Angie Bowen, RN, BSN, NREMT-P
Angie Bowen began working at East Tennessee Children's Hospital as an Emergency Department nurse in 1992. Since that time, she has served in the roles of Primary Transport Nurse with the Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team, Nursing Coordinator and Emergency Department Nurse Manager. Angie has been in her role as EMSC Regional Coordinator since 1999.
Angie is an instructor and course coordinator in many emergency-related courses and has served as the PALS National Faculty for Tennessee from 2005-2009. She served as a content editor for the Pediatric Education for Prehospital Professionals (PEPP) textbook, Edition II, published in 2004. Angie is active in her local chapter of the Emergency Nurses Association, where she has held officer positions since 2003. She is also a member of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
Angie received her B.S. in Nursing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and she also has a B.S. in Communications/Public Relations from the same institution. Angie began her EMS career working in the pre-hospital setting in 1988 and continues to work as a paramedic on a prn basis in the East Tennessee region.
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Kaye Stewart, RN, CCRN, EMT-IV
Kaye Stewart began her career as a pediatric nurse with the Methodist system in 1981. During that time she held multiple nursing roles, including working in AIDS research, labor and delivery, out-patient clinics, triage and the Emergency Department. Starting in 1995 she worked in the pediatric ICU at Le Bonheur and joined Pedi-Flite, Le Bonheur’s Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care Transport team in 1996, where she served as a transport nurse.
In 2007 she accepted a position as the clinical educator for Pedi-Flite team. Most recently, she has accepted the CRPC coordinator position at Le Bonheur for the west Tennessee region. She is also an instructor for the following programs:
PALS
BTLS and PBTLS
The PEPP coordinator for the Memphis area.
She is presently working on her BSN at Union University. Kaye has been recognized for her service on several committees, including being the Chairman for the Rapid Response Team for Le Bonheur, and a member of the Patient Safety Committee that is tasked with improving early recognition of patients in distress on the Med/Surgical Units.
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Eric Clauss, RN, EMT-P
Eric Clauss, a certified Registered Nurse and an EMT-Paramedic, has been in the emergency profession for the past 20 years. He holds several instructor certifications including ACLS, PALS, ENPC, TNCC and ACTN. Clauss previously served as a charge nurse for the Emergency Department at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. He joined the adult Emergency Department at VUMC in 2003 and has served at Children's Hospital since Spring 2005. During his career, Clauss has worked as an instructor for Emergency Medical Services, as a Nurse Educator, Firefighter, Deputy Coroner and as a flight paramedic. He is certified as a cave and swift water rescuer, among many other certifications.
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Lee Blair RN, CEN, EMT-P
Lee Blair came to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in April 2001 and transferred to the Children's Hospital in Fall 2007, where he currently serves as Emergency Medical Services Coordinator and Unit Educator.
As a healthcare provider in Middle Tennessee for over twenty years (including five years with LifeFlight), Lee is known throughout the community.
Prior to his Vanderbilt tenure, Lee held a variety of pre-hospital and hospital positions in Middle Tennessee including field paramedic, director of a special pre-hospital rescue team, deputy coroner, president of the student nursing body, emergency department staff nurse, and charge nurse. Throughout his career, Lee has enjoyed helping new staff acclimate to their roles by acting as a preceptor and conducting orientations for the emergency department and flight program.
In addition to his many certifications, Lee is also an instructor for BLS, ACLS, PALS, and TNCC. On a personal note, he is the married father of three young daughters and resides in Murfreesboro, TN.
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Marisa Moyers, RN
Marisa Moyers received her AD in nursing from Albany, New York Regency Program. She is currently completing her degree in Organizational Management through the Quest Program at Covenant College.
Marisa has spent her nursing career involved in pediatric patient care. She spent 12 ½ years as a nurse in the PICU at TC Thompson’s Children’s Hospital where she worked as a team leader and preceptor to new nurses in the unit.
She also spent time learning different aspects of nursing by taking a 3 year rotation through the Children’s Surgery and Recovery areas.
She functioned as the Procedure nurse for the entire facility for three years; this involved all of the procedures within the facility, back up for the emergency department for traumas and back up for the PICU for overflow admissions.
She started her role as the Outreach Coordinator in 2007. She brings a vast amount of pediatric experience to this position. She is a PALS, CPR and ENPC instructor.
She has continued to have regional task force meetings in her facility quarterly to bring her regional hospitals together to share ideas and education.
She has started, with the help of her prehospital coordinator, an EMS report card much like each CRPC does for their regional facilities.
She has done many outreach educational dates in her regional hospitals including CME as well as contact education for nurses, respiratory therapist, and EMS personnel. She also provides PALS classes to her regional facilities if they can not attend classes in her facility.
Her goals for the CRPC outreach position include increased visits to all her regional facilities that maintain education agreements with TC Thompson’s and the regional EMS agencies. She would like to have at least one mock code in each facility quarterly and provide not only in house but regional educational forums for her facilities as well.
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H. Joel Dishroon, EMT-P, IC
Joel began his EMS career in the US Army in 1971. He earned his Expert Field Medic Badge at Ft. Sam Houston, TX, and spent the next 11 months attached with a combat support hospital as a dust-off medic in Vietnam. Upon discharge he returned to Tennessee and decided EMS was the career for him.
After attending the third EMT class in the state in Shelbyville, he began working at various EMS agencies in the southeast region. He was working for Sequatchie Co. EMS and began paramedic school in Chattanooga. He has the distinction of being the first paramedic for that service.
In 1988 he was in the initial group of paramedics to begin Hamilton Co. EMS. He was named the initial Medic of the year recipient, and continued to work for the service until 1994 when he took the position as Pediatric EMS Education Coordinator at T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital.
Joel first began his teaching career in 1988, becoming an Instructor/Coordinator for the State of TN EMS program, and continues today as adjunct faculty at Chattanooga State. He was one of the initial course coordinators for the newly published PEPP course and has been actively involved with the program as an instructor and a reviewer for the online renewal program.
As an active member in the EMS community, Joel travels extensively in the state coordinating and assisting in in-services for hospital and pre-hospital personnel. He is the interim state coordinator for the EPC course, affiliate faculty for the PHTLS course, regional faculty for PALS since 1991, and in 2009 will be National Faculty for PALS.
He is retired form the Army National Guard with rank of SFC, and was deployed during Desert Storm with the 300th CSH based out of Smyrna, TN. He is married with 3 children and one grandson, and resides in the Hixson area of Chattanooga.
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