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NAEMT awards 2010 Rocco V. Morando Lifetime Achievement Award to Jonathan Politis, MPA, EMT-P
Patrick Moore NAEMT President
NAEMT President Patrick Moore, Lifetime Achievement Award winner Jonathan Politis, and NREMT Executive Director Bill Brown.
NAEMT has awarded the 2010 Rocco V. Morando Lifetime Achievement Award to Jonathan Politis, MPA, EMT‐P. The award, NAEMT's most presti‐ gious, is named after one of the found‐ ing members of NAEMT. It was pre‐ sented last night to Politis at the NAEMT General Membership Meeting and Awards presentation, held in con‐ junction with EMS EXPO 2010 in Dallas. The award is sponsored by the National Registry of
Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT).
“This award is granted to those few individuals who, through their actions, leadership and spirit, have demonstrat‐ ed a lifetime commitment and dedica‐ tion to the advancement of EMS,” said
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NAEMT President Patrick Moore as he presented the award to Politis. Politis is one of the charter founding members of NAEMT and is chief of the Town of Colonie Emergency Medical Services Department, located near Albany, New York. “During Jon’s life‐ time career in EMS he has provided per‐ sonal leadership as part of many national events and led his system to be one of the best in the nation,” noted William (“Bill”) E. Brown, Jr., executive director of NREMT.
For the Town of Colonie, Politis served as founding chief from 1989 to 2010. His efforts brought together six volunteer rescue squads into one municipal third service EMS depart‐
ment. Politis now leads 80 career and 40 volunteer EMS practitioners within the department, which responds to 9,500 emergency calls per year and operates a fleet of 22 vehicles, serving a population of about 80,000. Under his leadership, Colonie was named the NAEMT National Paramedic Service of the Year in 1999, the New York Regional EMS System of the Year in 2010, the New York State EMS System of the Year in 2010, and the International Association of Fire Chief’s Heart Saver Community of the Year in 2010.
As chief, Politis is directly involved in
the town's emergency planning and incident management, and in the region's response to disasters. Previously, he served as assistant director, EMS, New York State Department of Health in Albany, where he was responsible for the administra‐ tion of all aspects of the EMS educa‐ tional process for the state's 30,000 emergency medical technicians. Politis also has served as a state EMS training coordinator for both Vermont and New York, and in other roles. Beginning his work in EMS in 1971, and certified as a
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