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Christine Alvarez
Christine Alvarez, BS, EMT-P, is director of prehospital care programs for LaGuardia Community College CUNY in Long Island City, Queens, NY.

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Peter Antevy
Peter Antevy, MD, is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in South Florida, assistant professor of pediatrics at the FAU School of Medicine, and the founder of Pediatric Emergency Standards Inc. He serves as the medical director for Davie Fire-Rescue, Southwest Ranches Fire Rescue and American Ambulance, and is the associate medical director for seven other agencies.

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Paul Banerjee
Paul Banerjee, MD, is medical director for Polk County Fire Rescue, SWAT Team medical director for Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Lake County Sheriff’s Office, and associate medical director for Osceola Regional Medical Center in Florida.

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Raphael Barishansky

Raphael M. Barishansky, MPH, MS, CPM,  is the Deputy Secretary for Health Planning and Assessment at the Pennsylvania Department of Health.  He is a nationally recognized EMS and public health emergency preparedness leader, author, speaker and advocate.

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Eric Bauer
Eric Bauer, BS, FP-C, CCP-C, C-NPT, is the founder/CEO and lead educator for FlightBridgeED, LLC. He has worked in the EMS field for 24 years with the past 12 years spent in the HEMS industry.

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Steve Berry
Steve Berry, BA, NREMT-P, is an active paramedic with Southwest Teller County EMS in Colorado. He s the author of the cartoon book series, I m Not An Ambulance Driver.

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Allison Bloom

Allison J. Bloom, Esq. is an EMS industry attorney and a member of the National EMS Management Association (NEMSMA) Board of Directors. She is a nationally-recognized author on EMS, legal and healthcare reform topics and lectures frequently on healthcare reform, legal, compliance, and risk management topics.

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Jason Boitnott

Jason Boitnott, BSN, RN, NRP, is a paramedic/registered nurse from Texas.  He is passionate about free, open access medical education.

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Paul Bollinger
Paul Bollinger, MPH, has over 25 years of EMS and health system development experience. He is currently a senior project manager with Health Share of Oregon. Paul was formally the EMS Senior Adviser for an international non-governmental organization.

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Scott Bourn

Scott Bourn, PhD, RN, EMT-P, serves as senior vice president of quality measurement and improvement at Evolution Health (EvH). Prior to joining EvH in 2015, he served as vice president of clinical practices and research at American Medical Response, leading the development of a unified strategy for quality measurement and improvement across AMR's 40-state footprint.

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Ken Bouvier
Ken Bouvier, NREMT-P, is deputy chief of operations for New Orleans EMS. He served as NAEMT president from 2004 – 2006, was the National EMT of the Year 1989 and received the Rocco Morando EMS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008.

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Christopher Boyer
Christopher Boyer M.P.A. NR-P FP-C is the simulation coordinator and a lead instructor in the paramedic program at Delaware Technical Community College in Dover, DE.

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David Brenner
David Brenner, MS, EMT-P, is paramedic program faculty for LaGuardia Community College CUNY in Long Island City, Queens, NY.

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Stein Bronsky

Stein Bronsky, MD, is the medical director for the Colorado Springs (CO) Fire Department and American Medical Response (AMR) Ambulance Service, El Paso County, Colorado Springs, CO.

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Lafe Bush
Lafe Bush is the director of emergency services for The Valley Health System. Lafe has more than 20 years EMS experience and has held the positions of certified instructor coordinator, adjunct faculty member and clinical coordinator.

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Carissa Caramanis O'Brien
Carissa Caramanis O'Brien, EMT-B, is president of Red Box Communications, a company specializing in communications and social strategy consulting for healthcare and EMS. She has also been dedicated to education programs for sudden cardiac arrest through her efforts with the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation, now serving on its Board of Directors.

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Jason Clark
Jason Clark started his career in rural West Tennessee as a volunteer firefighter/EMT. After finishing paramedic school, Jason gained his experience as an EMS provider in the rural setting before joining the helicopter critical care transport industry in 2005. Since 2002, Jason has been active in educating pre-hospital professionals in critical care education. Jason has been a previous presenter at EMS World Expo in the cadaver lab and is the host instructor for EMS World’s Advanced Airway Management video. Jason holds his CCEMT-P, FP-C, NRP, C-NPT and CMTE certifications, as well as multiple instructor certifications. Jason is passionate about bringing critical care concepts to EMS professionals and growing the profession of healthcare educators. Jason is currently a clinical educator and business development manager for Erlanger LIFE FORCE Air Medical in Chattanooga, TN.

