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.
  

• 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. His current positions include Associate Medical Director for Pittsburgh EMS, core faculty for the UPMC EMS Fellowship Program, and Airway Management Physician for the National Football League. He served on the initial EMS Medicine Examination Task Force and Sub-board 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, including the deployment 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. Mosesso is the NAEMT representative on the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) Oversight Board and the Baylor College of Medicine Obstetrical Life Support (OBLS) program expert panel.

  
  

• Jeff Jarvis, MD, Assoc. Medical Director

  Jeff Jarvis, MD, MS, EMT-P, FACEP, FAEMS, is the EMS medical director for the Williamson County EMS system in Texas. He also serves as the medical director for Marble Falls Area EMS is an emergency physician at Baylor Scott & White Health in Round Rock, Texas, and is the chief medical officer for FlightBridgeED. He is board-certified in emergency medicine and EMS. He began his career as a paramedic with Williamson County EMS in 1988 and continues to maintain his paramedic license.

  Dr. Jarvis received his paramedic license in 1988, bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Texas A&M University in 1990, master’s degree from New York Medical College in 1991 and Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2005. He completed his residency at the Texas A&M College of Medicine/Scott & White Hospital in Texas. Dr. Jarvis is an educator, accomplished researcher, author, speaker and blogger. He serves on the boards and committees of several state and national organizations and has received several awards.

  
  

• R. Zachary Louderback, MD, Assoc. Medical Director

  Dr. Louderback began his career as an EMT in high school and has worked in various urban, suburban, and rural EMS agencies since. He completed his emergency medicine residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), which includes extensive field time as an EMS physician. He then went on to complete fellowship training in EMS, also at UPMC, which includes broad exposure to EMS operations, protocol development, and medical direction as well as extensive ground and aeromedical prehospital field time.

  Dr. Louderback currently practices emergency medicine for United States Acute Care Solutions (USACS), which contracts with the Centura Health System in Denver, Colorado. He assists with medical direction for multiple Denver Metro Area agencies and he has played an integral role in the preparation and launch of the ET3 pilot program in Denver, Colorado. He is committed to advancing paramedic education strategies and innovation. His fellowship research focused on EMS resource allocation and dispatch reform.

  
  

• 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.
  
  

• Reuben Farnsworth, NRP, CCP-C

  

  Reuben is the executive project manager with SJM Premier Medical Group, specializing in expeditionary medicine. He also serves as the EMS program director at Technical College of the Rockies in Colorado, and owns RockStar Education and Consulting, where he teaches across the country on topics from CPR to Critical Care Refresher, and everything in between.

  Reuben began his career in EMS as an EMT-B with a rural volunteer service and after five years, made the move to full time. With 12 years in EMS on both the volunteer and career sides, Reuben has acquired good grasp of EMS. Reuben started teaching EMT-B and CPR classes in 2006 and has been teaching extensively ever since. Reuben has held positions as a Captain, Education Coordinator, Critical Care and Community Paramedic with Delta County Ambulance District, and Lead Instructor for the Paramedic program at Colorado Mesa University.
  
  

• Michael Kaduce, Paramedic

  Michael Kaduce is the EMT Program Director at the UCLA Center for Prehospital Care where he leads a team of EMS Program Faculty in educating EMTs to provide competent, compassionate patient care. Michael and his team educate nearly 1,000 EMTs annually and provide refresher training for nearly 600 more. The program has a 96% first attempt pass rate on the NREMT cognitive exam and completion rates that exceed 80%. Michael believes great education drives future clinical practice and thus leads his team toward innovate thinking and progressive healthcare delivery.  

  Michael began his EMS career in Iowa where he received his EMT certificate from Mercy College of Health Sciences in 2006 and worked as a patient care technician at St. Luke's Hospital while obtaining his Bachelor of Science in Biology from Mount Mercy University. Michael completed his paramedic course work at Mercy College of Health Sciences and worked for the Urbandale Fire Department as a firefighter/paramedic for four years. He was then the EMT and paramedic coordinator for 2 years at the University of Iowa. Michael graduated from Pennsylvania State University where he completed his Master of Professional Studies in Homeland Security in 2016. Michael has been published in EMS World and has helped review and author EMT and paramedic curriculum, establish NAEMT training centers, and conduct research on educational methods.

  
  

• Kelly Kohler, MS, Paramedic, CCP-C, CHSE, NCEE

  Kelly Kohler, MS, Paramedic, CCP-C, CHSE, NCEE has been a paramedic in New York for 26 years. Kelly is currently a simulation educator at the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, adjunct faculty at Dutchess Community College EMS Programs, and a paramedic at EMStar Ambulance.
  
  Kelly is the former director of the National Training Network for the American Heart Association where she worked for fourteen years. Kelly has presented at numerous conferences on Simulation and was the winner of the iSimulate Excellence in Simulation Award in 2019, and the SUNY Chancellor's Educator of Excellence Award in 2020. Kelly has written test questions for NREMT and PHTLS, written scenarios for PHTLS, GEMS and AMLS, and has written lessons for the Jones and Bartlett Paramedic Flipped Classroom curriculum.