Seth C. Hawkins
Seth C. Hawkins MD, FACEP, FAEMS, MFAWM, MFAEG | |
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Born | 1971 |
Nationality | American |
Other names | Seth Collings Hawkins |
Alma mater | Yale University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Pittsburgh |
Occupation(s) | Physician, writer, anthropologist |
Known for | Founder, Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine; Founder, Appalachian Mountain Rescue Team; Founder, Carolina Wilderness EMS Externship |
Seth Christopher Collings Hawkins (born 1971) is an American
Early life and education
Hawkins was born in the
Hawkins earned his
Career
Humanities/anthropology
While a medical student, Hawkins co-founded iris: the UNC journal of medicine, literature & visual art, a
Wilderness medicine and EMS
While a medical student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Hawkins and Jenny Graham co-founded Carolina Wilderness Medicine, one of the first wilderness medicine student interest groups in the country and one of his first actions as an organizational innovator. This student interest group is still active at UNC-Chapel Hill (www.med.unc.edu/wmig). Further organizational innovations included student-run southeastern wilderness medicine conferences—the first of their kind in the southeast—held in 1998 and 2000 in Chapel Hill and initiated by Hawkins and Graham.
In 2007, continuing as an organizational innovator, Hawkins founded the Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine, a regional wilderness medicine nonprofit organization.[10] Hawkins served as the medical director for the Burke EMS Special Operations Team, the first EMS-based wilderness rescue team in North Carolina, from 2008 to 2021.[9][11][12] This team serves the Linville Gorge Wilderness Area, the deepest gorge in the eastern United States, as well as South Mountains State Park, the largest state park in NC. In 2011, in conjunction with Drs. Michael Millin and Will Smith, he co-developed the Wilderness EMS Medical Director Course. This was the first such course to be jointly endorsed by the Wilderness Medical Society and the National Association of EMS Physicians.[13] The Journal of EMS recognized Hawkins, along with Millin and Smith, as one of the Top 10 EMS Innovators of 2011 for the development of this course.[14][15][16]
Hawkins helped develop a distance-accessible baccalaureate wilderness EMS program while on the faculty at Western Carolina University. In 2011, continuing as an organizational innovator, he founded the Carolina Wilderness EMS Externship, a unique wilderness medicine rotation for medical students and residents specifically focused on wilderness EMS activities.[17][18] He also serves as medical director of the North Carolina State Parks system and Western Piedmont Community College. On Earth Day 2012 he established the International Institute for Sustainability in Emergency Services (iiSES), which developed from the Green EMS Initiative,[19] a multinational non-governmental organization dedicated to improving sustainability in EMS operations and workforce. He has field tested and published recommendations regarding use of hybrid vehicles in wilderness EMS response,[20] which has been cited as the "future for a greener EMS".[21][22]
He serves as the medical director of Landmark Learning, an outdoor education and wilderness EMS school in
In 2013 he founded the Appalachian Mountain Rescue Team, the first fully credentialed
In 2017 he and Kentucky-based paramedic David Fifer founded and currently host the RAW (Remote, Austere, Wilderness) Medicine Podcast.[24] He has lectured extensively on wilderness medicine topics and published widely in the EMS, emergency, and wilderness medicine literature.
He is the executive editor of the Wilderness Medical Society's Wilderness Medicine Magazine,[25] co-author of Vertical Aid: Essential Wilderness Medicine for Climbers, Trekkers, and Mountaineers (W. W. Norton & Company, 2017), and is editor of the textbook Wilderness EMS (Wolters Kluwer, 2018).
