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Tuo Dawei

Mr. Tuo started outdoor activities on 2000 and spent 5 years in the biggest outward development school of China as safety supervisor. He is skilled in hiking, backpack trekking, mountaineering, ice climbing, SCUBA diving and act as team leader for high altitude climbing more than 10 times. He took part in outdoor first aid trainings, such as 120 first aid training, in dozen years, set up first aid courses in outdoor trainings, and conducted the courses as a trainer. Working now at: Top summit explore company - general manager Summit outdoor school - vice-president Top summit explore company is the first specialized corporation in China that focus on advanced travel and exploration all over the world and the main products are exploring at the peak of seven continent and south and north poles. We function to outdoor recreations for different requirements individually. Summit outdoor school is specialized in public service. They help the participants to establish the proper ideas of outdoor recreations. They devote to be the greatest outdoor school in public training.

Bill Frederick

Bill Frederick is the founder and director of Lodestone Safety International, providing training and program development for educational and service organizations operating overseas. Prior to that, he was the Director of Safety and Risk Management Training at The School for Field Studies (SFS) for eight years. He has served as project leader for the Forum on Education Abroad’s pilot incident database and as co-chair for the inaugural Forum Standards Institute: Beyond the Basics of Health, Safety and Security. He has led numerous international safety reviews and served for 16 years with Outward Bound. He also has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Colorado and an M.Ed from Harvard University. Bill has held a NREMT and WEMT for over 20 years and received a CTH® from the International Society of Travel Medicine in 2011.

Britt Venn

Britt has spent years serving as a Medic in the Canadian Armed Forces and now dedicates her time training others. Her background includes working as a SCUBA instructor, Ice , Swiftwater and Rope Rescue Instructor, Raft Guide, Rope Access Technician, Kayak Instructor, and also Adventure Training Instructor for the British Army. She has owned a Remote Medical Company that served industrial worksites and her education includes a diploma in Adventure Guiding from Thompson Rivers University where she focused heavily on rescue, mountain and watersports. She then spent additional years majoring in Tourism Management and Entrepreneurship through their Bachelor of Tourism Management Program

Darren Stokes

Darren has been a professional Outdoor Guide and Instructor for over 30 years and holds a Masters Degree in Outdoor Recreation. He lives in Buena Vista, Colorado at the base of the Collegiate Peaks and on the banks of the Arkansas River.  He owns Colorado Outside, a local provider for Wilderness Medical Training.  Darren is a WEMT and volunteers for Chaffee County Search and Rescue where he has served as Training Officer, Board Member and member of the Swiftwater Rescue Team.  Darren teaches throughout the US, Alaska, and Internationally for WMA. Darren shares his love for the outdoors with his wife Tina, son Jesse, and daughter Bailey. The kids have been skiing since they were two and rafting since they were three, keeping up with them is Darren's foremost outdoor challenge.

Dave MacDonald

Born in Southern Ontario, Dave spent his childhood in the outdoors hunting, fishing, and exploring with friends and family. Listening to his grandparents stories of adventure in the outdoors, inspired a real hunger for knowledge, experience and personal growth. In 1993, Dave challenged himself as a Canadian Forces Search and Rescue Technician (similar to American Para Rescue Jumper (PJ)) and was accepted into one of the Canadian Forces elite trades. His first posting as a SAR Tech was CFB Trenton, Ontario (424 Transport & Rescue Squadron). 6 years later he was posted to CFB Winnipeg, Manitoba (435 Transport, Air-to-Air Refueling, and Rescue Squadron). Assigned to the Canadian Forces School of Survival and Aeromedical Training (CFSSAT), Dave served 6 years as a Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) Instructor for both Basic (overt survival) and Advanced (covert survival) SERE courses. Retiring after 25 years of military service and remembering the sights seen and lessons learned, Dave created the International Canadian School of Survival Inc. (ICSOS Inc.). This school is his way to contribute to the search and rescue systems and pass on his experiences, unique skill sets and the survival knowledge contained within the military communities worldwide. If both the persons in distress and the rescuer have similar emergency training, then the rescue operation should be faster and safer for all. Professional Certifications: • Military Search and Rescue Technician;     • Ground Search Manager;   • Red Cross First Aid Instructor;  • Wilderness Medical Associates (WMA) Instructor; • Manitoba hunting guide; • Firearms Instructor (non-restricted and restricted);

Mike Webster

Mike's background includes a mixture of management, curriculum development, first response and research, all related to medical and patient care in unconventional settings. He is the past Canadian director of Wilderness Medical Associates International and is recognized in Canada as a major influence in the development of wilderness medicine training for both medical professionals and laypersons. As a researcher and consultant, he has been involved with research on the epidemiological link of first aid training for international disaster relief and humanitarian workers. He has over 15 years of rural and urban experience as a paramedic and a background as an expedition medic and rescue tech in international settings, including 8 seasons in Antarctica. He also works as the Canadian clinical director and medical coordinator for a variety of mass gathering medical events, including the race Tough Mudder and as a medical incident commander for largest music festival in Canada with over 70,000 attendees.  He has been a major contributor in the development of many WMA programs, including the wilderness medical elective, travel medicine first aid, wilderness first aid for field services, and the Battlefield Medical Response.

Erik Forsythe

Erik works as a Flight Paramedic in western Colorado and lives in the small but mighty ski town of Crested Butte. He has been working EMS since 1992 with experience in Mountain Rescue, Ski Patrol, Ambulance, Fire, and Flight services and has held the positions of Ski Patrol Director and EMS Chief. Erik has been teaching wilderness medicine programs since 1994 and joined the staff of Wilderness Medical Associates® in 2000. As a Colorado EMS instructor, he has also been training EMTs since 1994. He owns and operates Professional Rescue Training, specializing in technical rope rescue education, EMS education, and Wilderness Medicine education. Outside the classroom, Erik is married and a father of two children, and still manages to honor his passions for ice and rock climbing, mountain biking, skiing, and mountaineering.

Hou Xin

Ann is a professional EMS instructor who holds a BS degree in education and professional certifications in emergency medicine. She teaches emergency medicine for Nicolet College and wilderness medicine for WMA. Between classes she works for an ambulance service and emergency room in northern Wisconsin where she responds to and treats "northwoods" injuries. Her EMS experience began in 1980, and her education career in 1979. Ann provides a high-energy and well-focused teaching style. She has taught for WMA in settings as diverse as weekend adventure clubs, summer camps, outdoor companies, military bases to an Ivy League university. In her spare time she enjoys kayaking, cross-country skiing, hiking or simply relaxing in her century old Northwood’s farmhouse. Her favorite place is the northwoods shoreline of Lake Superior.

5-Day Wilderness First Responder

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