EMS Today 2019

Scot Phelps
Professor of Ambulance Science
The Emergency Management Academy


Scot Phelps, JD, MPH, Paramedic, is the full-time Professor of Ambulance Science at the Emergency Management Academy. He teaches graduate healthcare emergency management (and formerly taught graduate Emergency Medical Services), is a Fellow at the Center for Disaster Medicine at New York Medical College, and served as the immediate past Chair of the Healthcare/Hospitals Caucus of the International Association of Emergency Managers. He is a New York State Paramedic and Paramedic Instructor. He is an approved Fulbright Specialist candidate in public administration. Previously, Professor Phelps was the Program Director/Associate Professor for the Graduate Certificate in Emergency & Disaster Management in the Department of Health & Human Services at Southern Connecticut State University and for the Master's in Public Administration in Emergency & Disaster Management at Metropolitan College in New York City, served as Assistant Commissioner of Emergency Management at the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, as Manager of Emergency Life Support Programs at Phelps Memorial Hospital, and as an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He began working on the ambulance in 1983 and has been a paramedic for the past 27 years working and teaching in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia, and Connecticut. Professor Phelps holds a Juris Doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School (where he served on the National Health Law Moot Court team), a Master's in Public Health in both Health Policy & Health Administration from Yale Medical School (where he was a Farr Scholar and a Schlesinger Fellow), and a Bachelor's in Anthropology with honors from Columbia University. As an attorney, he is admitted to the bar in New York, New Jersey, and the federal courts.

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