Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the 20th Century

Join emergency medicine expert and California Academy of Sciences researcher Matthew Lewin for a special lecture on wilderness medicine. Dr. Lewin is an internationally recognized expert in the practice of emergency medicine and wilderness medicine. He has served as doctor on major scientific expeditions sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum, Kellogg Foundation and National Geographic funded scientific expeditions. He is the author of several book chapters in leading texts on wilderness medicine and is a regular contributor to major, peer-reviewed publications. Since 2008, he has been the California Academy of Sciences emergency medicine liaison to UCSF. He has played an active role in developing and testing protocols for the safe handling and first aid of Academy and Aquarium employees potentially exposed to venomous animals housed on Academy grounds and on display to the public. His current research is focused on the global expansion of treatments for snakebite and other neurotoxins that disable or kill by paralysis.

Speaker: Dr. Matt Lewin, Center for Exploration and Travel Health; Fellow, California Academy of Sciences