Bob Elling has been involved in EMS since 1975. He is a paramedic with the Town of Colonie EMS Department, Times Union Center, and Whiteface Mountain Medical Services. He is a retired clinical instructor from Albany Medical Center and worked in the Hudson Valley Community College Paramedic Program. He has served as National and Regional Faculty for the American Heart Association (AHA), and as Regional Faculty for the New York State Bureau of EMS. He was also a paramedic and lieutenant for New York City EMS, paramedic program director and associate director of the New York State EMS Bureau, and an education coordinator for PULSE: Emergency Medical Update.
Bob is an author/coauthor of these Jones and Bartlett/AAOS books: Paramedic: Anatomy and Physiology, Paramedic: Pathophysiology, Paramedic: Pharmacology, Paramedic Field Guide, Student Workbook for Emergency Care in the Streets, and Editor of Nancy Caroline's Emergency Care in the Streets.
Bob was also a co-author of the National First Responder, Paramedic and EMT-Intermediate curricula, the 2007 Paramedic Practice Guidelines, as well as a co-author of the AHA Guidelines 2005 which have paved the way to improving successful resuscitation of cardiac arrest. He is an AHA Board member and a passionate advocate for strengthening the links in the chain of survival.