Dr. Christian Dean is a board certified family medicine physician specializing in sports, adventure, and expedition medicine. Multiple trips to the Andes in highschool and college propelled his love of high altitude adventures. And a college NYE Katahdin ascent misadventure had him yearing for type 2 fun. Through time in medical school, and residency, he enjoyed skiing and mountaineering on several continents, including a high altitude clinical research study on Denali and an Heart Rate Variability (HRV) study on Everest. Some of this was augmented by working April-June 2020 as a hospitalist in New York City at Columbia/NYP. His broad experience as expedition physician including on-site up to C2 medical direction for three large Everest expeditions and for large treks in the hot UAE deserts make him perfect to lead the medical team for expeditions and adventures of any size on any continent with any objective. He now calls the mountains surrounding Missoula basecamp and works as an adult hospitalist in Jackson Hole when not on the sideline, ski hill, or expedition. He has earned his Diploma in Mountain Medicine in Nepal and his Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine through the Wilderness Medical Society. He started MyDocInTow llc in 2016, the company offers compassionate and comprehensive on-site or on-call medical direction and advisory, as well as offering wilderness medical adventure education programs around the world.