Christopher Fullagar, MD, FACEP

RESEARCH ABSTRACT

Dr. Fullagar attended medical school at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA. He then went on to complete his Emergency Medicine Residency and EMS Fellowship at the SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. Dr. Fullagar is the medical director for the Western Area Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) Ambulance, an advanced life support service based in Camillus, NY, and other EMS agencies in the Central New York Region. He has previously served as the medical director and flight physician of the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office Air-1. Dr. Fullagar has nearly 30 years of experience as a prehospital provider and remains actively involved in field delivery and oversight of basic and advanced medical care. He is a certified instructor in Advanced Cardiac Life Support. He has been Board Certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine since 2004 and holds a Subspecialty Board Certification in Emergency Medical Services. He currently holds a faculty position in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Upstate Medical University and works clinically as an attending emergency physician. Dr. Fullagar has served on the Board of Trustees of the Air Medical Physician Association, an international group of critical care transport medicine physicians, since 2008 and is currently a Past President. He is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the National Association of EMS Physicians, and the Air Medical Physicians Association. Dr. Fullagar also holds a position on the Regional Medical Advisory Committee for Central New York EMS (CNYEMS) and is the chair of the CNYEMS Regional Policy and Protocol Committee. He is also the current co-chair of the New York State Collaborative EMS Protocol Committee.