Faizan H. Arshad, MD, is EMS Medical Director for Vassar Brothers Hospital – Healthquest systems in Hudson Valley, NY. He graduated from Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine’s elite Honors Program in Medical Education (HPME) and pursued specialty training in Emergency Medicine at Yale – New Haven Hospital. He completed his initial fellowship with FDNY and served as deputy medical director of Manhattan from 2013-14. He then served as Deputy EMS Fellowship Director at Newark Beth Israel Hospital, Deputy System, Medical Director for MONOC EMS and as a TEMS physician embedded with the NJ State Police on TEAMS/SWAT assignments. He is also the founder of the EMS Nation podcast.