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John R. Clark

John R. Clark, JD, MBA, NRP, FP-C, CCP-C, CMTE, is a paramedic and lawyer who is the Chief Operating Officer of the International Board of Specialty Certification (IBSC)—formerly the Board for Critical Care Transport Paramedic Certification (BCCTPC).

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Kevin Collopy
Kevin Collopy, BA, FP-C, CCEMT-P, NRP, CMTE, is an EMS educator, e-content developer, author and clinical researcher with over 100 publications. He also coordinates the education for AirLink/VitaLink Critical Care Transport in Wilmington, NC, and is the IAFCC board vice president.

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Kevin Creek

Kevin Creek is the Community Paramedic Supervisor for Eagle County Paramedic Services in Eagle County, CO. With the honor of being the first community paramedic in Colorado and the first rural CP in the nation, he helped build the program from the ground up writing protocols, policies and procedures.

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Carly Crews

Carly Crews, RN, BSN, MICN, was the EMS coordinator at the San Bernardino City Fire Department during the terrorist attack on December 2, 2015. On July 1, 2016, Carly transitioned—with all other San Bernardino City Fire Department personnel—to the San Bernardino County Fire Department as an EMS nurse educator. Carly has worked as an emergency nurse and mobile intensive care nurse (MICN) prior to her position with the fire department, as well as instructed the clinical portion of her local community colleges paramedic program and the MICN program. Carly is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Emergency Service Administration from California State University, Long Beach. Carly was second on scene to the Waterman/IRC Terrorist Attack alongside a medic engine and worked through the treatment and transport areas during patient assessment portions. Once all patients were transported off scene, Carly worked alongside the Incident Commander (IC) and within the command post on logistical and operation procedures.

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Lieutenant Col. Cord Cunningham

Lieutenant Colonel Cord Cunningham, MD, MPH, FACEP, is a board-certified emergency medicine physician with subspecialty board certification in EMS. He is currently one of only five subspecialty board certified EMS physicians within the Army and serves as the flight surgeon and medical director for an aviation brigade that includes 30 flight paramedics and 15 air ambulances. He has deployed in direct and prehospital medical support of special operations forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Dr Cunningham's current practice focus is on expanding Army combat medics' training and scope of practice both prehospital and hospital.

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Michael Dailey
Michael W. Dailey, MD, is an associate professor of emergency medicine at Albany Medical College in Albany, NY. Currently, he serves New York State as a member of the State Medical Advisory Committee. He was the medical director and a primary investigator for the NYS Pilot Project for Basic Life Support naloxone.

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Shannon Daniel
Quality Assurance/ Quality Improvement Manager-Operations, Richmond Ambulance Authority, Richmond, Virginia

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Heather Davis
Heather Davis, EdD, NREMT-P is the program director of the UCLA Paramedic Education Program, the first accredited paramedic program in the country. She has recently completed her doctoral coursework in educational psychology at the University of Southern California.

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Lisa DeBoer
Lisa DeBoer is president of Pedi-Ed-Trics, a pediatric emergency medical education company.

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Scott DeBoer
Scott DeBoer, RN, MSN, CEN, CCRN, CFRN, CPEN, EMT-P, is an ER/critical care transport nurse and the founder of Pedi-Ed-Trics.

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Karen DiDonato
Karen DiDonato, BSN, MSN, began her career at NIH and has over 20 years of clinical research experience. She currently serves as the Director of Medical Affairs at AcelRx, a small biotech company developing innovative therapies for acute pain. Karen holds a BSN and MSN from UVA.

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Jeff Dill
Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance founder Jeff Dill holds a Master’s Degree in counseling and is a retired fire captain from Palatine Rural Fire Protection District in Inverness, IL.

