Presenter

Sierra Nevada Conservation & Wilderness Medicine Conference

Photo of Zina Semenovskaya, MD, FAWM, ISTM

Zina Semenovskaya, MD, FAWM, ISTM

Cofounder & Host of the Sierra Nevada Conservation & Wilderness Medicine Conference

Dr. Zina Semenovskaya, MD completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate/ Kings County Hospital in NYC and fellowship in wilderness medicine at Stanford University Medical Center. She is a passionate advocate for animal rights and the environment and her professional interests combine austere and disaster medicine with global health. Most recently, she deployed to the 2015 earthquake in Nepal through the Delaware Medical Relief Team and taught emergency medicine in Bhutan through Health Volunteers Overseas. She has also worked extensively in aeromedical retrieval throughout East and Sub-Saharan Africa with the AMREF Flying Doctors, provided medical support in Jordan with Racing The Planet, and volunteered with surgical missions in Sierra Leone and Ghana with the International Surgical Health Initiative. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM), an Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS) instructor, and a member of the International Society of Travel Medicine. She is currently the medical director at Remote Emergency Medicine Consulting, LLC and splits her time working clinically as an emergency medicine attending in California and Alaska.

Dr. Semenovskaya will lead the following workshops and talks:

Of Mice, Men, and Mosquitoes: Infectious Disease in a Changing Climate

Fever in the Returning Traveler