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| | Dee Allen, WEMT, Instructor |
| | Lise Armstrong, Remote Site Paramedic |
| | Melissa Arnot, WEMT, Instructor |
| | Christine Avakian, Director, Integrated Operations |
| | Tyler Cascade, Remote Area Paramedic |
| | Dewayne Cecil, Remote Site Paramedic |
| | Rich Chatman, NREMT-P, Instructor |
| | David Churchill, NREMT-P, Remote Site Paramedic |
| | Andrew Cull, Chief Executive Officer |
| | Michael Cull, MD, Medical Advisor/Instructor |
| | Michael Dann, Remote Area Paramedic/Instructor |
| | Phong Duong, J.D. WEMT, Legal Counsel/Instructor |
| | Kate Earle, WEMT/MPIC, Instructor |
| | Sandy Fraser, NREMT-P, Remote Site Paramedic, Instructor |
| | Marika Geertz, Remote Site Paramedic |
| | Matthew "Griff" Griffin, Account Manager, Government & Law Enforcement |
| | Jordana Grussgott, NP, Instructor |
| | Steve Guthrie, WEMT, Instructor |
| | Daniel Hegg, WEMT, Instructor |
| | Thaddeus Josephson, Paramedic, Instructor |
| | Mitch Kadlec, WEMT, Instructor |
| | Chris Kenney, WEMT, Director, Equipment & Supply Group |
| | Andy Kimmell, NREMT-P, Remote Site Paramedic |
| | Julie Knoll, Customer Service Associate |
| | Jack M. Levine, DDS, Medical Advisor |
| | JC Lujan, NREMT-B, Remote Site WEMT |
| | Lucas Martin, NREMT-P, Remote Site Paramedic |
| | Dan McDermott, NREMT-P, Instructor |
| | Sean Meade, Account Manager, Energy |
| | Tom Milne, WEMT, Account Manager, Expedition & Travel |
| | Brent Molsberry, WEMT, Instructor |
| | Dave Mull, EMT-P, Remote Site Medic/Instructor |
| | Tyler Neilsen, Remote Area Paramedic, Instructor |
| | Cait Parker, WEMT, Instructor |
| | Amber Pickren, WEMT, Instructor |
| | Emily Petersen, Project Manager, Medical Support Group |
| | Janet Peterson, DrPH, WEMT, Instructor |
| | Claire Scarbeary, Equipment & Supply Group Specialist |
| | Paul Shovelier, NREMT-P, Remote Site Paramedic |
| | Don Slack, MD, Instructor/Advisor |
| | Debi Solberg, RN,MSN, Medical Advisor/Instructor |
| | David Svobodny, EMT-II, Instructor |
| | Craig Swan, Remote Area Paramedic |
| | Kevin Thompson, Director, Training Group |
| | David Townes, MD, Chief Medical Advisor/Instructor |
| | Jarod Trow, NREMT-P, Instructor |
| | Loreen Vasel, NREMT-P, Remote Area Paramedic, Instructor |
| | John Vonk, WEMT, Instructor |
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Welcome. You have reached the core of Remote Medical International. With backgrounds in tactical medicine, disaster medicine, emergency medical services, and Search and Rescue operations across the globe, you'll find us to be among the most highly trained remote medicine specialists in the field.
We know first hand what it is like to be 300 miles out at sea, perched mountain ridge with an ill or injured patient, or working in a flood or earthquake zone.
Seasoned professionals and those new to the outdoors will find that our courses and products advance their knowledge and ability to offer care far beyond what they thought possible. On behalf of the instructor and sales corps at Remote Medical International, thank you for considering us to fulfill your remote medicine needs. |
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| Dee Allen, WEMT, Instructor
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| Dee is an instructor with Remote Medical International's Training Group, and brings her passion for educating diverse audiences and her drive for preparing individuals to safely venture into any environment, whether for work or play. |
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| Melissa Arnot, WEMT, Instructor
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| Melissa has been teaching wilderness medicine since 2002, and working as a professional mountain guide for Rainier Mountaineering Inc. since 2004. Currently certified as a Wilderness EMT, she regularly works with our medical support group as well as in search and rescue, she also works part-time with a rural ambulance service. |
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| Rich Chatman, NREMT-P, Instructor
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| Rich is a Paramedic Firefighter for Portland Fire and Rescue. He also works on a Heavy Rescue in downtown Portland, Oregon and is a member of the Technical Rescue Team for Portland and for the Oregon Urban Search and Rescue team (USAR). In 2005, he was deployed to New Orleans, Louisiana as part of Oregon's Disaster Medical Team (DMAT), to assist with rescue effort for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. |
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| Andrew Cull, Chief Executive Officer
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| Andrew is passionate about remote medical care and rescue. He is an active tactical/remote site paramedic who is routinely deployed on Search and Rescue and medical support operations. He founded Remote Medical International in 2001 to provide the finest and most advanced wilderness/remote medicine training, equipment, and direct medical and rescue support based on real and continued experience in remote settings. |
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| Michael Cull, MD, Medical Advisor/Instructor
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| Dr. Cull has been practicing medicine for over 30 years in Primary Care, Psychiatry and Anesthesiology all over the world. His experience in refugee health care, expedition medicine and open-ocean sailing is highly valued. Dr. Cull can also be found teaching our ACLS and Open Ocean Medicine courses. |
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| Michael Dann, Remote Area Paramedic/Instructor
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| Michael Dann works as a Remote Area Paramedic in Medical Support Group and as an Instructor in the Training Group. He is certified in wildland and structure firefighting, along with swift water and high angle rope rescue. |
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| Phong Duong, J.D. WEMT, Legal Counsel/Instructor
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| Phong is Legal Counsel and an Instructor for Remote Medical International. Prior to joining Remote Medical International, Phong was an WEMT, kayak guide in the San Juan Islands and ski and mountain bike patrolling in Park City, Utah while working as a lawyer in various capacities including business, immigration, and contract law. |
