Name: 
Keith Wesley, MD FACEP 

Title: 
EMS Medical Director, Emergency Medicine Physician

Affiliation:            
St. Johns Hospital, HealthEast, Maplewood Minnesota

Email: 
drwesley@charter.net 

EMS Areas of Interest:
1. Respiratory Emergencies and Advanced Airway Techniques
2. Anatomy & Pathophysiology
3. Quality Improvement
4. EMS Medical Direction
5. EMS care for Geriatrics
6. Pharmacology
7. EMS Documentation
8. Emergency Medical Dispatch
9. Tactical EMS

Personal Narrative 

 Dr. Wesley is an emergency medicine physician in Eau Claire Wisconsin. He is the past chair of the Physician Advisory Committee to the State of Wisconsin which sets EMS medical practice standards for the state and is currently on the Wisconsin EMS Advisory Board. Dr. Wesley is the author of many articles and EMS textbooks and a frequent speaker at EMS conferences across the nation. He is an active EMS medical director currently providing medical oversight to the Chippewa Fire District in Chippewa Falls Wisconsin.

Honorarium (negotiable depending on audience and purpose)
 

Current Topic(s)

“Become an EMS Professional”
Cardiology
“Improving the Quality of CPR”
Airway/Pulmonary
“CPAP for Everyone”
General Medical
“Understanding the Autonomic Nervous System – Essentials of EMS Pharmacology”
Pediatrics
“Get Low – Go Slow: Care of the Pediatric Patient”
“Get’n Old – Go’n Slow”
“Care of the Elderly Trauma Victim”
“Selective Spinal Immobilization – Is it safe?”
EMS Operations
“EMS Medical Oversight – What should you expect from you doc?”
“Using Peer Review Constructively in your EMS Agency”
“Developing a Quality Improvement Program”
“The EMS Mentor and the Affective Domain”

Publications:

ALS Prep Manual for the National Registry - Mosby, co-author Daniel Mack; 2002

PHTLS Textbook chapter 13; Geriatric Trauma; 2002

Regular "Hey Doc!" column since 1995 in "EMS Professional" the official magazine of the Wisconsin EMS Association

Reviewer of Mosby Publications for various EMS textbooks

Scheduled Conferences:

Virginia State EMS Conference, Norfolk VA, November 2005
“Drowning on Dry Land – New Approaches to CHF Treatment”
“The Changing Face of CPR”
“Rumbles and Gurgles – Good Entrails Gone Bad”
EMS Today, Baltimore MD, March 2006
“Care of the Elderly Trauma Patient”
“EMS Documentation: What you Didn’t Learn in School”
“Clinical Controversies: Prehospital Pediatrics”
Paramedic Seminars, Oshkosh WI, April 2006
“New Approaches to the treatment of CHF”

Conference History:

National Association of EMS Educators Annual Conference, San Antonio TX, September 2005 
“Using Peer Review Constructively in EMS Education”
“EMS Mentoring and the Affective Domain”
ClinCon 2005, Orlando Florida, June 2005
“CPAP for Everyone”
“The New 2005 AHA Guidelines”
Texas EMS Conference, San Antonio TX, November 2004
“CPAP for Everyone”
Virginia State EMS Conference, Norfolk VA, November 2004
“All That Wheezes”
“CPAP for Everyone”
“Get Low, Go Slow – Pediatric Emergencies”, 
EMS Expo, Atlanta GA, October 2004
“All That Wheezes”
“Shocking truth about Shock”
EMStock, Midlothian TX, May 2004 
“Advances in CHF Therapy” 
EMS Today, Salt Lake City, March 2004
“Advances in CHF Therapy”
“Grow’n Old, Get’n Slow”
Michigan EMS Instructors Conference, Houghton Lake MI, October 2003
“Dealing with Gerneration X”
“EMS Documentation”
“Peer Review”
EMS Expo, Las Vegas NV, October 2003
“Grow’n Old, Get’n Slow – Caring for the Geriatric Patient”
“All That Wheezes”
Paramedic Seminars; Oshkosh WI; April 2003
“CPAP for Everyone”
Geneva Convention; Lake Geneva WI; February 2003
“Grow’n Old, Get’n Slow”
Geneva Convention; Lake Geneva WI; February 2003 
“Get Low, Go Slow”, 
Geneva Convention; Lake Geneva WI; February 2002 
“All That Wheezes”
“Understanding Shock”
Working Together – WEMSA Annual Conference; Milwaukee WI; January 2001
“Advanced Life Support Skills for Basics”
Working Together – WEMSA Annual Conference; Milwaukee WI; January 1998
“EMS Peer Review”
Paramedic Seminars; Oshkosh WI; April 1997
“The New Intermediate Curriculum”, 
Working Together – WEMSA Annual Conference; Milwaukee WI; January 1996
“Diabetic Emergencies”, 
Working Together – WEMSA Annual Conference, Milwaukee WI; January 1995 
“Medical Direction Workshop”


Accepts Expert Witness Work:

Yes

References:
Ed Racht, MD – Medical Director, Austin/Travis County EMS, Texas
RBJ Health Center
15 Waller Street
P.O. Box 1088
Austin, TX 78767
(512) 972-7250
ERacht@aol.com

Bryan Bledsoe, DO
6420 Hayes Rd
Midlothian, TX 76065
(972) 775-2612
bbledsoe@earthlink.net

Baxter Larmon, MD
924 Westwood #720
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 794-0596
BLarmon@mednet.ucla.edu