My academic Background consists of healthcare, pre-hospital education, fire suppression, and mechanical instrument calibration and repair. I have over twenty years of combined pre-hospital emergency medicine and healthcare experience. Twelve of the years have been in Respiratory Therapy working with all patient populations.

Over the years I have provided training for greater than 2000 healthcare workers in Basic Life Support, Advance Life Support, Pediatric Advance Life Support and applications and concepts of mechanical

ventilation in anesthesia and the intensive care unit. These groups have been comprised of patients, community members, EMT's, paramedics, medical students, physicians, CRNA's, Nurse Practitioners, RN's, Respiratory Therapist, anesthesia technicians, and Biomedical technicians.

Additionally, I have provided numerous presentations and authored various training materials for both clients and my own staff members.