Wilderness Medical Society (WMS)

Founded in 1983, the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) is the world's leading nonprofit organization devoted to wilderness medical challenges. Wilderness medicine topics include expedition and disaster medicine, dive medicine, search and rescue, altitude illness, cold- and heat-related illness, wilderness trauma, survival, and wild animal attacks. The WMS explores health risks and safety issues in extreme environments such as mountains, jungles, deserts, caves, the ocean, and space.

Mission:
The mission of the Wilderness Medical Society is to encourage, foster, support, or conduct activities to improve the scientific knowledge of the membership and general public in human health activities in a wilderness environment.