Annual Conference
May 28 & 29, 2025
California Dreamin'
United in Our Mission
SAVE THE DATE
Loews Coronado Bay Resort, San Diego
Pre-Conference held Tuesday, May 27th
- California Screamin' - Your Disaster Medical Response
The EMS Administrators’ Association of California (EMSAAC) cordially invites California’s EMS leaders and professionals to join us for the EMSAAC Annual Conference. Learn from and collaborate with peers on a broad variety of subject matter relevant to all levels of prehospital care personnel and EMS managers including ambulance providers, fire agencies, military, law enforcement, EMS agencies, ED nurses, physicians, emergency preparedness coordinators, and all who provide lifesaving emergency medical services to our communities.

Keynote Speakers

Jeff Butler, International TEDx speaker
Jeff Butler is an author and workplace strategist who explores human behavior within the working world. His experience spans over 40 industries in 4 continents on how different cultures and employees interact with each other. He studies common threads of behavior in industries such as IT professionals, underground utility workers, police officers to clothing retail chains. In addition, Jeff has also worked with companies like Google, Amazon, John Deere and Coldwell Banker. As a researcher and practitioner, he also runs a consulting company and a tech company, Trinity Fix where he is able to test his ideas in different workplace environments. His ideas have made it to TEDx twice, appeared in dozens of media outlets including two books on human behavior: - The Authentic Workplace and The Key to the New You. Currently, he lives in Dallas, Texas as an out of place Californian.

John Moon, Former Freedom House Paramedic and Retired Assistant Chief of Pittsburgh EMS.
John was raised in Pittsburgh's Hill District and joined Freedom House, America’s First Emergency Medical Service, in 1972. He continued to work in emergency medicine for more than five decades and now works to preserve Freedom House legacy and mentor the next generation of emergency and community responders in Pittsburgh.

Faculty
Kimberley Adams, RN
EMS Manager
Roseville Medical Center – Kaiser Permanente
Roseville, California
Tanir Ami
CEO
CARESTAR Foundation
Berkeley, California
Dustin Ballard, MD
Medical Director
Marin County EMS Agency
San Rafael, California
Elizabeth Basnett
Director
EMS Authority
Assistant Secretary, Cal HHS
Sacramento, California
Nichole Bosson, MD, MPH, FAEMS
Medical Director
LA EMS Agency
Director, EMS Fellowship
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Santa Fe Springs, California
David Dillion, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, UC Davis
Emergency Physician, UC Davis
Sacramento, California
Jennifer Farah, MD
Medical Director, UCSD Base Hospital
Medical Director, Chula Vista Fire Department
San Diego, California
Jeff Fariss
EMS Director
Kern County EMS Agency
Bakersfield, California
Naila Francies
EMS Coordinator
Alameda County EMS Agency
San Leandro, California
Gregory Kann, MD
EMS Medical Director
Sacramento County EMS Agency
Sacramento, California
Christopher B. Keller, NRP
Deputy Chief of Operations
New Orleans EMS
New Orleans, Louisiana
Zita Konik, MD
EMS Medical Director
Alameda County EMS Agency
President, EMDAC
San Leandro, California
Joe Rudnicki
EMS Division Chief
Sacramento Metro Fire
Sacramento, California
Karl Sporer, MD
Medical Director
Napa County EMS Agency
Napa, California
Shaun Vincent
EMS Administrator
Napa County EMS Agency
Napa, California
Kenshata Watkins, MD
Pediatric Emergency Care
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
Oakland, California
Doug Wolfberg
Founding Partner
Page, Wolfberg & Wirth
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Michael Wysession
Professor of Geophysics
Executive Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
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