Dr. Paul Auerbach was the Redlich Family Professor Emeritus at the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, a founder of the Wilderness Medical Society, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and served on the National Medical Committee for the National Ski Patrol System. He was a first responder to the earthquakes in Haiti (2010) and Nepal (2015) and was visiting scholar at the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health. He served as a team physician for sports at all levels: youth, high school, college, and professional. He was co-author of Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health, editor of the textbook Wilderness Medicine, and author of Medicine for the Outdoors.