Anna Condino, MD

Dr. Anna Condino is a board-certified Emergency and EMS Physician practicing outside of Seattle, Washington. She grew up in New England and attended Dartmouth Medical School. Prior to med school, she worked as a wilderness therapy instructor, rock climbing guide and climbing program director.  In 2014, she came to the University of Washington to complete her EM residency and EMS fellowship, and now is a full-time ER doctor, medical director and field member of Seattle Mountain Rescue, and Local Emergency Medical Advisor to the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. In her free time she is usually outside climbing, skiing or biking with her husband and 2 kids. In 2022, she completed a medical patrol with the National Park Service on Denali, which she will be talking about at NWMC7.

Carlos Enciso Lopez, MD

Dr. Enciso Lopez is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and a current PGY4 in emergency medicine at the University of Michigan. He is the Vice Chair of the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA) Wilderness Medicine Committee and a wilderness first aid instructor in his spare time.  His passion for medicine stems from past work with migrant farm workers, and low-income families while working in an FQHC in his hometown of Wenatchee, WA. He continued to work with rural communities at UW as a TRUST scholar and as an advisory board member for the Area Health Education Center for Western WA. His interests include wilderness medicine, rural medicine, and critical care. After residency, he will be continuing his training as a critical care fellow at Stanford with plans of practicing back home in Washington when he is done. He satisfies his itch for adventure through alpine climbing, mountaineering, skiing, and paragliding. Carlos is a fan of long multi-pitch climbs, summit brews, thermal flights with a casual evening glass off, hanging with the buds, and long days in the backcountry.

Christian Dean, DO, DiMM, FAWM, MS

Dr. Christian Dean is a family medicine trained sports, wilderness, and expedition medicine physician overseeing races and expeditions all over the Rockies, Andes, Alps, and Himalaya. He's also recently dipped his toes into off-shore medicine for sailors and fishing vessels. When not in the backcountry, he has worked in Missoula, MT, Seattle, WA, and Jackson, WY as a hospitalist and mountain clinic physician for the last 9 years. He earned his DiMM in Nepal chasing his love of high altitude medicine. Through MyDocInTow, LLC, he provides compassionate and comprehensive on-site and on-call medical direction and advisory as well as one-off adventure medicine education programs all over the world. He is currently a sports medicine fellow in Denver.

Thomas DeLoughery, MD, MACP, FASM

Dr. 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 attended 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. He also did his Hematology/Oncology fellowship and is currently on faculty as a Professor of Medicine.  He has been active in Wilderness Medicine for years including chairing the Wilderness Medicine Society's Research Committee twice and is now back on the WMS Board of Directors.  His passion is wilderness medicine education, and his one oddity is he has attended 43 Bob Dylan concerts.

Adam Edwards

Based in Portland, OR, Adam works as an arborist for the City of Portland and is a professional whitewater kayaker. With over a decade of experience in the outdoor industry as a guide, instructor, and other careers he now spends his time trying to help foster a more positive and supportive outdoor experience for people of color and other marginalized groups.

Alex Franke, MD

Dr. Franke is on the clinical faculty at the University of Utah Emergency Medicine Residency, and an attending physician at Utah Emergency Physicians. He is also a graduate of 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 bit of technical rescue and a lot of carrying people down trails. When he’s not busy with school he enjoys running long distances, skiing, biking, climbing, and eating doughnuts.

Carl Heine, MD, PhD, FACEP, FAWM

Dr. Heine is a practicing emergency medicine physician with a special interest in wilderness medicine. He moved from Alaska to Spokane to help start the Elson S Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University, where he is currently the Regional Dean for Spokane. He founded the ACEP Section of Wilderness Medicine and has been a long-time member of the Wilderness Medical Society. He has been active with the National Ski Patrol for over twenty years and is passionate about backcountry skiing and other outdoor activities in wild places.

Erin Kinney, MD

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.