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Rommie Duckworth
Rom Duckworth is a dedicated emergency responder and award-winning educator with more than 25 years of experience working in career and volunteer fire departments, hospital healthcare systems, and public and private emergency medical services. Currently a career fire captain and paramedic EMS coordinator, Rom is an emergency services advocate; a contributor to research, magazines and textbooks on topics of leadership, emergency operations and educational methodology; and a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.

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Linda Dykes
Dr Linda Dykes is a consultant in emergency medicine working in Wales. She is also a GP. She works closely with Welsh ambulance service and has a medical education role training paramedics, medical students and residents.

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Chris Ebright
Chris Ebright, BEd, NRP, is an EMS Education Coordinator with the National EMS Academy in Louisiana. He holds a bachelor of education degree from the University of Toledo and is currently an annual presenter at local, state and national EMS and public safety conferences.

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David Ellis
David Ellis, BS, CCEMT-P, FP-C, CMTE, is an EMS professional with more than 19 years of experience including both rural and urban EMS, air medical care, management and education. He is the program manager for EagleMed LLC.

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Mark Ellis

Mark Ellis is division chief of EMS and emergency management coordinator for Hallandale Beach (FL) Fire Rescue.

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Rob Farmer
Rob Farmer is the director of public safety for Lee County, FL. He is responsible for all countywide Department of Public Safety operations, which include emergency medical services, emergency telecommunications and fire/EMS dispatch, emergency management and all E-911/government communications network infrastructure for the 1210+ sq. mile Cape Coral-Ft. Myers metropolitan area. He also serves as the county's director of emergency management and a member of the Board of Directors for Southwest Florida's Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Team / Florida FEMA Task Force 6.

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Dan Fellows

Dan Fellows joined the Richmond (VA) Ambulance Authority in 1995, where he has amassed two decades of emergency vehicle maintenance and design experience. He is a graduate of Nashville Auto Diesel College and a licensed Virginian State Inspector.

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Jay Fitch
Jay Fitch is a founding member of Fitch & Associates, a leading consulting firm in emergency services now celebrating three decades of service.

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Carl Flores

Carl Flores is New Orleans EMS deputy director/chief of EMS.

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Gustavo Flores
Gustavo Flores, MD, is a physician and paramedic from San Juan, Puerto Rico. He has been involved in EMS for more than 17 years as a provider and educator. He is director of Emergency & Critical Care Trainings LLC.

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Dan Flynn
Dan Flynn, NRP, RN-BSN, BS, joined New Orleans EMS in 2003. He has been a registered nurse since 2014 and works in that capacity in the emergency department at Touro Infirmary in Uptown New Orleans. His career achievements include working as a paramedic/firefighter during and following Hurricane Katrina and appearing in A&E's documentary series “Nightwatch.”

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Edward Gabriel
Edward Gabriel is the principal deputy assistant secretary for preparedness and response at HHS. He was global director, crisis management and business continuity at The Walt Disney Company & NYC Deputy Commissioner of Emergency Management. He served 27 years with FDNY EMS.

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Alexander Garza

Alexander Garza, MD, is an associate dean for public health practice and associate professor of epidemiology at Saint Louis University’s College for Public Health and Social Justice. There he teaches, learns and engages in research with faculty and students in the areas of emergency management, public health preparedness and epidemiology.

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Robert Girardeau
Robert P. Girardeau, BS, NRP, FP-C, MSM-HCA (cand.) is a critical care/flight paramedic for Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals - JeffSTAT in Philadelphia, PA. With more than ten years of experience, Robert's expertise in the clinical, education, and administration sectors of pre-hospital medicine has paved the way for his esteemed reputation as a national speaker and published author.

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David Glendenning
David Glendenning, EMT-P, is clinical applications specialist with Southeastern Emergency Equipment and education/outreach support officer with New Hanover Regional Medical Center’s Division of EMS.

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Michael D. Gooch
Michael D. Gooch, DNP, is an emergency nurse practitioner, flight nurse and paramedic who brings over 20 years of EMS and emergency experience. He is also faculty with the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in Nashville, TN.

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Kelly Grayson
Kelly Grayson is a national conference speaker and a frequent contributor to EMS World Magazine. He works as a critical care paramedic for Acadian Ambulance in southwest Louisiana.

