SHRS' Walt Stoy Receives Leadership Award

Walt Stoy, Director and Professor of Pitt’s Undergraduate Program in Emergency Medicine, recently received the James O. Page/JEMS Leadership Award at the EMS Today 2018 conference.

The award is given to individuals or agencies who have exhibited the drive necessary to develop improved emergency medicine systems, resolve important emergency medicine issues and bring about positive changes to the field.

Stoy, who teaches in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and created the bachelor’s degree program in Emergency Medicine for emergency medical services personnel at Pitt in 1988, is internationally renowned for his endeavors in the field and regarded as a national leader in emergency medical services education.