Faculty and students from Weill Cornell Medical College and wilderness medicine experts from around the country will converge in Ithaca Sept. 26-28, for the inaugural Northeast Wilderness Medicine Conference, sponsored by the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine and Cornell Outdoor Education.

The conference will include hands-on training in recreational and back-country medicine in the gorges and forests around Ithaca. Cornell President David Skorton will deliver the opening address.