National Association of EMS Physicians

Affiliate Meeting

Air Medical Physician Symposium
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Hosted by the Air Medical Physician Association
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Pre-Conference Workshops

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

Driving Change: How to Build a Mobile Integrated Health Program that Transforms Your Entire Healthcare System 
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Course Director: Heidi Abraham, MD, FAEMS 

Hidden Forces: The Impact of Money and Politics on EMS Medicine 
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Course Director: Christine Brent, MD, FAEMS, FACEP 

Out-of-Hospital Critical Procedure Cadaver Lab  - 2 Sessions Available
- Session A: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Session B: 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Course Director: Jake Keeperman, MD, FAEMS, FACEP, FCCM 

NAEMSP National EMS Medical Directors Course & Practicum® — DAY 3
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Course Director: Beth Adams, MA, BSN, RN, NRP, FAEMS
Course Director: Robert A. Swor, DO, FAEMS

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm — Standards and Clinical Practice Committee Meeting  
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm — Council of EMS Fellowship Directors Meeting  
5:15 pm – 6:00 pm — New Member/First Time Attendee Reception  
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm — Welcome Reception – Exhibit Hall Open 

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

8:15 AM - 9:00 AM 
Keynote: The Legacy of Freedom House Ambulance Service: The Black Men who Became America's First Paramedic 
John Moon, Retired Assistant Chief Pittsburgh EMS 

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM 
Grand Rounds: Artificial Intelligence in EMS - The Future is Here 
Freddy Lippert, MD 

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 (Committee Schedule TBA) 
 

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


Track: General EMS 

1:15 PM - 3:00 PM
New Speaker Forum 
Jonathan Bar, MD 
Alexandra Bush, B.S., PM 
Andres Camacho, MD 
Dominique Diggs, MD 
Nicholas George, MD 
William "Bill" Haussner, MD 
Joshua Lowe, MD 
Kayla Riel, MPH, EMT-B 
Austin Wingate, NRP, SPO, CCEMT-P 

Track: Interventions 

1:15 PM - 1:35 PM 
Large Vessel Occlusions: Controversies in Blood Pressure Control 
Juan March, MD, FAEMS 

1:40 PM - 2:00 PM 
Raising the Bar: High Performance Prehospital Airway Management 
Michael Berkenbush, MD, NRP 

2:05 PM - 2:25 PM 
Dispatch Role in Creating a High Performance System for OHCA 
Lekshmi Kumar, MD, MPH, FAEMS 
Phudit Buaprasert, MD 

2:30 PM - 2:50 PM 
Killing the Dinosaur: A Critical Appraisal of Medication Delivery by Gravity-Driven Infusion 
Michael F. Spigner, MD, EMT-P 


Track: Oversight 

1:15 PM - 1:35 PM 
Pearls and Pitfalls of Medical Direction of Paramedics at Unique Practice Sites 
Erin R. Hanlin, MD, MPH 
Brooke Burton, NRP, FACPE 
Jason R. Johnson 
Herbert Schiffer 

1:40 PM - 2:00 PM 
Maximizing the "Net" in Medical Oversight Networking 
Jeffrey M. Goodloe, MD, NRP, FAEMS, FACEP  
Ryan Jacobson, MD, FAEMS, FACEP 
Erica Carney, MD, FAEMS, FACEP 
Eric (Stein) Bronsky, MD, FAEMS, FACEP 

2:05 PM - 2:25 PM 
The Rationale of Rationing: Crisis Standards of Care in the Prehospital Setting 
Martha M. Masters, MD 
Peter D'Souza 

2:30 PM - 2:50 PM 
Making an IMPACT on Service: Safely Reshaping EMS Demand & Service Delivery 
Justin T. Hargett, MA, EMTP 
Hannah Muthersbaugh, PA-C 


Track: Mobile Integrated Health/Alternative Destination 

1:15 PM - 1:35 PM 
Your Patient's Problems Aren't Always Clinical: A Pre-Hospital Approach to SDOH 
Karen J. Bowers, MD, MS, MEd 

1:40 PM - 2:00 PM 
Experiences of Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs with the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’  ET3 Model
Aaron Klassen, MD, MA 
Chad P. Liedl, RN, MSN 

2:05 PM - 2:25 PM 
Mobile Integrated Health and Fall Prevention: An Orthopaedic Surgeon's Partnership with EMS 
Carmen Quatman, MD, PhD 

2:30 PM - 2:50 PM 
Paramedic Practitioners: How Austin, Texas has leveraged qualified advanced providers to deliver innovative out-of-hospital medicine 
Travis Baker, MCHS, PA-C 
Mark E. Escott, MD, MPH 

