Dr. M. Westrol, MD

Dr. Westrol serves as the Medical Director for Philips Ambulance. Dr. Westrol started his journey in emergency services at the age of 16, shortly after the events of 9/11. Though he began as a firefighter, training as an emergency medical technician was not far behind. Throughout college, medical school, and emergency medicine residency, Dr. Westrol continued to work as an EMT. After completing his residency, he continued his training with an EMS & Disaster Medicine fellowship for further specialization, which included a year of physician field response and tactical medicine training with multiple SWAT teams. He is now double board-certified in Emergency Medicine and EMS & Disaster Medicine. As anyone in medicine knows, the training never stops, and Dr. Westrol has continued to enrich his knowledge, including advanced training at FEMA for healthcare emergency management. He has a special interest in event medicine and has several publications on out-of-hospital medicine and event medicine. He also has an interest in consulting for medical film, television, and media with experience being featured on a medical television series.

While it is not required that the physician be an EMS physician, we at Philips believe that the best physician to provide oversight to an EMS agency is one who is experienced in EMS. Not only does Dr. Westrol have first-hand experience in the emergency services as a firefighter, former line officer, and EMT, he is a board-certified emergency physician and EMS physician. Just like an internal medicine physician would complete extra training to become a board-certified cardiologist, Dr. Westrol completed extra training to become board-certified in EMS & Disaster Medicine. He is familiar with the intricacies and challenges of providing excellent clinical care in the prehospital environment.