Scott Bolleter, EMT-P
Mr. Bolleter is a well respected Paramedic and internationally recognized speaker. He is an original member and patent holder with the Vidacare team where he remains the director of education working extensively in product development, research and professional services. Scotty retired from his Flight Paramedic position with San Antonio AirLife where he had been flying critical patients for 14 years. With well over twenty years of EMS behind him his resume now includes the additional past positions of Assistant EMS Program Director for Victoria College, Training officer and Supervisor for Harlingen Community Emergency Care Foundation as well as EMT & Paramedic for Aransas County EMS. Paramedic Scotty Bolleter is best known for his inspiring lectures, moving poetry and “from the heart” speaking style. Simply put, he is the kind of speaker with a message and style that you will not soon forget.

Kelly Grayson
Mr. Grayson has been a Critical Care Paramedic and EMS Educator for over twelve years. He teaches extensively in all of the "alphabet soup" disciplines such as ACLS, PALS, BLS, PHTLS, PEPP, GEMS, AMLS and so on, and has taught, coordinated and administered all levels of EMT courses, from First Responder through Paramedic. A former president of the Louisiana EMS Instructor Society and board member of the LA Association of Nationally Registered EMTs, he currently operates an EMS training and consulting firm, MEDIC Training Solutions. His current book, Life, Death and Everything In Between is available on-line at www.emsbooks.com.

Chris “C.J.” Johnson
Mr. Johnson has been involved in emergency response for nearly 20 years as a firefighter, paramedic, law enforcement officer, and professional rescue instructor and has held ancillary positions as a Lead Paramedic with the South Carolina Disaster Medical Assistance Team (SC-1 DMAT), Rescue Squad Officer with the South Carolina Emergency Response Task Force (SCTF-1 USAR), and EMS Operations Supervisor with the Lowcountry Regional Terrorism Task Force (LC COBRA). He is currently the Disaster Preparedness Training Manager for South Carolina AHEC and the Assistant Chief of the Charleston County Volunteer Rescue Squad. He is a graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina, College of Health Professions and the University of South Carolina’s Arnold School of Public Health, Academy for Public Health Emergency Preparedness. Mr. Johnson holds numerous certifications and instructorships in Hazardous Materials, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), Advanced Incident Command, Enhanced Incident Management/Unified Command, Structural Collapse, Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response, Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), Disaster Animal Response Team (DART), and Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP).

Christopher J. Le Baudour, MS.Ed, NREMT
Mr. Le Baudour is a faculty member in the Department of Public Safety-EMS Division at Santa Rosa Junior College in Santa Rosa, California. He is the founder of Safety Resource Group; a Northern California based safety training and consulting company. Mr. Le Baudour uses a “humanities” approach to EMS education and believes strongly in developing the whole person and not just the skills required to be a good field practitioner. He brings real life experience, together with an off the wall sense of humor, to create a fun and low stress learning experience

Nadine Levick, MD, MPH, MBBS, FACEM, FRACGP, DABFP, MSAE
Dr. Nadine Levick is a national and international leader in EMS Safety and pediatric Emergency Care. She is a board certified Emergency Medicine physician with a Masters of Public Health in Health Policy and Management from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Levick’s medical background, in addition to her Faculty positions in the USA at Johns Hopkins University, Pediatric Emergency Department and Columbia University, as Director of the Harlem Hospital Pediatric Emergency Department includes positions in Australia at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the St. Johns Ambulance Service and a Medical Officer in outback Western Australia with the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

Dan Limmer, EMT-P
Mr. Limmer is an EMT-Paramedic and Program Coordinator for EMS programs at the York County Community College in Wells, Maine. He has been involved in EMS and Law Enforcement for more than 28 years and practices as a paramedic with Kennebunk Fire Rescue in Kennebunk, Maine. He is a co-author of Emergency Care, EMT Complete, Essentials of Emergency Care, Advanced Medical Life Support and First Responder - A Skills Approach.

