Paul Werfel is presently the Director of the Paramedic Program and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Clinical Assistant Professor of Health Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
He brings three decades of EMS experience to his presentations. In addition to fourteen years as a NYC Paramedic, Werfel has served as: the Program Coordinator for Advanced Cardiac, Trauma and Pediatric life support at the Emergency Care Institute at Bellevue Hospital-NYU Medical Center in New York City, and as Emergency Care Programs Coordinator at Jamaica Hospital, Queens N.Y. He is also a member of the review boards for Pre-hospital and Disaster Medicine, and Pre-Hospital Immediate Care Magazines.
Werfel is an expert writer for the National Standard EMT-Intermediate/Paramedic Curriculum revision project, and, a Founding Board of Directors Member of the National EMS Educator’s Association. He is a contributing editor for JEMS and is currently authoring the “Case of the Month” column. A book “Clinical Clues”, based upon those columns was published and released by Mosby/JEMS in February 2003. Werfel received the State University of New York at Stony Brook 1998 Faculty Achievement Award.
