Pacific Northwest Wilderness Medicine held the first Northwest MedWAR in 2019.
After a few years of not being able to put on the race in 2020, 2021, and 2022, we hosted the successful return of MedWAR NW in April 2023.
We are thrilled to be able to keep the excitement going with MedWAR NW again in October 2025!
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email us at medwar@pnwmed.org.
MedWAR Northwest Advisors
Dr. CASSIE LOWRY, DO, FAWM
Board Advisor, PNWM, NWMC, and NW MedWAR Founder
Dr. Lowry, current Chair of the Wilderness Medical Society Search & Rescue Committee, is a practicing Urgent Care provider in San Diego, CA with a background in wilderness medicine that has preceded her medical career. Tracking back to Washington State as a Wilderness EMT, she started with Search & Rescue and Ski Patrol both of which she continued through medical school and into residency. She is a co-founder of the Northwest Wilderness Medicine Conference, Pacific Northwest Wilderness Medicine, and the Northwest MedWAR. She remained VP of PNWM throughout residency and now remains on as a board advisor.
Dr. Lowry is a graduate from Pacific Northwest University in Washington and Montana Family Medicine Residency in Billings, MT. She continues to support the SAR community and medical education through education and support in risk evaluation, hypothermia, altitude medicine, and climbing injuries. She spends much of her spare time with friends climbing, traveling, and skiing.
Carlton Heine, MD PhD, FACEP, FAWM
PNWM Board Member, MedWAR NW Medical Advisor
Dr. Heine is a practicing emergency medicine physician with a special interest in wilderness medicine. He moved from Alaska to Spokane to be the Clinical Education Director for Emergency Medicine and the Foundational Sciences Education Director for Physiology at the new Elson S Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University. He founded the ACEP Section of Wilderness Medicine and has been a long time member and currently on the board of directors of the Wilderness Medical Society. He has been active with the National Ski Patrol for over twenty years and is passionate about backcountry skiing and other outdoor activities in wild places.
The Doggos
So many incredible individuals and good boys have been integral in the organization and presentation of PNWM’s events over the years, and MedWAR NW has been no different. Not everyone is listed in these pages but we’d like to continue to express our endless gratitude to all those who have made our events a success.