2011 Annual EMS Leadership Summit
Capital Hilton, Washington, DC October 28-31, 2011
The International Association of EMS Chief's (IAEMSC) Annual Leadership Summit will be held in Washington, D.C. on October 28-31, 2011. This year's event will be hosted at the Capital Hilton, site of the inaugural IAEMSC Summit in 2009. The Summit supports the association's goal of bringing EMS chiefs and leaders together in a forum to discuss common issues and projects while facilitating access to key federal officials and the attendee's Congressional representatives.
Statement of
Lawrence E. Tan
on the topic of
Medical Countermeasures
before
Emergency Preparedness, Response, and
Communications Subcommittee,
Committee on Homeland Security
U.S. House of Representatives,May 12, 2011
Read the statement here.
2011 IAEMSC/Intermedix
Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
Senior Executives in State and Local Government Scholarship
IAEMSC ANNOUNCES OPEN ENROLLMENT
IN NATIONAL EMS HEALTH SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM
The International Association of EMS Chiefs (IAEMSC) is pleased to announce it is accepting enrollment in the National EMS Health and Safety Surveillance System. The project was jointly developed by the IAEMSC and Intermedix and provides a secure web based portal for registered EMS organizations to enter and analyze data regarding occupational illness, injuries and fatalities. The project was featured as a “JEMS 10” top 10 innovations for 2009.
IAEMSC AND EMSLA JOINTLY SUBMIT
PAPER TO WHITE HOUSE
Consolidated Federal Leadership for Emergency Medical Services
An Essential Step to Improve National Preparedness: A perspective from EMS on the front line The International Association of EMS Chiefs and National EMS Labor Alliance have jointly submitted a document to the White House that identifies the challenges and problems resulting from a lack of a lead federal agency with responsibility for emergency medical services. The paper offers a unique solution that may be possible through exercise of existing authority established under the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
“This document was developed following a presentation and discussion on the status of national preparedness policy and the role of EMS at the annual IAEMSC Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. in October 2010”, said Lawrence E. Tan, President of the IAEMSC. “We were pleased to work together with the EMSLA toward the common goal of building and sustaining emergency medical services as a critical component of our nation’s preparedness and resilience.”
The International Association of EMS Chiefs (IAEMSC) is a professional association established to support, promote and advance the leadership of response entities and to advocate for the EMS profession. The IAEMSC membership consists of leaders from both career and volunteer EMS organizations, representing a diverse group of public and private EMS agencies that responded to over 3.3 million emergencies and transported over 2.78 million patients in 2008.
The National EMS Labor Alliance (EMSLA) was established over twenty-five years ago as an information-sharing network of organized EMS providers across the country. The EMSLA now has over 20,000 members, as a coalition of EMS organized labor groups representing EMS professionals across the spectrum of EMS service delivery models and across the nation on national EMS issues.
our mission
The IAEMSC mission is to support, promote and advance the leadership of EMS response entities and to advocate for the EMS profession. IAEMSC membership is made up of leaders from both career and volunteer EMS organizations and proudly represents and embraces the diversity of EMS agencies throughout the world.
OUR values
IAEMSC is a diverse, exciting professional organization committed to improving the provision of pre-hospital emergency medical care.
IAEMSC is committed to serving Chief Officers representing the many various service types which exist in the Emergency Medical Services community.
OUR GOALS
- To represent the EMS Chief Executive Officers responsible for direct delivery of EMS to their communities,
- To effectively address the issues pertinent to the contemporary EMS Commander,
- To support the needs of patients, and providers by providing support to current EMS executives, mentoring future leaders, and advocating for all EMS systems.