Ryan LeBuhn, MD

Ryan LeBuhn is an Emergency Medicine physician at the Maimonides Medical Center in South Brooklyn. He has believed that the wilderness is the best educational setting for early learners ever since attending the first Northwest Wilderness Medicine Conference as a medical student in 2016. In addition to working at emergency departments in the Maimonides system, Ryan provides medical advisory for New Jersey Search & Rescue and helps teach the Wilderness Medicine Elective at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He was a lifelong Oregonian before moving to NYC in 2020 for residency. "Wherever I May Roam, 5.9" at Smith Rock is still his favorite climbing route.

Olivia Linney, MD, DiMM

Dr. Linney is an Emergency Medicine physician who practices in Portland. She first came to OHSU as a medical student where she served as co-president of the Wilderness Medicine Interest Group. She completed her residency at Dartmouth, then returned to OHSU for her Wilderness Medicine fellowship. In the past, she has collaborated with Grand Canyon Emergency Services and served as a flight physician while at Dartmouth. Currently, she is on the medical committee for Portland Mountain Rescue and works at the Mt. Hood Meadows Mountain clinic. In her free time, Dr. Linney is a sponsored kayaker and has paddled 200 different rivers in 8 countries including a probable first descent. When trying to stay drier, she also enjoys skiing, climbing, and backpacking.

Raaj Ruparel, MD

Raaj grew up on the east coast, completed general surgery residency in Rochester, Minnesota, and ultimately landed in eastern Washington where he has been a practicing rural general surgeon since 2019. During training, he was fortunate to participate in a two-year research fellowship dedicated to advancing surgical education, and he enjoys teaching to this day. He has been an avid fly fisherman for many years, but since settling in Washington state, his interests have shifted towards general aviation, skiing, various forms of climbing, and above all - enjoying the outdoors with great people.

Jodi Spangler, MD

Dr. Jodi Spangler is a Family Medicine Physician who works to improve healthcare access, advocate for environmental health, and loves to encourage her patients to get outside. She completed medical school at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is completing residency at Kaiser, and is a UCLA alumni as part of the Institute for Society & Genetics. She recognizes that human health is deeply interconnected with the health of the environment.  Before residency, she was part of a disaster relief team of medical first responders after the earthquakes in both Haiti and Nepal. She is a mother of two, skydiver, surfer, backyard naturalist and old van tinkerer. 

Casey Turner, MD

Casey Turner is a Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician in Yakima, WA. He completed undergrad at Linfield College in 2004 and entered the US Air Force as an engineer. He went back to school in 2008 at the University of Utah School of Medicine, graduating in 2012 and completing his EM residency at Utah in 2015, as a Chief Resident. He returned to the Air Force as an EM Physician and deployed to various parts of Africa as a Tactical Critical Care Evac Team (TCCET) Physician. He moved to Yakima, WA with his wife and family in 2019. While working in the ED he wanted to continue working in a tactical first responder capacity and became the medical director and primary medic for Yakima SWAT. He is also an instructor for Seattle PD in their Law Enforcement Casualty Care (LECC) course. Dr. Turner has a very keen interest in health and human performance. Having been an athlete his entire life from highschool and college athletics to being part of the US Bobsled Team, he continues athletic pursuits in climbing, mountaineering, trail running and backcountry skiing. When not in the hospital, with his family, or running around in the mountains, he enjoys personal and professional development in Precision Medicine.

Christopher Van Tilburg, MD

Dr. Van Tilburg is a wilderness, emergency, and occupational medicine physician. He is a staff physician at Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital at Occupational and Travel Medicine, Emergency Department, and Mountain Clinic at Mount Hood Meadows Ski Resort. He serves as an active member of Crag Rats Mountain Rescue, Chair of the Mountain Rescue Association Medical Committee, and Hood River County Public Health Officer and Medical Examiner. He is author of 11 books including Mountain Rescue Doctor: Wilderness Medicine in the Extremes of Nature, which was shortlisted for the Banff Festival of Mountain Books and the Oregon Book Awards, and Search and Rescue Stories: A Wilderness Doctor’s Life and Death Tales of Risk and Reward. He is first author of Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines for Prevention and Management of Avalanche and Non-Avalanche Snow Burial Accidents.

