Jo Feldman

Jo Feldman earned a BS and MS in Environmental Education where she spent most of her time leading outdoor adventure trips, studying geology and teaching about environmental issues.After graduate school, Jo worked as a National Park Ranger at Sequoia and Grand Canyon National Parks providing wilderness medical care and participating in search and rescues, including helicopter rescue and rappelling off the rim of the Grand Canyon.Jo then left the Park Service to pursue a career in wilderness and emergency medicine.She initially trained as a Wilderness EMT and Paramedic, and is now an Emergency Medicine Physician at Stanford.Starting in August, Jo will be a Fellow in Wilderness Medicine.Her research focus is on Marine/Surf Zone Medicine and Natural Disaster Medicine.Jo just returned from Mount Everest and will include high altitude medicine and rescue stories from Everest in her presentation.