and working on local mountain bike trails during the summer and skiing with friends and family in the winter. He just joined the local ski patrol at White Pass.

Dr. TOM DeLOUGHERY, MD, MACP, FAWM

Board Member

Tom DeLoughery is a native Hoosier who developed a love for the outdoors hiking in the woods and an early interest in wilderness medicine from the resulting tick bites and poison ivy. He went to Indiana State University during the Larry Bird era and got his MD from Indiana University School of Medicine. After a brief stop at the University of California Irvine, he completed his Internal Medicine Residency at OHSU where he also did his Hematology/Oncology fellowship and currently is on faculty. He has been active in Wilderness Medicine being a member of the Wilderness Medicine Society’s Research Committee for years (he is now Chair for the second time) and was on the WMS Board of Directors for 6 years. His passion is wilderness medicine education and his one (?) oddity is he has attended 43 Bob Dylan concerts.

Dr. CASSIE LOWRY, DO, FAWM

Board Advisor, PNWM and NWMC Co-Founder

Dr. Lowry, is a graduate from Pacific Northwest University, Montana Family Medicine Residency in Billings, MT, and Fellow of Wilderness Medicine. She's currently an Urgent Care physician for Kaiser Permanente in San Diego, CA. Her roots in wilderness medicine started as a Wilderness EMT with search & rescue and ski patrol prior to medical school, both of which she’s continued through medical school and into residency. She is a co-founder of the Northwest Wilderness Medicine Conference, Pacific Northwest Wilderness Medicine, and the Northwest MedWAR. 

As Chair of the Wilderness Medical Society Search & Rescue Committee and Co-chair of the Mountain Rescue Association Medical Committee, Cassie continues to study, research, and teach topics in clinical prehospital care in remote settings with a focus on altitude medicine, hypothermia, and climbing injuries. She spends much of her spare time with friends traveling, skiing, climbing, and mountaineering.

Dr. MILES MCDONOUGH, MD, DiMM

Board Advisor, NWMC & PNWM Co-founder

Dr. McDonough is a PGY4 with the Department of Emergency Medicine at UCSF Fresno. He is involved with their WM elective, High Sierra conference, WM resident FAWM track as well as their National Park Service ParkMedic program. For the latter he is involved with ranger education in SEKI and YOSE as well as the ParkMedic certification course, EMT refresher, TacMed course and MCI drill. He also helps run the Palisades Tahoe ALS pro-patrol didactic program. He is working on starting a DiMM program at UCSF Fresno.

Dr. CARLOS ENCISO LOPEZ, MD

Board Advisor, former PNWM President 2020-2022

Dr. Enciso Lopez is a graduate from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and a current PGY3 emergency medicine resident at the University of Michigan. He is also the Vice Chair for the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA) Wilderness Medicine Committee.  His passion for medicine stems from past work with farm-workers, immigrants and low-income families at the local FQHC in Wenatchee, WA where he grew up. He continued to work with rural communities in medical school as a TRUST student and as an advisory board member for the Area Health Education Center for Western WA where he aided in the development of pipeline programs to help guide rural students to a career in medicine. He continues to seek out rural care opportunities and hopes to practice in rural Washington serving small and underserved communities as an attending. He satisfies his itch for adventure through rock climbing, mountaineering, and skiing. Carlos is a fan of long multi-pitch alpine climbs, enjoying a cold summit brew, and laughin’ with his buds.

Dr. ALEXANDER FRANKE, MD

Board Advisor

Alex Franke is a chief emergency medicine resident at University of Utah and graduate from the Elson S Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University. He spent three seasons doing search and rescue for the National Park Service in Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks, which involved a little bit of technical rescue and a lot of carrying people down trails. He has always been a fan of type II fun and when he realized that medicine was the ultimate type II fun, he decided to enroll. When he’s not busy with school he enjoys climbing, biking, skiing, running long distances, and eating doughnuts.

Dr. JENNA WILEY, MD

Board Advisor

Dr. Wiley currently works at a community ED in Portland, OR as well as the Mountain Clinic at Mt Hood Meadows after finishing both residency and a wilderness medicine fellowship at OHSU. She grew up in California and attended medical school at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She has been active in mountain search and rescue since 2009, volunteering for the Bay Area Mountain Rescue Unit (BAMRU) as well as South Orange Rescue Squad's Technical Rescue Team, NC Statewide Medical Assistance Team, and Central NC Search and Rescue. Currently she serves as the assistant medical director and rescue member for Portland Mountain Rescue and medical director for Wildland Saw. She also has a special interest in scuba and rescue diving after working at Divers Alert Network and had the opportunity to participate in a high altitude study to Everest Base Camp with Xtreme Everest prior to medical school. She enjoys teaching for Vertical Medicine Resources and lecturing for various local EMS teams. In her spare time, she enjoys rock climbing, mountaineering, wheel-throwing pottery, and backpacking with her rescue pup Ziggy.

Dr. ANDREW LUKS, MD

Board Advisor

Dr. Luks is a faculty member in the decision of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine at the University of Washington. Based Largely at Harborview Medical Center, he spends most of his clinical time working on the medical and trauma surgical ICUs. Outside of his clinical duties, he maintains an actively scholarly program in high altitude medicine and physiology with a focus on travel to high altitude with underlying medical conditions, while at the same time engaging in a variety of educational endeavors in the UW School of Medicine. He has spent time working at the Himalayan Rescue Association Clinic in Nepal as well as the medical point person on two denali volunteer ranger patrols. Outside of work he enjoys getting into the mountains as much as possible for backcountry skiing, hiking and mountaineering and believes non-motorized transport is the way to go for all outdoor activities.

