2026 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, FAEMS; Andra M. Farcas, MD; Andrew McCoy, MD, FAEMS

NAEMSP is the preeminent organization for EMS medical directors, and it has offered the NAEMSP National EMS Medical Directors Course & Practicum for many years. The distinguished faculty are recognized experts in various aspects of prehospital and disaster management fields. This interactive course focuses on EMS in the ‘real world’ and serves to enhance the students’ expertise in EMS issues. In addition to the curriculum elements that span a range of issues vital to EMS medical direction, students will have opportunity throughout the course to network with faculty and fellow participants to critically evaluate their own system.

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8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Maia Dorsett, MD, PhD, FAEMS

Designed for EMS medical directors and quality leaders who want to improve the clinical quality of their service and need tools to be more effective, the course will apply the lessons of healthcare improvement to the challenges of EMS and out-of-hospital care. This course teaches the tenets of improvement science and how to practically apply these lessons to EMS agencies, larger EMS systems or a state-wide effort.

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8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Jordan Gray, MD, MS, FAEMS, NRP

This fast-moving workshop will give you a comprehensive strategy for how to develop a mobile integrated health program from the ground up. We’ll address how to get your local government buy-in and support, what protocols are unique to a program like this, KPIs to monitor, funding sources, legal implications, and future vision. This workshop will cover our unique opiate use disorder program, alcohol use disorder care, and ways to manage more than 80% of your mental health patients without needing to involve law enforcement. You’ll leave well-equipped with a host of new ideas, specific resources, and next steps to create or further your own program.

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8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Ameera Haamid, MD, FAEMS

In today’s challenging environment, addressing workforce diversity, bias, and health disparities is more urgent than ever. Complex environments coupled with systemic inequities, impacts both patient outcomes and provider well-being. This interactive course equips EMS educators, clinicians, and medical directors with practical strategies to navigate these challenges, combat bias, and foster a more inclusive and supportive workforce.

Participants will explore historical and present-day discrimination, the role of social determinants of health, and how implicit bias shapes prehospital care. Through engaging didactics, case discussions, and hands-on Upstander/allyship practice, attendees will gain actionable tools to promote equity, retention of a diverse workforce, and cultural transformation within their EMS systems. Each participant will leave with resources and an equity action plan to implement at their home agencies.

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8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Alexander Isakov, MD, MPH, FAEMS

This course aims to increase knowledge about special pathogens and the implementation of a hierarchy of controls for safe transport and management of patients suspected or confirmed to have a high consequence infectious disease like Ebola and Marburg Virus Disease,Lassa Fever, Mpox, novel influenza viruses and others This course also describes operational considerations to include, selection of personal protective equipment (PPE), the donning and doffing of a PPE ensemble, modification of the ambulance, destination considerations, cleaning and disinfection, waste management and post-mission medical surveillance. Hands-on training is provided to allow the learner to demonstrate the proper donning and doffing of PPE and examine the modification of the ambulance to protect environmental surfaces and prevent unintentional contact with potentially infectious body fluids. By increasing understanding and developing the necessary competencies EMS personnel can better protect themselves and others when having to manage patients with serious communicable diseases.

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Tactical Emergency Casualty Care for Medical Directors and Operational Leadership
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: E. Reed Smith, Jr., MD, FAEMS

The Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) guidelines represent a set of evidenced-based best practices for the immediate medical management of wounded in all prehospital high-risk scenarios. TECC is not tactical medicine; instead, it is intended for situations with on-going threat to the provider and patient. TECC balances the on-going threats, civilian scope of practice, population, medical equipment, and the variable response resources in civilian atypical emergencies. This course is intended to familiarize EMS Medical Directors and Operational Leadership with the medical and tactical principles, medical evidence, and explore the different types and brands of medical te equipment involved in the TECC guidelines.

Pre-Conference Workshops

Half-Day

Advanced Topics in Mobile Integrated Health (MIH)
8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Course Director: Scott A. Goldberg, MD, MPH

Bringing an Advanced Practice Provider into your Agency: Implementation Considerations to Improve Outcomes and Enhance System Performance
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Stephen H. Gerber, APRN

Full-Day

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

NAEMSP Quality Improvement Workshop — DAY 2
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Maia Dorsett, MD, PhD, FAEMS

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

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

EMS Research Bootcamp
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Rebecca E. Cash, PhD, NRP, FAEMS

Radiological Preparedness and Emergency Response
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Esther Hwang, DO, MPH, FAEMS