Break in Exhibit Hall – 2:55 pm – 3:20 pm 
 

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

Track: Research 

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


Track: Oversight 

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM 
Danger Zone: Navigating the Legal Landscape for EMS Medical Oversight 
Samantha Johnson 
Lekshmi Kumar, MD, MPH, FAEMS 

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM 
“So we’re subspecialists now”  But will EMS Medicine always be a part-time gig? 
Roger M. Stone, MD, MS, FAAEM, FAEMS 
Allen Yee, MD, MPH, FAAEM, FACEP, FAEMS 
E. Reed Smith, MD, FACEP, FAEMS 
Brian M. Walters, DO, FACEP, FAAEM 

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM 
EMS Practice and Insurance Claims 2023: Trends and Potential Practice Pitfalls 
Michael Levy, MD, FAEMS, FACEP, FACP 
Tom James, MGA 

4:35 PM - 5:00 PM 
Baby steps: Navigating your first job as a grownup medical director 
Heidi Abraham, MD, FAEMS 


Track: General EMS 

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM 
The Top EMS Trauma Articles of 2023 
Christopher B. Colwell, MD 

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM 
TXA in Trauma 
Matt Bivens 

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM 
Obstetric Events: Prehospital Trends in the U.S. After Roe vs. Wade Overturned 
Emily M. Nichols, MD 
Megan Marino, MD, FAAP 

4:35 PM - 5:00 PM 
Factors predicting imminent delivery in the interfacility transport of pregnant patients 
Thomas Lardaro, MD, MPH 


Track: Quality & Safety 

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM 
“We’re Down with DTT, EDs Set Us Free!”: Direct to Triage protocol and process that get our units back on the street 
Roger M. Stone, MD, MS, FAAEM, FAEMS 
Timothy P. Chizmar, MD, FACEP, FAEMS 

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM 
Measuring What Matters:  The National EMS Quality Alliance and the Quest for Improvement in EMS 
Michael Redlener, MD 

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM 
It’s Time to Talk to Prehospital Providers: Improving Patient Follow-Up and Feedback to EMS 
Sarayna S. McGuire, MD 

4:35 PM - 5:00 PM 
What Can Your EMS Data, and Other Data, Do For You? Linking EMS ePCR data to complementary data sources. 
Joe Ferrell 
 

5:30 pm – 6:45 pm – Research and Quality Improvement Posters 

6:45 pm - 7:45 pm -- Happy Hour Reception -- supported by FirstNet built with AT&T

6:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Distinctly Canadian Workshop (additional fee applies) 

7:00 am – 7:45 am  Continental Breakfast and Committee Meetings (Committee Schedule TBA)

8:00 AM - 8:25 AM 
EMS and the Evolution of 988 and the Crisis System 
Katherine Elkins, MPH, CPH, NRP 

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM 
Treating Opioid Use Disorder in the Field 
Melody Glenn, MD 
Gene Hern, MD, MS 
Gerard Carroll, MD 

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM 
Death in Custody 
Eric Jaeger, JD, NRP, EMS IC 

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM 
Emergency Ambulance Services - The DOJ/OIG's New Target and a New World of Legal Risk for Medical Directors 
Kevin Fairlie, JD, MHA 
Maggie Adams 
 

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


Track: Pediatrics 

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM 
Applications of the COPE Curriculum: How You Can Integrate Pediatric Bereavement and Debriefing Education in Your Agency 
Benjamin Lang, MD, MPH 

11:00 AM - 11:25 AM 
Collaborating with Parents of Children with Special Health Care Needs 
Sven Steen, MD 

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 
The Complete Training Guide to Treating and Transporting Newborns Born at Home 
Rudy J. Kink, MD 


Track: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM 
Blind Spots: Strengthening Equity in EMS 
Benjamin W. Weston, MD, MPH 

11:00 AM - 11:25 AM 
Impact of Implicit Bias upon Safety & Patient Care 
Rickquel P. Tripp, MD, MPH 
Ameera Haamid, MD 

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 
Language Barriers in the Pre-hospital Environment: Prevalence, Pitfalls and Problem-Solving 
Dustin W. Ballard, MD, MBE 


Track: Research 

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM 
Landmark Research Articles Every EMS Physician Should Read 
Katherine Couturier, MD, MPH 
Joshua Stilley, MD, FACEP, FAEMS 

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM 
Menegazzi Scientific Session – Research Oral Abstracts #3 


