The Medical Fusion Conference is directed by Dr. Gregory Bledsoe, an Emergency Medicine physician who also directs the Expedition Medicine National Conference. Dr. Bledsoe blogs at FreelanceMD.com .
Gregory H. Bledsoe MD MPH
Freelance MD | ExpedMed | Medical Fusion
Dr. Bledsoe is a board certified Emergency Medicine physician and the founder and CEO of Synaptic Productions, a medical education company that organizes both the ExpedMed conferences on Expedition & Wilderness Medicine and the Medical Fusion conference. After completing medical school and residency at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Dr. Bledsoe spent five years on faculty in the Johns Hopkins Department of Emergency Medicine completing a two-year fellowship in International Emergency Medicine and a Masters in Public Health (MPH) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2005, he received the “Teacher of the Year” award from the Johns Hopkins Department of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Bledsoe has extensive experience in international travel having visited over 40 countries. His international medical experience includes serving as a field physician in Honduras, teaching disaster preparedness in Tanzania, leading a nutritional survey among the Beja tribe in northeast Sudan, working as a medical consultant in Beijing, China, teaching Emergency Medicine in Qatar, and acting as the medical officer for ships in both Antarctica and the Arctic, including the North Pole.
In addition to his clinical duties, Dr. Bledsoe has been an instructor and medical consultant for the United States Secret Service. He was the personal physician to former President Bill Clinton during Clinton’s tour of Africa in September 2002, and served in Uganda and Senegal on the advance team of President George W. Bush when the President visited the African continent in July of 2003.
Dr. Bledsoe’s research has been published in many prestigious medical journals including the Journal of Trauma, Prehospital & Disaster Medicine, Southern Medical Journal, Journal of Emergency Medicine, Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Care, and The Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. Most recently, Dr. Bledsoe served as the chief editor of the textbook entitled Expedition and Wilderness Medicine that was published by Cambridge University Press in the fall of 2008. He is a frequent public speaker and has been interviewed by numerous regional and national media outlets including The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The Baltimore Sun, The Naperville Sun, Fort Worth Weekly, Austin-American Statesman, Cincinnati Magazine, El Mundo, ESPN the Magazine, USA Today, FOX 5 New York City, and 60 Minutes.
Dr. Bledsoe currently lives on Saint Simons Island, Georgia. In addition to his medical practice, Dr. Bledsoe is a private pilot, a scuba diver, a student in Brazilian jiu jitsu, and a member of The Explorers Club.