Emergency medicine
Hawkins has been a full-time clinical emergency physician since 2003. He was chair and medical director of the
Awards and recognition
In 2008, Hawkins was named a "Hero of Emergency Medicine" by the American College of Emergency Physicians[28][29] and "Yalie of the Week" by the Yale Alumni Magazine for his emergency medicine and wilderness EMS work.[30]
In 2009 the Wilderness Medical Society presented Hawkins with the WMS-Ball Award, now known as the Ice Axe Award.[31]
In 2013, Hawkins became the first physician ever named a Master Fellow (MFAWM) by the Academy of Wilderness Medicine.[32]
In 2014 the Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine awarded him its Mountain Laurel Award, their lifetime achievement award.[33]
In 2018 he received the Dave Carter Leadership Award from the NC Search & Rescue Advisory Council, the Innovation in Medical Education Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and the Outstanding Contribution Award from the Mountain Rescue Association.[34] In that year Hawkins also became the first physician ever named a Master Fellow (MFAEG) of the Adventurers and Explorers Guild, a third-party certifier of an international multidisciplinary professional community of explorers, adventurers, and expeditioners.[35] Hawkins was also named one of the Top 10 EMS Innovators of 2018 by the Journal of EMS (JEMS) for the publication of the textbook Wilderness EMS, the first multiauthor academic textbook specifically designed for healthcare professionals providing systematic health care in wilderness settings.[36]
In 2019 Hawkins received the Wilderness Medical Society Education Award and the Karl Rohnke Award from the Association for Experiential Education.[37][38]
Personal life
Hawkins lives in Morganton, North Carolina with his wife and three children in a unique solar home on the Catawba River below the Linville Gorge Wilderness.[39]
Selected publications
- Hawkins SC, ed. Emergency Medicine Narratives: An Emergency Medicine Humanities Collection. American College of Emergency Physicians, 2019.
- Hawkins SC, ed. Wilderness EMS. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer, 2018.
- Hawkins SC, Simon RB, Beissinger JP, Simon D. Vertical Aid: Essential Wilderness Medicine for Climbers, Trekkers, and Mountaineers. New York: The Countryman Press, 2017.
- Millin, Michael G.; Johnson, David E.; Schimelpfenig, Tod; Conover, Keith; Sholl, Matthew; Busko, Jonnathan; Alter, Rachael; Smith, Will; Symonds, Jennifer; Taillac, Peter; Hawkins, Seth C. (November 2, 2017). "Medical Oversight, Educational Core Content, and Proposed Scopes of Practice of Wilderness EMS Providers: A Joint Project Developed by Wilderness EMS Educators, Medical Directors, and Regulators Using a Delphi Approach". Prehospital Emergency Care. 21 (6): 673–681. S2CID 38879391.
- Hawkins, Seth Collings; Sempsrott, Justin; Schmidt, Andrew (August 2017). "News: 'Drowning' in a Sea of Misinformation". Emergency Medicine News. 39 (8): 1, 39–40. .
- Hawkins SC. Environmental Emergencies. In Caroline’s Care in the Streets, 8e, Pollak A, Aehlert B, Elling B eds. Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2017.
- Hawkins SC, Millin MG, Smith WR. Wilderness Emergency Medical Services. In Auerbach's Wilderness Medicine, 7e, Auerbach PS, ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2017.
- Sempsrott J, Schmidt A, Hawkins SC, Cushing T. Submersion Injuries and Drowning. In Auerbach's Wilderness Medicine, 7e, Auerbach PS, ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2017.
- Hawkins SC, Millin MG, Smith WR. Care in the Wilderness, in Emergency Medical Services: Clinical Practice and Systems Oversight, 2nd Edition, Vol 2: Medical Oversight of EMS, Cone DC, Brice JH, Delbridge T, Myers JB, eds. 2015: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, pp 377–391.
- Millin, Michael G.; Hawkins, Seth; Demond, Anthony; Stiller, Gregory; McGinnis, Henderson D.; Baker Rogers, Janna; Smith, William R. (June 2015). "Wilderness Emergency Medical Services Medical Director Course: Core Content Developed With Delphi Technique". Wilderness & Environmental Medicine. 26 (2): 256–260. .
- Hawkins, Seth C.; Weil, Carl; Baty, Fred; Fitzpatrick, David; Rowell, Bryan (December 2013). "Retrieval of Additional Epinephrine From Auto-Injectors". Wilderness & Environmental Medicine. 24 (4): 434–444. .
- Hawkins, Seth C. (June 2012). "The Relationship Between Ski Patrols and Emergency Medical Services Systems". Wilderness & Environmental Medicine. 23 (2): 106–111. PMID 22656654.
- Hawkins, SC (2012). "Wilderness EMS Medical Director Course". Wilderness Medicine. 29 (1): 24.
- Hawkins SC. “Principles of Trauma” in Outdoor Emergency Care 5e, McNamara EC, ed. Boston: Brady, 2011.
- Hawkins SC. “Wilderness EMS” in Paramedic Practice Today: Above and Beyond, Aehlert B, ed. St. Louis: Mosby-JEMS Elsevier, 2009.
- Hawkins, Seth C. (August 2009). "The Idea of Order in the Emergency Department". Annals of Emergency Medicine. 54 (2): 298. PMID 19616727.