Track: General EMS 

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM 
The triage of medical 9-1-1 calls: priorities, practice, performance & prospects 
Luc de Montigny, PhD 
Ian Blanchard 

11:00 AM - 11:25 AM 
How to get better documentation by asking for less 
Ignacio Rodriguez, MA, LP 
Matt Clark 

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 
Physician Order for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) use in EMS 
Amelia M. Breyre, MD, NRP 
Abby Dotson, PhD 
 

12:00 pm – 1:10 pm – Lunch and Committee Meetings (Committee Schedule TBA) 

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: Education 

1:15 PM - 1:35 PM 
Designing EMS Education That Actually Improves Performance 
Tom Grawey, DO, FAEMS 

1:40 PM - 2:00 PM 
The Art of the Phone Call - Onboarding EMS Fellows in Online Medical Control 
Joseph Grover, MD 
R. Darrell Nelson, MD, FAEMS 

2:05 PM - 2:25 PM 
Deep in the Heart of Texas: Bringing high-fidelity "Simbulance" training to rural South Texas 
Kevin Schulz, MD, FAEMS, FACEP 

2:30 PM - 2:50 PM 
Annual Competency Education: A simulation-based approach to assessing and developing competency 
Jeffrey Phillips, CFRN, M.Ed., MSOL 
Todd Dorn, FP-C, BSLE 
Anuradha Luke, MD 


Track: Wellness 

1:15 PM - 1:35 PM 
Preventing Violence against Paramedics: A Tale of Two Communities 
Donald Garner, NRP 
Elizabeth A. Donnelly, PhD, MPH, LICSW, NREMT, FAEMS 
Justin Mausz, ACP, PhD 
Joseph Zalkin, FAEMS 

1:40 PM - 2:00 PM 
First Responder Wellness: How a Month in Alcohol Rehab Restored My Joy in My Work and Made Me a Better Doctor 
Amanda L. Humphries, MD 

2:05 PM - 2:25 PM 
Physical Fitness in EMS. Firefighters do it, why not paramedics? 
David P. Thomson, MS, MD, MPA, FACEP, FAEMS, FAsMA, FAMPA 
Tiffany Lipsey, MEd, ACSM 

2:30 PM - 2:50 PM 
Saving Superman: A Novel, Multi-Faceted Approach to Addressing First Responder Mental Health and Wellness 
Diane L. Miller, MD, MS, FACEP, FAEMS 
Capt (ret) A. Aaron Back 


Track: Event/International 

1:15 PM - 1:35 PM
Session Type: Concurrent Session 
The Role of the EMS Physician in International Disaster Response 
Erin Noste, MD, FAEMS, FACEP 
Nichole Bosson, MD, MPH 
Denise A. Whitfield, MD 
Eric Hill, MD, FAEMS, FACEP
Ricardo Hughes, MD, FAEMS 

1:40 PM - 2:00 PM 
Friday Night Lights and Sirens: EMS Care in Athletes and Sports 
Bentley Woods Curry, MD, FAEMS 
Jason T. McMullan, MD, MS, FAEMS 

2:05 PM - 2:25 PM 
Indy 500 Medicine: A Look Inside the Planning for the Largest Single-Day Sporting Event in the World 
Julia Vaizer, MD 

2:30 PM - 2:50 PM 
The ETHOS of Air Medical Services 
Nicholas H. George, MD 
 

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


Track: General EMS 

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM 
Decreasing the Murder Rate: Prehospital Blood Administration in New Orleans 
Megan Marino, MD, FAAP 
Emily M. Nichols, MD 

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM 
Is There Anything Ketamine Can’t Do? The Evolving Role of Ketamine for Prehospital Refractory Status Epilepticus 
Casey Patrick, MD, FAEMS 
Michael C. Perlmutter, MD, FP-C, NRP 

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM 
Lessons Learned from More than 14,000 Naloxone Administrations by Law Enforcement Officers 
Michael W. Dailey, MD 
Warren Hayashi, MD 

4:35 PM - 5:00 PM 
EMS Working Behind Bars: Providing EMS Services for Correctional Health Systems 
Hashim Q. Zaidi, MD 


Track: Behavioral 

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM 
ROAR: A Roadmap to Prehospital Psychiatric Crisis Management 
Puneet Gupta, MD 
Pietro D’Ingillo, PsyD 

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM 
Getting it RIGHT: Multidisciplinary Teams in the Management of Behavioral Health Emergencies 
Al Lulla, MD 
Faroukh Mehkri, DO 

