Jay Lemery

Jay Lemery, M.D., is a professor of emergency medicine and the Climate and Health Foundation endowed chair in climate medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He serves as chief of the school’s Section of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine. He holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health.

Lemery is currently the medical director for the National Science Foundation’s Polar Research Program, and director of the Cryosphere Austere Medicine Platform at the University of Colorado. He was the medical director for emergency medical services for the U.S. Antarctic Program from 2014 to 2016. Lemery is a past president of the Wilderness Medical Society. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.