EMS PRO NEWS & TECHNOLOGY
NAEMT Awards 2011 Rocco V. Morando Lifetime Achievement Award to Ken Knipper
Knipper is retired from his job as Campbell County Emergency Manager. He has served as a volunteer EMT and Chief of the Silver Grove Fire Department in Northern Kentucky. “Ken has consistently and fairly represented the citizens of Kentucky and the EMS commu- nity,” says O’Neal.
developed over his many years of traveling across the Commonwealth and to our nation’s capitol,” notes O’Neal.
Ken Knipper (left) receives his award from Bill Brown, NREMT Executive Director.
On August 30, at its General Membership Meeting in Las Vegas, NAEMT awarded its 2011 Rocco V. Morando Lifetime Achievement Award to Ken Knipper of Melbourne, Kentucky.
Knipper was nominated for this award due to his tireless and dedicated service to EMS in the many capacities he has served. “Ken is most deserving of this honor,” says Charles M. O’Neal, B.A., NREMT-P, Assis- tant Division Director,
Kentucky Division of Emergency Management.
O’Neal notes that he has had the privilege of serving with Knipper on various state level EMS committees and councils and has seen firsthand the “sincere desire he has to see the citizens of the Commonwealth receive first rate prehospital medical care, and his de- termination to see EMS in Kentucky recognized as a legitimate part of the public safety commu- nity,” he commented.
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Knipper previously served as the Director of the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services, was inducted into the Kentucky Firefighters Association Hall of Fame in 2008 and has received a Special Recognition Award from the EMS Branch of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health Services.
“Ken was always there to help support my agency and causes that would improve EMS for the citizens and the EMS community as a whole. Be it fire-based, hospital- based or a private EMS organization, Ken was always ready to of- fer advice and provide support through the many channels he had
Knipper currently is serving his second term on the National EMS Advisory Council, where he was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Trans- portation to represent volunteer EMS practi- tioners. He served as a member of the National Core Content Committee during the development of the EMS Education Agenda for the Future: A Systems Approach. He also was a panelist on the Institute of Medi- cine’s Preparedness and Response to Rural Mass Casualty Incident work- shop, which was funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Admin- istration (NHTSA) in response to a National Transportation Safety Board recommendation to the Federal Interagen- cy Committee on EMS. He currently serves as a member of the Culture of Safety Project Steer- ing Committee, a project funded by a NHTSA grant awarded to the American College of Emergency Physicians. Additionally, Knipper serves on the National EMS Advisory Council and serves as a liaison to the NREMT Board of Directors.
“For many years, Ken’s presence has been ubiq-
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