Our Staff & Instructors

With backgrounds in wilderness medicine education, tactical medicine, urban emergency medical services and Search and Rescue operations, you'll find the staff of CWS to be among the most highly trained remote medicine specialists in the field.

Experienced and passionate outdoor professionals and those new to the out-of-doors will find that our training courses help to prepare them both physically and mentally with the knowledge, skills and ability to provide patient care far beyond what they thought possible.

Instructor State Certifications Shiva Afshartous Director of Event EMS Senior Field Instructor VA WEMT, CPR/AED, ARC-IT Katie Barker Customer Service MA WFR, CPR/AED Jake Benneck Leave No Trace Coord. VA WFA, CPR/AED Aaron Bentley Field Instructor VA WFA, CPR/AED Henry Booth Customer Service VA WFA, CPR/AED Megan Calon Program & Alumni Coord. Admissions Officer PA EMR, CPR/AED Amy Castleman Senior Field Instructor Special Event EMS Leader VA WFR, CPR/AED, ARC-I Clifton Castleman Executive Director, Senior Field Instructor VA WEMT, CPR/AED, ARC-I Jed Drill Gear Shop Manager Senior Field Instructor VA WFR, CPR/AED, ARC-I Phil Gardner Program Director, Senior Field Instructor OH WFR, CPR/AED, IC-3, ARC-I Beth Goldberg Instructor in Training DC WFA, CPR/AED Jennifer Hollinger Field Instructor PA WFR, CPR/AED, ARC-I Jennifer Kay Senior Field Instructor VA RN, BSN, CCRC, CCRP, ACLS, WFR, BCLS-I Jerry Kohns Special Event EMS Leader VA WFA, CPR/AED Ken McNeill Program Consultant VA WFA, CPR/AED Frances Meeker Assistant Medical Director VA RN, BSN, ACLS, TNCC, WFA Daniel Mehan Field Instructor VA EMT-B, WFA, CPR/AED Michael Milazzo Instructor in Training VA WFA, CPR/AED Christopher Patton Senior Field Instructor DC EMT-P, ACLS, IFASC FF-2, ICS-4 Aaron Peppel Field Instructor Event EMS Leader VA WFA, CPR/AED Kristin Portalea Field Instructor MD WFR, CPR/AED Dale Saxby Event EMS Leader VA EMT-B, FF-2, WFA, CPR/AED Leslie Snyder Senior Field Instructor Customer Service PA EMT-P, WFR, ACLS Steven Stivison Field Instructor PA WFR, CPR/AED Danielle Tinker Instructor in Training DC WFA, CPR/AED Kathryn Vaughn Executive Medical Director MD MD, ACLS, WFA