Faculty & Board
Resuscitation Academy board members and faculty bring a diverse range of knowledge to their roles.
From conducting research and leading workshops to working one-on-one with communities worldwide, the Resuscitation Academy’s board members and volunteer faculty offer experience across the entire OHCA chain of survival.
Experienced educators across the entire Chain of Survival
Resuscitation Academy board members and faculty bring a diverse range of knowledge and hands-on experience to their roles as cardiac arrest survival advocates. From conducting research and leading workshops to working one-on-one with communities worldwide, these dedicated professionals have committed their time, expertise and resources to fulfilling the RA’s mission.
Meet the RA Board
Ann Doll
Ann Doll serves as Executive Director of the Resuscitation Academy Foundation. Working with faculty and staff from our partner organizations, Doll helped create the RA in 2008. She also serves as the Secretariat for the Global Resuscitation Alliance, a coalition of worldwide leaders committed to saving more lives from sudden cardiac arrest.
Mickey Eisenberg, MD, PhD
Dr. Mickey Eisenberg is Director of Medical Quality Improvement at the King County Emergency Medicine Services and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington. He has studied cardiac arrest and developed innovative programs to treat this condition for 40 years. Eisenberg is the author of Resuscitate! How your Community Can Improve Survival from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (University of Washington Press), as well as numerous books and articles on cardiac arrest.
Peter Kudenchuk, MD
Dr. Peter Kudenchuk is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Washington, with a clinical practice in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology. He is Principal Investigator for the SIREN Consortium at the University of Washington (Strategies to Innovate Emergency Care Clinical Trials Network), an NIH/NINDS-supported multi-center network performing randomized clinical trials addressing cardiovascular, neurologic, respiratory and trauma emergencies. Kudenchuk also serves as Medical Program Director for King County Medic One, is a past Associate Editor for the American Heart Association’s Textbook of Emergency Cardiovascular Care and CPR, and a current member of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) Task Force on Basic Life Support.
Thomas D. Rea, MD, MPH
Dr. Thomas Rea is Medical Program Director for King County EMS and Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington and Harborview Medical Center. Rea has published widely on cardiac arrest and resuscitation and is very involved in ongoing research and evaluations programs. He is director of the HeartRescue program, which aims to improve survival in participating states and communities.
Michael Sayre, MD
Dr. Michael Sayre is Medical Director for the Seattle Fire Department and Program Director for the EMS Fellowship at the University of Washington. He chaired the Emergency Cardiovascular Committee for the American Heart Association and helped write the 2010 AHA CPR guidelines. Sayre has enjoyed the privilege of working with emergency medical technicians, paramedics, nurses and physicians across the United States, and looks forward to continuing to help EMS systems raise cardiac arrest survival rates.
Brooks Simpson
Brooks Simpson has nearly 40 years of experience in medical sales and marketing. He retired from Physio-Control after 20 years of service, including senior management positions as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, International, and North American Sales. Simpson co-chairs the University of Washington Department of Global Health leadership council and the School of Nursing advisory board. He is president of Medic One Foundation.
Meet the RA Faculty
Jen Blackwood, MPH
Jen Blackwood is a Program Manager for grant-funded projects at King County EMS. With over 15 years of experience in biomedical research with eight years of experience in prehospital cardiac arrest research, she specializes in the collection, interpretation and analysis of defibrillator data in efforts to increase survival from cardiac arrest.
Julie Buckingham
Julie Buckingham is the Resuscitation Academy Program Manager at RQI Partners. She spent 20 years in the Public Safety Communications field, working as a telecommunicator, trainer, supervisor, training coordinator, EMD instructor and QI program manager. Buckingham has also served as a member of the American Heart Association ECC T-CPR Task Force, and is an active member of APCO International.
Catherine Counts, PhD
Dr. Catherine Counts is an Acting Instructor in the University of Washington Department of Emergency Medicine as well as the Research and Quality Improvement Manager for Seattle Medic One. Her research interests include quality improvement and patient safety, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest care and advanced airway management in the prehospital setting.
Christopher Drucker, PhD
Dr. Christopher Drucker is a Program Manager with King County EMS and leads a team overseeing the surveillance of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest for 24 fire departments and 4 Medic One programs across King County. His team is also responsible for continuous quality improvement activities and feedback relating to OHCA resuscitation attempts. He has more than 10 years of experience working for state and county public health departments serving in various roles involving EMS systems, surveillance, processes, and rules. He also worked part-time for several years as an EMT with Unified Fire Authority in Salt Lake County, Utah.
Gene Goodner
Gene Goodner has been teaching with the RA since 2014, currently serving as an HP-CPR Instructor/trainer. He has been with the Seattle Fire Department since 2007 and is a firefighter/paramedic. Goodner is a state-certified senior EMS instructor, allowing him to help manage Seattle Fire’s EMT training program and serve as an instructor for the University of Washington’s paramedic training program.
Cindy Hambly
Cindy Hambly is the Program Manager for Training and Quality Improvement at Thurston County Medic One in Olympia, WA. Since the 1980s, she has worked with US communities that are improving their treatment of cardiac arrest and is particularly interested in the contribution that quality CPR and rapid defibrillation make in successful resuscitation.
Tegan Hampton, MHA
Tegan Hampton is the Network Manager for the Resuscitation Academy Network. She has seven years of project and program management experience, and is well-versed in quality improvement and change management. Hampton has worked in both hospital and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) settings, and holds a Masters of Health Administration from the University of Cincinnati.
Mike Helbock
Mike Helbock is a former Paramedic and Senior Instructor for the Training and Education Division of Seattle/King County EMS. He is an author of many of the standard emergency medical practices and training procedures that are incorporated into the EMS community today, including the popular “SICK/NOT SICK” approach to patient care.
