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Paul Phrampus MD

Former President
Society for Simulation Healthcare
Paul E. Phrampus, MD is the recipient of the JEMS 2019 John P. Pryor, MD/Street Medicine Society Award. Paul started when he joined the Millville Rescue Squad in Millville, New Jersey, as a volunteer in the early 1980s. He then enlisted in the U.S. Navy. During his Navy tenure, he actively volunteered at the Davis Corner Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad. During that time, he became a Virginia state-certified cardiac technician and a Nationally Registered EMT-Paramedic. Paul was accepted to medical school and graduated with an MD degree in 1997. He completed his residency training and board certification in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, where he has been on the faculty since 2000. Paul has created simulation-based education for paramedic programs as well as an airway training program for paramedics and simulation-based competency assessment training programs for helicopter flight crews. Paul has been director of the Peter M Winter Institute for Simulation, served as a program chair for the International Meeting for Simulation Healthcare, and was past president of the Society for Simulation Healthcare. He has also served as a past board member and annual meeting chair of the National Association of EMS Physicians, authored more than 20 publications directly related to EMS and prehospital care, and mentored many others involved in research associated with prehospital care. Dr. Phrampus has contributed to JEMS regularly for more than 35 years.
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