WHO WE ARE:

Wilderness First Aid, Singapore, was Founded in 2000 and Directed by Shani Tan. After witnessing a horrific accident at a local crag, she started with distributing simple 1st aid leaflets. This low key "teaching" has grown to a full fledged 2 day certification course endorsed by the Singapore Mountaineering Federation.

Shani is currently Senior Consultant in Paediatric Anaesthesia at the KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore. She was the President of the Asian Society of Paediatric Anaesthesiologists from 2003-2005, and apart from her professional interest in Paediatric Anaesthesia, she also has a keen interest in Wilderness Medicine, in particular High Altitude Medicine and Physiology. She was one of the founder members of the Mountaineering Society of Singapore and the 1st female President of MOSS. She is currently a member of the Wilderness Medical Society and the International Society for Mountain Medicine.

She has been climbing and trekking for over 20years and has a long climbing resume which includes summits of Aconcagua, Elbrus and Mont Blanc. She made the first Singaporean female attempt to climb Mt McKinley in Alaska in 2002. She was the official basecamp doctor for the 1st Singapore Everest Expedition in 1998. Most recently, in August 2005, she was a member of an all Singapore team to climb virgin peaks in Kazakhstan.

She currently is involved in Emergency Planning, has Hazmat Provider certification and instructs in ATLS (Acute Trauma Life Support) courses for the School of Military Medicine.

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Wilderness First Aid is endorsed by the Singapore Mountaineering Federation and the Mountaineering Society, Singapore

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Site updated 3rd September 2007