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM 
Paramedic-Administered Buprenorphine Bridge Program 
Jason R. Pickett, MD, FAEM,S FACEP 
Blake Hardy, BA LP FP-C 
Mike Sasser 

4:35 PM - 5:00 PM 
Avoiding the Major Pitfalls of Physical and Chemical Restraint 
Eric Jaeger, JD, NRP, EMS IC 


Track: Mobile Integrated Health/General EMS 

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM 
Strategies for Squalor and Tactics for Tent Medicine: How EMS in Los Angeles is Collaboration with Homelessness Advocates 
Stephen Sanko, MD, FAEMS, FACEP 
Tiffany M. Abramson, MD 

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM 
Mobile Integrated Health- Fighting Cancer on the Front Lines 
Ian Medoro, MD 

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM 
Standard of Care: Utilizing Audio Recordings to Document Low-Risk Patient Refusals 
Brandon Morshedi, MD, DPT, NREMT-P, FAEMS, FACEP  
Brian Miller, MD 

4:35 PM - 5:00 PM 
Making the Leap: How  to Transition from EMS Leader to other Healthcare Leadership 
Paul Hinchey, MD, MBA 
Eric Beck, DO, MPH 

Track: Special Operations/Event 

3:20 PM - 3:40 PM 
Tactical Medical Augmentation Team (TMAT) - A US Air Force Reserve Concept Team 
Alexander Torres, DO, MBA, FACEP 
Matthew Harmon, NRP, FP-C 

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM 
The Cameras Are On and the Clock Has Started:  EMS Arriving After Law Enforcement 
Michael Levy, MD, FAEMS, FACEP, FACP 

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM 
The Waukesha Parade Mass Casualty Incident: Review of a Pediatric MCI 
J. Marc Liu, MD, MPH, FAEMS 
Mark Schultz, DO, FACEP, FAEMS 
Maureen Luetje, DO 
Lorin R. Browne, DO 

4:35 PM - 5:00 PM 
Partnering with Law Enforcement to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival: The Story of How We Deployed AEDs on Every Deputy Vehicle in the County and How You Can Too! 
Dorothy Habrat, DO 
Gabe De Baltz, NREMT-P, I/C 
 

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

7:00 am – 7:45 am  — Continental Breakfast and Committee Meetings (Committee Schedule TBA)

8:00 AM - 8:25 AM 
NAEMSP Past, Present and Future: 40 Years of Supporting EMS Physicians 
Debra Perina, Professor Emeritus 
Douglas F. Kupas, MD, FAEMS 

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM 
Four Decades of EMS for Children-Pediatric Readiness Finally Comes to Emergency Medical Services 
Kathleen Adelgais, MD, MPH, FAAP, FAEMS 
Katherine Remick 
Kathryn Kothari, MD 

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM 
EMS Treatment of Status Epilepticus: Better Doses, Better Outcomes 
Robert Silbergleit, MD 
Manish I. Shah, MD, MS 
Elan L. Guterman, MD, MAS 

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM 
The Scope of Practice Plateau: Waveform Capnography for BLS Providers and Services 
Hashim Q. Zaidi, MD 

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM 
EMS Subspecialty Update 
Brian M. Clemency, DO 

11:00 AM - 11:25 AM 
The Most Important SBARs (Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendations) Submitted to the Standards and Practice Committee in 2023 
Christopher B. Colwell, MD 

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM 
Becoming an Informed Consumer of Prehospital Guidelines 
Christian Martin-Gill, MD, MPH 

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

2:00 PM - 2:25 PM 
Hidden Forces: The Impact of Money and Politics on EMS Medicine 
Christine Brent, MD, FAEMS, FACEP 
Bridgette Svancarek, MD, FAEMS 
Nick Asselin, DO, MS, FAEMS 
Kevin Mackey, MD, FAEMS, NRP 

2:30 PM - 2:55 PM 
Improving Survival in Civilian Active violence and Intentional Mass Casualty Events 
E. Reed Smith, MD, FAEMS,  FACEP  

3:00 PM - 3:25 PM 
A Model for Developing and Preserving Municipal Rural EMS Agencies and Medical Direction 
Marc Conterato, MD, FAEMS, FACEP  
Michael Wilcox, MD, FACEP, FAAFP 
Julie Houle, MD 

3:30 PM - 3:55 PM 
Hospital Capacity Crisis: Why EMS is integral to the Hospital@Home revolution 
Tia Radant, MS, NRP 
Aaron M. Burnett, MD 
Chrisanne Timpe, MD 

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM — Closing Reception