Sub-Section 3-490-06 - Paramedic 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:

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.

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

CMH EMS Education Manual is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://ozarksems.com/edman-4-240.php.