About Our Experts
Michael Jacobs, M.D.
Medical Consultant for the Marine Series
- MedSail Founder and Program Director: Safety at Sea and Medicine for Mariners Conferences
- Medical Director, Vineyard Medical Services, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
- USCG Licensed Captain
- Co-Author, A Comprehensive Guide to Marine Medicine
- Author, Survival at Sea, Textbook of Wilderness Medicine
- Coastal and offshore racing and cruising sailor, kayaker
Doug Ritter
Consultant for the Pocket Survival Pak
- Publisher and Editor of Equipped to Survive
- Board Chairman and Executive Director of the Equipped to Survive Foundation
- Leading authority in the areas of survival and survival equipment and supplies
- Has personally interviewed nearly 120 survivors of aviation, marine, and wilderness survival episodes to gain insight into essential survival
Christopher VanTilburg, M.D.
Medical Consultant and Contributor
- Mountain Rescue Volunteer
- Author of seven outdoor first aid and survival books
- Editor-in-Chief for Wilderness Medicine, the official magazine for Wilderness Medical Society
- Contributing Editor Backcountry Magazine
- Contributing Editor Columbia Gorge Magazine
- “Ask Doc Wild” Columnist National Geographic Adventure