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Ryan Greenberg
Ryan Greenberg, MBA,NREMT-P, has focused his career on building hospital-based EMS systems across the northeast, while remaining an active paramedic, firefighter, educator and EMS advocate. He is a board member for the National EMS Management Association.

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Chris Hamper
Chris Hamper, NRP, is a paramedic turned academic. He is an experienced prehospital provider and educator who is passionate about advancing emergency medical services through EMS research, high-fidelity medical simulation and community-based health interventions. He developed and delivered several new courses including the first community paramedic course in Oregon. He currently teaches in Paramedic Crew Resource Management, Emergency Medical Technician and Community Paramedicine. Chris is working on his Bachelor’s of Science in Community Health Education. He is a Nationally Registered and Oregon State Paramedic (OHSU Alumni).

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Jeffrey Ho
Jeffrey Ho, MD, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, is an emergency medicine and EMS physician and serves as the chief medical director of Hennepin EMS in Minneapolis, MN. He is a sworn law enforcement officer in Minnesota and has expertise in several areas where law enforcement intersects with medicine.

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Jeffrey L. Jarvis

Jeffrey L. Jarvis, MD, MS, EMT-P, is the EMS medical director for Williamson County EMS in Texas.

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Shai Jaskoll

Shai Jaskoll is director of Operations for United Rescue - United Hatzalah.

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Anne Jensen
Anne Jensen, EMT-P, BS, is the Program Manager for the City of San Diego EMS Resource Access Program (RAP).

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TJ Kennedy

TJ Kennedy was one of the first leaders to join the FirstNet team in July 2013 and now serves as president of the organization. He is an experienced executive with a unique leadership background that includes technology expertise and coalition building and as well as hands-on public safety experience in police, fire and EMS.

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Sean Kivlehan
Sean Kivlehan, MD, MPH, is the associate director of the International Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He works as an attending physician in the emergency department, which is a level 1 trauma and burn center and on multiple international emergency medicine projects. Prior to this he was a NYC paramedic and EMS educator for 10 years.

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Baxter Larmon
Baxter Larmon, PhD, MICP, is a professor of emergency medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the founding director of the UCLA Center for Prehospital Care.

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Joel Lavender
Lt. Joel Lavender has over 30 years of firefighter/paramedic experience with the Dallas Fire Rescue Department. He served throughout the department, including positions in the field, administration, training and dispatch.

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Rob Lawrence
Rob Lawrence, MCMI, is chief operating officer of the Richmond Ambulance Authority. Before that he held the same position with the English county of Suffolk as part of the East of England Ambulance.

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Steven LeCroy
Steven C. LeCroy spent over 30 years with St. Petersburg Fire & Rescue before retiring and going to work for Mercury Medical in Clearwater, FL, as clinical manager for EMS products. Steven is an assistant professor at St. Petersburg College, and has been a national speaker and expert witness in over 70 cases nationally.

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Michael Levy

Alaska Regional Hospital Emergency Department Physician and Anchorage Fire Department Medical Director, Michael Levy has published numerous articles and presented on various EMS topics for the last decade. He is a member of many professional societies and has multiple board certifications to include internal medicine, emergency medicine and EMS. Dr. Levy’s professional interests center on prehospital treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, systems of care, appropriate application of technology in the prehospital space, and improving overall care in the prehospital environment as an opportunity to substantially improve outcomes and quality of life from time-sensitive emergencies. Publication topics ranging from “Alaska Trauma Systems Review Committee/Head Trauma Task Force; Guidelines for the management of head injuries in remote and rural Alaska” to “EMS transport of STEMI improves door to balloon time; one community’s experience,” reinforce Michael’s focus on enhancing the profession of EMS.

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Ofer Lichtman
Ofer Lichtman, NREMT-P, has been involved in EMS for the past 20 years. He started his career as an EMT in Israel at the age of 14 and is now working for the Rancho Cucamonga Fire Protection District in California where he serves as a firefighter/paramedic and the agency’s Terrorism Liaison Officer coordinator. Ofer was instrumental in developing his department’s Terrorism Awareness and Response Program, which included implementation of an Active Shooter Response Program. He is the Fire Department Liaison for the Joint Terrorism Task Force in San Bernardino/Riverside County and is a voting member on the Committee of Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (C-TECC). He was also instrumental in implementing a community-wide approach to responding effectively to mass violent events where he facilitated the training for all city employees and over 2,500 community members. He is an active California State Fire Instructor for Technical Rescue and a lead USAR and Tactical Response instructor for his department and region.

