Biography

Steve is an acute care nurse practitioner currently working clinically in the Emergency Department at Carney Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He is program director for the acute care nurse practitioner program and the new Extreme Medicine program at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also the Field Operations Director for the US for World Extreme Medicine. Previously, he was the director of advanced practice providers in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center and the director of affiliated providers in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Carney Hospital. He has over 30 years of field experience, including nine years as a flight paramedic. He also served as medical director for local police and fire departments, medic for a regional SWAT team, and an EMT for the Boston Red Sox.    

Steve’s EMS involvement currently includes his work with the FDNY EMS fellowship and with training various fire departments in Rescue Task Force (RTF). He is a former fellow in Bioethics at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and a current visiting researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center at the Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center for Health Policy. He was the associate director for the BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship for five years and worked with the Be Like Brit orphanage in Haiti both on-ground and doing telemedicine. He holds a Master of Science in Nursing as well as a Master of Science in Toxicology. He has also been a podcaster and conference host for World Extreme Medicine. He has authored several scholarly publications, including book chapters, peer-reviewed articles, and blogs.