Faculty

Russ Brown NRP

Russ Brown is a paramedic and clinical educator from the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He is the founder of Med Inspired LLC. and the creator and host of the Med Inspired Podcast. A passionate medical educator he frequently speaks around the country at pre-hospital and emergency medicine conferences.

Dr. Jim Ducanto

Jim Ducanto is an anesthesiologist in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his medical degree from Rush Medical College and has been in practice for more than 20 years. A master educator he is the inventor of the Ducanto Suction Catheter and the SALAD trainer which has helped revolutionize airway management.

Dr. Cynthia Griffin

Dr. Cynthia Griffin first fell in love with EMS in 1998 when she joined a collegiate rescue squad while attending Virginia Tech studying Biology & Spanish.  She worked as a career Paramedic for 10 years with Carilion with Radford EMS before graduating from the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2007.  She then completed residency in Emergency Medicine at the gun & knife club of Virginia at MCV-VCU in 2014 & brought her EMS addiction full circle by completing a HEMS Fellowship with the University of Wisconsin in 2015.  Forever an EMS advocate & SALAD Raptor, she continues to practice Critical Care & EMS as a flight physician for UW MedFlight in Madison WI and is a Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician in the community at the St. Agnes ED in Fond du Lac, WI.

Gene is a critical care paramedic at British Columbia Ambulance Service in Vancouver, Canada. His passions include airway management and making airways SAFER for critical care and emergency medicine providers.

Jess Boyle is a Telehealth Project Manager for NewYork-Presbyterian and Clinical Assistant Professor of Health Science at Stony Brook University. His duties have included education and clinical direction for a large critical care transport team, residency education for an emergency physician training program, and coordination of medical student rotation in prehospital medicine. In addition, he has led a mobile medical simulation training program. As an experienced paramedic, he continues to treat critically ill patients in challenging and resource-limited environments.

Previously, Jess was a flight paramedic, as well as a critical care paramedic in adult, pediatric, and neonatal patients. He holds board certifications in these disciplines, in addition to instructor credentials in several others.

He has taught and lectured at several industry and academic conferences on topics including difficult airway management and medical response to chemical and biological incidents. He continues to educate physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, and other medical professionals for several large medical institutions in the New York metropolitan area.

Dr. Yen Chow

Dr. Yen Chow is a former medical director for Ornge Critical Care Transport and Aeromedical Transport Program. He has been an attending emergency staff physician since 1997 at Thunder Bay regional Health Sciences Centre in Ontario, Canada. His passions include airway management, medical education, and retrieval medicine.