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Adirondack
Wilderness Medicine provides medical and rescue training for remote environments to rescue squads, fire departments,
SAR teams, companies with employees in remote locations as well as hikers, climbers, skiers, paddlers, outdoor guides
and camp counselors. We also provide OSHA approved workplace health and safety courses such as CPR/AED, Bloodborne Pathogen
and Emergency Response in the Workplace.
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Clark
Hayward - EMTP, AWLS
Director, Founder
Adirondack Wilderness Medicine
Clark has 16 years of emergency
medical and rescue experience plus over 40 years of outdoor recreation and guiding experience. He is a certified NYS
paramedic in Saratoga Springs NY, certified in Advanced Wilderness Life Support from the Univ. of Utah School of
Medicine, 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, the Regional Advisor for the
NSP Mountain Travel and Rescue Program, a NYS Licensed Outdoor Guide, a NASAR certified SARTec. Member:
Wilderness Medical Society and International Society for Mountain Medicine
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JonPolitis - MPA, NREMTP Jon runs Technical Rope Rescue training for us as well as being
a Lead Instructor for SOLO Emergency Medicine courses. 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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