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Dan Limmer
Dan Limmer, AS, EMT-P, is a paramedic and police officer who has been involved in EMS and law enforcement for more than 35 years. He is a lecturer in the EMS degree program at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA, and an EMS instructor/coordinator in Maine. Dan speaks at EMS conferences around the world. He is a co-author of several textbooks including Emergency Care, EMR Complete, the education standards Transition Series for EMT, AEMT and Paramedic, and EMPACT. He develops smart phone and web-based review apps for the emergency service fields through his company, Limmer Creative LLC.

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Robert Luckritz
Robert Luckritz, Esq., is the EMS director for Jersey City Medical Center. He has nearly 20 years of experience as a clinician and leader and is a board member of the National Association of EMTs and the National Association of Urban Hospitals.

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Gary Ludwig

Gary Ludwig is the fire chief of Champaign, IL. He has a total of 38 years of fire, EMS and rescue experience, previously managing awarding-winning EMS systems in St. Louis and Memphis. He has a master’s degree in management and business.

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Kevin Mackey

Kevin Mackey, MD, is medical director for Mountain Valley EMS Agency in Modesto, CA.

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Nancy Magee
Nancy Magee is managing partner of MEDIC Training Solutions in Louisiana. An EMT with 15 years of experience as a provider and a manager, Nancy combines a business woman’s perspective with an EMS volunteer’s heart.

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Craig A. Manifold

Craig A. Manifold, DO, is chair of the National EMS Committee, American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).

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Nick Manning
Nick Manning, NREMT-P, is a paramedic for New Orleans EMS. He has been in emergency medicine since 2008 after a career in financial advising. When asked why he left such a lucrative field, Nick’s usual response is that “being a paramedic is much less stressful!” In addition to his paramedic certification, Nick is ACLS, PHTLS, PALS, PEPP and HAZMAT certified. He is one of the popular crew members featured on A&E’s hit TV documentary series “Nightwatch.”

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Kevin McGinnis
FirstNet Board Member Kevin McGinnis is a nationally recognized advocate for broadband communications within the EMS community. He is currently community paramedicine chief of North East Mobile Health Services, the largest paramedic service in Maine. He has been the chief of volunteer, hospital-based and private paramedic services, has been the director of a teaching hospital emergency department and was the state EMS director in Maine for 10 years. He was the primary EMS community supporter of the several year initiative that led to FirstNet. He is the FirstNet Board liaison to America’s tribes, helping to facilitate FirstNet planning for their public safety and telecommunications efforts. He was named by the Government Technology/Solutions for State and Local Government magazine as one of its 2013 'Top 25 Doers, Dreamers & Drivers in Public-Sector Innovation.'

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Brijesh P. Mehta

Brijesh P Mehta, MD, is a neurointerventional surgeon and director of stroke and neurocritical care at Memorial Neuroscience Institute in south Florida. Dr. Mehta trained at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, both teaching institutions of Harvard Medical School. He earned his medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BS in biology with high honors from Emory University. Dr. Mehta is skilled in the treatment of acute strokes, intracranial aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations of the brain and spine, and atherosclerotic disease of the carotid arteries. He is interested in developing strategies to improve stroke systems of care, which involve integration of EMS providers with hospitals and optimizing clinical workflow using emerging technologies.

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Howard K. Mell

Howard K. Mell, MD, MPH, CPE, FACEP, is EMS Medical Director for Iredell County in North Carolina.

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Bobbie Merica

Bobbie Merica is the author of Medical Moulage: How to Make Your Simulations Come Alive and owner of Moulage Concepts, an international medical and trauma moulage company that specializes in hospital, trauma, mass casualty and prehospital moulage training, supply and certification.

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Nathaniel Metz
Nathaniel Metz is director of operations for Prompt Ambulance Central.

