Dr.
Mischa Mirin Volunteers for Appointment as Medical Director, Southeast
Pennsylvania Search and Rescue
As of
April 7, 2011,
Mischa Mirin
,
MD
,
a member of the
Thomas
Jefferson
University
Hospital
faculty and
board certified in emergency medicine has volunteered to become the medical
director for Southeast Pennsylvania Search and Rescue. Dr.Mirin is a
graduate of Northwestern with intern and residency at Allegheny General,
Pittsburgh
,
PA.
The position of
medical director oversees the quality of care provided by licensed emergency
medicine system (EMS) providers in
Pennsylvania.
Under the PA Health Department EMS regulations issued on September 20, 2010 and
effective this coming January, 2011, the EMS in Pennsylvania will become closer to the
National Registry models for training and administration. Many categories of
providers who were previously exempt from licensure, such as wilderness search,
urban search, water search, mass care first aid stations, and SWAT, are now
defined as special operations EMS agencies and
must be licensed to continue operations.
Southeast
Pennsylvania Search and Rescue is a non-profit Pennsylvania
corporation (IRS 501c3 public
charity as well) organized to provide mounted wilderness search, large animal
technical rescue expertise, and disaster assistance to communities requiring
relocation or protection of livestock in the human food chain.
Irvin
Lichtenstein
Chief of
Operations
SE
PA
SAR