Pre-Conference Workshops

Half-Day

An Advanced Airway Practicum
8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Course Director: Marvin A. Wayne, MD

Mass Gathering Medicine Workshop
8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Course Director: Matt Friedman, MD, FAEMS

EMS Fellowship Faculty Ranger School: Beyond the Basics for Improved Program Compliance Success
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Craig Cooley, MD, MPH, EMT-P

Full-Day

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

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

Prehospital Blood Transfusion – Starting Your Agency’s Transfusion Program
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Jon R. Krohmer, MD

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

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

Building a Next Generation Clinical Quality Management System
8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Course Director: Michael Redlener, MD, FAEMS

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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 —  Continental Breakfast

7:00 AM – 7:45 AM — Committee Meetings: Disaster Preparedness, Women in EMS, Cmte on Prehospital APP’s, Public Health

8:00 AM – 8:15 AM — Welcome and President’s Address – Douglas F. Kupas, MD, MPH, NRP, FAEMS 

8:15 AM – 9:00 AM
Keynote Address – Transforming Battlefield Trauma Care
Frank Butler, MD 

9:00 AM – 9:45 AM
EMS Grand Rounds – Prehospital Obstetrics and Reproductive Healthcare: Considerations in a Nation at a Crossroads
Jenna M.B. White, MD, FAEMS

9:45 am – 10:10 am — Allied Updates: NASEMSO, ABEM, NHTSA, NAEMT

BREAK in Exhibit Hall

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 – 1:00 pm — Lunch

12:15 pm – 1:00 pm  — Committee Meetings: Quality and Safety, Air Medical Services, ACEP EMS, Research, Canadian Relations/EMS Fellowship 

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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

Sarah Young, MD, EMT-P; Carson Root, RN, PHRN, CFRN, NREMT; Ariana Weber, MD
Tibor Nagy, DO; Claire Gahm, MD, MPH; Paul Kirby, MD; McKayley Green, EMT; Molly O’Neil, DO; Wylie Chang, BA, NREMT; Jonathan Warren, MD

Track: Resuscitation 

1:15 PM – 1:35 PM
Stay and Play vs Scoop and Run to Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: An Old Debate with a New Twist
Judah A. Kreinbrook, BS; Joshua M. Kimbrell, NRP, CCP-C, C-NPT; Nicholas S. Simpson, MD; Sheldon Cheskes, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP, DRCPSC

1:40 PM – 2:00 PM
Where Should I Transport My Stroke Patients? The Optimal Transport Destination for Stroke Patients – Insights from the OPUS-REACH Consortium
Derek L. Isenberg, MD; Alexander Kuc, MD, FAEMS, FAAEM; Ryan Overberger, DO, MS, FAEMS

2:05 PM – 2:25 PM
Standardizing Outcomes Measurement in Prehospital Blood Transfusion Programs: A Consensus-Based Approach
Matthew J. Levy, DO, MSc

2:30 PM – 2:50 PM
CARES Turns 20: What’s Next?
Bryan McNally, MD, MPH

Track: Mass Casualty Incidents (MCI)

1:15 PM – 1:35 PM
The Fentanyl Flood: Lessons from an Overdose Mass Casualty
Heidi Abraham, MD, FAEMS

1:40 PM – 2:00 PM
The Role of in Person Medical Direction During an MCI: lessons Learned from New Years Day Ramming in New Orleans
Meg Marino, MD

2:05 PM – 2:25 PM
Ten Second Triage: The Science and Rationale Behind the New UK EMS Triage System
Philip John Cowburn, FRCS, FRCEM, DipIMC, DipMIM

2:30 PM – 2:50 PM
Event Medicine: Soft Targets for Terrorists and How to Prepare
Sophia Gorgens, MD

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BREAK in Exhibit Hall

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

Track: Research 

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

Track: Substance Use Disorder (SUD) 

3:20 PM – 3:40 PM
Substance Use Disorders in the EMS Professions
S. Marshal Isaacs, MD, FACEP, FAEMS

3:45 PM – 4:05 PM
Prehospital Buprenorphine: The Good, the Bad, and the Precipitated Withdrawal
Dre Cantwell-Frank NRP; Vanessa Lara, MS

4:10 PM – 4:30 PM
Taking the High – Rates of Overdose Fatalities – Away: Leveraging EMS Data to Inform Public Policy and Address the Opioid Epidemic
Dan Pojar, BSEMS, FP-C, NRP; Ben W. Weston, MD, MPH, FAEMS

4:35 PM – 5:00 PM
MOUD 360 – Breaking the Cycle of Substance Use Disorder 
Michael Lyons, BS, Paramedic

Track: Trauma

3:20 PM – 3:40 PM
Update on Field Care of Femur and Pelvis Fractures 
John Lyng, MD, NRP, FAEMS; Joshua Corsa, MD, FACS, FAWM, NRP

3:45 PM – 4:05 PM
Life or Limb: Field Amputation to Rescue Trapped Patient
Azeemuddin Ahmed, MD, MBA, FAEMS

4:10 PM – 4:30 PM
Docs on Ice: The Role of EMS Docs at NHL Games
Erin W. Lincoln, MD, MS, EMT-P; Jeffrey Siegler, MD, NRP, FAEMS

4:35 PM – 5:00 PM
Prehospital Care of the Child in Traumatic Circulatory Arrest
Jennifer F. Anders, 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 – 7:45 am  – Committee Meetings  – Geriatric EMS, International Affairs, Membership, Operational EMS, Pediatrics

8:00 AM – 8:20 AM 
Fads, Trends and Clinical Standards of Care 
Douglas Wolfberg, JD

8:20 AM – 8:40 AM 
Getting Past “No” When the Patient Needs to Go: Medical Direction, Patient Refusals, and Transport Against the Patient’s Will   Samantha Johnson, JD, MBA, MHA; Lekshmi Kumar, MD, MPH

8:40 AM – 9:00 AM 
“Guilty” Criminal Charges Against EMS Providers: What Does it Mean? 
Eric Jaeger, JD, NRP

9:00 AM – 9:20 AM 
Navigating Legal and Insurance Trends 
Michael Levy, MD, FAEMS; Eric Jaeger, JD, NRP; Tom James

9:20 AM – 9:55 AM 
Legal Panel Discussion

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM – BREAK in Exhibit Hall

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

Track: Research

10:30 AM – 10:55 AM 
State-of-the-Art Approaches to Exception From Informed Consent in Prehospital Clinical Trials
Henry Wang, MD, MS; Shannon W. Stephens

11:00 AM – 11:55 AM 
Menegazzi Scientific Session – Oral Abstracts #3

Track: Tactical

10:30 AM – 10:55 AM 
Active Shooter / Hostile Event Response for EMS – Dispelling the Dogma and Highlighting Major Updates to responding to ASHER Events
Faroukh Mehkri, DO, FAEMS

11:00 AM – 11:25 AM 
Make a Difference Through Advocacy
David K. Tan, MD, FAEMS; Jose G. Cabanas, MD, FAEMS

11:30 AM – 11:55 AM 
To Protect, Serve…and Save Lives! State Police as EMS
Heidi Abraham, MD, FAEMS; Mark E. Escott, MD, MPH, FAEMS, NRP

Track: Medical Director Life Hacks

10:30 AM – 10:55 AM 
Show Me The #SoMe! The Power of Social Media for EMS Medical Directors
Brandon Morshedi, MD, DPT, NRP, FAEMS; Tori C. Reeder, NAEMSP Senior Communications Director

11:00 AM – 11:25 AM 
How Much Should I be Paid? Establishing a Market Rate for EMS Medical Director Compensation
Joseph Grover, MD, FAEMS

11:30 AM – 11:55 AM 
From Ted Lasso to Apollo 13: Coaching as a Leadership Style for the EMS Medical Director
Hashim Q. Zaidi, MD, MBA, FAEMS; Chivas P. Guillote, DNP, APRN, ENP, FNP, AGACNP, LP, FAEMS

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12:00 PM – 1:10 PM – Lunch

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM – Committee Meetings:  Advocacy, Communications, DEI, Education, Wilderness EMS

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1:15 pm – 3:15 pm — Concurrent Session 4 

Track: Research 

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

2:55 PM – 3:15 PM 
Science Presented at NAEMSP: Evaluating Our Performance and Looking to the Future
Joshua Kimbrell, NRP, CCP-C, C-NPT; Rebecca E. Cash, PhD, NRP, FAEMS

Track: Quality and Education 

1:15 PM – 1:35 PM 
The Psychology of Fear in Paramedic Practice: Overcoming Fear of Repercussions and Creating a Culture of Safety
Ian Medoro, MD, FAEMS

1:15 PM – 1:35 PM 
The Heavy Lift: Leveraging Data and Design to Improve Care of “Lift Assists”
Colleen Foster, MD; Shawn Stark, NREMT-P; Maia Dorsett, MD, PhD, FAEMS

