Christopher Matek

Background

About Christopher Matek

I have been in emergency services for over 35 years as a Paramedic, Fire fighter, leader, and educator. I started in Harlem and worked in New York City for over 16 years before moving West to the Chicago Fire Department and later to Minnesota and finally to Pennsylvania. Throughout my career, from EMT, to paramedic, to instructor through the ranks to Chief, I have been involved in service and education development and delivery at all levels of public safety. I have worked and taught in several areas of public safety from Municipal, Hospital, and Fire based EMS services to Local and Federal service with Department of Natural Resources. Along with teaching both EMS and Fire programs, I was in Minnesota’s inaugural class of Community Paramedics (CP) and have been involved as a CP at the local and state level for over a decade and became the director of the Northfield Hospital EMS Community Paramedic program in 2015. I am looking forward to fostering the next stage of evolution in EMS via Mobile Integrated Health Care and Community Paramedicine.