Stephanie Benjamin

Stephanie Benjamin, MA, MD, FAWM is an award-winning author, board-certified emergency medicine physician, and has completed fellowships in both EMS and wilderness medicine. 

She is the Medical Director of NEWSI and has been with the organization since its inception. Her dual fellowship training and writing background allow her to create courses tailored to both urban and wilderness EMS providers. In addition to contributing her own courses, Dr. Benjamin oversees medical content published by NEWSI and helps with the ongoing growth of the institute.

Prior to her role at NEWSI, she was the medical director for City of San Diego Fire-Rescue Department (SDFD) Paramedic Program. Dr. Benjamin deployed multiple times with California’s state disaster medical assistance team (CAL-MAT) as Chief Medical Officer for a Covid field hospital. Her boots-on-the-ground experience also includes a decade of experience running large-scale inter-agency mass casualty disaster drills in national parks all over the state of California. 

Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, KevinMD, Annals of Emergency Medicine, GomerBlog, Journal of the American Heart Association, among many other medical and non-medical venues