American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS)

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) provides education and practice management services for orthopaedic surgeons and allied health professionals. The Academy also serves as an advocate for improved patient care and informs the public about the science of orthopaedics. Founded at Northwestern University as a not-for-profit organization in 1933, the Academy has grown from a small organization serving less than 500 members to the world's largest medical association of musculoskeletal specialists. The Academy now serves about 24,000 members internationally.

Bob Elling, MPA, REMT-P

Bob has been involved in EMS since 1975.  He is a full time clinical instructor for Albany Medical Center working in the Hudson Valley Community College Paramedic Program. He is also an active paramedic with the Town of Colonie (NY), Times Union Center, National Faculty for the AHA, and Regional Faculty for the NYS Bureau of EMS.  He has served as a paramedic and lieutenant for NYC EMS, a Paramedic Program Director, Associate Director of the NYS EMS Bureau, and the Education Coordinator for PULSE: Emergency Medical Update. 

He is an author/coauthor of these Jones and Bartlett/AAOS books: Paramedic: Anatomy and Physiology, Paramedic: Pathophysiology, Paramedic: Pharmacology, Paramedic Field Guide, and Editor for Nancy Caroline’s Emergency Care in the Streets, Sixth Edition. 

Bob was also a co-author of the National First Responder, Paramedic and EMT-Intermediate curricula, the 2007 Paramedic Practice Guidelines, as well as a co-author of the Guidelines 2005 and Winter 2005 issue of Currents.

Kirsten M. Elling - BS, REMT-P

Kirsten (Kirt) Elling is a career paramedic who works for the Town of Colonie in upstate New York.  She began EMS work in 1988 as an EMT/firefighter and has been a National Registered paramedic since 1991.  She has been an EMS educator since 1990 teaching basic and advanced EMS programs at the Institute of Prehospital Emergency Medicine in Troy, New York.  Kirt serves as Regional Faculty for the NYS DOH, Bureau of EMS and the American Heart Association.  She has written numerous scripts for the EMS training video series PULSE: Emergency Medical Update, is the author of Jones & Bartlett/AAOS books: Paramedic: Anatomy & Physiology, Paramedic: Pathophysiology and Paramedic: Pharmacology.  Kirt was also a contributing author of the IPEM Paramedic Lab Manual, and an adjunct writer for the 1998 revision of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, EMT-Paramedic and EMT-Intermediate: National Standard Curricula and the 2007 Paramedic Practice Guidelines.