Seth Collings Hawkins is an anthropologist-physician, double board-certified in emergency medicine and EMS. He’s the first physician named Master Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. He’s also a Fellow of the Academy of EMS, the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Hawkins serves as an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Wake Forest University and Associate Director of its Wilderness Medicine Fellowship. He is medical director of more than half a dozen EMS entities. He also serves as medical director of the National Association for Search & Rescue, all the US Forests in NC, MT, ND, and SD (USFS), the Outer Banks (National Park Service), and all NC state parks.