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| Kate Earle, WEMT/MPIC, Instructor
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| Kate has spent the majority of her life traveling, living, and working in remote environments from the Indian Himalayas to the Sahara Desert. She has worked as an EMT for Tulane University EMS and the New Orleans Health Department and has worked in medical clinics in the Pacific and West Africa. |
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| Sandy Fraser, NREMT-P, Remote Site Paramedic, Instructor
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| Sandy is a skilled remote paramedic, providing emergency medical services in a variety of civilian and military environments. He has served as a US Navy Search and Rescue Swimmer and as a Naval Coastal Warfare Corpsman. Sandy has continued to work as an independent contract medic in remote and hostile locations such as Bosnia, Iraq and offshore. |
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| Jordana Grussgott, NP, Instructor
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| Jordana is a nurse practitioner at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle Washington, and works as an Instructor in Remote Medical's Training Group. |
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| Steve Guthrie, WEMT, Instructor
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| Born in Eugene Oregon, Steve started climbing in 1971 and began a career in guiding in 1978. Steve has thirteen years of Mountain Rescue and SAR experience and has been teaching wilderness medicine since 2001. |
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| Daniel Hegg, WEMT, Instructor
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| Dan brings to Remote Medical his commitment to the service of others and a diverse background in field operations with difficult operating conditions and considerations. |
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| Thaddeus Josephson, Paramedic, Instructor
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| Thaddeus has been working in the EMS field since 2003 in a variety of settings, including Gallatin County Search and Rescue, American Medical Response in Bozeman, Montana, and Ski Patrol at Yellowstone Mountain Club in Big Sky, Montana. Thaddeus is a Paramedic, and an avid outdoorsman. |
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| Mitch Kadlec, WEMT, Instructor
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| Mitch Kadlec lives in Winthrop, Washington, and works as a firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service, on the Okanogan/Wenatchee National Forest. Through his career he has traveled to many parts of the country, and many regions in the backcountry working on interagency hotshot crews, initial attack fire crews, and also as a helicopter rappeller, specializing in suppression of fires in remote or inaccessible regions requiring aerial delivery of firefighters. |
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| Chris Kenney, WEMT, Director, Equipment & Supply Group
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| You will also see Chris on medical and rescue support operations doing rope rescue and exercising his WEMT skills. His technical expertise, experience as an EMT, degree in biochemistry, and experience in remote care has allowed us to become a premier source for the remote medical and rescue community. |
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| Jack M. Levine, DDS, Medical Advisor
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| Jack M. Levine, DDS is a member of Remote Medical International’s Medical Advisory Board. In addition to his private practice in New Haven, Connecticut, Dr. Levine has traveled the globe as a volunteer dentist and guest lecturer, serving in such places as Tipling, Ilam, and Mustang, Nepal; the Republic of China; Iquitos, Peru; Jeremie, Haiti; and Hanover, Jamaica. In the U.S. he currently volunteers for Tibetan Resettlement of Connecticut; Doctors with a Heart, Operation Smile, the Special Olympics, and is on the board for Himalayan HealthCare. |
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| Lucas Martin, NREMT-P, Remote Site Paramedic
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| Lucas Martin is a remote site paramedic in our Medical & Rescue Support Division. He is currently a United States Air Force Reserve Pararescueman (PJ) in the 304th Rescue Squadron out of Portland, OR where he has gained a wealth of knowlege and experience in both Combat Search and Rescue and Civil Search and Rescue. |
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| Dan McDermott, NREMT-P, Instructor
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| David is a Instructor in our Training Group. He is a Paramedic Firefighter for Whatcom County Medic One, and has been working for the Bellingham Fire Department since 2001 |
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| Sean Meade, Account Manager, Energy
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| Sean Meade is the primary point of contact for our research, exploration, mineral, oil, and gas customers. Sean comes to us possessing an extensive medical sales and fire service background. This provides him with a solid foundation in sales, while giving him the required technical knowledge to ensure that our clients receive the highest level of service possible. |
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| Tom Milne, WEMT, Account Manager, Expedition & Travel
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| Tom has been a professional mountain guide since 1999 and has instructed and guided rock, alpine, backcountry skiing and high altitude peak climbs all around the world. He holds a degree in Russian Language from the University of Colorado, and brings his extensive industry experience and commitment to authentic and personal care to his work at Remote Medical International. |
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| Brent Molsberry, WEMT, Instructor
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| As a licensed USCG Captain and professional sea kayaking guide, Brent has worked in a variety of outdoor industries including guiding, ski patrol, and firefighting. |
