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Greg LordVice-President, IAEMSC
Chief Gregg C. Lord presently serves as Associate Director of the National EMS Preparedness Initiative at the George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute and Senior Policy Advisor on emergency response and homeland security issues. In this capacity he is responsible for overseeing the National EMS Preparedness Initiative which seeks to define and improve EMS preparedness within the largest U.S. cities through research and education. This has included the hosting of the first ever metropolitan EMS chief’s summit in which he brought together the EMS Chiefs and Directors of the fifty largest city EMS systems to discuss salient issues in large scale EMS response. Chief Lord has lectured nationally and internationally on EMS systems management, leadership and operations and homeland security preparedness. He is an Adjunct Faculty Member for various Institutions and Agencies including Institute for International Disaster Emergency Medicine, Texas A&M University, U.S. Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Copenhagen Fire Department, Appalachian Technical College, and the Georgia Public Safety Center. He holds an appointment to the Inter Agency Board on behalf of the Department of Defense. His career in Public Safety spans more than twenty-five years and has embraced progressive roles in both rural and urban jurisdictions. He became a paramedic in the early 80’s and was promoted through the ranks to become EMS Operations Chief of the second largest EMS system in New England at Worcester Emergency Medical Services, Worcester, Massachusetts until his retirement in 2001. During his tenure in Worcester, Chief Lord was instrumental in the growth of the department from 24 EMTs & Paramedics to a complement of 100 Paramedics responding to 30,000 emergencies per year to a population of 300,000 people spread over 120 square miles. Among his many managerial accomplishments was the conversion of the operation to a response-driven staffing plan that was highly efficient and economical. He was a founding member of DMAT MA2 and as such was part of several national responses to several large disasters. As Chief of Worcester EMS Operations he served as the EMS Incident Commander at several large scale events including the Worcester Cold Storage Fire in 1999 that took the lives of six firefighters and operated for fourteen days during the piece by piece dissection of the building to recover the lost fireman. During the operation he concurrently had EMS command authority for the Worcester Firefighter Memorial Service that saw more than 200,000 converge upon the community to pay their respects to the lost firefighters. Additionally, this involved mounting the largest dignitary protect detail in the departments history due to the sheer number of VIP’s, including the President and Vice President of the United States. After his retirement in 2001, Chief Lord was recruited to be Division Chief of Emergency Medical Services for Cherokee County Fire Department in Cherokee County, Georgia. A rapidly growing Metro Atlanta County, Cherokee planned to replace the private provider of emergency transport and integrate the service into the County Fire Department. During his nearly five years with Cherokee County, Chief Lord provided leadership and operational execution to achieve that goal. Cherokee County Fire now has 200 EMTs and Paramedics which serves 500 square miles in both an urban and rural environment with Advanced Life Support ambulances in an integrated fire based EMS system. Gregg Lord is a member and officer of several professional organizations including NAEMT, NREMT, NAEMSP, and GAEMS. He is a past member of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians, the Georgia Emergency Medical Services Association, and is currently Vice Chairman of the National EMS Chief Officers. Chief Lord holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Management from the McCamish School of Business at Reinhardt College where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. He is currently a Master’s Degree candidate at George Washington University.
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