Bryan Howard
Major Bryan Howard is a 28-year veteran of the King County Sheriff’s Office and serves as the agency’s Emergency Medical Services Coordinator, allowing him to act as a liaison between EMS and Police. Howard oversees the department’s First Aid, CPR and AED programs, including about 80 EMTs. He is also an EMT-B and Senior EMS Instructor with the State of Washington and teaches at a local community college.
Lance Jobe, MD
Dr. Lance Jobe is the EMS Medical Director for Chelan and Douglas counties in Washington State, overseeing 25+ agencies in a mostly rural area. He has a special interest in all aspects of emergency cardiac care, and practices emergency medicine full time in his community.
Jonathan Larsen
Jonathan Larsen is a long-time Seattle Fire Department Firefighter/Paramedic. He recently retired after decades of service as Captain assigned to Battalion 3 (Medic One) administration. Larsen remains very active on the Resuscitation Academy faculty. His passions include research and training in resuscitation.
Andrew Latimer, MD
Dr. Andrew Latimer is the Senior Emergency Medical Services Fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington, Harborview. He is involved with quality improvement, education and clinical and operations research in Emergency Medical Services, including involvement with Seattle Fire Medic One, King County EMS and Airlift Northwest. Latimer’s research interests are in the pre-hospital care of critically ill and injured patients, pre-hospital airway management and air medical retrieval medicine.
Michael Levy, MD
Dr. Michael Levy is Medical Director for the Anchorage Fire Department and EMS Medical Director for the Kenai Peninsula Borough and the State of Alaska, among other agencies. He is president of the Loren Marshall Foundation, a non-profit focusing on improving SCA outcomes across the state, a faculty member at University of Alaska Health Sciences, and a practicing emergency physician. Levy is thankful he has had the good fortune to have participated in the Heart Rescue Project as the Alaska representative, allowing information and training on resuscitation to flow to his home state.
Barry Luke
Barry Luke joined the RA faculty in 2019 and is a retired Deputy Chief with Orange County (Florida) Fire Rescue. He has 40 years’ experience in public safety operations as a dispatcher, firefighter, paramedic and law enforcement officer. Luke has managed several Emergency Communications Centers and implemented Emergency Medical Dispatch programs providing Telecommunicator CPR. He is passionate about cardiac arrest survival and has worked as a volunteer in the Emergency Department at Harborview Medical Center since 2014. Luke is active with many professional associations that advocate for EMS and emergency communications and is a nationally recognized speaker on public safety issues.
Becky Mathews
Becky Mathews is a firefighter/paramedic with the Seattle Fire Department and an educator with the University of Washington Paramedic Training Program.
Andrew McCoy, MD
Dr. Andrew McCoy is double board certified in Emergency Medical Services and Emergency Medicine, and works clinically in the Harborview Medical Center Emergency Department. He serves as the Medical Director for Shoreline Medic One and American Medical Response Puget Sound Operations, Assistant Medical Director for Seattle Fire Department and Assistant Program Director for the University of Washington EMS Fellowship.
Laura Miccile
Laura Miccile is Community Programs CPR/PAD Program Manager for King County EMS. She has worked in community education and injury prevention programs in non-profit and hospital settings for 30+ years. Miccile enjoys working with schools and community groups to raise awareness, education and training about CPR and AEDs.
Norm Nedell
Norm Nedell spent 32 years in the fire service. He is a retired Firefighter Paramedic/Dispatcher for the Seattle Fire Department as well as an EMS educator and trainer. Nedell now enjoys teaching locally and internationally for the Resuscitation Academy to help others increase survival from out of hospital cardiac arrest.
Mark Peterson
Mark Peterson is Firefighter/Paramedic with 15 years of experience at Shoreline Fire Department, King County, Washington.
Kevin Seaman, MD
Dr. Kevin Seaman is Medical Director for the Resuscitation Academy efforts in Maryland and the surrounding region, which launched in 2012. Approximately 1,300 participants in 23 RAs to date have learned implementation techniques to improve survival in their communities.
Jenny Shin, MPH
Jenny Shin is a Program Manager at King County EMS. She has an MPH from Case Western Reserve University. She is currently the Pacific Northwest Cardiac Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) coor¬di¬nator, part of the HeartRes¬cue project that serves as an effort to mea¬sure and improve survival from car¬diac arrest.
Tyler Verhaar
Tyler Verhaar is a Seattle Police Office and serves as EMS Coordinator responsible for medical training and logistics for the SPD EMT Unit. Verhaar is a Tactical EMT for the United States Marshal Service and a Task Force Officer on the Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force. He specializes in bringing reality-based training to police departments and fire departments across the country through Rescue Task Force, Law Enforcement Casualty Care and Operational Medicine courses. Verhaar has work closely with the Resuscitation Academy to bring HP-CPR to members of the Seattle Police Department and Law Enforcement.
David Weed
David Weed is a former King County paramedic and current Public Education/Community Services Officer for Woodinville (WA) Fire and Rescue. His passion is teaching CPR at all levels, from students to seniors, public to professional.
Todd Wollum
Todd Wollum is a firefighter/paramedic with the Shoreline Fire Department, currently serves as the A-shift Medical Services Officer. He has been active as an EMS educator for 20 years.
Shaughn Maxwell, Psy.M.
Shaughn Maxwell is Assistant Chief for South Snohomish County Fire & Rescue and holds a BS in Advanced Patient Care and MS in Human Factors Psychology. He has been a paramedic for over three decades teaching and delivering care in the air and on the ground in both urban and wilderness environments. Currently, he is the chair of the Washington State Pre-hospital Technical Advisory Committee and serves on the International Association of Fire Chiefs EMS Board of Directors. He has a passion for helping others optimize their health and performance and has received national recognition for creating EMS best-practices.