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Wilderness Medicine, Outdoor Safety Education, EMS, Rescue
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Adirondack Wilderness Medicine provides medical and rescue courses and workshops for hikers, climbers, skiers, paddlers, guides, camp counselors, hunters, companies with employees in remote locations, rescue squads, SAR teams, fire departments and anyone interested in safety in the outdoors.
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Clark Hayward, EMTP, AWLS
Co-Director, Founder
Adirondack Wilderness Medicine
Clark has over 40 years of outdoor recreation and guiding experience. He is certified in Advanced Wilderness Life Support from the Univ. of Utah School of Medicine, a practicing paramedic in Saratoga Springs NY and a medic with the Lower Adirondack Wilderness Rescue Team. Clark is also an instructor for SOLO (Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities), the National Ski Patrol OEC Program, a NYS Licensed Outdoor Guide, a NASAR certified SARTec and a member of the Wilderness Medical Society.
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Jon Politis, MPA, NREMT-P
Co-Director
Jon is the Chief of the Colonie EMS Department, a combination career and volunteer service in upstate NY. Active as an EMT since 1971, he has been a career firefighter, state EMS training coordinator for two states (Vermont and New York) and a paramedic training program coordinator. He was a member of the National Registry of EMTs board, a member of the Committee on Accreditation for the EMS Professions, and was a group leader for the national EMT-I and EMT-P curriculum project. He is the author of numerous publications and stays active in the field as a flight paramedic, ski patroller, EMS and rescue instructor. He is also an active technical climber/ mountaineer and licensed NYS rock and ice climbing guide. He also teaches for numerous National Parks and volunteers a few weeks a year with the Jenny Lake Rangers in Grand Teton National Park.
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Adirondack Wilderness Medicine is an authorized training center for SOLO of Conway, NH. SOLO is the world leader for wilderness medicine education. SOLO is reknown for giving birth to wilderness medicine education and has trained over 75,000 people the world over since it's inception in 1976. SOLO certifications are recognized internationally as the highest quality training for the provision of remote and long-term patient care, technical rescue, and risk management.
Adirondack Wilderness Medicine instructors are seasoned, active medical and outdoor professionals. Each instructor has many years of experience in delivering high quality educational programs in an open learning environment.
Either from our "home site" at the Ndakinna Education Center just outside Saratoga Springs, NY or at your location, Adirondack Wilderness Medicine delivers the finest in wilderness medicine, EMS and rescue education available anywhere.
We look forward to working with you soon!
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