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Hank Meyer
Hank Meyer is a senior special agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). He is currently assigned to the ATF/New Orleans Police Department-Multi Agency Gang Unit where he specializes in the investigation of long-term, multi-defendant racketeering and conspiratorial type cases. Meyer also serves as a tactical paramedic and is assigned to the elite ATF Special Response Team (SRT) providing tactical medical support for high risk deployments throughout the country. His passion for providing prehospital care dates back to 1988 when he first earned his EMT. He is a Juris Doctorate from Northeastern University in Boston, MA, and is admitted to practice law in both the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Louisiana.

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John Mezo

John Mezo is general manager of VITAS Hospice Care of Fort Worth.

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Branden Miesemer

Branden Miesemer, NRP, FP-C, is a flight paramedic in the Midwestern United States and an adjunct paramedicine instructor for several local colleges. He is an advocate for leveraging technology and social media to provide low-cost, cutting-edge medical education and training.

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Jeremy Miller
Jeremy D. Miller, MEd, NRP, is responsible for all certification functions at the NREMT including recertification, accommodations, and legal departments. During Mr. Miller’s career he has served as an EMT-Basic, EMT-Intermediate and then EMT-Paramedic. He has worked as a ground and flight paramedic as well as a paramedic instructor and clinical coordinator. Mr. Miller retired from the Air Force after 20 years of service. During his tremendous military career he served stateside, foreign soil, and multiple combat zones as a paramedic, USAF Pararescue Instructor, Flight Chief(Chief Operating Officer), Senior Enlisted Advisor for a Joint Task Force and Director of Air Force EMS. Mr. Miller holds a Master’s degree in Education and is attending Doctoral classes in Education (Ed.D) from Trident University.

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Ronna Miller

Ronna Miller, MD,  is an Associate Professor of EMS in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. 

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Anthony Minge

Anthony Minge, MBA, is a partner with Fitch & Associates, a leading consulting firm in emergency services now celebrating more than three decades of service.

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Kirk Mittelman
Kirk Mittelman is a 35-year public safety veteran. He is currently the program director for Mt Nebo/U of Utah's Paramedic Program.

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Dave Molloy

Dave Molloy is operations manager for AMR’s Redlands Operation in San Bernardino County, CA.

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Holly Monteleone
Holly Monteleone, NREMT-P, is a paramedic for New Orleans EMS. She has been involved in EMS for eight years. In addition to her paramedic certification, she is PALS, PEPP and PHTLS certified. She has served as an FTO (field training officer) for New Orleans EMS for two years and is very active in QA and QI program to assist with making sure continuing education happens daily in New Orleans. She is one of the popular crew members featured on A&E’s hit TV documentary series “Nightwatch.”

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Asbel Montes

Asbel Montes is vice president of Governmental Relations & Reimbursements at Acadian Ambulance Service.

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Jeff Myers
Jeff Myers, DO, has a 27-year career in EMS as a paramedic, educator, author and EMS medical director. He currently works at CaroMont Regional Medical Center, a level 3 trauma center in Gastonia, NC, and is the system EMS medical director for Gaston County EMS.

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Matthew Ozanich
Matthew Ozanich, MHHS, NRP, is the director of prehospital care for Trumbull Memorial Hospital and pharmacology instructor for Health Professions at Youngstown State University. He has been a practicing paramedic for 11 years and has experience in fire-based EMS, private EMS, mobile intensive care, tactical EMS and EMS administration.

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David Page
David Page MS, NRP, is the director of the Prehospital Care Research Forum at UCLA. He works as a paramedic and instructor at Allina Health EMS in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area.

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Lee Palmer

Dr. Lee Palmer is a board-certified emergency and critical care veterinarian who provides training in K9 Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) to military, law enforcement and SAR K9 handlers, as well as Tier 1 operators and civilian tactical EMS (TEMS) personnel. Dr. Palmer serves as the medical director for K9 MEDIC; a member for the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, Veterinary Committee on Trauma (VetCOT) Prehospital and Veterinary ATLS sub-committees; founding member and co-lead of the Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care K9-TECC working group; Board of Adviser for the Committee of Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (CTECC); a Veterinary Consultant for the USAF Pararescue group, and as an Emergency and Critical Care consultant for the Veterinary Information Network (VIN). He has served in the military since 1996 in both active and reserve status in the roles of a Senior Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician in the US Air Force and then as a veterinarian in the US Army Veterinary Corps. Dr. Palmer maintains active certifications as a National Registry EMT, Wilderness EMT and Tactical EMT and has completed the University of Tennessee’s Canine Rehabilitation Certificate Program (C.C.R.P.).

