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Jonnathan Busko, MD Medical Advisor |
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Jonnathan serves as the Medical Advisor for CDS Outdoor. His primary responsibilities are to assure the medical validity of CDS curricula, to set minimum standards of medical knowledge for course participants, and to establish a minimum level of personal health for students. Jonnathan has over 15 years of involvement in EMS. He has worked full-time as a paramedic and, more recently, as an EMS physician. He became involved in SAR in North Carolina as part of a special incident response team. He continued his work in SAR and WEMS as a wilderness paramedic with the Allegheny Mountain Rescue Group, as a Medical Specialist for PATF-1, a FEMA USAR team, and as an alpine patroller with the Seven Springs Ski Patrol. As a physician, he has served as the medical director or assistant medical director for several EMS and rescue agencies. Jonnathan is active in prehospital, wilderness, and special operations medicine education. In addition, he teaches high angle rope rescue, cave rescue, and helicopter based insertion / extraction rescue. Jonnathan completed a residency in emergency medicine at Albany Medical Center in Albany , NY and EMS/Emergency Management Fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center. Jonnathan is currently employed at East Maine Medical Center in Bangor as an Emergency Medicine Physician and is the Medical Director of Operations for the Emergency Department. He is also the medical director for the Bangor Police Department Special Response (SWAT) Team. Jonnathan currently lives in Bangor, ME with his wife Paula, daughter Kate, son Alex, and herd of four-legged furry people. |