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Roy L. Alson, PhD, MD, FACEP, FAEMS, is a professor of emergency medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the former director of the Office of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, also at Wake Forest. He is also an associate professor at the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma at Wake Forest University and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Military Medicine at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine, in Parker, Colorado. Dr. Alson received his bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia in 1974 and both his PhD and an MD from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University (1982, 1985). He completed his residency in emergency medicine at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is board certified in both emergency medicine and emergency medical services by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Alson's EMS career began in the early 1970
