Dr. Scott Markham
Nomination #1: It is my pleasure to nominate Dr. Scott
Markham for the EMS Physician of the Year Award.
This year marks Dr. Markham's 25th year as EMS Medical
Director for our Shelby County System. He provides this service
at no charge and ha overseen a system developed which is head
and shoulders above many of our neighbors. There are not many
physicians who contribute a much, or as long, as Dr. Markham
has.
Nomination #2: Respectfully submitted on behalf of
paramedics of Medivac, Harlan.
We are excited and honored to be able to nominate our Medical
Director Scott Markham DO for the EMS Physician of the Year
Award. Dr. Markham has been our EMS Systems Medical Director for
25 years. And has guided and directed the EMS providers of
Shelby County as well. He is responsible for ten volunteer teams
and Medivac Corp., which provides ALS services to the County and
surrounding areas.
He has shepherded in many changes and upgrades which have
resulted in the EMS system of our County having a coordinated,
life-saving and effective response. He conducts basic life
critiques every quarter for the volunteers and monthly with the
paramedics. He is able to steer patient care, anecdotally, when
reviewing calls with the providers in directions which create a
learning environment, and result in improvement to the care of
future patients. He offers guidance and assistance for all
levels. He is the liaison between the EMS providers, and the
other hospital staff providing smooth transitions in updated
protocols and other mandated requirements. His mantra of
supporting the providers and actions in the field is often heard
and emphasized by his words. The scene work and what the EMTs do
in the field is different, as long as the EMS providers can
justify their actions with logic and good reasoning, he will
support that.
He has supported efforts aimed at the provision of efforts
such as 911 dispatchers providing emergency medical dispatch pre
arrival instructions and administration of life-saving
interventions before the arrival of EMTs and paramedics. The
Shelby County EMS system was one of the first in the State of
Iowa to use these protocols. He supported the formation of rapid
response teams, a tactical medic team and firefighter
rehabilitation protocols. His guidance fosters an effective
working relationship between 911 dispatch, volunteer, and
paramedic level responders. Assuring that both levels are
appropriately dispatched, all to the benefit of those who are
injured, ill or, in need of medical care.
His compassion is measured in his approach to his patients,
and in the support, he shows to the EMS providers. He is a true
medical director. He is engaged, he is not a paper pusher or a
doctor who just signs on without understanding his true role.
His team playing extends to law enforcement community,
firefighters, and the public health arenas as well. 25 years! A
legacy to be honored, and recognized not only by our nomination,
but by his selection as the first Iowa physician to receive this
award.
Nomination #3: Dr. Scott Markham has been the EMS
Medical Director for over 25 years in Shelby County. He has led
both the Shelby County EMS volunteers as well as the paramedics
service Medivac. Countless Medivac Paramedics have learned under
his leadership, whether it is on scene discussion or through
monthly Advanced Life Support Critiques. His goal is to teach
the new medics to talk through the decision making process and
empower them to fully use their protocols to save lives.
Dr. Markham has been instrumental in system and protocol
development in Shelby County. The county has a unified system
that works together with well established medical and tiering
protocols. With this unified approach Shelby County EMS and
Medivac have been successful in partnering with Mrytue Medical
Center in the care of STEMI patients. Because of this
partnership, under Dr Markham’s leadership, Mrytue Medical
Center was awarded the GOLD award from the American Heart
Association for STEMI care - the first Critical Access Hospital
in Iowa to receive this award. This is not possible without
teamwork between the hospital and EMS.
Although EMS is not Dr. Markham’s only added on duty as a
physician, I really believe it has been the most beneficial and
has had a large and long lasting benefit throughout the county
and the lives of the people who live here.
Please consider Scott Markham, DO for the EMS physician of
the year award.
Nomination #4: Dr. Markham is the EMS director for
Medivac Ambulance in Harlan, IA and the surrounding volunteer
departments in Shelby County. This year marks his 25th year as
EMS director. In the 15 years I have been in EMS I have learned
so much from him, he gives feedback on patients we bring into
the hospital he works at, Myrtue Medical Center. Dr. Markham
also meets with us once a month to do run reviews. At these
meetings he has taught me how to become a better clinician. He
deserves this award.
