Wemcast

In this session our newest podcast host Sarah Spelsberg speaks with Stephen Wood about emergency concerns and preventive warnings heading into the Fourth of July holiday in the US – a holiday renowned for increased trauma, burns, and explosive injuries - as well as how he balances his extreme/tactical medicine careers with his leadership, research and academia. Stephen proves that you really can have it all in your career. Stephen is an acute care nurse practitioner and program director for the acute care nurse practitioner program and the new Extreme Medicine program at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also the Field Operations Director for the US for World Extreme Medicine. He is currently working clinically in the ED at Carney Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Previous to this he was the director of advanced practice providers in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center from 2021 - 2023 and the director of affiliated providers in the di