Dr. Nadine Levick, MD MPH, is an Emergency Medicine physician, clinician, academic and researcher. She is acknowledged as a national and international leader in the multidisciplinary field of EMS transport safety. Dr. Levick has held senior Faculty positions in preeminent academic centers in the USA and Australia, including Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Columbia University in New York and the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Royal Australian Flying Doctor Service in Australia. She is an Australian trained board certified Emergency Medicine physician with a Masters of Public Health in Health Policy and Management focused on Injury Prevention and Control, from Johns Hopkins University, where she was also, Adjunct Faculty in the School of Public Health and established an interdisciplinary credit course at the Whiting School of Engineering.

 

Dr. Levick has been awarded in excess of $2 million in USA Federal grants and also industry grants for her cross disciplinary research. She established PEDNET, the first major regional pediatric emergency care research network globally, as part of the Federal PECARN demonstration project, and she was the first to receive federal funds for EMS transport safety research. Dr. Levick is the inaugural Chair of the new National Academies Transportation Research Board (TRB) EMS Transport Safety Subcommittee. She also chairs the APHA Injury Control and Emergency Services Section’s subcommittee on Disaster and Emergency Health Services and is the current Editor of Transactions, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Transport Practice Specialty newsletter.

 

Dr. Levick has been awarded a number of prestigious national and international research and leadership awards for her EMS and transport research, the 2006 AMBEX research Award in the UK for ambulance transport research most likely to change practice, the 2005 Society of Academic Emergency Medicine regional research award, the 2004 American Medical Response Research Award, the International Society of Automotive Engineers 2003 Women’s Leadership Award, and the 2002 Center for Creative Leadership’s Public Health and Emergency Services National Award, amongst others. Dr. Levick is also a review panel member for federally funded research and an advisor to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) on EMS Best Practices in the USA, and a reviewer for Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence in Transportation research. Dr. Levick is an active member of the Regional Emergency Medical Services Council (REMSCO) of New York and has established research collaborations with key EMS industry leaders nationally. She is a founding member of the cross disciplinary national Mobile Medical Transportation Safety (MMTS) task force, since January 2003. She has been keynote speaker at numerous national and international conferences, including the United Kingdom Pediatric Critical Care Symposium in November 2006 and also at the Annual Scandinavian EMS Congress in October 2006 and the January 2006 National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP) Congress, as well as at the 2005, 2006 & 2007 Ambulance Association of America (AAA) Congress and Professional Standards meeting. She also presented at the ASSE PDC in 2006 & 2007 and at the inaugural ASSE Fleet Safety Symposium in 2007. She has represented EMS transport safety in Europe at the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2004 in Vienna and the World Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris in 2005.

 

Dr. Levick conducted the first vehicle to vehicle ambulance crash tests and also established and coordinated the first international TOPTEC symposium on Emergency Vehicle Safety in 2001, and has been responsible for major enhancements in emergency vehicle transport safety and the implementation of federal safety initiatives in the USA and Australia. Dr. Levick has published the lead engineering papers globally on EMS vehicle safety and numerous other publications on EMS Safety. She has also presented many dozens of peer reviewed papers at scientific meetings around the world, in addition to keynote addresses and grand rounds, at Critical Care, Public Health, Automotive, EMS and Federal meetings. She is also the founder of the not-for-profit Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Safety Foundation and established the www.objectivesafety.net EMS Safety information web portal. Dr. Levick is also a sought after trainer and public speaker in this field, and she has an active role regionally, federally and internationally in the field of EMS safety research and policy. Dr. Levick’s work highlights the interface of scientific data with transport safety guidelines and policy development.