What is Expedition Medicine. . .
Expedition Medicine is the leading provider of expedition and wilderness medicine courses for medical professionals, both here in the UK and also in a number of carefully selected overseas locations.
Expedition and Wilderness Medicine provides quality training for expedition, wilderness, high altitude, mountain, remote, polar, diving, jungle and desert medicine practitioners. Suitable for expedition doctors, wilderness EMTs, first responders, nurses and individuals providing medical cover in remote or inhospitable environments.
Calling on a skilled teaching faculty who have led major expeditions on all of the worlds continents and most of its major high points, commanded special forces regiments and provided medical care on the side of Everest, EML's collective expedition experience is unparalled.
We have available a resource of expedition medics who are able to provide quality film or event medical backup. From the fells of the Lake District to the Arctic, EML is able to call on a growing pool of extraordinary medics to provide medical cover whatever your event or location. See our Media Page for more details.
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Staff Profile: Dr Luanne Freer of Everest Base Camp
Dr. Luanne Freer is a board certified emergency physician and fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine who practices in her hometown, Bozeman, Montana.
She is a past president of the Wilderness Medical Society, and is the medical director for Yellowstone National Park and Midway-Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.
Luanne has worked as a volunteer physician in Nepal for the Himalayan Rescue Association since 1999, and in 2003, she founded the first-ever medical clinic at Mt. Everest base camp, which she continues to direct and staff every spring climbing season.
Expert Lecturer Profile: Stephen Jones
Expedition Leader, Operations Manager, Polar Guide, Consultant and Lecturer
Steve is the Field Operations Manager in charge of the international base Patriot Hills in Antarctica operated by Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions. As a polar guide he has led groups to both North and South Geographic Poles and on expeditions to Alaska, Arctic Canada, Greenland and Spitsbergen. He has helped several polar adventurers including Pen Hadow, Hannah McKeand and Rosie Stancer to organise their solo polar expeditions and acts as a consultant to extreme adventures all over the world.
He works as a consultant in safety management and crisis management based on his personal experiences of treating casualties, a terrorist bombing in London and coordinating a three day rescue of five stranded climbers on the Vinson Massif in Antarctica in 2006.
