Matthew Angus

Matthew (he/him) is a Primary Educator for Base Medical. Although born in the midwestern flats of Illinois, he has called the San Juan mountains home for the last 6 years in Durango, Colorado. Matthew is a passionate and service-oriented individual, always striving to best support his community in health/wellness and outdoor pursuits. He graduated from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (Go Dawgs!) in 2017 but obtained his EMT license in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. His medical experience began with tending to the health needs of troubled youth as a field EMT for a wilderness therapy guiding program based in the Southwest. It was during this time that Matthew began developing skills of compassionate patient care and practicing medicine in the austere environment where he and the patients he worked for were typically 4 to 5 hours away from definitive care. Matthew now uses his EMT skills at a local clinic and SAR team in the area and has big goals to obtain advanced medical training and search and rescue skills
Matthew also cares deeply for the outdoor classroom and education experience, valuing highly the reciprocal learning process that can happen between peers and mentors. He believes in meeting students and peers exactly where they’re at to best support everyone’s learning and growth and creating a learning space that centers on inclusion, challenge, and team building. When not working, Matthew is likely pushing his limits by climbing, backpacking, or trail running, so he can get further into the mountains or desert he so greatly loves.