Associate Professor
wmw@med.unc.edu

Education

• Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 1975

Residency

• Emergency Medicine Residency

• Central Texas Medical Foundation, Austin, TX

Board Certification

• American Board of Emergency Medicine

Professional Societies and Memberships

• Physicians for Social Responsibility
  • Chair, House of Delegates, 1986 - 87
  • National President, 1989
  • Chair, Physicians Task Force on Nuclear Weapon Production, 1989-92
• Wilderness Medical Society
• Physicians for a National Health Care Program
• Pan American Consortium for Emergency Medicine Development
  • Board of Directors, 2006 - present
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Faculty Senate, current
• Mid Carolina State Medical Assistance Team, 2005 to present

Honors and Awards

• Former national President of Physicians for Social Responsibility

• Vice-chair of the North Carolina Committee to Defend Health Care

• Faculty sponsor for Carolina Wilderness Medicine

• Medical School Delegate on the Commission to Address Smart Growth, Growth Management and Developmental Issues

• Faculty, 'A Su Salud', Spanish for Healthcare professionals

• Medical Director, Free Clinic, Panama, S. A.

• Tarheel of the Week, 2004

Special Interests

• Wilderness Medicine
• Disaster Medicine
• Health Care Access
• International Medicine
• Social Justice