Dr. CHELSEA MCAUSLAN, MD

Board Advisor, former PNWM Board Member 2023-2024

Dr. Mcauslan is a recent graduate from Washington State University. She loves creating community amongst outdoor enthusiasts. Her favorite part of medical school has been learning and pushing herself alongside good friends within the medical field and in the vertical world on rocks.  You can count on her to always be stoked and always have poor rope management. 

Dr. ERIN KINNEY, MD

Board Advisor, former PNWM Vice President 2023-2024 and NWMC5 co-chair 2022-2023

Dr. Kinney is a PGY-1 in Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington. During residency, she is excited to get involved with EMS and Airlift NW. She attended medical school at OHSU. While in medical school she was a vice-president of PNWM and co-chair for NWMC5. Prior to medical school she worked on concussion research at Seattle Children’s and volunteered as a ski instructor for Outdoors for All, an adaptive ski school at Snoqualmie Pass. In her free time Erin can be found mountain biking and training for her next enduro race, rehabbing her knee to ski as much as possible, climbing mountains or relaxing on a sailboat.

Philip Bohlmann, MD, EMT-B

Dr. Bohlmann is a recent graduate from Elson S Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University and current general surgery resident at OHSU. He has hands-on experience practicing medicine in remote and challenging places as a remote area EMT, ski patrol, mountain rescue, and medical support in Haiti. Prior to medical school, Philip taught wilderness medicine nationally and abroad for Remote Medical International. In his free time Philip enjoys mountaineering, skiing and long distance bike touring.

anna condino, MD, MPH

Dr. Condino is an emergency medicine physician with a special interest in wilderness medicine, flight medicine, and EMS development in rural and austere settings. She works clinically for the Swedish hospital group and Kaiser Washington in the Puget sound region as well as the Indian Health Service in New Mexico. She recently completed both an EMS fellowship and her emergency medicine residency at the University of Washington, where she was a flight physician with Airlift Northwest, an active educator for Seattle Fire Medic One and the Medic One Paramedic Training program, and co-taught the UWSOM Wilderness Medicine Elective. She is a field member and the Medical Director for Seattle Mountain Rescue. Prior to residency, she completed medical school and a Masters in Public Health at Dartmouth, where she was a search and rescue volunteer, ski patroller, and wilderness medicine interest group leader. In her free time, she enjoys ski mountaineering, alpine climbing, and chasing high altitude sunsets. Perhaps her proudest accomplishment is holding the unofficial record for the most ski days during a residency year at the UW.

RYAN LEBUHN, MD

Dr. LeBuhn is a recent graduate the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland and current resident at Icahn Emergency Medicine Residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital. He was a lead of OHSU’s Wilderness Medicine Interest Group, attended the inaugural Northwest Wilderness Medicine Conference as an MS1, helped to organize the second as Sponsorship Chair, and lead event organizers for the third as the Conference Chair. Ryan was also Sponsorship Chair for the inaugural Northwest MedWAR and served as Board Secretary from 2019-2020. His favorites: “Wherever I May Roam, 5.9,” the Goat Lake Loop in the Gifford-Pinchot Wilderness, and anything from Backpedal Brewery.

Jonah Manning, LPN, W-EMT

Jonah Manning is an EMT and nurse in Central Washington. Jonah’s experience with the wilderness stems from a childhood spent hunting and fishing. In college, he developed a passion for climbing, skiing, and trail running.  These passions have culminated in thru-hikes of the Appalachian trail, numerous marathons, and a six-plus year solo sail around the world. Since moving to Washington in 2011 Jonah has taught wilderness medicine with Remote Medical Training, done professional rescue work with Global Mtn Solutions, and served as a volunteer rescue technician with EMRU, SMR, and currently serves on the board for Chelan County Mtn Rescue as well as chairs the medical committee. Jonah lives and skis around Leavenworth, Washington.

Mary Ryan, MD

Dr. Ryan is a recent graduate from OHSU SOM and current emergency medicine resident at Denver Health. Before medical school, she rambled about a bit— teaching in Lyon, France for a year, guiding road-cycling trips in Burgundy and Bordeaux wine-country, and adventuring as much as she could along the way, wrapping up two coast-to-coast bicycling trips across the US and walking through five pairs of shoes on the Pacific Crest Trail before medical school. She has kept her toe dipped in the outdoors-world while in medical school as a lead for OHSU’s Wilderness Medicine Interest Group, assistance in last year’s conference, and through work with the MedWAR NW adventure race.

Craig Warden, MD, MPH

Dr. Warden is an emergency medicine physician and former PNWM Treasurer and 2019 MedWAR NW Medical Director. He earned his M.D. at the University of Colorado and M.P.H. at the University of Washington, and has completed residencies in pediatrics and emergency medicine as well as fellowships in pediatric emergency medicine and medical toxicology. Dr. Warden enjoys rafting, cross-country skiing, and mountaineering; his mountaineering experience includes ascents of 14,000’ peaks in Colorado, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and the Grand Teton.

FORREST WELLS, MD

Dr. Wells is a recent graduate the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland and current emergency medicine resident at the University of Utah. While working in outdoor education prior to medical school, he developed a keen interest in backcountry medical care and the role of trained laypersons such as Wilderness First Responders in wilderness medicine. He has served as President of the OHSU Wilderness Medicine Interest Group, conducted research in outdoor education expedition epidemiology, and co-founded the Northwest Wilderness Medicine Conference and Pacific Northwest Wilderness Medicine, and served as PNWM President from 2018-2019. Aside from his studies and work in wilderness medicine, he’s proud to have skied 40+ days each year of medical school and to have stayed active as a climber, mountaineer, cyclist, and runner.