2:05 PM – 2:25 PM 
EMS Fellowship Education:  What’s Next?
Brian M. Clemency, DO, MBA, FACEP, FAEMS

2:30 PM – 2:50 PM 
A Novel Curriculum for Delivering Prehospital Death Notifications and Running Emotionally Supportive Cardiac Arrests 
Zachary B. Tillett, MD, NRP 

2:55 PM – 3:15 PM 
Prehospital Emergency Care System Evaluation Tool – Improving Developing EMS Systems in Southeast Asia
Anjni P. Joiner, DO, MPH; Sattha Riyapan, MD, MPH

Track: Operations 

1:15 PM – 1:35 PM 
10 Pearls That EMS Leaders Need to Know About Hospital Throughput
Clayton Kazan MD, MS, FAEMS

1:40 PM – 2:00 PM 
Controlled Substances and EMS Medical Direction – Cased Based Hot Topics!
Andrew McCoy, MD, MS, FAEMS; Patrick Lickiss, BS, Paramedic

2:05 PM – 2:25 PM 
Outbreak: Preparing the EMS Workforce for Diseases of Epidemic Proportions
Claire Gahm, MD, MPH, FAAP; Craig Cooley, MD, MPH, EMT-P

2:30 PM – 2:50 PM 
Fort Worth EMS – The Next Generation
Jeff Jarvis, MD, MS, EMT-P, FAEMS; Jim Davis, PhD, RN, EMT-P

2:55 PM – 3:15 PM 
Better Together: The Organized Medical Landscape and How EMS Can Move It
Scott H. Pasichow, MD, MPH, FAEMS

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BREAK in Exhibit Hall

3:45 pm – 5:00 pm — Concurrent Session 5 

Track: Wellness

3:45 PM – 4:05 PM 
Navigating Trauma and Crisis Management: A Guide for EMS Leadership
Diane L. Miller, MD, MS, FAEMS

4:10 PM – 4:30 PM 
Your Greatest Risk: EMS Clinicians Who Work Multiple Jobs, Excessive Overtime, and Have Irregular Shift Schedules?
Daniel Patterson, PhD, NRP

4:35 PM – 4:55 PM 
How Employing a Mental Health Clinician for First Responders can Foster a Culture of Wellness in your Agency
Kristen Herreid, LCSW; William R. Glass, EMT-Paramedic; Tom Grawey DO, FAEMS

Track: Behavioral Health 

3:45 PM – 4:05 PM 
Out with RASS in with SAT; Using a True Prehospital Agitation Scoring Scale for Behavioral Emergencies
Janine Curcio, DO; Robert Lowe, MD

4:10 PM – 4:30 PM 
Prehospital Management of the Agitated Patient: Clinical Approaches and Policy Implications
Adam Kipust; Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD; Denise A. Whitfield, MD, MBA; Jacqueline Rifenburg, RN, MSN

4:35 PM – 4:55 PM 
Documentation for the Medical Director
Joshua Stilley, MD, FAEMS

Track: Pediatrics

3:45 PM – 4:05 PM 
An EMS Toolkit for Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Toni Gross, MD, MPH, FAAP, FAEMS

4:10 PM – 4:30 PM 
Virtual Neonatal Resuscitation Curriculum for EMS
Petter Overton-Harris, DO; Trang Huynh, MD

4:35 PM – 4:55 PM 
National Prehospital Pediatric Readiness – Where are We? Where Can We Go?
Kathleen Adelgais, MD, MPH, FAAP, FAEMS; Kathryn Kothari, MD, FAAP

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

7:15 AM – 8:00 AM — Committee Meetings: Mobile Integrated Health, Program, Rural EMS, Student/Resident SIG

8:00 AM – 8:25 AM 
Shaping the Future of AI in EMS: A Proposed Framework to Guide Ethical and Effective Adoption
Rachel Stemerman, PhD, MPH, NRP; Catherine Counts, PhD, MHA

8:30 AM – 8:55 AM 
The Latest and Greatest: The Most Important EMS Trauma Articles of the Past Year
Christopher B. Colwell, MD, FAEMS

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM 
Measure that! A Critical Debate on What EMS Should Measure
Maia Dorsett, MD, PhD; Michael Redlener, MD, FAEMS; Jeff Jarvis, MD, MS, EMT-P, FAEMS; Sheree Murphy, MS, EMT, CPHQ

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM — NAEMSP Awards Brunch – Supported by GM OnStar

Stay for the Pirates!  Gasparilla begins Saturday! 

8:00 AM – 11:00 AM– President’s Council (invitation only)