Schedule & Handouts

8:00 am – 8:15 am — Welcome and Course Overview
Course Directors: Robert Swor & Beth Adams 

8:15 am – 8:45 am — EMS Medical Direction: An Overview
Speaker: Ed Racht 

8:45 am – 9:15 am — Operationalizing Medical Direction
Speaker: Paul Hinchey

9:15 am – 9:30 am — BREAK

9:30 am – 10:15 am — EMS Dispatch – Structure and Function PSAPs, Technology
Speaker: William Fales

10:15 am – 10:30 am — Welcome to NAEMSP
Speaker: José Cabañas

10:30 am – 10:45 am — BREAK

10:45 am – 11:15 am — Controversies in Air Medical Care
Speaker: Frank Guyette

11:15 am – 11:45 am — Improving Cardiac Arrest Survival – A Video Analysis
Speaker: William Fales

11:55 am – 12:30 pm — LUNCH (provided)

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm — Case Studies in Medical Direction #1 — Cases 1-5

2:00 pm – 2:15 pm — BREAK

2:15 pm – 2:45 pm — EMS Culture of Safety
Speaker: Doug Kupas 

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm — Strategies in Quality Improvement
Speaker: Ron Roth 

3:15 pm – 3:45 pm — Leadership and Management as the Medical Director
Speaker: Brent Myers 

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm — BREAK

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm — Assuring Quality in the EMS System: Education, Certification, Credentialing
Speaker: Kevin Mackey

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm — Rural and Tribal Emergency Care
Speaker: Chelsea White  

5:30 pm – 7:30 pm — Emerging Leaders Reception (Sponsored by ESO) — Brazos Room – Level 2

8:00 am – 8:30 am — Working with Broadcast Media
Speaker: Sabina Braithwaite 

8:30 am – 9:00 am — Educational Pearls for the EMS Physician
Speaker: Maia Dorsett 

9:00 am – 9:30 am — Mobile Integrated Health Care Principles and Challenges
Speaker: Jeff Beeson 

9:30 am – 9:45 am — BREAK

9:45 am – 10:15 am — Evolution of the Police/EMS Relationship
Speaker: David Tan

10:15 am – 11:45 am — Case Studies in Medical Direction #2 – — Cases 6-11

11:45 am – 12:30 pm — LUNCH (provided)

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm — EMS Finance Fundamentals: Operational Costs and Basics of Accounting
Speaker: Jerry Overton

1:00 pm – 1:30 pm — Legal Concepts and Medical Direction
Speaker: Winnie Maggiore

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm — Case Studies in Medical Direction #3 — Cases 12-17

3:00 pm – 3:15 pm — BREAK

3:15 pm – 3:45 pm — Integrating EMS-C into EMS-A
Speaker: Joelle Donofrio-Ödmann 

3:45 pm – 4:15 pm — Legal Authority and Medical Direction
Speaker: Winnie Maggiore 

4:15 pm – 4:45 pm — Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Next Steps
Speaker: Nicole Bosson 

8:00 am – 8:30am — Integrating EMS into the Healthcare System
Speaker: Marcus Ong

8:30 am – 9:00 am — Advocacy, Legislation and Lobbying
Speaker: Brent Myers