The Ambulance Association of Pennsylvania (AAP) Presents

Inaugural Leadership Development Program

September 25, 2024 - January 17, 2025

Mentoring Tomorrow's Leaders Today

• Succeeding as a Supervisor
• Leading Effective Teams

• Coaching and Counseling

• Safety in EMS
  

• Administrative Officers Course 
• And many more important topics

It is no secret that a great leader is highly prized!  They inspire, mentor, and create work environments that can make an EMS agency THE place to work!  EMS has typically not done the best at mentoring the next generation of leaders and who has the time?  Well, the AAP created this hybrid course to help you!  Three face to face meetings with the rest online allows a cost effective way for you to mentor the next generation's leaders!

There will be several mandatory face-to-face sessions:  September 25, 2024 at the EMS West Office, November 6th via zoom, November 13, 2024 at the Eastern PA Regional Council Office and January 16-17, 2025 in Harrisburg.  More information will be sent to anyone who registers.  The other sessions will all be self paced on line.

The cost is $149 per person (Member and you must be logged onto the members only side to receive the member pricing) and $249 per person (Non-member). This will include the cost of food for the days that participants will need to travel.  This does NOT include hotel accommodations.  If you have any questions, please email Heather Harris, AAP Executive Director, at executivedirector@aa-pa.org.

Register here

Meet your instructors:

Chris Dell - Chris is the Chief/Executive Director of McCandless-Franklin Park Ambulance Authority, a CAAS-accredited agency located in the North Hills of Pittsburgh.  Chris has over 36 years’ experience in EMS.  The majority of his career has been focused on management of ambulance services, large and small, for profit and non-profit.  He is active with AA-PA, and numerous EMS-advocacy organizations.

Brian Maloney - Brian is the Director of Operations of Plum EMS, an agency located outside the City of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County.  He has worked in EMS for 25 years with some incredible people and organizations. Brian is extremely proud to be part of Plum EMS as this organization was awarded the NAEMT-ACEP Safety in EMS Award in 2023 for their outstanding contribution to the advancement of EMS safety.

Robert Lee Skertich, PhD

Professor and Program Director, Public Administration and Organizational Leadership

Rowland School of Business, Point Park University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Dr. Skertich has an extensive background in public and non-profit administration, serving at the municipal, county, and national levels, with a primary focus on public safety and emergency management.

Beginning his public safety career in the late 1970s, he has extensive experience through the ranks in fire, EMS, and emergency management, as well as in leading nonprofit organizations. His disaster experiences include local events as well as presidentially declared major disasters and National Special Security Events across the US and even to the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

The other side of his career has focused on training and education. He was a fire and rescue training administrator for the Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) in the 1980s, developed and instructed the high school Protective Services Program at the Butler County Area Vo-Tech in the 90s, oversaw the Disaster, International Humanitarian Law, and Health and Safety education and training programs for the American Red Cross in Southwestern Pennsylvania through the 2000s, and has been the Public Administration program lead, curriculum developer, and professor in the Rowland School of Business at Point Park University since 2008.

Throughout his graduate studies at the University of Pittsburgh (1998-2008) and after, he was a researcher and consultant for the Center for Disaster Management, focusing on interagency cooperation and sociotechnical decision support systems in disasters and humanitarian crises.

He is a Pennsylvania State Fire Instructor-Emeritus, a certified paramedic, Fire Instructor III, and Fire Officer IV, and teaches extensively for the Allegheny County and Pennsylvania State Fire Academies, as well as several community colleges. Dr. Skertich is also a contract instructor and has served on various curriculum development projects for the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, MD.

Kim Walk:  The Owner & President of AmbCoach, Inc., Kimberly M. Walk after finishing Business College began her career spanning over 45 years of physician, nursing home, and medical transportation administrative and accounts receivable & payable management experience.  Kimberly has served on the Board of Directors for the Ambulance Assn. of Penna. (AAP) for more than 30 years and has served in the capacity of Reimbursement Chair for the AAP for more than 30 years as well.