Emilie Calvello Hynes, MD, MPH
Dr. Emilie J. Calvello Hynes is a specialist in emergency medicine and public health. She has trained at academic medical centers in the US and crossed trained in austere emergency care through the International Committee of the Red Cross, Harvard University, and the World Health Organization. Her professional interest is in developing emergency care capacity via innovative approaches to health system strengthening and education of health care personnel to provide best practice service delivery. Among her field experiences, she served as director of emergency services for International Medical Corps immediately after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, senior technical advisor to Catholic Relief Services during the Haiti cholera epidemic and senior faculty at JFK Medical Center in Monrovia, Liberia from 2009 to 2013. She is a consultant to the US State Department for their Senior Crisis Management and Hospital-Based Management of Mass Casualty Incident courses held throughout the world and serves as a visiting consultant to the World Health Organization’s program for Emergency and Critical Care.
Dr. Calvello Hynes attended Bryn Mawr College where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry followed by medical school at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine while simultaneously earning her Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed an Emergency Medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Calvello Hynes has served as a Johnson and Johnson Fellow in Liberia, senior faculty at the University of Maryland Global Health Interprofessional Consortium and currently sits on the scientific committees of the African Federation of Emergency Medicine and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health. Her awards include the University of Cape Town Visiting Lecturer Scholarship, University of Maryland Teaching Award, the Johns Hopkins International Scholarship, the Johns Hopkins Service Excellence Award, the Hoobler Award for Excellence in Public Health and Medicine, the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Global Achievement Award and the Colorado School of Public Health - Center for Global Health Excellence in Global Health Award.
Jay Lemery, MD, FACEP, FAWM
Jay Lemery, MD, is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Chief of the Section of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, and an Affiliate Faculty Member of the Colorado School of Public Health. He is a Past-President of the Wilderness Medical Society and has provided medical direction to health care providers operating at both poles, most recently serving as the EMS Medical Director for the US Antarctic Program.
Dr. Lemery has expertise in austere and remote medical care, as well as the effects of climate change on human health. He sits on the National Academy of Medicine’s (IOM) Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine and is currently the Medical Director for the National Science Foundation’s Polar Research program, supporting science in the circumpolar north. From 2011-2016, he was a consultant for the Climate and Health Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Lemery serves as Associate Director for the University of Colorado’s Consortium on Climate Change & Health. He is co-Editor of Global Climate Change and Human Health: From Science to Practice (2015), and an advisor to the organization Climate for Health (ecoAmerica), the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, and the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health. In 2017, he co-authored ‘Enviromedics: the Impact of Climate Change on Human Health.’
He also holds academic appointments at the Harvard School of Public Health (FXB Center), where he is a contributing editor for its Journal, Health and Human Rights, and was Guest Editor for the June 2014 edition on ‘Climate Justice.’ Dr. Lemery is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Caitlin RUblee, MD, MPH
Dr. Rublee is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Colorado School of Public Health. She serves as Director of Graduate Medical Education with the Climate and Health Program through the School of Medicine. Dr. Rublee’s research addresses the climate crisis through health policy and evidence-informed practice so that during and after extreme weather events, patients have access to high quality health care and patients and employees remain safe. Her work has revealed significant opportunities globally to develop climate resilient emergency care systems to protect the most vulnerable. She has been a national and international leader in advocating for physician engagement in communicating climate and health with public audiences and diverse sectors with professional organizations and government agencies. She has led workshops for health professionals in low-, middle-, and high-income settings and is teaching the next generation of physicians about climate solutions as health and equity solutions.
Dr. Rublee received a MD/MPH dual degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She completed residency in Emergency Medicine at The Ohio State University followed by a one-year Climate Change and Health Science Policy Fellowship at the University of Colorado. She was faculty at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee where she was co-instructor for the Global Environmental Health course and served as a steering committee representative to The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, as Chair of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Climate Change and Health Interest Group, and on the Board of Directors for Wisconsin Health Professionals for Climate Action.
Lance Ray, Pharm.D., BCPS
Lance is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado Hospital. Prior to joining the team at University, he was most recently lead ED Pharmacist and Investigational Drug Pharmacist at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital and holds a faculty appointment as Adjunct Professor at University of North Texas College of Pharmacy. He earned his PharmD from the University of Texas College of Pharmacy and is Board Certified as a Pharmacotherapy Specialist.
Lance has served on several large medical mission teams to various regions of Guatemala. This role consisted of designing medication formularies as well as overall drug procurement for clinic, surgical, and dental team components, while also installing temporary pharmacies at existing hospitals and designing smaller outreach pharmacy support to remote locations with extremely limited resources.
Lance currently serves on the Emergency Medicine Advisory Group for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists as well as the Research Advisory Committee for Pharmacy Residents at the University of Colorado. He precepts at all levels of the experiential pharmacy education process including PGY2 Pharmacy Residents in Emergency Medicine and was most recently awarded Outstanding Preceptor of the Year for the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy.
Elaine Reno, MD, DTM&H
Dr. Reno completed medical school at the University of Cincinnati. She went on to complete residency in Emergency Medicine at Denver Health. She completed a fellowship in Wilderness Medicine at the University of Colorado and earned a diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Dr. Reno currently provides medical care in the Emergency Department at the University of Colorado Hospital and works in the Travel, Altitude and Expedition Medical Clinic at the University of Colorado. Her interests include Wilderness Medicine, Medical Education and Global Health.
David young, MD, MS, FAWM
Dr. David Young completed residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency before a fellowship in Wilderness and Environmental Medicine at the University of Colorado. He has practiced in many types of austere environments and low-income countries. His interests include extreme environments, ultra endurance events, and disaster response.
Martin Musi, MD, FAWM
Dr. Musi is currently an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Wilderness & Environmental Fellowship Director at University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is a rescue doctor, member of Rocky Mountain Rescue Group based in Boulder, Colorado. Originally from Argentina, Dr. Musi has developed courses, led expeditions in Latin America (Patagonia!) and Emergency Medicine courses in Panama. He is the founder and director of the Diploma in Mountain Medicine of the Andes (DiMM Andes). His special interest includes frostbite, hypothermia, global health, Search and Rescue, and expedition medicine.