Cassie Lowry Edmark, DO, W-EMT

PNWM Past Vice President, MedWAR NW Co-Founder

Dr. Lowry Edmark is a recent graduate from Pacific Northwest University and resident physician at MountainView Regional Medical Center in Las Cruces, NM. Her roots in wilderness medicine started as a Wilderness EMT with search & rescue and ski patrol prior to medical school. An active member of the Mountain Rescue Association Medical Committee and Wilderness Medical Society Search & Rescue Committee, Cassie continues to study, research, and teach topics in clinical prehospital care in remote settings with a focus on altitude medicine. She is a FAWM Candidate and spends much of her spare time with her husband traveling, skiing, climbing, and mountaineering.

Carlton Heine, MD PhD, FACEP, FAWM

PNWM Board Member, MedWAR NW Medical Advisor

Dr. Heine is a practicing emergency medicine physician with a special interest in wilderness medicine. He moved from Alaska to Spokane to be the Clinical Education Director for Emergency Medicine and the Foundational Sciences Education Director for Physiology at the new Elson S Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University. He founded the ACEP Section of Wilderness Medicine and has been a long time member and currently on the board of directors 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.

The Doggos

So many incredible individuals and good boys have been integral in the organization and presentation of PNWM’s events over the years, and MedWAR NW has been no different. Not everyone is listed in these pages but we’d like to continue to express our endless gratitude to all those who have made our events a success.