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The unexpected passing late last year of respected EMS medical director Craig Manifold, DO, shook up the EMS community both in his home jurisdiction of San Antonio, Tex., and nationally as well. On a larger scale the sudden loss of Manifold cast a spotlight on the medical director position and its pivotal role in the provision of emergency medical services. To explore this topic in depth, EMS World recently spoke with E. Stein Bronsky, MD, and Joshua Hartman, MBA, NRP. Bronsky is co-chief medical director for the Colorado Springs Fire Department and AMR in El Paso County, Colo. Hartman is senior vice president of public safety for EMS World and its parent company, HMP Global, and a paramedic with the Chevra Hatzalah Volunteer Ambulance Corps in New York City. ....
EMS World is a silver-level strategic partner of the NAEMSP meeting. Outgoing president David Tan, MD, FAEMS, began the closing session by thanking outgoing board members and committee members, and introducing the newest Fellows of the Academy of EMS (with congratulatory message from actor Chuck Norris). Accolades Professional awards (and additional celebrity accolades) highlighted during the session included: NAEMSP/Stryker Fellowship Award: Michael Lauria, MD, NRP, emergency medicine resident and flight physician for Lifeguard Air Emergency Services, Albuquerque, New Mexico; President’s Award: Toni Gross, MD, chief of emergency medicine at Children’s Hospital New Orleans, and Ryan Jacobsen, MD, FAEMS, FACEP, associate professor at University of Kansas Medical Center; ....
At the end of 2015, the Los Angeles County Fire Department got some challenging news: The pharmacy director at L.A. County/USC Medical Center, the department’s largest hospital supplier of controlled substances, announced it wasn’t going to supply them any longer. With the liability of medical directors being held personally accountable in cases of diversion, providing a supply to distribute across the department’s 76 paramedic squads and 3,000-square-mile jurisdiction wasn’t worth the risk. More than just requiring a new supplier, the decision provided an inflection point for L.A. County Fire to reexamine its whole pharmaceutical-procurement process. “The system was so broken,” medical director Clayton Kazan, MD, told viewers of the National Association of EMS Physician’s annual conference Thursday, “that it made us reconsider the whole process from the beginning.” ....