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Eric Lembke
Eric Lembke is an owner and Wilderness EMT instructor with Backcountry Medical Company. He has 19 years of Search and Rescue and military emergency medical experience making him a sought after authority on the tools of the trade. A self-proclaimed gear head, he is able to put his insight to use in a multitude of emergency medical disciplines. His recreational interests include rock climbing, mountain biking, trail running, backpacking, canoeing and snow shoeing.
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Joel Pratt
Joel has been involved in the Emergency Medical Services since 1989. He has over 20 years of Search and Rescue experience doing work with Ground SAR, Mountain Rescue, Snowmobile Rescue, Dive Rescue, Swiftwater Rescue, 4X4 Rescue and Helicopter Rescue. He has held virtually every field, Incident Command and instructor position SAR has to offer. Currently employed by Skagit County EMS as the county's Lead EMS Training Coordinator and Central Skagit Medic as an EMT-IV and a Field Training Advisor.
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Dr. Henry Heimlich
Dr. Henry J. Heimlich was born February 3, 1920, in Wilmington, Delaware. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1941, and his M.D. from Cornell Medical College in 1943.
Dr. Heimlich’s career is notable for the abundance of creative, simple solutions he has provided for seemingly insurmountable health and medical problems, beginning in 1945. While assigned to a U.S. Naval Group in China during World War II, Dr. Heimlich took a chance with an innovative treatment for victims of trachoma, in incurable bacterial infection of the eyelids that was causing blindness throughout Asia and the Middle East.
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