Greg Santa Maria

Greg Santa Maria is the manager of Prehospital Care and Emergency Preparedness for Sanford Health in Sioux Falls, SD. He is the former paramedic program director and smbulance department manager at Saint Vincent's Hospital in Lower Manhattan where he also served as a key leader of the Saint Vincent's Hospital Disaster Preparedness initiative. He received a distinguished service award for his participation in the response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001. For the past 12 years, he has been working as a subject matter expert in the realm of hospital emergency management and disaster preparedness. He has developed a health system-based incident management team within the Sanford Health System. This team has conducted numerous exercises with response partners in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa. He has recently worked on and led several projects related to the H1N1 outbreak. He has published several EMS related review books, written articles on emergency preparedness and EMS response to mass casualty incidents, participated in numerous television, print and radio broadcasts, and has spoken nationally on issues of preparedness and disaster response. He is currently a member of the Interstate Chemical Threat Workgroup advisory board. Contact him at SANTAMAG@sanfordhealth.org.