EMS Airway Contributors

University of Tennessee Health Science Center, UTHSC Department of Emergency Medicine, Memphis, TN

Mark T. Dalton, AAS, BA, EMT-P, is a paramedic and the Director of Operations for Canton Rescue in Canton, NY. He also serves as a member of the North Country Regional Emergency Medical Services Council.

Martin Pelletier, BS, CCEMT-P, FP-C, is a paramedic for Brewster Ambulance in Massachusetts. He also works as a paramedic and SCT-3 provider for Canton Rescue in Canton, NY.

Marvin A. Wayne, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, FAHA, is the medical program director for Whatcom County EMS systems in Washington state. He’s also an attending physician in the ED at St. Joseph Medical Center, an associate clinical professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington, and is member of numerous local, state, national and international organizations on emergency medicine and EMS.

Mary Kamienski, PhD, FNP, ENP, FAEN, FAAN, is a professor and specialty director of the FNP in Emergency Care track in the Division of Advanced Nursing Practice in Rutgers School of Nursing. Dr. Kamienski has 46 years years of experience in nursing which has been primarily in emergency prehospital and hospital-based care. She served as an EMT in the years prior to becoming a nurse. She has been in academia full-time for sixteen years and maintains a faculty practice in an urgent care setting.

Dr. Matthew Chinn is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine in the EMS Division at the Medical College of Wisconsin.  He serves as the Assistant Medical Director for the Milwaukee County Office of Emergency Management – EMS Division and the Medical Director for the New Berlin and Tess Corners Fire Department. 

Matthew Kent, NRP, is paramedic in Western Pennsylvania who currently works for Valley Ambulance Authority. Matthew will be graduating from the University of Pittsburgh’s Emergency Medicine Program in April 2020.

Michael Berkenbush, MD, NRP, is an EMS Fellow and emergency physician at Atlantic Health - Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey. He is also a currently practicing paramedic, beginning his EMS and medical career as a volunteer EMT/firefighter, and subsequently has served as a paramedic in northern New Jersey and the Hudson Valley region of New York state.

Michael J. Barakey, CFO, is a 30-year fire service veteran and the chief of Suffolk (VA) Fire & Rescue. He is also a hazmat specialist; an instructor III; a nationally registered paramedic; and a neonatal/pediatric critical care paramedic for the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia. Barakey is the participating agency representative and former task force leader for the VA-TF2 urban search and rescue team and an exercise design/controller for Spec Rescue International. He has a master’s degree in public administration from Old Dominion University and graduated the National Fire Academy’s Executive Fire Officer Program in 2009. Barakey authored Critical Decision Making: Point-To-Point Leadership in Fire and Emergency Services through Fire Engineering Books and Videos, regularly contributes to Fire Engineering, and is an FDIC International preconference and classroom instructor.