With our staff and instructors coming from 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. Additionally, many of our staff and instructors are members and/or FAWM of the Wilderness Medical Society.
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.
Our Staff + Instructors
Aaron Peppel
Senior Instructor
North Carolina
Clif Castleman 
Director, Co-Founder
Virginia
Amy Castleman
Instructor
Virginia
Corey Vezina
Risk Management Consultant
Washington D.C.
Dianne Bullach
Office Manager
Virginia
Jennifer Kay
Curriculum Director
Virginia
Jerry Kohns
Instructor
Virginia
John Luck
Expedition Medicine Programs
Virginia
Joseph Vulpis
Instructor / Affiliate
New Jersey
Kat Harnest
Instructor in Training
Florida
Katie Dixon
Senior Instructor
Maryland
Katy Hart
Volunteer Coordinator
Virginia
Lisa Kaplan
Customer Service
Ohio
Maddie Brown
Customer Service
Colorado
Megan Bowling
Senior Instructor
Washington D.C.
Michael Rose
Disaster Preparedness Programs
Virginia
Rachel Short
Instructor in Training
Virginia
Ryan Housley
Asst. Gear Shop Manager
Virginia
Sean Lunn
Senior Instructor
Virginia
Sean McElligott
Instructor
Virginia
Stacey Lavallie
IT / Web
Canada
Stephen Marshall
Instructor in Training
Florida
Steven Mosley
Instructor
New Jersey
Board of Directors
Craig Dubishar, ESQ
Board of Directors
Virginia
Fred Rubin
Board of Directors
Virginia
John Blackwell
Board of Directors
Virginia
Frances Pickerill, RN
Asst. Medical Director
Virginia
Bill Incatasciato, M.D.
Executive Medical Director
Virginia
Jennifer Kay, RN
Curriculum Director
Virginia