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Louisa Partain
Louisa Partain, EMT-P, has spent her career in EMS working in the fire service and private EMS, as well as education. Currently she is the quality improvement and education coordinator for Washington County EMS Office’s Division of Public Health.

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P. Daniel Patterson

P. Daniel Patterson, PhD, MPH, MS, NREMT-P, is an assistant professor of emergency medicine  at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Emergency Medicine. He is principal investigator of a federally funded project to develop evidence-based guidelines for fatigue risk management in the EMS setting.

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Paul Pepe
Paul E. Pepe, MD, MPH, FACEP, is professor of surgery, medicine, pediatrics, public health and Riggs Family Chair in Emergency Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, TX. He is also director of the City of Dallas Medical Emergency Services for Public Safety, Public Health and Homeland Security and lead medical director for Dallas Metropolitan BioTel (EMS) system.

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Ryan Pietzsch 

Ryan Pietzsch is director of education and training for VFIS.

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Ed Racht

Ed Racht, MD, is the chief medical officer for American Medical Response.

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Audrey Reichard

Audrey Reichard is an epidemiologist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

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Neal Richmond
Neal Richmond, MD, is medical director of MedStar Mobile Healthcare in Fort Worth.

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Vincent Robbins
Vincent Robbins, FACHE, is president and CEO of MONOC, New Jersey’s largest EMS and mobile healthcare shared service hospital cooperative. He has also served in the administration at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia and with the New Jersey State Department of EMS. He is president-elect of the National EMS Management Association (NEMSMA).

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Anne Robinson Montera
Anne Robinson-Montera, BSN, has over 15 years of nursing experience in public health, patient safety/quality assurance, and EMS coordination in urban and rural hospitals, clinics and community settings. In her current role as a public health nurse consultant she works in grant coordination and implementation for various projects in Colorado and across the nation. She is the co-creator and public health partner for the first National Community Paramedic Pilot Program in rural Eagle, CO. She works to assist local and state community paramedic programs through different stages of program development, including statewide stakeholder engagement to local agency implementation. She led a team of educators and experts in developing the 3.0 version of the Community Paramedic Curriculum in 2011, and is currently leading the training program for the California Community Paramedic Pilot Project.

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Paul Rosenberger

Paul Rosenberger, MPA, EdD, NRP, has over 30 years of extensive EMS experience with 14 years of adult education instruction.

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Kenneth Scheppke
Kenneth Scheppke, MD, is EMS medical director of the following: Palm Beach County, Palm Beach Gardens, Boynton Beach, West Palm Beach, Town of Palm Beach Greenacres, Palm Beach State College EMS Academy and JFK Medical Center.

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Charles Sheppard
Charles Sheppard is medical director for Mercy Life Line. In EMS for over 40 years, he has been the medical director for an active air ambulance service for 19 years. He is a board member of the Air Medical Physicians Association and a speaker at multiple national and international EMS conferences.

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Todd Sheridan

Todd Sheridan is a senior consultant for Fitch & Associates, a leading consulting firm in emergency services.

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Douglas Smith
Doug Smith is a co-founder of Platinum Educational Group. He is a licensed paramedic and instructor coordinator in Michigan and has been involved in EMS for 30 years. He has a Master’s Degree in Education and has taught numerous instructor courses. He has also spoken at numerous state and national conferences.

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Scott Smith

Scott H. Smith, EMT-P, is with the Divers Alert Network (DAN).
 

Kurt Steward
Dr. Kurt Steward is the former CFO for the Dallas Fire Rescue Department. He worked over 10 years in local government in various roles, focusing on improving operational performance, reducing costs and increasing workforce efficiencies. He is currently vice president at Infor where he focuses on strategic market analyses, go-to-market plan development, product enhancement and expansion opportunities.

