Kurt Eifling, MD, FAWM is a practicing emergency physician with residency training in Emergency Medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis and fellowship training in Wilderness and Environmental Medicine at University of Colorado Medical Center. He currently lives and practices medicine in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas, where he serves on the faculty of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Northwest Campus. He has been active in the Wilderness Medical Society since 2011, helping to establish and update national practice guidelines for heat illness and for the immediate and long-term psychological impacts of emotionally stressful experiences in wilderness settings. Through a series of deployments, he has spent over two years providing medical care in field camp settings including active conflict zones in Afghanistan, Greenland’s Summit Station with the National Science Foundation, shipboard medicine, and mass gatherings in jungles and deserts. His own research and publications focus on wellness in field camp settings.

Angela Susak earned her PhD in Egyptian archaeology from the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation research was a multi-disciplinary study of Roman glass from Karanis, Egypt, which combined archaeological and chemical compositional data, ethnoarchaeology, and historical insights to assess how objects were valued in the ancient world. She has over ten years of experience working on numerous archaeological projects in Egypt and in North America. She also conducted ethnoarchaeological studies in Egypt and in the United Kingdom. With an undergraduate joint degree in psychology and anthropology, she has a deeply rooted interest in human behavior, both past and present. She strongly believes that anthropological and archaeological research can inform present conditions worldwide and that field research is an invaluable experience one may apply to a vast range of disciplines. Angela strives to help carry out IFR’s mission to provide transformative programs and to promote equity, diversity and accessibility in field school education.