Medical Expert - Henderson D. McGinnis, MD

McGinnis is an emergency medicine physician and expert in Wilderness Medicine, which focuses on medical problems and treatment in remote environments. It includes aspects of physiology, clinical medicine, preventive medicine, and public health. McGinnis co-authored an article for Wilderness and Environmental Medicine magazine that details the history of wilderness medicine regionalization and the role of regional groups in wilderness medicine. He is active in the Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine (ACWM), established as a non-profit regional organization in 2007 and is believed to be the first to address wilderness medicine with a comprehensive but regional focus to serve the Carolinas, Virginia, West Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee.