2025 Annual Meeting Program

Pre-Conference Workshops

Full-Day

NAEMSP National EMS Medical Directors Course & Practicum® — DAY 1
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Directors: Nichole Bosson, MD, MPH, NRP; Andra M. Farcas, MD ; Andrew McCoy, MD

NAEMSP Quality Improvement Workshop — DAY 1
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Directors: Maia Dorsett, MD, PhD, FAEMS; Nicola J. Little, BHSc- ACP, FAEMS

Fundamentals and Advanced Topics in MIH
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Scott Goldberg, MD, MPH

Foundations of Oversight of EMS Education Programs
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Joshua Stilley, MD, MPH

CONTOMS Medical Director Course
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Richard Thomas, NRP

Pre-Conference Workshops

Half-Day

NAEMSP Advanced Airway Workshop 
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Marvin Wayne, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, FAHA

Full-Day

NAEMSP National EMS Medical Directors Course & Practicum® — DAY 2
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Directors: Nichole Bosson, MD, MPH, NRP; Andra M. Farcas, MD ; Andrew McCoy, MD

NAEMSP Quality Improvement Workshop — DAY 2
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Directors: Maia Dorsett, MD, PhD, FAEMS; Nicola J. Little, BHSc- ACP, FAEMS

Transport and Management of Patients with High Consequence Infectious Diseases
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Alexander isakov, MD, MPH, FAEMS, FACEP

Lifelong Learning in EMS

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Course Director: Tom Grawey, DO, FAEMS

Operational Canine Medical Care for EMS Medical Directors
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Kate Zimmerman, DO

Pre-Conference Workshops

NAEMSP National EMS Medical Directors Course & Practicum® — DAY 3
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Nichole Bosson, MD, MPH, NRP; Andra M. Farcas, MD ; Andrew McCoy, MD

Air Medical Physician Symposium – visit AMPA to register – 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Empowering Leadership: Building Equity and Excellence into EMS Systems
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Rickquel Tripp, MD, MPH

Driving Change: Creating a Community Health Program that Transforms Your Entire Healthcare System
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Heidi Abraham, MD, FAEMS

Advanced Topics in Medical Direction
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Jeff Beeson, DO, FAEMS

All Things Ventilation: Non-Invasive, Manual, and Mechanical
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Holly Stewart, RRT, FAEMS

EMS Fellowship Faculty Bootcamp
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Craig Cooley, MD

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Main Conference Program

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm — Standards and Clinical Practice Committee Meeting  
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm — Council of EMS Fellowship Directors Meeting  
6:00 pm – 6:45 pm — New Member/First Time Attendee Reception  
6:45 pm – 8:00 pm — Welcome Reception in the Exhibit Hall – Supported by GMR Medicine

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM— Committee Meetings: Women in EMS, Cmte on Prehospital APP’s, Public Health

8:00 AM – 8:15 AM— Welcome and President’s Address – José G. Cabañas, MD, MPH, FAEMS 

8:15 AM – 9:00 AM
Keynote Address – Physician Wellness and Addiction: How a Month in Alcohol Rehab Restored My Joy In My Work and Made Me a Better Doctor
Amanda Humphries, MD
HealthNet Aeromedical Services

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM
Grand Rounds – Injuries at the US-Mexico Border: More Than Meets the Eye
Amanda Berndtson, MD, FACS
University of California San Diego

9:45 am – 10:10 am — Allied Updates: NASEMSO, NREMT, ABEM
10:50 am – 11:00 am — Prehospital Emergency Care Update – Jane Brice, MD, MPH, FAEMS
11:00 am – 12:00 pm — Menegazzi Scientific Session: Research Oral Abstract Session 1 
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm  — Lunch and Committee Meetings: Disaster Preparedness, Pediatrics, Quality and Safety, Air Medical Services, ACEP EMS, Research, Canadian Relations/EMS Fellowship, Critical Care Airway, Rural EMS, International Affairs, Communications, Operational EMS, MIH/CP, Education, Membership

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1:15 PM – 3:00 PM – Concurrent Session 1

Track: General EMS 

1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
New Speaker Series 
John vonRosenberg, PhD, FP-C, MA, CCP, NRP
Karen Charlton, MSN, MBA, RN, CFRN, CCRN, CEN, CNRN
Enrique Rodriguez-Fhon, MD
Sophia Gorgens, MD
Robert Canning, MD, NRP
Dre Cantwell-Frank, NRP
Nathan Dreyfus, MD, FAWM
Brooke Redmond, MD, FAAP, CHSE
Tom Wen-Han Su, MPH, NRP
Zachary Tillett, MD, NRP

Track: General EMS 

1:15 PM – 1:35 PM
Ventilator… Oh, could you help me take this call?: “Bag” the bagging in favor of controlled ventilatory management of ROSC patients
Roger M. Stone, MD, MS, FAAEM, FAEMS; Timothy A. Burns, NRP, MS; Benjamin T. Kaufman, RN, NRP

1:40 PM – 2:00 PM
The Need for Point of Care Ultrasound in Trauma Arrest: A Critical Tool to Treat the Critically Injured
David Rayburn, MD MPH; Patrick Greiffenstein, MD, FACS; Terence C. Byrne, SEAL Medic

2:05 PM – 2:25 PM
Optimizing EMS Pain Assessment and Management: Transforming Prehospital Analgesic Practices through Protocol Refinement and Training Initiatives
Colleen Foster, MD; Jason R. Roosa, M,D MS, FACEP, FAEMS; Mark Daugherty, B.S., Paramedic

2:30 PM – 2:50 PM
The Best EMS Trauma Literature of 2024
Christopher B. Colwell, MD, FAEMS

Track: General EMS 

1:15 PM – 1:35 PM
101 Bodycams In EMS Logistics and Legalities!
Faroukh Mehkri, DO

1:40 PM – 2:00 PM
Counter Assault Paramedics – Damage Control Resuscitation in the Semi-Permissible Environment
Courtney B. Meyer, BS, LP, CCP-C

2:05 PM – 2:25 PM
Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (C-TECC): An Update to the Pediatrics Guidelines
Andrew L. Garrett, MD, MPH, NRP, FAEMS, FAAP

2:30 PM – 2:50 PM
Space Medicine for EMS Physicians
Joshua B. Gaither, MD, FAEMS; Drew Harrell, MD, FAEMS, DiMM; Scott McIntosh, MD

Track: OB/Women

1:15 PM – 1:35 PM
A Validated Prehospital Precipitous Delivery Risk Assessment Tool for the Interfacility Transport of Pregnant Patients by Nonspecialized Transport Teams
Ashley N. Huff, MD, FACEP, FAEMS; Lisa Hrutkay, DO

1:40 PM – 2:00 PM
Help! I’m in active labor at a rural critical access hospital and I need an ambulance! Implications for ambulance services due to the crisis of closing labor and delivery units
Aaron Klassen, MD, MA, NRP

2:05 PM – 2:25 PM
Evidence-Based Guidance to Inform the Prehospital Treatment of Pregnancy-Related Emergencies
Jenna M.B. White, MD, FAEMS

2:30 PM – 2:50 PM
Putting the “I” in DIC or: How to Nearly Die in Your Own Hospital and Still Come Back to Work
Katherine Couturier, MD, MPH

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3:20 PM – 5:00 PM – Concurrent Session 2

Track: Research 

3:20 PM – 5:00 PM
Menegazzi Scientific Session – Oral Abstracts #2 

Track: Public Health/MIH 

3:20 PM – 3:40 PM
5 Years of Mobile Integrated Health in the Los Angeles County Fire Department
Clayton Kazan, MD, MS, FACEP, FAEMS

3:45 PM – 4:05 PM
The Impact of Social Vulnerability on EMS
Melissa R. Kroll, MD; Rachel Stemerman, PhD, MPH, NRP

4:10 PM – 4:30 PM
Alternative Destinations for Low Acuity Callers to 911: A Nurse Triage Line
Robert Holman, Board Certified IM, ID 

4:35 PM – 5:00 PM
Putting the E back into EMS….Solving for Low Acuity 911 Activations
Gerad Troutman, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAEMS; Sean Burton, LP

Track: Operational EMS

3:20 PM – 3:40 PM
Charting the Course to Improved EMS Physician Documentation
Samantha Johnson, JD, MBA, MHA; Lekshmi Kumar, MD, MPH, FAEMS

3:45 PM – 4:05 PM
EMS No Diversion Policies: Value, Implementation and Enforcement
Benjamin W. Weston, MD, MPH; Ricardo Colella

4:10 PM – 4:30 PM
Update on National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standards and Guides
Jeffrey Siegler, MD, NRP, FAEMS

4:35 PM – 5:00 PM
The Longest ED Wait Times in the Nation – How Maryland Plans to Work Itself Out of Last Place
Benjamin T. Kaufman, RN, NRP; Theodore Delbridge, MD, MPH; Timothy A. Burns, NRP, MS

Track: Pediatric EMS

3:20 PM – 3:40 PM
Prehospital Neonatal Resuscitation
Dominique Diggs, MD

3:45 PM – 4:05 PM
Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice to Improve Pediatric Medication Delivery
Stephanie Ashford, EdS, NRP, FAEMS

4:10 PM – 4:30 PM
The National EMS Information System (NEMSIS) Pediatric Prehospital Performance Improvement Dashboard
Caleb E. Ward, MB BChir, MPH

4:35 PM – 5:00 PM
Improving resuscitation outcomes in pediatric out of hospital cardiac arrest
Lila N. O’Mahony, MD; Jeff Krekling, Paramedic; Stephen Friedrick, MD

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5:30 pm – 6:45 pm – Research and Quality Improvement Poster Sessions

6:30 pm – 9:30 pm – A Distinctly Canadian Workshop

6:45 pm – 7:15 pm – FAEMS Reception (Invitation only)

7:00 am – 8:00 am  – Committee Meetings (Committee Schedule TBA)

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM 
Data-Driven and Patient-Centered: How the NAEMSP Quality and Safety Course is Quietly Transforming the EMS Industry
Michael Redlener, MD; Scott Bourn, Maia Dorsett, MD, PhD, FAEMS; Nicola J. Little, BHSc- ACP, FAEMS

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM 
The Changing Legal Landscape for EMS and EMS Medical Direction      Michael Levy, MD, FAEMS, FACEP, FACP & Eric Jaeger, JD, NRP, EMS IC

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM 
Where EMS and EM Intersect: Clarksville, Tennessee EF-3 Tornado
Ashley N. Huff, MD, FACEP, FAEMS

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM 
NAEMSP Advocacy Update
David K. Tan, MD, FAEMS

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10:30 am – 12:00 pm — Concurrent Session 3 

Track: Research

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM 
Menegazzi Scientific Session – Oral Abstracts #3

Track: General EMS

10:30 AM – 10:55 AM 
It’s Time to Take the Training Wheels Off the EMS System
Clayton Kazan, MD, MS, FACEP, FAEMS

11:00 AM – 11:25 AM 
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Perspectives from Members of the North Carolina EMS Disciplinary Committee
Roberto C. Portela, MD, FACEP, FAEMS; Melynda Swindells, BA, CPM

11:30 AM – 11:55 AM 
The Disruptive EMS Clinician: Strategies for Identification and Management
Azeemuddin Ahmed, MD, MBA, FAEMS

Track: Public Policy 

10:30 AM – 10:55 AM 
Essentially Essential: Pearls and Pitfalls of Navigating the Process of EMS Essential Service Designation
Eric B. Yazel, MD, FACEP; Stephanie Gardner, FACEP, FAEMS

11:00 AM – 11:25 AM 
State of the Unions – Your Guide to Better Understanding Fire/EMS Unions
Desmond Fitzpatrick, MD; Danielle DiCesare, Scott T. Egan, EMT-P

11:30 AM – 11:55 AM 
A Medical Director’s Unexpected Journey with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act: Politics and Accountability in Prehospital Care
Neha P. Sullivan, MD, MS

Track: DEI

10:30 AM – 10:55 AM 
Using CPR to Teach CPR
Sylvia Owusu Ansah, MD, MPH, FAAP

11:00 AM – 11:25 AM 
The HOPE Collaborative: Helping Optimize Prehospital Equity
Benjamin W. Weston, MD, MPH; Robert Dunne, MD; Robert P. Holman, Board certified IM, ID; Daniel O’Donnell, MD, NRP

11:30 AM – 11:55 AM 
A Novel Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Curriculum for Paramedic Students
Jacqueline Ward-Gaines, MD; Andra Farcas, MD

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12:00 pm – 1:10 pm – Lunch and Committee Meetings:  DEI, Wilderness EMS, Advocacy

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1:15 pm – 2:55 pm — Concurrent Session 4 

Track: Research 

1:15 PM – 2:55 PM 
Menegazzi Scientific Session: Research Oral Abstracts #4 

Track: General EMS 

1:15 PM – 1:35 PM 
EMS Papers to Know: Methodology Mix-Up
Katherine Couturier, MD, MPH; Joshua Stilley, MD, FACEP, FAEMS

1:40 PM – 2:00 PM 
Breaking Ground: Launching the DC Stabilization Center

Gabriel Gan, MPH, NRP

2:05 PM – 2:25 PM 
Reds, Whites, and Blu…Make That Plasma! Two Years of Low Titer O+ Whole Blood in EMS, a.k.a. “The Big Low O in Oklahoma City EMS”
Jeffrey M. Goodloe, MD, NRP, FACEP, FAEMS; Curtis L. Knoles, MD, FAAP; David S. Howerton, BS, NRP; Anna Bailey, BS, MPH

2:30 PM – 2:50 PM 

When Everything Hits the Fan: Behind the Scenes of the Largest EMS Natural Disaster Response in History                                                         Gerad Troutman, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAEMS

Track: Technology & Innovations 

1:15 PM – 1:35 PM 
Charting the Uncharted: A Visual Odyssey through EMS Data
Rachel Stemerman, PhD, MPH, NRP

1:40 PM – 2:00 PM 
It’s High Time for High Performance Mechanical CPR
Michael Levy, MD, FAEMS, FACEP, FACP

2:05 PM – 2:25 PM 
Taking the HOCUS out of POCUS: Real-World Application of Prehospital POCUS and How It Can Influence Patient Care
David Rayburn, MD MPH; Jessica Barbour, NREMT-P

2:30 PM – 2:50 PM 
An Over-ARC-ing Way to Deploy Whole Blood: Using ARCGis to Operationalize Your Whole Blood Program
David Vitberg, MD; Jeffrey Lenard, FF/EMT, ARCG; Holly O’Byrne, Whole Blood Coordinator, Lieutenant, Paramedic; Timothy Hutchison, Public Safety GIS Analyst

Track: Quality Improvement & Safety

1:15 PM – 1:35 PM
Diagnostic Error: A Focus for EMS Quality Improvement
Maia Dorsett, MD, PhD, FAEMS

1:40 PM – 2:00 PM 
Improving Intubation Safety Using the Model for Improvement
Jeffrey L. Jarvis, MD, MS, EMT-P; William “Buck” Gleason, BS, LP

2:05 PM – 2:25 PM 
We’re Doing it Wrong: 10 Steps to Assuring that your “Quality Program” Actually Improves Quality
Scott Bourn

2:30 PM – 2:50 PM 
The Fallacy of Root Cause Analyses
Clayton Kazan, MD, MS, FACEP, FAEMS

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3:20 pm – 5:00 pm — Concurrent Session 5 

Track: Education

3:20 PM – 3:40 PM 
Checking the Pulse of EMS Educational Programs – Weak, Thready, Bounding?
Jonathan Powell; Michael G. Miller, EdD, RN, NRP; Ashish R. Panchal, MD, PhD; Shea L. van den Bergh, MPH

3:45 PM – 4:05 PM 
Continued Competency from a New Perspective
Bill Seifarth, MS, NRP, ICE-CCP

4:10 PM – 4:30 PM 
Dealing with Dying: Helping Prehospital Clinicians Deliver Bad News
Nicholas J. Maleska, MD; Callie Schnitker, MD; Jennifer Shea, EMT, MBA

4:35 PM – 4:55 PM 
Feedback In EMS: Missing Building Blocks
Stephen Taylor, PhD; Maia Dorsett, MD, PhD, FAEMS

5:00 PM – 5:30 PM 
Providing Online Medical Consultation After Sudden Sleep Interruption: Pitfalls to Avoid and Tips for Success
Nicholas P. Cozzi, MD, MBA; Azeemuddin Ahmed, MD, MBA, FAEMS; Shaila Coffey, MD, FAEMS; Jeffrey M. Goodloe, MD, NRP, FACEP, FAEMS

Track: Cardiac Arrest 

3:20 PM – 3:40 PM 
Preventing Sudden Ambulance Death Syndrome: High Performance Resuscitation Beyond Cardiac Arrest
Andrew J. Bouland, MD; Stephen Taylor, PhD;  Juan March, MD, FACEP

3:45 PM – 4:05 PM 
Organ Procurement Organizations and EMS: Building a Bridge for Cardiac Arrest
Al Lulla, MD; Kristal Mantyh, RN

4:10 PM – 4:30 PM 
Early Cardiac Arrest Prognostication
Darren A. Braude, MD, EMT-P

4:35 PM – 4:55 PM 
Acute Grief Life Support: Helping the EMS Clinician Support Bystanders During Cardiac Arrest in an Organized and Compassionate Manner
R. Darrell Nelson, MD FACEP, FAEMS

5:00 PM – 5:30 PM 
BLS Cardiac Arrest: The minimum standard of care?
Joshua Stilley, MS, FACEP, FAEMS

Track: General EMS

3:20 PM – 3:40 PM 
Drilling Down Deep: Creating a Provider Scorecard
Bjorn Peterson, MD NRP FACEP FAEMS

