Paul Misasi

Paul Misasi, PhD, has been a paramedic for over 23 years - having spent eight years in the field on an ambulance and 12 years in management and progressively higher administrative roles, ultimately completing his EMS career as Deputy Director of Sedgwick County EMS (Kansas), which is the largest and busiest ambulance service in the state of Kansas.

Dr. Misasi is a human factors psychologist specializing in human error, macrocognition, expertise, decision making, and cognitive systems engineering. He holds two additional graduate degrees: 1) Master of Science in Emergency Health Services from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and 2) Master of Art in Psychology from Wichita State University. He earned his undergraduate degree in Health Service Organization & Policy from Wichita State University.

He is the Track Director of Health Systems Science, teaching a range of topics that include the humanities, epistemology, biostatistics & epidemiology, research methods & critical appraisal of scientific literature, patient safety, clinical informatics, health care system models, ethics, social determinants of health, quality management, basic life support, and advanced cardiovascular life support.

His research interests are include human factors applications in EMS, such as mass casualty incident management , workload, and clinical decision support.