The Executive Team
Teal Harbin - Base Medical CEO
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Teal is an experienced medical provider and business woman. She is paramedic and instructor certified in Mountain Medicine and Rescue. Her medical background includes ski patrol, mountain rescue, firefighting, pediatric emergency medicine, remote medicine, telemedicine, and international medicine. Teal began her medical career in New Mexico, then moved on to Seattle, WA where she instructed remote medicine and coordinated medical evacuations worldwide. While living in Germany and traveling the world, Teal founded Base Medical in 2017 in Tallinn, Estonia with the mission to empower a safe outdoor community. She recently moved back to her home state of New Mexico where she pursuing her RN and furthering the company.
IG: @outdoor_safety_teal |
Janet PetersonShe/Her
Base Medical Chief Operating Officer
Doctorate in Public Health, Preventive Care, Masters in Kinesiology (Exercise Physiology), Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist, EMT-B, Wilderness Medicine Educator, FACSM, Professor of Health and Human Performance. |
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Janet has an eclectic background in wilderness medicine, exercise physiology, nutrition, public health, preventive care, teaching and research. She is a professor of health and human performance. In addition to conducting and publishing her own research, Janet is a reviewer for several journals and has experience as the nutrition and physical activity section editor for the Wilderness and Environmental Medicine Journal and is a breaking news author. Janet is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and has served as the president of the NW Chapter, twice. She has experience in business development and is a co-founder of the SNACK Program, a non-profit aimed at providing nutrition and physical activity counseling to underserved families in Yamhill County. Janet also runs her own private nutrition practice focusing on chronic health conditions, eating disorders and sports nutrition.
For Base Medical, Janet focuses on managing the day to day operations, program development, instructor training, teaching and learning, writing and reviewing curriculum, and instructing Base Medical courses, in-person, remote and around the world. When she is not conducting research or teaching, Janet can be found bike touring in remote places with her husband, playing with Bonnie, her black lab pup, and dabbling in fiction writing. |
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Tim DurkinHe/him
Base Medical Chief Medical Director, DO, FAAEM, CAQSM, Author, Emergency & Sports Medicine Physician
Dr. Durkin is a board-certified emergency & sports medicine physician and is Base Medical’s Chief Medical Officer. He has over 2 decades of response, patient care and teaching experience that drive his passion for excellence in Base Medical’s curriculum.
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His premedical experiences included service as a camp staffer, SAR responder, urban/rural paramedic, BLS/ACLS/first aid instructor and work on a program management team for DARPA. He completed residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center, the busiest trauma center in Philadelphia, and sports medicine fellowship at University of Florida (Go Gators!). Since residency he has practiced emergency medicine at both large and small hospitals in the southwest and been extensively involved with EMS, SAR and sports medicine coverage. He currently serves as an active responder with La Plata and San Juan County (CO) Search & Rescue, and medical advisor to the San Juan National Forest. He is the author of the Pocket Guide to Event, Outdoor and Sports Medicine. When not working, he enjoys backcountry skiing and trying to keep up with his wife while mountain biking.
IG: @colorado_mountian_doc |
Katy Hetushe/her
Base Medical Executive Administrator
MAT in Bilingual Elementary, and Early Childhood Education, B.A. in Spanish Katy is Base Medical’s Executive Administrator and comes to us after 10 years of teaching Bilingual Education at the Elementary, and Early Childhood level in various Oregon public schools. Her goals are to help make Base Medical customer service efficient, and ensure that communication is clear between students, instructors, and our curriculum. She is also looking forward to making wilderness medicine, and education more accessible to our Spanish speaking families, and customers by currently translating our website and course materials. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, hiking, kayaking, backpacking, and has recently fallen in love with snowshoeing.
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