About Us
We are scientists, physicians, ecologists, whitewater boaters, climbers, mountain bikers, and humanists.
Our unique combination of highly-mobile clinical excellence and experienced risk mitigation serves to expand the scientific reach of multiple federally-funded programs focused on climate change and human health, and high-altitude pathophysiology, and human extraterrestrial exploration.
We create leaders.
MGH SPEAR MED is the natural evolution of the MGH Division of Wilderness Medicine’s successes. We are expanding our expertise and need to re-brand in order to better represent the diverse impact of our mission.
We lead research, clinical care, teaching, and policy initiatives across the globe, with a special expertise in working on fundamental, universal, and under-appreciated mechanisms of health.
Stories
MGB Newsroom. “How Do Wildfires Affect Health?” (Jun 2024)
WCVB News. “As temps heat up, new warnings about beach water” (Jun 2024)
Mass General Hospital. “Into the Wild: Space Medicine and What’s Next” (Jun 2024)
Boston Globe. “To deliver medical care in space, doctors are training in the most remote, austere places on Earth” (Jul 2023)
VCU News. “Into the wild: Three alumni share a passion for high-altitude and wilderness medicine” (Mar 2023)
Harvard Gazette. “Applying wisdom from the Himalayas to the ER’s COVID battle” (May 2022)
Harvard Magazine. “Medicine in the Middle of Nowhere” (Nov 2017)