The Experts
Joe Holley, MD, FACEP
Medical Director
With over 20 years experience, Dr. Joe Holley is the State EMS Medical Director for Tennessee, as well as the Medical Director for Memphis and Shelby County Fire Departments and Tennessee Task Force One: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) team. He has been deployed over 20 times to such events as 9/11 at the Pentagon, Hurricanes Katrina, Gustav, and Ike, among many others. Due to this extensive experience, he now is the Medical Unit Leader for FEMA’s Incident Support Team. Dr. Holley has extensive experience in EMS, including specialty areas such as Confined Space, Motorsports, and Event services. He currently serves multiple private EMS systems in West Tennessee, making him the most active EMS Medical Director in Tennessee. In addition, he is a member of the Eagles Consortium, comprised of the EMS Medical Directors of the nations largest municipalities. Dr. Joe Holley also provides educational presentations, up-to-date protocols and emergency medical hot topics via Emergency Medical Resources.com Dr. Joe Holley was voted a Memphis Top Doc. Best Doctors by Memphis Flyer
J. Harold Logan, BPS, EMT-P/IC
Chief Operating Officer
He is a 30-year veteran of fire-based EMS. For 25 years he served as an Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Officer for the Memphis Fire Department in an administration capacity, specializing in EMS, Emergency Management, quality improvement, and education. He’s a nationally known author with regular publications in EMS Magazine, Journal of Emergency Medical Services, Firehouse, and other trade journals. Jim has also lent his experience and talents to several emergency service industry text books as continuing author and technical writer.
Jim is an EMS instructor coordinator and fire instructor for the state of Tennessee and the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, MD. He holds a bachelor’s degree in health and safety from the University of Memphis. In addition to his work in Emergency Services, he currently serves on faculty with Christian Brothers University with its Physician Assistant Program. For more than a decade, Jim has also served as a rescue/medical specialist and a medical coordinator for FEMA’s Tennessee Task Force One Urban Search and Rescue Team.
Jim has been cited several distinctions in his career with multiple awards for Merit and Life Saving. His highest achievement to date was an industry award for innovation in education. In 2010 he was noted as one of the 10 most innovative individuals in Emergency Medical Services and was honored with the JEMS10 Award by the Journal of Emergency Medical Services as EMS Innovator of the Year.
Billie Coppedge
Operations Manager
Billie Coppedge is the Operations Manager for Paragon Medical Group.
With a master’s degree in Instruction and Curriculum Leadership, she has
a robust background in education as well as medical device sales,
marketing, and training. Billie’s passion for quality education is unequaled,
and Paragon is pleased to have Billie Coppedge managing our daily operations, course planning, logistics, and delivery.
Stop the Bleed
Stop The Bleed
“Stop the Bleed” is a nationwide campaign to empower individuals to act quickly and save lives, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security.
Partners
Our Partners
PreHospital Education Associates
Offering classes for first responders, EMTs, and paramedics, Our Partners at PEA can handle everything from CPR to ACLS!
ATERF
The funding agency for Arkansas to develop their statewide Trauma system. ATERF contracted with Paragon to provide their mass-casualty training throughout the state. We have utilized scenarios from weather-based mass-casualty events, to terrorism and active shooters. Students are EMS, nursing, Department of Health, Emergency physicians, and law enforcement.
T1G
Tier 1 Group is a leader in specialized training for America’s elite combat teams. One of the largest government-contracted military training grounds, T1G contracted with Paragon for medical direction of its field medicine program. Paragon works hand in hand with T1G to create unique training curricula for T1G’s special operations clients ranging from ballistics research to combat medical response and deployment preparedness.
State of Tennessee
Paragon provides the only state-sponsored mass-casualty and active shooter training throughout the state of Tennessee and on campus at the State Fire Training Academy. With student ranging from EMS, hospital personnel, law enforcement and Department of Health, Paragon supplies CECBEMS-accredited CE hours with unparalleled educational experiences.
Innovative Trauma Care®
Innovative Trauma trusted Paragon as the cadaver lab resource for its newly released, cutting edge products. With mobile labs available across the country, Paragon is able to bring the products to the customers with hands-on training that far exceed a convention booth exhibit with proven sales and marketing results for our partners.
Vendor Opportunities
Paragon extends an invitation to any medical corporation that would like to exhibit and demonstrate their product in our Cadaver Lab or high-fidelity interactive experience. Through our unique partnership, we will bring our Experience to any location around the country to demonstrate your product to the audience you choose.