Sub-Section 3-350-08 - EMT Academy Faculty

CMH EMS Education Manual

Medical Director:

Dr. Keith Butvilas is the medical director for Pre-Hospital Services and the Emergency Room at Citizens Memorial Hospital. Dr. Butvilas is board-certified and residency-trained in emergency medicine with extensive high-volume and trauma experience exploring community and academic settings. He is comfortable with all skills and procedures and trained in emergency ultrasound-guided procedures. Keith has extensive leadership experience, including being the Chief Medical Officer of a healthcare system and the lead physician in an EMR conversion responsible for the physician design and build.

Program Director:

Theron Becker, FACPE, MMPA, EFO, BS-FPE, NRP, is a Nationally Registered Paramedic and Missouri Community Paramedic. Theron got his EMT license in 1995 while attending the Fire Engineering program at Oklahoma State University. Since then, he has obtained a Masters degree in Public Administration Management, Executive Fire Officer from the National Fire Academy, Fellow of the American College of Paramedic Executives, and is currently working on his Master of Public Health. Theron has been a volunteer firefighter in Southwest Missouri since he was 16 years old. He has been employed as an ambulance paramedic, on hazmat teams, as a fire protection engineer, and in public health in bioterrorism preparedness. Mr. Becker is also the Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Paramedicine. Full bio and curriculum vitae can be found here: http://ozarksems.com/theron-resume.php

Lead Instructor:

Ryan McDonald, EMT-P is a Missouri state-licensed paramedic. Mr. McDonald took his EMT class through Breech Paramedics in Lebanon, MO in 1992. He graduated from paramedic class in 1994 through St. John’s EMS in Springfield, MO. He also served ten years of volunteer fire service with the Lebanon Rural Fire Protection District from 1991 to 2001. Mr. McDonald has over 20 years of EMS service and has worked at multiple EMS services in Southwest Missouri over his career, in both full- and part-time/PRN positions. He has been with CMH EMS since 2016, and obtained his instructor certification in the Spring of 2018. He instructed his first EMT Academy in the Fall of 2018 and continues pursuing other educational instruction with CMH.

Assistant Instructor:

Brice Flynn, BA, NRP is a Nationally Registered Paramedic. Mr. Flynn is the Education Coordinator for the Pre-Hospital Services Department at Citizens Memorial Hospital. Brice graduated from Southwest Baptist University in 2008. After college, Mr. Flynn obtained his EMT license in 2012, joined the Bolivar City Fire Department, and later that year started working for CMH as an EMT. Brice completed his paramedic education through Mercy in Springfield and continued his interest in education by becoming an FTO and then lead instructor for the CMH Paramedic Academy.

Assistant Instructor:

Brianna Becker, RN, AAS, NREMT is a Registered Nurse and Nationally Registered EMT. Mrs. Becker attended RN class at Bolivar Technical College in 2023 and EMT class at Ozarks Technical Community College in 2009. Since then, she has obtained an Associate of Nursing and an Associate of Applied Science degree in Fire Science at Ozarks Technical Community College, BLS CPR instructor with the American Heart Association, and EMS Instructor/Coordinator through Citizens Memorial Hospital in 2016. Brianna was an EMT for Mercy in Springfield, Lebanon, and Dallas County for almost ten years. She began as a volunteer firefighter with Dunnegan Rural Fire Department in 2007 before working as a career firefighter for Bolivar City Fire Department from 2012 to 2017. Mrs. Becker has worked for Citizens Memorial Hospital since 2017 in both the Emergency Room and the Cardiac Cath Lab.

CMH EMS Education Mission: "Provide state-of-the-art education to develop and support a team of exceptional emergency medical professionals."

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