Welcome from the Fellowship Director

In our fully accredited, one-year EMS Fellowship program, our fellows are able to take advantage of extensive opportunities in prehospital and disaster medicine. These include emergency medical services administration, education, field response, mass gathering event medicine, medical oversight, operations, and specialty team responses such as HazMat, SWAT and Tech Rescue. Kalamazoo County has a population of approximately 250,000 and is a referral center for the region, serving over 1 million people. Our EMS System is described as a high-performance, single-tier private ALS system with countywide fire-based BLS first responders. We have two tertiary care hospitals within Kalamazoo. Bronson Methodist Hospital is a Level 1 Trauma Center, Burn Center, STEMI Center, Comprehensive Stroke Center, and houses our pediatric hospital. Beacon Kalamazoo is a Level 2 Trauma Center, STEMI Center, Comprehensive Stroke Center, and houses our psychiatric hospital. Our WMed Emergency Medicine Residents staff both hospital Emergency Departments. Our fellows serve as junior faculty for the emergency medicine residency program.

The educational experience at WMed is dynamic, comprehensive and enhanced by a response vehicle that is allocated solely for fellows. This allows for efficient scene response and quality improvement activities. Through the hard work and dedication of our EMS personnel and a highly effective EMS system design, cardiac arrest survival rates in Kalamazoo County are among the highest in the nation.

The Kalamazoo County Medical Control Authority is housed within the Department of Emergency Medicine at WMed, and is statutorily responsible for the coordination and oversight of the EMS system. Our EMS Fellows serve as Assistant EMS Medical Directors. This system integration allows for close interaction and education among fellows, medical school faculty, residents, students, and staff.

Faculty

Our diverse faculty have unique niche interests, skills, and experience in air medicine, disaster preparedness, hazmat and fire service operations, tactical emergency medical services, mass gathering event medicine, rural and wilderness medicine, education, and system operations, among others.

• John Hoyle, MD
  • Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
  • Associate Dean, Simulation
  • Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics
  • Assistant Medical Director for Pediatrics, Kalamazoo County Medical Control Authority
  • Board Certified EMS
• William Fales, MD
  • Chief, Division of EMS & Disaster Medicine
  • Professor of Emergency Medicine 
  • Medical Director, Kalamazoo County Medical Control Authority
  • State of Michigan Medical Director, Bureau of EMS, Trauma and Preparedness
  • Board Certified EMS
• Joshua Mastenbrook, MD, EMT-P
  • EMS Fellowship Program Director
  • Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
  • Medical Director, Allegan County Medical Control Authority
  • Associate Medical Director, Kalamazoo County Medical Control Authority
  • Firefighter/Paramedic, Richland Township Fire Department
  • Board Certified EMS
• Stephanie Van Alsten, MD
  • EMS Fellowship Associate Program Director
  • Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
  • Medical Director, Indiana Dunes National Park EMS
  • Medical Director, Calhoun County Medical Control Authority
  • Board Certified EMS
• Steven Joyce, DO
  • Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
  • EMS Medical Director, BHS-Memorial Hospital
  • Board Certified EMS
• Jon Krohmer, MD
  • Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor
  • Director of the NHTSA Office of EMS, Retired
  • Board Certified EMS
• William Selde, MD
  • Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
  • Medical Director, Yellowstone National Park EMS
  • Board Certified EMS
• Michael Bentley, MPA, EMT-P, I/C
  • Director, WMed Division of EMS and Disaster Medicine
• Judy Wheeler, MPM, EMT-P, I/C
  • Coordinator, State of MI NDLS Program
  • Coordinator, WMed AHA Training Center

Our Fellows

Alex VanWoerkom, DO