2025 Presenters

Meet our 2025 Sierra Nevada Conservation & Wilderness Medicine Conference Presenters.

Ben Hunt, MD, FACS

Presenter

Stanford University BS/MS biology, UCSF medical school, Swedish Medical Center (Seattle, WA) General Surgery residency and fellowship in minimally invasive surgery.

Blake Ellis, APW

Presenter

Blake Ellis is an Associate Clinical Social Worker and the Program Manager for the Chico State Ecotherapy Program.

Candice Coursey, BA, MS, NP

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Candice holds a BA in Spanish from UCDavis, a BS in Nursing from SUNY Binghamton, an MS in Nursing from UC San Francisco.

Daniel Gragert, DO, MPH, MSC, FAWM

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Dr. Gragert is a Family Medicine and ER physician located in Kalispell Montana.

Dr. Cooper Aakhus, MD, FAWM

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Dr. Aakhus is currently with Stanford Health completing his wilderness medicine fellowship.

Dr. Shanna (Shay) Strauss, MD, MS

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Emergency physician in Bend, OR.

James Marvel MD, FAWM

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James is an Emergency Medicine trained physician currently working at Stanford as a Clinical Assistant Professor.

Jeff Kepple, MD

Cofounder & Host of the Sierra Nevada Conservation & Wilderness Medicine Conference

Dr Kepple was selected as the 2023 EMS Medical Director of the Year for the State of California.

Jordan Rode, MD, FAEMUS

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University of Utah Emergency Medicine

Mary Bing, MD, MPH

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Mary Bing is a Clinical Professor for the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of California: Davis.

Mira Parekh, MD

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Studied ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Davis and is now a psychiatry resident at Healthy Rural California.

Scott E. McIntosh, MD, MPH, FAWM, DiMM

Keynote Presenter

Dr. Scott McIntosh is a tenured Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Utah Health.

Tatiana Havryliuk, MD, FAWM

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Tatiana Havryliuk MD is an emergency physician in New York City, Founder of Hello Sono, and a POCUS program implementation consultant

Tony (Arthur) Islas, MD

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University of Nevada Head Team Physician, Sports Medicine Fellowship Director, Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Director, Professor - Dept. of Family & Community Medicine, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Medical Director Great Basin National Park

Zina Semenovskaya, MD, FAWM, ISTM

Cofounder & Host of the Sierra Nevada Conservation & Wilderness Medicine Conference

Dr. Zina Semenovskaya, MD completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate/ Kings County Hospital in NYC and fellowship in wilderness medicine at Stanford University Medical Center.