Paramedic Chiefs of Canada
JUNE 9, 2025
Marc-André Périard is Paramedic Chief and Emergency Services Director for the United Counties of Prescott and Russell. He has been in paramedicine since 1990, starting as a primary care paramedic in the Ottawa area. There he was given the opportunity to become Emergency Management Coordinator and then became Deputy Chief of QA.
JEMS
AUGUST 11, 2025
About the Author Michael Mejia is a firefighter paramedic with over a decade of experience in emergency medical services (EMS), aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF), technical rescue, and emergency management.
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JEMS
JULY 11, 2025
He has a master’s degree international business management and a bachelor’s degree in emergency management and disaster planning. Light, MS, is part of the public safety faculty in the Colorado College system. Light has 30 years in the field of EMS, with a background in critical care. He is also a QA/QI specialist and educator.
JEMS
JUNE 11, 2025
Currently pursuing a Master of Public Administration in Emergency Management, Delaney is committed to building a more resilient, compassionate, and responsive EMS system.
JEMS
JULY 24, 2025
Murphy, “ Is It Time for Midlevel Providers to Staff EMS Vehicles? ,” proposes incorporating nurse practitioners and physician assistants into the domain of paramedicine to address systemic gaps in prehospital care. And I agree, that is the path American paramedicine should be following; but the analogy is deeply flawed.
JEMS
JULY 24, 2025
Murphy, “ Is It Time for Midlevel Providers to Staff EMS Vehicles? ,” proposes incorporating nurse practitioners and physician assistants into the domain of paramedicine to address systemic gaps in prehospital care. And I agree, that is the path American paramedicine should be following; but the analogy is deeply flawed.
JEMS
JUNE 25, 2025
Average response time was 9 minutes, 27 seconds, in February using ambulances assigned by Ulster County Emergency Management. Before the agreement, response times averaged 10 minutes, 56 seconds, in 2024 before declining to 10 minutes, 6 seconds, in January. Town Board members expect the district to have a $1.34
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