Meet the Board of Directors

Anthony Di Monte

Anthony Di Monte is the Chief of the Ottawa Paramedic Service that provides emergency medical services coverage to our Nation’s Capital. Chief Di Monte has been involved in EMS for the past 29 years and began his career as an Advanced Care Paramedic in 1979 in Montreal. Read more

Christian Schmidt

Assistant Chief, Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service – Christian Schmidt serves as an Assistant Chief with the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service (WFPS) where he is responsible for providing leadership and strategic direction within the emergency medical services, fire suppression and communications division Read more

Corey Banks

Corey is an Advanced Care Paramedic and a Registered Nurse. He started his career as a paramedic in 1991 in rural Newfoundland. Since then he has worked in five different Canadian Provinces that took him as far west as Calgary, Alberta and he spent a year in the United States for part of his education. He has attained a Diploma in Health Administration and a Certificate in Adult Education, as well Read more

Dave Dutchak

Born and raised in Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan, Dave was following in the footsteps of his father (Mike) when he started his career in emergency medical services. He has been involved in EMS in Saskatoon since 1979 and is currently President and CEO of M D Ambulance Care Ltd. Read more

Doug Socha

Doug Socha is the Director of Emergency Services for Hastings County and Chief of Hastings-Quinte EMS since its inception in 2003. Starting his paramedic career in 1994 he has worked both land and air ambulance in Ontario and still maintains his provincial certification. Doug was the program Read more

Gerard Dinn

Gerard Dinn is currently the Clinical Operations Manager for Yukon Emergency Medical Services. In his current position he oversees the medical competence of the service. This spans medical protocols, quality assurance, communications, EMS response standards etc. Read more

Jeffrey Fraser

Jeff is the Director of Operations for Emergency Health Services Ambulance Operations Management for the Province of Nova Scotia. His key responsibilities are Field Operations, Medical Communications and Deployment, Special Operations, and Community Paramedicine. Read more

John Cunnane

Started his EMS career in the UK as an Ambulance Officer and a Control Officer (dispatch). After immigrating to Canada in 1975, he spent 23 years working for the Ontario Ministry of Health (Emergency Health Services Branch) in a variety of EMS positions, including Paramedic, Regional Training Officer, Supervisor and District Manager for Niagara Region. In January of 1998, the Province transferred Read more

Ken Luciak

Ken Luciak serves as the Director of Regina Qu’Appelle Health Region – Emergency Medical Services and is responsible for eleven emergency medical services and the regional emergency communication centre.
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Matt Crossman

Matt is the General Manager and Chief of Island Emergency Medical Services and Medacom Atlantic. Matt is responsible for overseeing and providing leadship and establishing service direction, as well as building staff capabilities to improve service levels throughout its ambulance operations and the Emergency Services Communications Centre on Prince Edward Island (PEI). Matt has been involved in Emergency Read more

Mike Michalko

Mike Michalko is currently the Executive Director for Rural Operations with the British Columbia Ambulance Service. The program is responsible for all ground operations within the Province of BC outside of the metro operations in Vancouver and Victoria. Read more

Nicola D’Ulisse

Président et directeur général de la Corporation d’urgences-santé, régions de Montréal et Laval Nicola D’Ulisse est président et directeur général de la Corporation d’urgences-santé, l’organisation publique offrant les services préhospitaliers d’urgence pour les régions de Montréal et Laval. Son mandat a commencé Read more

Paul Raftis

On March 1, 2011, Paul Raftis became Chief, Toronto Emergency Medical Services.

Paul has been with Toronto EMS for 20 years, beginning his career as a Paramedic in 1991. As an Advanced Care Paramedic (ACP), he was one Read more

Stephan Scalibrini

Director of operations at Dessercom Inc, for the past five years, Stéphan Scalabrini is responsible for the Western division of the company.

Entered into post may 20, 2008, there its load near 9 companies and about 250 paramedics. Our area of operations is very wide and Read more