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In August 2005, the Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) launched emergency medical services in Andhra Pradesh, India. The subsequent success of this service led to rapid expansion across India, making it the largest single provider of prehospital care in the world. Stanford Emergency Medicine International (Stanford School of Medicine) has played an integral role in the EMRI’s growth and maturation. Dr. Mahadevan will describe the rise of this prehospital service from obscurity, its development of India’s first international paramedic institute, their inaugural research findings and implications, and future directions.
Dr. Mahadevan is Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine/Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and directs Stanford Emergency Medicine International (SEMI). He has taught, practiced or developed emergency medicine in Gambia, Egypt, China, Thailand, Jamaica, Nepal, Ethiopia, Jordan, Iraq, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and India. He was instrumental in setting up India's first paramedic training institute (2007) and prehospital research center (2009), and Nepal's first EMT training program (2010) and EMS system (2011).
More information about these programs at Stanford can be found at: http://emed.stanford.edu/education/international/projects.html