Walt A StoyWalt Alan Stoy is Professor and Director of Emergency Medicine at the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh and the Director of Educational and International Emergency Medicine at the Center for Emergency Medicie. Dr. Stoy has served as the Project Director of the 1998 EMT-Intermediate & Paramedic: National Standard Curricula Revision Project. He was the Principal Investigator for National Guidelines for the First Aid Training Curriculum. He has served as Principal Investigator to the 1994 EMT-Basic: National Standard Curriculum and Project Director to the 1995 First Responder: National Standard Curriculum.Dr. Stoy has written more than 60 instructional guides including Instructional Guides for the Street Medicine Series, the Hands-On Series, and the ACLS Series. He is an Affiliate Faculty Member or Instructor in numerous pre-hospital and medical education programs, including: Basic and Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Basic Trauma Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support. Dr. Stoy is the Immediate Past Chairman of the Education Subcommittee for Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) for the American Heart Association (AHA). In addition, he has accepted a position as Content Level Leader (CLL) for the upcoming revision of the EMS national curricula. Dr. Stoy will be responsible for all the patient assessment content.Dr. Stoy has more than 30 years of experience in EMS. He was awarded his Doctorate of Philosophy in Education from the University of Pittsburgh, School of Education in Instruction and Learning with a concentration in Instructional Design Technology. Read More Read Less