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Courses / Faculty
The Special Needs Child and EMS: Treatment
and Transport Implications
Lou Romig MD, FAAP,
FACEP
Dr. Lou Romig is a subspecialty-boarded pediatric emergency
physician practicing at Miami Children’s Hospital in Miami,
Florida for twenty years. Dr. Romig has served as the Pediatric
Medical Advisor to the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department since
1993 and is also the Physician Medical Advisor for rangers at
the four South Florida area National Parks. She is the Medical
Director for Pediatrics for the National Association of EMTs and
serves as the National and International Medical Director for
their Emergency Pediatric Care Course. “Dr. Lou” has been active
in national and state EMS for Children programs for twenty years
and currently is the Florida Department of Health’s Physician
Medical Advisor to Florida’s EMS for Children Program and
Advisory Committee.
Pediatric Trauma
G.
Patricia Cantwell, MD
Dr. Cantwell is Professor and Chief of the Division of Pediatric
Critical Care Medicine at the Holtz Children’s
Hospital/University of Miami. She received her medical degree at
the Bowman Gray School of Medicine/Wake Forest University and
completed her pediatric residency at the Portsmouth Naval
Hospital. Dr. Cantwell practiced general pediatrics for 3 ½
years at the Beaufort Naval Hospital in South Carolina. She
pursued her Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship at the Jackson
Memorial Hospital, remained on the attending staff since 1990
and has held the position of Division Chief since 1999. Her
areas of interest include trauma, pre-hospital emergency care
and stabilization, Pediatric Advanced Life Support Training,
transport and palliative care. Dr. Cantwell has been the Medical
Manager for South Florida Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 2
since 1994. She has deployed with the team to the 1996 Atlanta
Olympics, the Humberto Vida Building Explosion in Puerto Rico,
the 2001 World Trade Center, and multiple hurricane responses.
Community Paramedic: Addressing Healthcare
for Rural & Remote Areas
Gary Wingrove
Mr. Wingrove is Director of Government Relations and Strategic
Affairs for Mayo Clinic Medical Transport in Minnesota and
Western Wisconsin. He is president of the National EMS
Management Association, chairs the EMS Issue Group of the
National Rural Health Assocation, coordinates the International
Roundtable on Community Paramedicine and the Community
Healthcare and Emergency Cooperative. Gary is a founder of the
North Central EMS Institute and the Center for Leadership,
Innovation and Research in EMS.
Respond, Reduce, Redirect: Advanced
Paramedic Practice: The Wake County (NC) Model
Brent Meyers, MD, MPH
Dr. Myers works as the Director and Medical Director for the
Wake County Department of EMS in Raleigh, NC. This progressive
system is internationally recognized for cardiac care, including
UK of induced hypothermia. Dr. Myers was named National Medical
Director of the Year by NAEMST in 2005, recognized as one of the
top 10 Innovators in EMS by JEMS in 2008, and was the 2010
recipient of the Core M. Slocis Excellence in Teaching award
fromt eh Metropolitan Medical Directors Consortium.
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