Dr Ted Esguerra

 Dr Ted Esguerra is the Expedition & Wilderness Emergency Medical Services Physician of the Philippine Mt. Everest Expedition Team and the Voyage of the Balangay. He is a Flight Surgeon and the Officer-in-Charge of the elite medical rescue team: The Specialized Medical Assistance Response Team (SMART) of the Philippine Coast Guard. He is trained on Urban and Wilderness Rescue, Aviation Medicine, Expedition Medicine for Tropical and Alpine Mountain Operations, Tactical Medicine, Disaster Medicine, Aquatic/Dive Medicine and high altitude medicine.

He is a certified Instructor of the American Heart Association (AHA) for the Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), and Paediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS); certified Instructor of the American Safety & Health Institute (ASHI) for Wilderness 1st Response Upgrade Courses; the Wilderness Doctor of the The North Face (TNF) international marathon events; the Medical Control for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) composite teams for the Guinness World Record marathon for the Pasig River; Head of the composite EMS teams of the Quezon City International Marathon (QCIM); Medical Control of the 1st Asian 100 km Mountain Marathon in Benguet (2012); and over-all Medical Control of the CamSur International Ironman 2011.

He is a member of the Manila Sheepdog, Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA-USA), Aerospace Medical Association of the Philippines, International Disaster Response Network (IDRN), International Society of Mountain Medicine (ISMM-USA), International Urban Search & Rescue Facilitation Organization (ISARFO), National Association for Search & Rescue (NASAR-USA), National Association of Emergency Medical Services Physician (NAEMSP-USA), National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT-USA), Wilderness Medical Society (WMS-USA), and the World Association of Disaster & Emergency Medicine (WADEM-USA).