DiMM Course Lecturers

Jonathan Glass, MD
Jonathan Glass, MD FAAD is a US Navy veteran and board-certified Dermatologist with a focus on developing access to high-quality Dermatology care and training to underserved communities and rural health / primary care providers. Dr Glass served in the US Navy for nine years in Virginia, Southeast Asia and Peru, collaborating with foreign militaries and Ministries of Health in Southeast Asia to provide expert epidemiology, geomapping and laboratory support for outbreaks such as Anthrax, H5N1 and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever; designed and developed Outbreak Investigation Workshops in Vanuatu, Sri Lanka and Indonesia to develop indigenous expertise to investigate local outbreaks; and designed a syndromic surveillance system and refined detection algorithms to assist local health officials to identify suspected infectious outbreaks in communities and assisted the adoption of a similar system in Peru with US NAMRU-6. Other projects included a scabies prevalence study and mitigation education program in Fiji’s indigenous communities. At Dartmouth Health, he has been principal investigator of clinical trials bringing advanced dermatologic therapies to patients in the Upper Valley, working with medical students at Good Neighbor Health Clinic, sun safety outreach education to Native American communities in Minnesota and Upper Valley, and designing studies to better understand the impact of socioeconomic variables with sun safety behavior and skin cancer rates.

Brian Irwin, MD, FAAFP, FAWM
Dr. Irwin is a primary care provider at Tamworth Family Medicine. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Irwin specializes in Travel Medicine and holds a Certificate of Travel Health from the International Society of Travel Medicine and operates a travel medicine clinic. He was the expedition physician for National Geographic’s exploration of Guyana in 2022. Dr. Irwin is also the Medical Director for multiple ski patrols and search and rescue groups. In addition to being a physician, Dr. Irwin is also a published freelance writer and photographer. He has spent the last 20 years exploring the world from Mt. Washington to Patagonia and publishing his adventures in newspapers, magazines and medical journals.

Evie Marcolini, MD
Evie Marcolini is Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs for the Department of Emergency Medicine and practices Emergency Medicine and Neurocritical Care at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire.  She has led expeditions for the Outward Bound School in Maine for many years, and has led multiple climbing trips in the White Mountains, both Summer and Winter. Evie has taught wilderness medicine for Wilderness Medical Associates for over 30 years. She is an experienced ski patroller, rock and ice climber, and has expedition experience in the White Mountains, Denali National Park, Rainier National Park, Scotland and the Italian Dolomites.

Richard Trierweiler, MD, MPH, FAWM
Dr. Trierweiler is an ultrasound fellowship-trained emergency medicine physician with significant experience in wilderness and austere medicine. He has spent tens of thousands of miles on human powered expeditions, including at extreme altitudes. Dr. Trierweiler has directed multiple wilderness medicine electives for both medical students and residents, including a downhill skiing elective. In addition to wilderness teaching, Dr. Trierweiler has practiced medicine remotely on four separate continents, including six months at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica.