Medical Direction

Nick Simpson is an Emergency Medicine and EMS Physician at Hennepin Healthcare.  He is a faculty physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at HCMC and an Assistant Professor of Emergency at the University of Minnesota Medical School.  He serves as Chief Medical Director for Hennepin EMS.  Nick is the Assistant Program Director for the EMS Fellowship at Hennepin Healthcare and also the Medical Director of the Hennepin EMS Education Department including the Paramedic Program.  He also serves as an Associate Medical Director for the Hennepin Healthcare ECMO program and helped to roll out the ECPR program for Refractory VF/VT arrest in the spring of 2018.  Nick completed his residency training in 2014 in Emergency Medicine at HCMC.  He was then the first ACGME accredited fellow in the Hennepin EMS Fellowship program, graduating in 2015.  His research and clinical interests include airway management, cardiac arrest, ECMO, and crew resource management.

John L. Hick is a faculty emergency physician at Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School.  He serves as Deputy Chief Medical Director for Hennepin County Emergency Medical Services and Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness at HCMC and Medical Director for MN Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue Team. He served the Minnesota Department of Health as the Medical Director for the Office of Emergency Preparedness from 2002-2014 and currently works part-time for US Health and Human Services (HHS/ASPR) as an Advisor to the Director of the Office of Emergency Management. He is an expert on hospital preparedness and crisis medical care issues and has published over fifty peer-reviewed papers dealing with hospital preparedness for contaminated casualties, disaster standards of care, and surge capacity. In addition to HEMS, John also has a strong interest in rotor-wing and fixed wing medical care and worked in 1998 for the Royal Flying Doctors Service in rural Queensland, Australia performing fixed-wing retrievals across a large area of outback Australia and worked for six months in 2012 for the New South Wales helicopter service performing rescue and inter-facility retrievals. He serves Life Link III as their Assistant Medical Director and Vice Chair of the Clinical Council. 

Gregg Jones is an Emergency Medicine Physician at Hennepin Healthcare.  He is the current Hennepin EMS Fellow and serves as Assistant Medical Director for Hennepin EMS.  Gregg assists with Medical Directing for Edina Fire and the MN Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue Team.  Gregg completed medical School at Oregon Health and Science University and Emergency Medicine Residency training at HCMC in 2018.  Prior to going to school, Gregg served in the US Army, which included two combat tours to Afghanistan.  Gregg’s current medical interests include medical directing for large-scale events, mass casualty incident planning, paramedic education and the interface between prehospital medicine and law enforcement.

Biography is currently unavailable.

Biography is currently unavailable.