Don Lundy, BHS, NREMT-P
Mr. Lundy currently serves as EMS Director for Charleston County EMS. With over 33 years of experience in the EMS field, he has directed large municipal and small rural services as well as helicopter operations. Even as an administrator, he continues to be a practicing nationally registered Paramedic, as well as an ACLS and First Responder instructor. He serves as Chairman of the SC. EMS Advisory Committee, Vice-chair of The Lowcountry Regional EMS Council, Past President of the S. C. EMS Association and member of the Board of the National Association of EMTs. He also serves as President of the Board for the Coastal Crisis Chaplancy, Chairman of Board of the South Carolina Foster Care Review Board 9-A and is a member of the Lions Club of Charleston. Don is a graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina with a degree in Health Care Administration and is a reviewer for Jones and Bartlett Publishing for their EMT text. He is an instructor at the National Fire Academy’s EMS program and a visiting instructor at the University of Maryland Baltimore Campus’s EMS program.

Ken Navarro
Mr. Navarro serves as the Continuing Education Coordinator in the Emergency Medicine Education Department at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He provides CE and assists in medical oversight for the BioTel system, a multi-jurisdictional EMS system composed of 14 fire/rescue agencies and more than 1,300 paramedics. Mr. Navarro also serves on two education subcommittees for NIH-funded research projects and as the coordinator for the National Education Standards Project funded by NHTSA/HRSA.

David Page, MS, NREMT-P
Mr. Page is a full time EMS instructor at Inver Hills Community College, and field paramedic for Allina Medical Transportation in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. He loves to learn, research, explore and improve. Mr. Page has over 20 years of EMS experience because he started running calls when he was in diapers.

Tim Phalen
Mr. Phalen has provided ECG education to over 35,000 healthcare providers in the United States, Canada, and overseas. He is recognized for his easy-to- understand approach, his relaxed style, and his audiences frequently state that they learned more about ECG’s in one day of his class than they had in all the previous years. Tim was recognized by the American Heart Association in the 1997 ACLS Textbook, has written journal articles, authored The 12-lead ECG in Acute Myocardial Infarction and co-authored The 12-lead ECG in Acute Coronary Syndromes.

William Pfeifer III, MD, FACS
Dr. Pfeifer is a Trauma Surgeon at Littleton-Adventist Hospital in Littleton, Colorado. His United States Army Service includes 43rd MASH, Korea, Operation Desert Shield/Storm/Calm, Sarrar, Saudi Arabia and Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany.

SC PIER Team
PIER, an acronym for Public Information, Education and Relations in EMS, is a nationally recognized program designed to help EMS manage its image, while educating the public about EMS. Your South Carolina EMS PIER Team is committed to educating and informing the public about their role in an emergency; promoting EMS services throughout South Carolina to the public and decision-makers; and to the prevention of injury. With members from the mountains to the coast and everywhere in between, they have a wealth of experience to help you make a difference in your community.

Robert Vroman, BS, NREMT-P
Mr. Vroman has been involved in all levels of EMS for 17 years working with both rural and urban services. After completing his degree in Emergency Medical Care Robert joined the EMS faculty at Gaston College while continuing to work in the field. Robert is active in the publication of EMS textbooks and has contributed to and reviewed numerous publications for all levels of provider. He is currently a member of the Paramedic Education Program faculty at HealthONE EMS in Englewood, CO.

Rob Wagoner, NREMT-P, BSAS
Mr. Wagoner has been employed by the National Registry of EMT’s since 1987 as the Advanced Level Certification Coordinator and Associate Director since 1999. He has taught in the Nationally Accredited EMT-Paramedic programs at Youngstown State University and the University of New Mexico School of Medicine’s EMS Academy. He has been involved in EMS as a provider, educator and administrator for the past twenty-six years. Rob caught the EMS bug while attending pharmacy school at Ohio Northern University. He has experience in rural volunteer, urban commercial and fire-based EMS systems. Currently Rob oversees all examination activity, sales and shipping at the NREMT.

Gary E. Wiemokly, MPH, EMT-P, RN, EMS-I
Mr. Wiemokly is the EMS Section Chief for the Connecticut Department of Public Health. He is a patient care provider, educator, administrator, and EMS Coach with over 30 years experience in EMS as a paramedic/firefighter, flight nurse/paramedic, EMS Educator, and EMS Service Director. A contributor to EMS journals and a research reviewer, his combined love of EMS and unique teaching style has allowed him to speak to EMS professionals regionally as well as nationally.