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EMS Medical Direction Consortium

The EMS Medical Direction Consortium or “The Consortium” brings together all the EMS resources within the University of New Mexico Department of Emergency Medicine. The consortium consists of multiple EMS medical directors, each of whom also serves as a faculty member within the department, along with our EMS fellows. This partnership allows the EMS Medical Directors to collaborate, to share resources and to share on-call responsibility. It also allows each participating agency to benefit from the collective expertise of all the EMS faculty members and fellows.

EMS services anywhere in New Mexico may contract with the EMS Consortium. EMS services may elect to have the Consortium serve as their full-time medical director, or may choose to have the Consortium provide specific functions such as on-line medical direction, assistance with quality assurance, assistance with special skill development, or short-term medical direction coverage when the regular medical director is unavailable.

The Consortium, in collaboration with the UNM EMS Academy, also sponsors the UNM Department of Emergency Medicine’s EMS Fellowship. This program provides a focused year of accredited, specialty training to board-certified/board eligible Emergency Physicians planning to become board-certified, career EMS Medical Directors.

EMS physicians from the Consortium are on-call and available to our partners 24-hours a day to assist with complicated on-line medical direction issues.   In addition, on-call EMS Consortium physicians are available for field response to assist affiliated EMS agencies with complicated clinical cases and mass casualty incidents, education and quality assurance. Thanks to generous funding from the TSFA, the consortium is available to respond Statewide to assist any local jurisdiction with major incidents.

Some of our existing collaborations include:

Medical Directorships:

    1. State of New Mexico EMS Bureau, Brian Moore, State Medical Director
    2. Albuquerque Fire Department, Andrew Harrell, Medical Director
    3. Bernalillo County Fire Department, Paul Cheney, Medical Director
    4. Rio Rancho Fire Department, Darren Braude, Medical Director
    5. Albuquerque Ambulance Service Critical Care Transport, Steve Weiss, Medical Director
    6. Lifeguard Air Emergency Services, George Kennedy, Medical Director
    7. Valencia County Dispatch Center, Darren Braude, Medical Director
    8. UNM EMS Academy, Darren Braude, Medical Director
    9. Cochiti Lake EMS, Jenna White, Medical Director
    10. New Mexico State Police, Darren Braude, Medical Director
    11. American Medical Response, Joy Crook, Medical Director of New Mexico Operations
    12. NM Task Force-1, Andrew Harrell, Medical Director
    13. UNM Medicine Bow, Joy Crook, Medical Director
    14. NM DMAT-1, Jan Vessart, Medical Director
    15. Medcor, George Kennedy, Medical Director
    16. Motion Picture Set Medics, Darren Braude, Medical Director
    17. Corrales Fire Department, Darren Braude, Associate Medical Director
    18. Sandoval County Fire Department, Jenna White, Associate Medical Director
    19. UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center Interfacility Transport Program, Matthew Wilks, Medical Director


Other Partners: