Division of Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

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Mission

 The Division of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) enables undergraduate and graduate medical education opportunities, provides outreach through operational support to EMS organizations and agencies across the Greater Miami Valley, provides invigorated education and training programs developed to meet local, regional, and national needs, and innovates patient care in the prehospital setting to provide competent prehospital medical providers able to function in all emergency medical service system designs and platforms.

Key Leaders  

Kermit Huebner, M.D., M.P.H., MSS, NRP

Adam Kruse, M.D.

Medical Education

The Division of EMS supports a longitudinal Emergency Medical Services curriculum for the WSU Integrated Emergency Medicine Residency Program that incorporates graduated exposure to the continuum of prehospital medicine, ranging from emergency medical dispatch, 911 response, technical rescue, and critical care transport.  Residents may also participate in an Operational Medicine Elective to gain additional exposure to EMS niche areas of interest. WSU medical students applying for an emergency medicine residency may arrange a student-initiated elective to gain exposure to the prehospital environment during their 4th year at the discretion of EMS leadership.

Community Outreach and Operational Support

The EMS division provides medical direction and advisory support to a variety of organizations and agencies in the Greater Miami Valley Region, including the Greater Miami Valley EMS Council and the Region 3 Physician Advisory Board.

Innovation and Research Areas of Interest

  • Optimizing EMS system design
  • Unmanned and autonomous EMS vehicles
  • Prehospital Blood Program development
  • Out-of-hospital resuscitation of opioid-induced cardiac arrest
  • Community paramedicine

Partners and Resources