Emergency Medical Services Division

Advancing the future of prehospital care at the local, regional and national levels

The Vanderbilt Division of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is committed to improving the health of Middle Tennesseans and those in the surrounding region through high-quality prehospital care. We strive to support current 911 and other EMS providers through education, outreach, and quality improvement initiatives. 

The EMS division is focused on advancing prehospital care through research and training the next generation of prehospital providers and EMS leaders.

Air Medical

  • Provides in-person simulation training and crew member debriefing sessions
  • With appropriate orientation and training, residents and the EMS fellow may become a VUMC flight physician providing on-scene and in-transport critical care
  • Extensive involvement with medical direction, medical CQI/QA process for over 100 fight crew (critical care paramedics, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physicians) at nine different rotor wing and fixed wing bases
  • Opportunity for EMS outreach and educational sessions to pre-hospital providers in more rural areas of Tennessee
  • Provide EMS ultrasound education and quality control/process review
  • Multiple ongoing research projects 

Ground

  • Critical Care and Ground ALS interfacility transport
  • Four bases serving a large catchment area including Vanderbilt community hospitals
  • Specialty transport including ECMO transport
  • Opportunity for EMS outreach and educational sessions to pre-hospital providers in more rural areas of Tennessee
  • Opportunities for medical direction, protocol development, education, outreach, and quality improvement
  • Residents ride along with critical care ground transport teams

Event Medicine

  • Hundreds of events per year
  • Nashville Predators, Nashville Sounds, Vanderbilt Athletics, Bridgestone Arena, CMA Festival, Steeplechase, NASCAR, Indycar, July 4th, etc.
  • Opportunity for residents to be involved in mass gathering planning and coverage
  • Multidisciplinary disaster planning

Nashville Fire Department

  • Residents will be exposed to a large urban EMS service through ride alongs, quality improvement meetings and research
  • Division works with the Office of the Medical Director to provide ongoing education to field providers- 300+ paramedics, 1,000+ EMT first responders
  • Nashville EMS is part of a fire-based EMS system
  • Up to 30 paramedic level ambulances in-service NFD covers 500+ square miles, city and county

Division of Emergency Medical Services Team

Jared McKinney, MD
Division Director

Medical Director, LifeFlight Ground Transport and Event Medicine 

Deputy Medical Director, Nashville Fire Department

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine 

Jeremy Brywczynski, MD 

Medical Director, Vanderbilt LifeFlight 

Associate Medical Director, Nashville Fire Department

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine 

Ashley Panas, MD 

Chief Flight Physician and Assistant Medical Director, Vanderbilt LifeFlight 

Assistant Medical Director, Nashville Fire Department

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine 

Corey Slovis, MD 

Professor Emeritus of Emergency Medicine 

Tim Bongartz, MD 

Associate Medical Director, Metro Nashville Police Dept SWAT

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine 

Jeremy Crook, MD 

Medical Director, Murfreesboro Fire Dept, Trousdale EMS, Nashville Zoo 

Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Joy Crook, MD 

Executive Medical Director of Emergency Services, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine 

 

Rebecca Kidd, MD 

Medical Director, Pediatric Critical Care Transport

Pediatric Medical Director, Vanderbilt LifeFlight 

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

Amanda Lynall, MD 

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Michele Walsh, MD 

Associate Chief of Staff, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt 

Division Chief, Pediatric Emergency Medicine 

Assistant Medical Director, Nashville Fire Department 

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics