Join The Explorers Club and hear about EC Fellow William Rom’s experiences from the scientific world of academic medicine to the wilds of the world.
In Adventure Is in His DNA: Exploring the Boundary Waters, Skiing, and Academic Medicine, Dr. William N. Rom FR’91 retraces his career as a physician-scientist, from founding the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Utah to working as a senior investigator at the Pulmonary Branch/National Institutes of Health and finally to NYU/Bellevue, where he was director of the NYU Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine; chief of the Bellevue Chest Service for twenty-five years; and program director of the NYU General Clinical Research Center for sixteen years.
In addition to his medical career, Rom has spent a lifetime pursuing outdoor adventures across the globe. From his beginnings as a wilderness canoe guide in the Boundary Waters and Quetico Provincial Park, where he paddled practically all the lakes, he went on to conquer major rivers across North America and has summited some of the world’s highest peaks, including Denali and Mount Doonerak in Alaska, Switzerland’s Monte Rosa, and Kilimanjaro. The excitement he experienced on these expeditions led him to join the first team of Westerners to climb Geladaindong Peak, the source of the Yangtze River in Tibet, and, later, to follow in the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton, crossing the Allardyce Range of South Georgia in the South Atlantic. Recent exploits have included a decade of ski racing in Aspen, as well as commissioning a life-size bronze sculpture of the canoeing voyageurs as a way to give back to his hometown, Ely, Minnesota.
The Lecture will be highlighted by a book signing; the introduction highlights The Explorers Club and 15 major expeditions including five that were awarded the Explorers Club Flag.
This in-person event at the Explorers Club Headquarters will include an audience Q&A.
RESERVATIONS
This will be an in-person lecture at Explorers Club Headquarters.
In-person tickets are $20 for Members, and $35 for the General Public.
Check-in will begin at 6:00 pm, with a beer and wine reception from 6:00 – 7:00 pm
William Rom
William N. Rom MD, MPH is the Global Distinguished Professor of Environmental Health at NYU School of Global Public Health and the Sol and Judith Bergstein Professor for Medicine, Emeritus, at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He is the author of Canoe Country Wilderness and has edited multiple editions of Tuberculosis, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, and Climate Change and Global Public Health. He has taught environmental health and climate change at the NYU School of Global Public Health since 2015.
He has been a Fellow Resident of TEC since 1991.
