Stephen V. Cantrill, M.D., FACEP is an emergency physician from Denver, Colorado who recently retired from serving as the Associate Director of Emergency Medicine at Denver Health Medical Center for 18 years. He was also the Director of the Colorado BNICE WMD Training Program at the Denver Health for more than 5 years. Dr. Cantrill has lectured nationally and internationally on many topics including weapons of mass destruction, disasters and disaster management and has been involved in disaster management education for more than two decades. He served as the regional medical coordinator for Denver’s participation in Operation TopOff 2000. He has also been involved in weapons of mass destruction training for Colorado and has participated in the planning for multiple mass gathering events, including the Denver Papal visit and the Denver Summit of Eight world economic conference. He has testified at U.S. Senate Committee hearings on bioterrorism preparedness. He has recently served as the principal investigator on an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality regional surge capacity grant and the AHRQ HAvBED national bed availability project. He also served as principal investigator on the AHRQ disaster alternate care facility task order. He is a member of the Colorado Governor's Expert Emergency Epidemic Response Committee and the National Biodefense Science Board. Dr. Cantrill has more than 90 publications and has been the recipient of multiple teaching and clinical excellence awards.

Peter T. Pons, M.D. is an emergency physician in Denver, Colorado and has been actively involved with prehospital care and disaster preparedness for over 30 years. He has served as the Associate Director for Emergency Medicine at Denver Health Medical Center (formerly Denver General Hospital) and as Professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Surgery at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He was the E.M.S. Medical Director for the 9-1-1 paramedic ambulance service in Denver based at Denver Health as well as several fire-based EMS systems. He has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles on EMS and edited several textbooks for EMTs and Paramedics. He has served as the physician director for numerous mass gatherings and special events in Denver including the Denver Grand Prix, World Youth Day and the Visit of Pope John Paul II. He has lectured nationally and internationally on EMS and served as a member and chair of the EMS Committee for the American College of Emergency Physicians. In addition, he has participated as an investigator on several federal grants including two AHRQ grants dealing with regional surge capacity and national bed availability and a HRSA WMD training grant (BNICE) for which he was curriculum coordinator and a trainer.

Dr. Hunt is a practicing, thrice Board Certified Emergency Physician and educator since 1988. Working continuously in Level I Trauma Centers since his graduation from the Denver General Emergency Medicine Residency Program where he was Chief Resident in 1987-88, he has been an Assistant and, subsequently, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University. He assumed the role of Medical Director for Emergency Medical Services at Swedish Medical Center in Denver, Colorado from 1995-2000 and has been on the staff there since then.

Dr. Hunt has extensive experience in the realm of pre-hospital care, mass gathering medical care, mass casualty incident management and weapons of mass destruction including explosive devices. He has been the medical director and managing physician for sporting and performing arts venues including RFK Stadium in Washington, DC, and the Pepsi Center and Fiddler's Green in Denver, CO. He has been a stadium physician for the Denver Broncos as well as venue and Olympic Village physician for the summer Olympics in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Hunt cared for victims of the Columbine High School shooting in the emergency department as well as providing field supervision for Littleton Fire Department as their Medical Director. As acting senior physician in the DGH ED, he cared for numerous crash victims from Continental flight 1713. He served as consultant to the government of Greece to prepare for the potential terrorist use of explosives and weapons of mass destructions at their summer Olympics. In the course of his daily emergency medicine practice, he has cared for hundreds of patients who have sustained trauma from burns, toxic inhalations, crush mechanisms and explosions.

Dr. Hunt received training at the Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense at Aberdeen Proving Grounds as well as the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Ft. Detrick. He served as the civilian medical director for medical support of the US Army's WWI chemical weapons remediation at Spring Valley in Washington, DC, from 1993-1994. Dr. Hunt was among the first three physicians certified to teach for the Domestic Preparedness program, providing specialty instruction to hospital and pre-hospital providers in the realm of terrorist use of chemical, biological, radiological and explosive weapons of mass destruction. He performed similar services for select foreign governments under the auspices of the Anti-Terrorism Assistance program through the US Department of State. He is an experienced CBRNE (Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear Explosive) instructor for the US military under the Guardian I and II programs. Locally, he remains active as a Colorado BNICE (Biological Nuclear Incendiary Chemical Explosive) and Advanced Disaster Life Support Instructor.

Under separate mantles, Dr. Hunt has consulted for the US Secret Service and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on various subjects.

Rick Lewis is the Special Operations Chief for South Metro Fire Rescue Authority. Chief Lewis is a Paramedic, HazMat and Heavy Rescue Technician, and has been a member of the SMFRA for 18 years.

Chief Lewis has an extensive training background as a contractor instructor for the U.S. Army, RDECOM (formerly the Soldier Biological Chemical Command). He has instructed military forces in Japan, Okinawa, Italy, Greece, Guam, Germany, Spain and numerous U.S. military installations in the Installation Preparedness and Sensitive Site Exploitation Programs. Chief Lewis also participated as an instructor for thirty six of the one hundred fifty cities trained by the US Domestic Preparedness Program.

Seth Jones is the Co-Program Director for the NDLS Regional Training Center at Denver Health; he is also a current Paramedic Field Trainer for The Denver Health Paramedic Division. Seth is current faculty with the EMS Education Department of Denver Health and worked as a Training Specialist for a Disaster Preparedness Grant at Denver Health from 2007-2009. It was under this Federal Grant that Seth was given the opportunity to have Denver Health credentialed as the only NDLS Regional Training Center in the Colorado region.