Grant Lipman

Dr. Lipman is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and Director of the Stanford Wilderness Medicine Section and Wilderness Medicine Fellowship, the first of its kind in the United States. He is a researcher and specializes in interventional trials and prospective studies in extreme environments, writer, and educator on diverse wilderness medicine topics. He is a leader in the field of academic wilderness medicine, having served as Chair of the American College of Emergency Physician's Wilderness Medicine Section, Founder and Chair of the Wilderness Medical Society's GME Fellowship Committee, Chair of Wilderness Medical Society Research Committee, and sits on the Board of Directors of the Wilderness Medical Society, as well as editorial boards of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, High Altitude Medicine & Biology and Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open.

Born in South Africa and raised in Oregon, Dr. Lipman's love for the outdoors grew out of climbing and skiing the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. He earned his bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies from Connecticut College, Medical Doctorate from St. George's University School of Medicine, and residency at St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York before heading back to the west coast to complete his training in the Wilderness Medicine Fellowship at Stanford. He has served as expedition medical director on 6 continents.

Dr. Lipman's current research and scholarly interests include examination of novel devices and medications for the prevention of acute mountain sickness and unpacking the pathophysiology of the body's acclimation to high altitude. He serves as Research Director of RacingThePlanet ultramarathons, and has run 15 years of studies examining utramarathon injuries and interventions on exercise-associated hyponatremia, hypernatremia, acute kidney injury, and blisters. His areas of interest have included both cold and heat injury prevention and treatment, exercise performance, and climate change and effect on injury and illness. His interest in examing the interface of the human condition with the outdoors extends to a wide variety of environments and topographies.