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

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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.

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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.

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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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