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The Citizen CPR Foundation
The Citizen CPR Foundation was founded in 1987 to serve as a home for a biennial conference on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). This conference, originally called the Conference on Citizen CPR, was first sponsored by the Advanced Coronary Treatment (ACT) Foundation in 1980 at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The purpose of the conference was to provide an inspirational forum for CPR instructors to share their experiences, insights and vision. The founding members of the Citizen CPR Foundation were Carol Belmont, Ed Craren, Hans Dahll, Rumona Dickson, William Montgomery, MD, Mary Newman, Sandra O'Connell, Roxanne Perrino, Chuck Trautman and Thomas Werts.
MISSION
The mission of the Foundation is "to strengthen the Chain of Survival." The Foundation has three primary co-sponsors: the American Heart Association, the American Red Cross and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. The primary "products" of the Foundation are its biennial conference, now called the "Emergency Cardiovascular Care Update," and the quarterly newsletter, Currents in Emergency Cardiovascular Care.
Emergency Cardiovascular Care Update (...more)
The Emergency Cardiovascular Care Update was held in Orlando Florida in 2006, New Orleans, Louisiana in 2004, in Washington, DC in 2002, San Diego in 2000, Orlando in 1998, Montreal in 1996, Richmond in 1994, Seattle in 1992, Albuquerque in 1990, Cincinnati in 1988, Toronto in 1986, Omaha in 1984, Kansas City in 1982 and Houston in 1980.
Currents in Emergency Cardiovascular Care
Currents was established by the Citizen CPR Foundation in 1989 with seed money from the A. S. Laerdal Foundation. The Foundation later invited the American Heart Association to participate in the initiative. Today, Currents is co-sponsored by the Foundation and the AHA. Online subscriptions are available free of change and hard copy subscriptions are available for $12 US $15 outside US. To view the current and past issues click here. You can register online by clicking here.
Foundation Board of Directors (...more)
Members of the Foundation Board of Directors today are Ed Stapleton, EMT-P, Past President; Tom Aufderheide, MD, President; Linda Culley, Secretary; Paula Lank, Treasurer; Vinay Nadkarni, Program Chair; Marc Gay, EMT-P; John C. Amato; Don Vardell; Thomas A. Barnes, EdD, RRT; Wes Clark, MSc; Sandra E. Clarke; Ward Hamilton; Mary Fran Hazinski, RN, MSN; Tore Laerdal; Carolyn Pullen; Kevin Sorge.
The Foundation has no members, but Currents is distributed to more than 40,000 worldwide and conference attendance is over 1,000.
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