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| Dave Mull, EMT-P, Remote Site Medic/Instructor
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| Dave is an experienced Paramedic with over 15 years of urban, rural, and wilderness medicine. David previously worked as a paramedic in Portland, Oregon, for over 14 years in both urban and rural settings. He currently works as a Remote Area Paramedic with Remote Medical International. Dave is proficient in rope rescue, alpine rescue, cave rescue, and swiftwater rescue, and has experience teaching rescue courses throughout the NW. |
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| Tyler Neilsen, Remote Area Paramedic, Instructor
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| Tyler Neilsen is a Whatcom County Paramedic with Bellingham Fire & Rescue. As a firefighter since 2001, Tyler has extensive experience providing emergency medical care and rescue in rural setting (where the ambulance has to take a ferry to the hospital). |
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| Cait Parker, WEMT, Instructor
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| Cait is currently certified as a WEMT, with a degree in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. Along with her interest in medicine, she is passionate about experiencing the outdoors and enabling others to do so safely. |
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| Amber Pickren, WEMT, Instructor
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| Amber’s passion for exploring remote places, practicing wilderness medicine, and teaching students brought her to Remote Medical International. At any given moment you may find her trekking, rock climbing, sea kayaking, sailing, scuba diving, backcountry skiing, guiding whitewater trips, whitewater kayaking, or teaching a wilderness medicine course. |
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| Janet Peterson, DrPH, WEMT, Instructor
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| Janet is an associate professor of health and human performance at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon and she joined Remote Medical International as an instructor in the fall of 2008. Janet has a wealth of clinical and teaching experience combined with a passion for teaching wilderness medicine. |
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| Claire Scarbeary, Equipment & Supply Group Specialist
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| Claire graduated Cum Laude from the University of Washington in Community Psychology. Her love for hiking, camping, mountain biking, and snowboarding, along with her intuitive, personal and communication skills, are a great fit with the Remote Medical Equipment and Supply Group. |
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| Don Slack, MD, Instructor/Advisor
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| A practicing emergency medicine physician and EMS medical director for Skagit County, WA, Dr. Slack has been active in mountaineering and mountain-rescue since 1976. |
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| Debi Solberg, RN,MSN, Medical Advisor/Instructor
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| Debi is an ER nurse at the University of Washington Emergency Department and maintains her position as a flight nurse with Airlift Northwest, all while doing research for the Resuscitation Outcome Consortium at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. She is a member of the WA-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team with deployments to New York City in 2001; Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005; and others. |
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| David Svobodny, EMT-II, Instructor
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| David’s love for the outdoors and adventure has lead him to a career has a professional sea kayaking, rafting, and glacier guide in Alaska. David has been active in wilderness medicine as long as he has guided. |
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| Craig Swan, Remote Area Paramedic
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| Craig has more than 20 years experience in paramedic medicine working in a variety of environments; including fixed and rotor wing critical care transport as well as Technical Rescues involving High angle, confined space and swift water rescues. |
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| Kevin Thompson, Director, Training Group
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| Kevin began working at Remote Medical in 2007 after five years of prior experience in the industry. After graduating with a B.S. in Business Administration from Nazareth College, Kevin moved west to Montana where he spent most of his time mountain biking and backcountry skiing. |
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| David Townes, MD, Chief Medical Advisor/Instructor
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| Dr. Townes joined Remote Medical as our Chief Medical Advisor and instructor. You will meet Dr. Townes as an instructor on our advanced courses, as a guest lecturer on the Wilderness EMT, risk management consulting and on medical support operations. His extensive contributions to the fields of wilderness and emergency medicine make him an exceptional asset to our team. |
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| Jarod Trow, NREMT-P, Instructor
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| When he's not teaching for the Training Group, Jarod is a Paramedic Firefighter with the City of Bellingham. He also works in the aid room at Mt. Baker Ski Area, volunteers for the Bellingham Mountain Rescue Council and has been a rope rescue instructor since 1999. |
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| John Vonk, WEMT, Instructor
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| John Vonk has a diverse background which includes professional experience in the outdoor and marine industries as well as in the military. He most recently served on active duty as a deck watch officer with the U.S. Coast Guard as well as deployed as a logistics officer during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. |
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