Wilderness Medical Society (WMS)
Founded in 1983, the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) is the world’s leading organization devoted to wilderness medical challenges. Wilderness medicine topics include expedition and disaster medicine, dive medicine, search and rescue, altitude illness, cold- and heat-related illness, wilderness trauma, and wild animal attacks. The goals of the Wilderness Medical Society will be to explore health risks and safety issues in extreme situations such as mountains, jungles, deserts, caves, marine environments, and space and to foster an appreciation and respect for natural spaces.