Please join me in congratulating Dr. Frank Guyette, STAT MedEvac's Associate Medical Director, on his recent recognition as one of the top ten innovators in EMS. Frank received his well deserved award last week at the EMS Today conference in Baltimore.
I consider Frank not only a friend, but an inspiration. We are incredibly fortunate to have him on our team. His dedication to EMS is almost inconceivable. In addition to his day jobs with STAT MedEvac and working in the Emergency Department, he is the Medical Director for a number of local EMS agencies, and is part of a three man team that supervises every post-cardiac arrest patient at UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside. In his spare time he likes to conduct research related to EMS with new tools such as lactate monitoring, new airway adjuncts, and various hypothermia protocols. My guess is that he averages about 30 to 40 seconds of sleep a day. Although knowing him, he spends that time dreaming about EMS.
JEMS has a nice write up on Frank and his work in this article. If you send him a comment to this post, I will pass it along. Chances are that if you are in EMS in Western Pennsylvania, you'll be seeing him around sometime soon.
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