Ken Zafren, MD FAAEM FACEP FAWM

Clinical Focus

• Emergency Medicine

Administrative Appointments

• EMS Medical Director, State of Alaska (2001 - present)
• Associate Medical Director, Himalayan Rescue Association (1993 - present)
• Vice President, International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine (2001 - present)
• Medical Director, Denali National Park Mountaineering Rangers (1997 - 2001)
• Medical Director, Alaska Mountain Rescue Group (1994 - present)
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Honors and Awards

• Education Award of the Wilderness Medical Society, Wilderness Medical Society (2003)
• Service Award of the Wilderness Medical Society, Wilderness Medical Society (2004)
• Hero of Emergency Medicine, American College of Emergency Physicians (2008)

Professional Education

Community & International Work

• Himalayan Rescue Association, Nepal 
• State of Alaska - EMS Medical Director, Alaska 

Industry Relationships

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Research Interests

High altitude medicine, AMS, HACE, HAPE, cold injuries, including hypothermia and frostbite, emergency medical services, wilderness medicine, mountain rescue, thrombosis, international medicine, travel medicine, emergency medicine, resuscitation

Publications

• The use of extrication devices in crevasse accidents: official statement of the International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine and the Terrestrial Rescue Commission of the International Commission for Alpine Rescue intended for physicians, paramedics, and mountain rescuers. Winterberger E, Jacomet H, Zafren K, Ruffinen GZ, Jelk B. Wilderness Environ Med. 2008; 19 (2): 108-10
• Acetazolamide fails to decrease pulmonary artery pressure at high altitude in partially acclimatized humans. Basnyat B, Hargrove J, Holck PS, Srivastav S, Alekh K, Ghimire LV, Pandey K, Griffiths A, Shankar R, Kaul K, Paudyal A, Stasiuk D, Basnyat R, Davis C, Southard A, Robinson C, Shandley T, Johnson DW, Zafren K, Williams S, Weiss EA, Farrar JJ, Swenson ER. High Alt Med Biol. 2008; 9 (3): 209-16
• When searches become futile. Fortini A, Zafren K, Sharp F, Shimanski C. Wilderness Environ Med. 2008; 19 (1): 73
• A reference correction. Zafren K, Wilderness Environ Med. 2007; 18 (4): 323
• Lightning injuries: prevention and on-site treatment in mountains and remote areas. Official guidelines of the International Commission for Mountain Emergency Medicine and the Medical Commission of the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (ICAR and UIAA MEDCOM). Zafren K, Durrer B, Herry JP, Brugger H. Resuscitation. 2005; 65 (3): 369-72