Wildfire Suppression Resource-Specific Pre-Season Meetings

Dr. Michelle Curry serves as the Forest Service National Medical Director. She attended medical school at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, completed her Emergency Residency after entering active-duty status with the U.S. Army, and maintains fellowship status in the American College of Emergency Medicine. Her Military service included several duty tours, as well as deployment to Africa teaching mass-casualty medicine/austere medicine and first responders classes to troops of combined three African Nations. Since leaving the service, her disaster experience has translated to many deployments with the National Disaster Medical Systems (NDMS) under the Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response. Dr. Curry has been heavily involved with EMS agencies across the country throughout her career. She has served as Medical Director for fire-based, private, county-based, as well as volunteer agencies from large to small. She is a Wilderness Medical Society Fellow (FAWM) and in 2024 received the prestigious Mountain Laurel Award from the Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine. Dr. Curry now resides in the DC/Northern Virginia area and is the daughter of a former Forest Ranger.