Overview
Dr. Paul Misasi has been a paramedic for over 23 years—having spent eight years in the field on an ambulance and 12 years in management and progressively higher administrative roles, ultimately serving as Deputy Director of Sedgwick County EMS (before, during, and after the COVID pandemic) and retiring in 2021 to accept a clinical faculty appointment at the Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine (KansasCOM).
Dr. Misasi earned a bachelor’s degree in Health Service Organization and Policy from Wichita State University (WSU) in 2001, a Masters degree in Emergency Health Services from the Univeristy of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2008, and completed his PhD in Human Factors Psychology at WSU in 2024—specializing in human error, macrocognition, expertise, decision making. He was the fourth person in the state of Kansas in 2013 to become Certified as a Professional in Patient Safety and was the principle architect for the medication administration cross-check process that is now a textbook standard of care for prehospital medical practice.
Dr. Misasi is an associate professor and track director for Health Systems Science at KansasCOM and his reserarch includes topics pertaining to the design clinical decision support, medication errors, and triage in mass casualty incidents. His current efforts are directed at incorporating and operationalizing holism in the professional development of future osteopathic physicians.