Board Members
Jeena Fuller, PA-C, FAWM
Jeena is a Yale-trained physician assistant, mentor, and educator whose path has taken her from fire engines in Montana to commercial fishing boats in the Bering Sea and Norther Atlantic. She has worked as an EMT/ Firefighter from coast-to-coast, provided medical support services for outdoor recreation events, volunteered with SAR, and currently educates the next generation of PAs while working full-time in Vascular Surgery. When she is not in the OR or teaching wilderness medicine, you can find her mountain biking, trail running, skiing, snowboarding, or making music with her 2 kids and husband.
FoundER
Mary Showstark, MPAS, PA-C, PhD, FAWM
Mary Showstark is a physician assistant and global disaster response expert with a unique background spanning trauma surgery, emergency medicine, and crisis coordination in complex environments. She has served in disaster zones, including post-earthquake Haiti and Nepal, as well as wildfire-affected areas in Maui and Los Angeles. She has worked in emergency preparedness and response across regions of the Philippines and has conducted post-disaster needs assessments in multiple locations, including Venezuela and the Bahamas. With a PhD in Securities and Intelligence Studies, Mary combines frontline medical expertise with deep strategic insight into emergency preparedness and response, disaster management, mass gatherings, and humanitarian operations. As Chief Liaison Officer for Health Tech Without Borders and a consultant for the World Bank, she advances the use of online education, group learning, organizational culture, psychological safety, and the integration of extended reality and AI to strengthen global preparedness and resilience. Mary ahs also traveled to over 100 countries.
Founding Board Member
Glenn Barnes, DNP, EMT-P, FAWM, FWEM
Dr. Glenn Barnes is a Doctor of Nursing Practice with over 30 years of experience in trauma, emergency preparedness, weapons of mass destruction, survival, executive protection, and emergency response. Dr. Barnes’ background includes over 28 years of military service having served in both the US Army and US Navy. He is a former US Army Green Beret 18 delta who returned to military service in the Navy Nurse Corp after 9/11. Given his background, he was selected to lead a joint task force team to train federal law enforcement in emergency response for the two years after 9/11. Lieutenant Commander Barnes then deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom/ Enduring Freedom and was the Officer in Charge of the largest outlying clinic just south of the Iraqi Border. Post-Deployment he began a career as a private military contractor working counter-narcotics in Afghanistan, diplomatic protection in Iraq, and a year as the Senior Nurse Mentor to the Ministry of Interior of Afghanistan. He returned to the US and began his career in academia, earning a DNP with a focus on pathogen response. He is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Texas A&M University where he has created the first nurse-specific austere medicine training program and is pioneering the formation of the nation’s first program to train nurses to provide care in space.
Founding Board Member