The Talbot Paramedic Foundation (TPF) recently elected officers for the next two years.
President Wayne Dyott has been reelected as president. He is a Charter Member and has served for over a decade as the president and has led the TPF through unprecedented growth to become a nationally recognized leader in public access defibrillation through their Public Access Defibrillation program which is called Talbot CARES- Cardiac Arrest Rescue Emergency Station. Dyott was one of the original five Advanced Life Support volunteers in a pilot program at the Easton Volunteer Fire Department. He is a Vietnam veteran where he served in the Navy. Dyott is past commander of VFW #5118 and past president of the Talbot County Council.
Ruth Ann Jones has been re-elected as vice president. Jones is retired from the University of Maryland Shore Regional Health where she held various leadership and management positions and retired as Senior Vice President of Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer. She is a graduate of the MacQueen Gibbs Willis School of Nursing, Wesley College, The Catholic University of America, and Wilmington University. She holds a Doctorate in Education in Leadership and Innovation. Her husband, Gary, was a member of the TPF and one of the original five ALS volunteers at EVFD.
Angela Lane has been elected treasurer. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park with a B. S. degree in accounting. Ms. Lane started her accounting career in private industry. In 1987, she took a position with local government, working as Director of Administrative Services for the Talbot County Health Department. In 1991, she was hired as a Fiscal Analyst for the Talbot County Government. She became Director of Finance for Talbot County in 2000 and worked in this job until her retirement in 2021, except for a brief job in the private sector from 2004 to 2009.
William Wilson was a career paramedic serving in Caroline, Talbot and Queen Anne’s Counties for over 22 years and has been elected secretary. Wilson began his career as a volunteer for the Easton Volunteer Fire Department in 1996. After earning an Associate of Arts degree in Business from Chesapeake College in 1991, Wilson returned to pursue a career in emergency medical services. Wilson was honored with the Outstanding Graduate Award from Chesapeake College and graduated from the EMS Paramedic Program in 2000. He served as an EMS supervisor for 13 years with Talbot County DES. In addition, Wilson has been a part-time Training Center Faculty/Instructor for UMMS Shore Medical Center since 2003.
The Talbot Paramedic Foundation has worked to establish Talbot CARES stations which contain automatic defibrillators, Stop the Bleed kits, and Narcan for narcotic overdoses. They are being placed in recreational gathering places in Talbot County. The foundation has joined forces with Team Trace, Talbot DES, Gunther’s Electric, and many other community partners to install public access AED stations at parks throughout Talbot.
Recently, a Talbot CARES station was placed on Washington Street in Easton across from the courthouse. Talbot Paramedic Foundation is working to expand access to defibrillators beyond public parks to other target locations in the county.
President Wayne Dyott stated, “The Talbot Paramedic Foundation has become a nationally recognized leader in deployment of public access defibrillators (PADs). Other organizations throughout the country are seeking our guidance in establishing access to PADs. The victim of sudden cardiac arrest needs help with immediate CPR and application of a AED. Everyone has the power to save a life.”
Others serving on the foundation’s board are Will Howard, Sheila Wainwright, Terri Overington, Kevin Knussman, Curtis Booth, Bill Nielsen, Clay Stamp, Levin “Buddy” Harrison, IV, Fred Petze , Jenny Madino, and Matt Watkins.
The Talbot Paramedic Foundation has a long history supporting emergency medical services in Talbot County. Our mission as a foundation is saving lives in Talbot County through increased awareness, raising funds, developing lifesaving technology, and encouraging paramedic professionalism.
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