The agenda for the 2023 Expedition Medicine National Conference is now posted!

We are pleased to include a number of interesting and diverse topics covering wilderness medicine, tropical medicine, travel medicine, snake envenomations, medical evacuations, and more.

Please refer to the agenda below for the full list of topics and speakers for our upcoming conference!

Friday, April 21st, 2023

8:00-9:00 am The Expedition Physician, Donner

9:00-10:00 am Malaria, Townes

10:00-10:15am Break

10:15-11:15 am Backcountry Medical Kits, Donner

11:15-12:15 pm Travel Vaccines, Freedman

12:15-1:30pm Lunch

1:30-2:30 pm North American Snake Envenomations, Bush

2:30-3:30 pm Viral Diseases in Travelers, Freedman

3:30-4:30 pm Geospatial Technology in Humanitarian & Disaster Response, Greenough

4:30-5:30 pm Disaster on Everest, Kamler

Saturday, April 22nd, 2023

8:00-9:00 am Backcountry Water Disinfection & Purification, Donner

9:00-10:00 am Schistosomiasis, Freedman

10:00-10:15am Break

10:15-11:15 am High-Altitude Medicine, Donner

11:15-12:15 pm International Snake Envenomations, Bush

12:15-1:30pm Lunch

1:30-2:30 pm Cruise Ship Medical Evacuation, Callahan

2:30-3:30 pm Fever in the Returned Traveler, Freedman

3:30-4:30 pm Spider Bites, Bush

4:30-5:30 pm Wilderness EMS, Hawkins

At ExpedMed, we are committed to bringing together the best faculty in the world to teach wilderness and expedition medicine.

Our 2023 event that will be held in Little Rock, Arkansas, from April 21-22, 2023, is already shaping up to be one of our best events on record.

In addition to our previously mentioned faculty, we are happy to announce the addition of Dr. Seth Hawkins to our faculty list.

Dr. Hawkins is an Emergency Medicine physician with extensive experience teaching wilderness medicine and leading EMS crews into remote and austere regions. He is the chief editor of the text Wilderness EMS and the founder of the Carolina Wilderness EMS Externship. Dr. Hawkins has won numerous awards as an instructor and researcher, and currently serves as an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Wake Forest University. For Dr. Hawkins’ full bio, please see here.

Please join us in April at the Expedition Medicine National Conference!