3:45 PM – 4:05 PM 
We Won’t Get Better by Making Things Worse: How Demanding More is Going to Save Paramedicine
Walt Lubbers, MD

4:10 PM – 4:30 PM 
“Developing” Medical Protocols: A Human Factors-informed Approach to Designing Medical Protocols that Optimize Effectiveness and Utility
Paul Misasi, PhD, MS

4:35 PM – 4:55 PM 
Together We Rise: The Power of an EMS Driven Stroke Registry in Shaping Florida’s Stroke Outcomes
Peter M. Antevy, MD

5:00 PM – 5:30 PM 
Dogs and Data: A Cautionary Tail
Alison R. Treichel, MPH; Remle Crowe, PhD, NREMT

Track: Substance Use Disorder

3:20 PM – 3:40 PM 
Quality Framework for the Prehospital Management of Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
Melody Glenn, MD, MFA, FASAM; Remle Crowe, PhD. NREMT; Anjni Joiner, DO, MPH

3:45 PM – 4:05 PM 
Not Just PREhospital: Mobile Integrated Health for Transitional Care Management
Laurel C. O’Connor, MD, MSc; Michael C. Hall, MD

4:10 PM – 4:30 PM 
From Crisis to Care: Strategies and Barriers to Fire-Based EMS Field Buprenorphine
Benjamin W. Weston, MD, MPH; Thomas W. Engel, MD, MPH; Jennifer Hernandez-Meier, PhD, MSW; Jason Schaak, BS/NRP/CP

4:35 PM – 4:55 PM 
Responding to Behavioral Health Emergencies
Cole Ettingoff, MPH; David Yang, MD, MHS; Kristy Jones, BS

5:00 PM – 5:30 PM 
The Intoxication Alternative: Sobering Centers as Alternate Destination for Acute Intoxication
Shannon M. Smith-Bernardin, PhD, RN, CNL; Robert P. Holman, Board certified IM, ID

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5:30 pm – 6:45 pm – Research and Education Poster Session 

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM — Program Committee Meeting

8:00 AM – 8:25 AM 
Workforce Crisis in EMS: Reconciling Clinician Shortages with Opposing Forecasts
Christopher B. Gage, MHS, NRP; Ashish R. Panchal, MD, PhD

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM 
Safety in Numbers! Strategically Prioritizing EMS System Response by Call Type and Patient Acuity Analysis – Protecting Those That Protect Patients
Jeffrey M. Goodloe, MD, NRP, FACEP, FAEMS; Curtis L. Knoles, MD, FAAP; David S. Howerton, BS, NRP;  Anna Bailey, BS, MPH

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM 
Support for / from the Prehospital Blood Transfusion Initiative Coalition
Jon R. Krohmer, MD

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM 
Double Sequential External Defibrillation for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation: One Year Later
Sheldon Cheskes, MD, CCFP (EM), FCFP, DRCPSC

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM 
The Pediatric Prehospital Airway Resuscitation Trial (Pedi-PART) – the Next Chapter in Prehospital Airway Science
Henry Wang, MD, MS

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM 
“From Hello to Dispo” Understanding the Association Between Emergency Medical Dispatch Call Determinants, Prehospital Time-Critical Interventions and Patient Outcomes
Matthew J. Levy, DO, MSc, FAEMS, FACEP; Remle P. Crowe, PhD, NREMT; J. Brent Myers, MD, MPH, FAEMS

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM 
Caring for Transgender and Gender Diverse Prehospital Patients: an NAEMSP Position Statement
Veronica Case, MD; Andra M. Farcas, MD

12:15 PM – 1:45 PM — NAEMSP Awards Luncheon – Supported by GM OnStar

2:00 PM – 2:25 PM 
Improving Prehospital Care for Survivors of Sexual Assault
David Yang, MD, MHS

2:30 PM – 2:55 PM 
Language Barriers in Prehospital Care
Mario A. Camacho, MD

3:00 PM – 3:25 PM 
Addressing Social Determinants of Health in 911 Calls: Adapting MIH and partner program initiatives to emergency EMS encounters
Angela Cornelius, MD, MA, FACEP, FAEMS;Johanna C. Innes, MD, NRP; Susan Burnett, MS, EMT-P

3:30 PM – 3:55 PM 
The NAEMSP Prehospital Trauma Compendium – Key Takeaways
Christopher B. Colwell, MD, FAEMS; John Lyng, MD, FAEMS, FACEP, NRP

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM — Closing Reception