- Hawkins, Seth C. (July 2008). "The Green Machine: Development of a high-efficiency, low-pollution EMS response vehicle". Journal of Emergency Medical Services. 33 (7): 108–110. PMID 18602596.
- Hawkins, Seth C.; Smeeks, Frank; Hamel, John (February 2008). "Emergency Management of Chronic Pain and Drug-Seeking Behavior: An Alternate Perspective". The Journal of Emergency Medicine. 34 (2): 125–129. .
- Hawkins, Seth C.; Shapiro, Alan H.; Sever, Adrianne E.; Delbridge, Theodore R.; Mosesso, Vincent N. (March 2007). "The role of law enforcement agencies in out-of-hospital emergency care". Resuscitation. 72 (3): 386–393. .
- Hawkins, Seth Collings (July 2004). "Emergency Medicine Narratives: A Systematic Discussion of Definition and Utility". Academic Emergency Medicine. 11 (7): 761–765. .
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- ^ a b c "Seth C Hawkins | Wake Forest University School of Medicine - Academia.edu". wfubmc.academia.edu. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
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- ^ Craft, Mary-Kathryn (January 16, 1998). "Body + Soul". The Daily Tar Heel. Chapel Hill, NC.
- ^ "2008 Creative Writing Award". Acep.org. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
- ^ a b "Seth Collings Hawkins". Marquis Who's Who Top Educators. December 13, 2021. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
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- ^ a b c "Dr. Seth Hawkins awarded for community dedication". Morganton News Herald. October 19, 2015. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
- S2CID 32016691.
- ^ "Rock Climbing Accident: Climber Fined For Obstructing Rescue". Rock and Ice, September 2, 2014 by Jeff Jackson
- ^ Wilderness EMS. Wolters Kluwer. 2018.
- PMID 22441081.
- ^ "Hawkins Named One of EMS Top 10". Morganton News Herald. Morganton, NC. March 23, 2012.
- ^ Kincaid, Cynthia (March 27, 2012). "Blazing a Trail". JEMS.
- ^ "Forging a Path". Innovators in EMS 2011, page 22. Supplement to the Journal of Emergency Medicine.
- ^ "The Carolina Wilderness EMS Externship". American College of Emergency Physicians EMS-Prehospital Care Section Newsletter. September 2011.
- ^ David Amsalem and Ryan Circh (2012). "Carolina Wilderness EMS Externship". Wilderness Medicine. 29 (1): 31.
- ^ "Go Green in the New Year to Minimize Your environmental Impact". Best Practices in Emergency Services: 138. December 2008.
- PMID 18602596.
- ^ Hawkins, Seth (November 19, 2008). "Hybrids could be the Future for Greener EMS Vehicles". Medscape.
- ^ "Middletown High School Class of '89 grad earns medical award". The Middletown Press. October 19, 2015. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ "Vertical Medicine Resources: Staff Bios". Vertical Medicine Resources. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
- ^ "RAW Medicine Podcast: About Us". RAW Medicine Podcast. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
- ^ "The Masters". Wilderness Medicine Magazine. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ "Seth C Hawkins". Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
- ^ "Burke EMS director Hawkins designated as national academy fellow". Morganton News Herald. February 24, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
- ^ "ER Doctor Deemed Hero of Emergency Medicine". Morganton News Herald. Washington, DC. March 27, 2008.
- ^ "North Carolina Heroes of Emergency Medicine". American College of Emergency Physicians. Archived from the original on September 4, 2014. Retrieved March 30, 2012.
- ^ "Yalie of the Week". Yale Alumni Magazine. Archived from the original on May 21, 2009. Retrieved March 30, 2012.
- ^ "WMS Awards". WMS.org. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
- ^ "The Masters". Wilderness Medical Society. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
- ^ Van Tilburg C (2009). "WMS/BALL Award 2009". Wilderness Medicine. 26 (4): 27.
- ^ "Dr. Seth Hawkins, Local EMS Externship Honored with National Award". Morganton News Herald. Morganton, NC. June 5, 2018.
- ^ "Medical Director Inducted into International Guild". Morganton News Herald. Morganton, NC. January 23, 2019.
- ^ "2018 EMS10 Winner Profile: Seth Hawkins". Journal of EMS. March 11, 2019. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
- ^ "WMS Awards". WMS.org. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
- ^ Chrissy Murphy (January 21, 2020). "EMS Medical Director Recognized for Experiential Education". Morganton News Herald. Morganton, NC.
- ^ Julie N. Chang (December 18, 2010). "Family builds green home". Morganton News Herald. Morganton, NC.