EMS Airway Contributors

Cory Hromatko has 12 years’ experience in EMS, a Bachelor’s degree in the biological sciences, and an Associate’s degree in the applied sciences as a paramedic.

Craig Dues, DO, FACOEP, FACEP, is a board certified emergency physician working in rural western Ohio. He is the emergency department director at Mercer Health and president of Emergency Physicians Group, LLC. He provided prehospital care as an EMT for five years prior to attending medical school. He encourages evidenced based prehospital care and remains active in EMS education.

Chief, Division of Prehospital, Austere and Disaster Medicine Professor of Emergency Medicine, EMS and Anesthesiology, The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center

Rio Rancho Fire Rescue

Captain EMS Training

EMT-B

Dennis Edgerly, MEd, EMT-P, began his EMS career in 1987. He’s currently the EMS academy director for Arapahoe Community College. He can be reached at [email protected].

Dr. Jennifer Sedillo is an associate professor of Public Health at American Public University Systems. She earned her doctorate in public health from the University of South Florida. She teaches epidemiology and research methods graduate-level courses. 

Dr. Karen Schill, DNP, APN-C, FNP-BC, ENP-C, CEN, CFRN, NREMT-P, has more than twenty years of experience in the prehospital setting, ranging from basic life support, paramedicine, and air and ground critical care transport. She teaches prehospital courses with the Atlantic Mobile Health Training Center Dr. Schill spent twelve years as a bedside emergency nurse and continues to work as an advanced practice nurse in a Level 1 Trauma Center. She presently works as a full-time assistant professor clinical instructor in the Rutgers School of Nursing FNP in Acute Emergency Care program.

Hospital for Advanced Medicine and Surgery (HAMS)

Department of ER/Prehospital Care

Kathmandu, Nepal

JEMS Editor-in-Chief for Clarion Events Fire & Rescue Group. Servant Leader, Professional Educator, Author, and Textbook Contributor. Critical Care EMT- Paramedic and Nationally Registered Paramedic, with an Associate Degree in Emergency Medical Science, a Bachelor’s in Health Science and EMS Management, a Master’s Degree in Education and a Doctor of Education Degree in higher education leadership. Background includes EMS educator with over 20 years of experience in both on site and online programs, EMS shift supervisor, field training officer and team leader, over 20 years of field paramedic and six years of critical care transport experience along with seven years of military experience in a leadership position with rapid-deployments units.

Lieutenant R. Elliott Guinn is a critical care paramedic and has been involved in EMS for over 20 years. He has been with the Rio Rancho Fire Rescue for the past 14 years and is currently assigned as a senior “Medcom,” a small specially trained paramedic program responding to high acuity calls to over 100,000 people.