A.J. Weinhold, MD, FAAFP, FAWM

Dr. A.J. Weinhold developed the Wilderness Medicine Area of Concentration and Wilderness & Austere Medicine Fellowship within the ISU Family Medicine Residency Program. She is a Fellow in the Academy of Wilderness Medicine.  She became a certified ski instructor while in medical school, her second criteria for choosing a residency program was based on proximity to a ski area, and now she is  Medical Advisor for the Pebble Creek Ski Patrol and an active patroller.  She is also the Medical Director for the Scout Mountain Ultras (a 100-mile trail-running race) and is the founder and chair of the AAFP Wilderness Medicine Member Interest Group, amongst other things.  She likes to hike, ski, read, ski, camp, cook, and nordic ski in her spare time.

Andrew Luks, MD

Andy Luks is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the University of Washington. Outside of his clinical work in the  intensive care unit he has done clinical work at high altitude including a stint at the Himalayan Rescue Associations Pheriche clinic in the fall of 2003 and  two volunteer ranger patrol missions on Denali in 2010 and 2013. He authored numerous publications in the field including numerous articles related to travel to high altitude with preexisting medical illness and several chapters in Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine and is the lead author for the Wilderness Medical Society’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Altitude Illness and Ward, Milledge and West’s High Altitude Medicine and Physiology. As a medical educator UW, he leads the School of Medicine’s course in respiratory physiology and pathophysiology. Outside of work he takes advantage of his proximity to a lot of great mountains in his backyard and gets out as much as possible for scrambles, backpacking trips and, his favorite activity, backcountry skiing.

Mitchell Arends, MD

Mitchell Arends attended medical school at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa and completed his residency in emergency medicine at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington.  He is now completing a fellowship in Emergency Ultrasound at Madigan.  Beyond ultrasound, his medical interests include quality improvement, military medicine, and teaching.  In the summer months he enjoys paddle boarding, hiking, and trail running.  In the colder months he finds enjoyment snowshoeing and skiing, both on-piste and backcountry.  He shares these adventures with his wife, who is completing a residency in family medicine, and their two dogs- Valley and Alpine.

Tom Eglin, MD

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 attended 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 the Volunteer of the Year for both organizations as well as the past president of 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 has joined the local ski patrol at White Pass for a few years.

Rachel Wilks, DO

Rachel Wilks is a current OSU Pediatric resident. She received her Doctor of Osteopathy degree at Pacific Northwest University of College of Health Sciences. She has her Bachelor of Science degree in BioHealth Sciences along with a Minor in Public Health from Oregon State University. She was born and raised in the Willamette Valley of Oregon and lived in Washington State during her medical education. She finds all aspects of pediatrics interesting but has a special place in her heart for osteopathic manipulation therapy (OMT), sports/wilderness medicine, and adolescent women’s health. When she is not working, she finds herself outdoors continually trying to find the next best outdoor adventure. Once the mud has been kicked from her hiking shoes, she dons an apron and gets flour deep in baking anything from pastries to cookies to cakes. Her favorite thing to do is decorate cakes for all occasions and host her friends and family for any occasion/holiday.

Sam Scheinberg, MD and Cherrie Scheinberg, CEO 

Co-Founders of SAM® MEDICAL

After serving as a trauma surgeon in Vietnam, Dr. Sam Scheinberg recognized the need for better emergency splints. His “AHA” experience occurred while he wrapped an aluminum foil gum wrapper around his finger. At that moment he realized an appropriately sized thin, soft strip of metal could serve as a perfect splint. Fifteen years, and many false starts later, Sam and his wife Cherrie opened a company in the kitchen of their home to manufacture the world’s first universal splint. Since their humble beginning the SAM® Splint has become the most common emergency splint in use on the planet.