Seth Christopher Collings Hawkins (born 1971) is an American emergency physician, writer, anthropologist, and organizational innovator.

Hawkins was born in the Finger Lakes Region of New York state and raised in Middletown, Connecticut.

[1] During that time he also earned Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician certification at Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities in Conway, New Hampshire.

He subsequently worked in Vermont and Colorado as a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician, ski instructor, and rafting guide before returning to Bryn Mawr College to complete his premedical training in 1994.

Further organizational innovations included student-run southeastern wilderness medicine conferences—the first of their kind in the southeast—held in 1998 and 2000 in Chapel Hill and initiated by Hawkins and Graham.

[14][15][16] Hawkins helped develop a distance-accessible baccalaureate wilderness EMS program while on the faculty at Western Carolina University.

[17][18] He also serves as medical director of the North Carolina State Parks system and Western Piedmont Community College.

[21][22] He serves as the medical director of Landmark Learning, an outdoor education and wilderness EMS school in Cullowhee, North Carolina, as well as medical advisor for North Carolina Outward Bound School, REI, and the Student Conservation Association.

[23] In 2017 he and Kentucky-based paramedic David Fifer founded and currently host the RAW (Remote, Austere, Wilderness) Medicine Podcast.

[37][38] Hawkins lives in Morganton, North Carolina with his wife and three children in a unique solar home on the Catawba River below the Linville Gorge Wilderness.