Taylor Haston, DO, FACEP, MBS, MPH

Dr. Taylor Haston is from Charlotte, NC but currently lives in Augusta, GA. She an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Director for the Wilderness Medicine Program and Fellowship within the Center of Operational Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Taylor completed medical school at Nova Southeastern University in 2011, Emergency Medicine Residency at MCG in 2014 then went on to complete a Wilderness Medicine Fellowship in 2015 also at MCG. She is the Chair-Elect of ACEP’s Wilderness Medicine Section, serves on the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) Education and GME Committees and is the GME Lecture Series Subcommittee Chair. Taylor is formerly served on the Board of Directors for the Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine (ACWM) and is the past Advisory Council chair. She also is a past faculty director for the Southeastern Student Wilderness Medicine Conference in 2018 in that was held at MCG in Augusta, GA. Dr. Haston is both an Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS) and a Wilderness First Aid (WFA) instructor. She is Faculty and Medical and Safety Director for the Southeast MedWAR, as well as and Faculty and Content Expert for the EMRA MedWAR. Dr. Haston earned the Diploma in Mountain Medicine (DiMM) and certifications in Level 1 Swiftwater Rescue, Advanced Open Water and Rescue Diving. She provides medical support and serves as medical director for Racing the Planet Ultramarathon race series. Taylor enjoys providing medical care and education in austere environments around the world. She also has 2 awesome dogs, one that she adopted from the Atacama Desert in Chile while working as medical support at an ultramarathon race.