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Matthew Streger

Matthew Streger, Esq., MPA, NRP, is a partner with Keavney & Streger in Princeton, NJ, and a senior consultant for Fitch & Associates

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Dan Swayze
Dan Swayze, DrPH, MBA, MEMS, is the vice president and chief operating officer of the Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania. He has a doctorate in public health, an MBA and a master’s degree in EMS. Dr. Swayze is widely considered a pioneer in community paramedicine.

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Titus Tero
Titus Tero, NREMT-P, is a paramedic for the New Orleans EMS. He has worked for NOEMS since 2008, serving as an EMT FTO for the last two years. He was promoted from an EMT to NRP in November 2015, serves as a member of the NOEMS bike team and is certified to operate the NOEMS ASAP specialty vehicles. He also holds certifications in PEPP, PHTLS, ACLS, CPR and PALS. He is one of the popular crew members featured on A&E’s hit TV documentary series “Nightwatch.”

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Jonah Thompson
Jonah Thompson is a full-time community paramedic with the CONNECT program, based out of the Center for Emergency Medicine of Western PA in Pittsburgh, PA. He has over 20 years of EMS, law enforcement, disaster response and military experience.

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Kristopher Thompson
Kristopher L. Thompson, BSN, NREMT-P, RN, CCEMTP, CCRN, CEN, CFRN, FP-C, is an emergency room and intensive care unit charge nurse and preceptor at the University of Missouri’s level one trauma center and tertiary referral center. He also practices as a paramedic with both the University and Cole County EMS. Thompson has experience in critical care transport, EMS and nursing education, quality assurance, program management, and adult and pediatric emergency nursing.

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Lee Varner
Lee Varner is the EMS Project Manager for the Center for Patient Safety, an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting safe and quality healthcare through the reduction of medical errors. He has been involved in EMS since 1986 and has authored many papers relating to safety, advocacy and outreach for EMS issues at the local, state and national level.

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Oren Wacht

Oren Wacht, PhD, EMT-P, is a professor in the department of emergency medicine in Ben Gurion University. He is also a paramedic in the Israeli EMS system and army reserve, and an advisor to the Israeli Ministry of Health.

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Jonathan Washko
Jonathan Washko, MBA, NREMT-P, AEMD, is assistant vice president for the Center for Emergency Medical Services with North Shore - Long Island Jewish Health System in New York City and Long Island, New York. He is considered a leading industry expert on EMS system design, system status management and high performance EMS concepts.

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Katherine West
Katherine H. West, BSN, MSEd, is an infection control consultant for Infection Control/Emerging Concepts in VA.

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Brent Williams
FirstNet Senior EMS Advisor Brent Williams joined FirstNet from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services where he served as an EMS Radio Communications Consultant to the EMS and Trauma Systems Section since 2002. In that role, Williams was the subject matter expert on EMS radio communication systems and requirements. He has also worked as an independent consultant for many local units of government and served for 11 years as a police patrol officer and over 20 years as a practicing paramedic. He has served for the past 10 years as a member of the DHS SafeCom advisory group and, for the past three years, has been the APCO “Local Frequency Advisor” for the State of Michigan.

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Christopher Wistrom
Christopher Wistrom, MD, associate EMS medical director at Mercy Regional Emergency Medical Services Training Center in Janesville, WI.

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James Woodson
James Woodson, MD, is a start-up entrepreneur stuck in an emergency physician’s body. Much more comfortable in flip flops and a flannel shirt, James left his burgeoning medical practice in East Texas to pursue his dream of simplifying healthcare and has been on an endless pursuit to redefine mobile health.

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Michael Wright
Fire Captain Michael D. Wright has been in public service since 1982 beginning as a U.S. Paratrooper with the 101st and 82d Airborne divisions. He is currently licensed as a Nationally Registered Paramedic, ACLS instructor, State of WI Tactical Medic, State of WI EMS Instructor II, Community Paramedic and president of Southeast Tactical LLC. In 2013 he was given the task to develop and implement a departmental active shooter training policy for the City of Milwaukee, as well as joint training with the Milwaukee Police. Collectively close to 3,000 law enforcement personnel and firefighters were trained in a 4-month period.

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Matt Zavadsky
Matt Zavadsky is the public affairs director at MedStar Mobile Healthcare, the exclusive emergency and non-emergency EMS/MIH provider for Fort Worth and 14 other cities in North Texas.