AMLS Committee

• Jeff J. Messerole, EMT-PM, Chair

  Jeff Messerole is the clinical instructor and American Heart Association (AHA) Training Center coordinator at Spencer Hospital in Northwest Iowa. Jeff brings 36 years of experience as an Army Medic (honorably discharged and decorated), EMT and Paramedic. His other professional memberships and involvement include: Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) and Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) Affiliate Faculty; contributing author and editor to the AMLS textbook; contributor to the ACLS–EP program; AHA National Volunteer; Iowa/Nebraska Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) Chair; and Basic Life Support (BLS), ACLS and ACLS EP Regional Faculty. He is an instructor or course coordinator for these and many other courses focused on pediatric and geriatric patients, as well as Hazmat, Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and Terrorism, and a frequent speaker at EMS Conferences.

  Jeff serves on the Iowa EMS Advisory Council, AHA STEMI Task Force, and the Iowa Quality Assurance Standards and Protocol Committee. Active in NAEMT and the Iowa EMS Association, Messerole also serves as the Northwest Iowa Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) Team Leader and on the Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT). He is also adjunct faculty for several community colleges and a reviewer and contributor to several publishing companies.
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• Les R. Becker, Ph.D., MS.MEdL, NRP, CHSE, Vice-Chair

  Dr. Les Becker is a Clinical Educator for the Simulation Training & Education Laboratory (SiTEL) of MedStar Health and continues to serve as a freelance EMS educator in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. Les has been an active EMS provider since the early 1980s, with service including the Baltimore City Fire Department and the Prince George’s County (Md.) Fire/EMS Department (PGFD) until his retirement in 2005. He continues as a volunteer ALS provider in Calvert County, Md.
  
  In 1998, Les completed his Ph.D. in Evaluation and Analytical Techniques at the University of Maryland Baltimore Graduate School and has completed an MS in Medical Education Leadership at the University of New England. Les has worked in the injury prevention and substance abuse fields, is the lead author of a cornerstone publication addressing EMS provider ambulance transport injuries and deaths and serves as an editorial board member or reviewer for several peer-reviewed publications.
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• Craig A. Manifold, DO, FACEP, FAAEM, FAEMS, AMLS Medical Editor

  Dr. Craig Manifold serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Health Sciences, School of Health Professions at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. He is the former Medical Director for the San Antonio Fire Department and surrounding areas in Texas County including San Antonio AirLIFE.
  
  He attended the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and continued his training in Emergency Medicine with his Internship at Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas and his Residency with the Joint Military Medical Centers Emergency Medicine Residency in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Manifold is presently serving on several committees with the South Texas Regional Advisory Council (STRAC), American College of Emergency Physicians, and Governors EMS and Trauma Advisory Committee. He also serves as Joint Surgeon for the Texas Air National Guard, and Commander for the 149th Medical Group of the Texas Air National Guard in San Antonio.
  
  Presently, Dr. Manifold serves as Principal Investigator for several clinical trials. Dr. Manifold has had several publications and has presented at many national conferences as well as overseas in other world conferences.
  
  

• Dr. Vincent N. Mosesso, Jr., MD, FACEP, Medical Director

  Dr. Vincent Mosesso has been the AMLS Medical Director since 2002. He is appointed to this position at the recommendation of the National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP). NAEMSP officially endorses the AMLS program. He began his career as a Paramedic, and now serves as Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Medical Director of Prehospital Care at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He serves as Associate Medical Director for Pittsburgh EMS, Director of Prehospital Care Rotation for the UPMC Emergency Medicine Residency, and as an emergency airway physician for the National Football League. He is also a member of the EMS Examination Task Force of the American Board of Emergency Medicine, which developed the inaugural board certification exam for the new subspecialty of EMS Medicine.

  Vincent is the co-founder and Medical Director of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association. His research has focused on prehospital care and sudden cardiac arrest, and the use of automated external defibrillators. He has published numerous scientific manuscripts and textbook chapters, and serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for the journals Resuscitation and Prehospital Emergency Care

• Dr. Angus Jameson, MD, MPH, Associate Medical Director

  Dr. Angus Jameson currently serves as the Medical Director for Pinellas County EMS in Florida where he provides medical direction to nearly 1,700 EMTs and Paramedics across 20 agencies serving a population of approximately one million people. He completed his residency at University of Pittsburgh and his EMS Fellowship at FDNY and is Board Certified in both Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services. 
  
  Angus is an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine.  In addition to his work with Pinellas County EMS, Angus continues to practice hospital-based emergency medicine in the community and is active in promoting regional advances in stroke, STEMI, and cardiac arrest care with the American Heart Association. He is a frequent lecturer on prehospital medicine and holds a Masters in Public Health Degree. He has nearly 20 years of ground and helicopter-based EMS field experience in the states of Florida, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
  
  
  

• Ann Bellows, RN, EMT-P, EdD

  Ann Bellows has worked with prehospital education for more than 20 years. She has experience in ICUs and ERs in small rural hospitals and Level I Trauma Centers, with Fixed Wing and Rotor Wing transport, and rural volunteer systems. She serves as Regional Faculty for the American Heart Association. She has been active with NAEMT has served on the NAEMT Board of Directors and chaired NAEMT committees. She has also worked with the Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) and the Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) Committees.

  Ann has her doctorate in Training and Learning Technologies and a minor in Message Design. Her master’s degree is in Instructional Design and Human Resource Development. She has a special interest in on-line education, instructor development, and simulation. She has been a contributing author for many EMS textbooks, educational tools, and test banks. Ann serves as an Adjunct Faculty Member for the University of New Mexico EMS Academy, a consultant for the Trauma Center Association of America, and volunteers with the Organ Volunteer Fire Department. Her passion is in developing quality EMS providers and educators.
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• Bengt Eriksson, MD

  Dr. Bengt Eriksson has a great interest in healthcare education – both teaching and learning.  He has been a consultant anesthesiologist and intensive care physician at Mora Hospital in Sweden for the past 28 years, as well as the Medical Director for Prehospital care in Dalecarlia County.  He studied medicine at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm and began his career in surgery, but changed after 3 years to anesthesiology and intensive care. He was appointed Medical Director of the ninth HEMS base in Sweden in 2016 and has been head of the emergency department of Mora Hospital for 10 years.
   
  Bengt serves as the National Medical Director in Sweden for both Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) and Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS). He is responsible for the National Scope of Practice in prehospital trauma care for the Swedish Ambulance Services, as well as for the Swedish module of the SSAI (Scandinavian Association of Anesthesia and Intensive Care) Education in Emergency Medicine. He is a Prehospital Trauma consultant at The National Board of Health and Welfare regarding trauma care in Sweden and has served as a Board Member of the Swedish OHCA (out-of-hospital cardiac arrest) registry.
  
  
  

• Daniel Talbert, MA, EMT

  Dan Talbert is a Certified Flight Paramedic for UF Health in Jacksonville, a Level One Trauma Center in Northeast Florida. He brings education leadership, community outreach and program coordination experience. He's held positions as a trauma education and outreach coordinator and STEMI program coordinator. He has grant writing experience, as well as project development, implementation and quality assurance (QA) oversight. Dan has been credited in published EMS educational materials, such as Field STEMI Alert Clinical Tools.

  Dan has several instructor and provider certifications; specialty training in haz-mat, EMS and mild cognitive impairment; holds organizational memberships with several organizations; and is a combat veteran of Desert Shield/ Desert Storm with the United States Marine Corps. He received his Bachelors of Health Science from Kaplan University and a Masters in Health and Human Services from Liberty University.