A prolific international speaker, and author of over 50 articles, magazine columns, and book sections, Paul Werfel brings three decades of EMS experience to his presentations. In addition to fourteen years as a NYC Paramedic, Mr. Werfel has served as: The Program Coordinator for Advanced Cardiac, Trauma and Pediatric life support at the Emergency Care Institute at Bellevue Hospital-NYU Medical Center in New York City, and as Emergency Care Programs Coordinator at Jamaica Hospital, Queens N.Y. He is presently the Director of the Paramedic Program and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Clinical Assistant Professor of Health Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he received the 1998 Faculty Achievement Award. Mr. Werfel is also: a member of the review boards for Pre-hospital and Disaster Medicine, and Pre-Hospital Immediate Care Magazines. He is an expert writer for the National Standard EMT-Intermediate/Paramedic Curriculum revision project, and, a Founding Board of Directors Member of the National EMS Educator’s Association. Mr. Werfel is a contributing editor for JEMS and is currently authoring the “Case of the Month” column. A book “Clinical Clues”, based upon those columns was published and released by Mosby/Jems in February 2003. He lives in Port Jefferson New York with his wife and three children.