Search

Certifications

Order a new certification card from WMA International.

Roberto Bejar

Roberto has served as a Park Ranger in the San Diego area for the past 20 years.  In that time, Roberto worked positions in rural, wilderness and for the past seven years in the metropolitan San Diego area.  Roberto believes in what he does as he is convinced that his efforts along with others protecting parks from people and people from parks is worth the effort.  So much so that Roberto and a fellow Park Ranger started a business four years ago that services government agencies and non-profit land management companies providing a mix of forestry and security professionals.  Roberto is a graduate of SDSU’s Geography Department. Roberto was involved in search and rescue in San Diego from 1994 to 2008.  His first introduction was with a WFR course after taking an EMT course in 1996.  Since that first introduction, Roberto has certified and re-certified almost a dozen times and is currently a WEMT.  Roberto has been exposed to medical situations in the field and has always felt grateful for the confidence and realistic information that he has experienced training with WMA.  Roberto favorite outdoors sport of all is surfing.  Being a native of San Diego, he has the luxury of being in one of the best locations in the world to surf.   Roberto also enjoys trail running and hiking.  As well he has an expressed interest in mapping, archeology and anything nautical.

Steve Hahn

Steve has been working and playing in remote environments for over 3 decades. Beginning as a medic in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1988, he developed a passion for providing remote medical care in austere places. Steve furthered his education training as an emergency and critical care nurse, in order to pursue his dream of becoming a flight nurse with the Northern medevac teams. With over 30 years of remote medical experience, he is always excited to deliver relevant and meaningful remote medical solutions to people who live and work in remote places. Always learning, Steve is continually trying to simplify and optimize concepts and gear, in order to facilitate the best care for his students. It is rumoured that he likes to fly fish as well.

COVID-19

Georgia Villaflor

Georgia began adult life as an economist. However, the lure of the outdoors and medicine took her away. She has many years experience in mountain rescue, works for ambulance services on the streets of Tijuana, Mexico and is responsible for WMA's Spanish language course offerings. For fun, she heads out backpacking and mountaineering.  She is a Nurse Practitioner employed as a night hospitalist at Oroville Hospital in Northern California.

Ross Goddard

Ross grew up on the East Coast of Canada canoeing, hiking, and kayaking. While he was completing, and after, a degree in education he was leading canoe and hiking trips through Northern Ontario for the Tim Horton’s Children’s Foundation and Outward Bound Canada. He then decided to try out life in the mountains. Here he began guiding dogsled trips and a career in the avalanche industry. After a brief stint abroad teaching outdoor education in Hawaii, New Zealand, and Australia he returned to the mountains.  Economically, he was forced out of outdoor education and into wildfire. Now Ross calls Revelstoke home, working as a smokejumper in the summer and in the winter, he works as a ski patroller, avalanche educator, a little bit in the classroom at the local high school, and with the ambulance service. Whatever spare time he has he can be found in the backcountry and/or with his dogs.

Jon Bouffard

Jon Bouffard is the Deputy Chief of a small rural ambulance in New Hampshire.  Bouffard has been in the emergency services for nearly 30 years and holds board certifications as a tactical, ground critical care and flight paramedic as well as numerous instructor and fire service certifications.  Jon has worked as a paramedic in rural, …

Jason Barschdorf

Jason Barschdorf has been an instructor with Wilderness Medical Associates since 2001. He got his start in the outdoor experiential education field in 1998 working with the youth of New Jersey before moving south to teach environmental education in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He has since migrated back north to his homestate of Maine. When not on course for WMA he splits his time between a local fire department and a family roofing buisness. When left unsupervised you can find Jason trying desperatly to keep up with his family and friends in the mountains and on the rivers of the northeast.

Chris Van Houten

Chris brings over 30 years of Paramedic level experience, from in and around New York City, to the classroom.  He has an extensive background in EMS education, and ‘High Risk, Low Resource” medicine.  His experience includes Emergency Management, Hazardous Materials, Travel and Occupational Health Medicine, as well as Critical Care Paramedicine. He is an avid …

Si Dilks

Originally from New Zealand, Si now resides full-time on mainland China and was WMA Canada's first instructor from Asia. Si has taught WMA courses in Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and throughout China (and Canada too). He might be the first WMA instructor to have taught on isolated pristine white sand beaches on the Indian Ocean (Gulf of Thailand). Besides teaching wilderness first aid, Si is a professional rock climbing guide and the owner and manager for Insight Adventures. Insight Adventures sprung from China Climb which was China's leading rock climbing and adventure company and WMA's first client in mainland China.