Keith Wages is Associate Program Director at the Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. In his role at Emory, Keith supports the Southern Regional Disaster Response System, the Serious Communicable Disease Program, and the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES).  

 

Keith has almost 50 years’ experience in planning, delivering, and managing Emergency Medical Services, Public Health, Emergency Management and Homeland Security programs at the local, regional, state, national and international levels. 

 

In 2019, Keith retired as Director of the Georgia Office of EMS and Trauma. During his time as State EMS Director, Keith was President of the National Association of State EMS Officials, Chair of the Joint National EMS Leadership Forum, and a member of the Interstate Commission for EMS Personnel Practice. 

 

Prior to returning in 2010 as Georgia’s State EMS Director, a position he previously held during the 1990s, he was Division Director of State and Local Programs for an international emergency management and homeland security firm where his clients included the US Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, the CDC, the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Republic of Turkey and numerous state and local governments. 

 

Previously, Keith served as Executive Director of the Minnesota EMS Regulatory Board, Director of Planning for the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency, Regional EMS Director for Northeast Georgia, and EMS Director for Walton Regional Medical Center. In 1996, he was assigned to the Office of the Governor and served as Medical Coordinator for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. 

 

Keith is a graduate of the University of Georgia and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agricultural Economics and a Certificate in Public Management.