Emergency Medical Services Faculty

Program Director

portrait of dr. kenneth knowles

Associate Regional EMS Medical Director - Baystate Wing Hospital
EMS Fellowship Director
Massachusetts Region 1 Medical Director

Ken started his career in EMS as an EMT in Connecticut and a volunteer firefighter in New York. He completed medical school at New York Medical College and a residency in Emergency Medicine at Baystate Health. He continued his EMS interests by pursuing an EMS fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Ken is dual board-certified in Emergency Medicine and EMS. He splits his clinical work between Baystate Medical Center and Baystate Wing Hospital. He is excited to be a part of the division and continues to work towards improving EMS at the regional, state, and national levels. During his off time Ken enjoys golf and spending time with his family.

Other Faculty

portrait of dr. seth kelly

Chief, Division of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
Regional EMS Medical Director - Baystate Medical Center
Associate EMS Fellowship Director

Seth has more than 25 years of operational experience in prehospital medicine in the fire/rescue/EMS service as well as strategy and management consulting experience in homeland security, disaster preparedness, and emergency response. He completed an emergency medicine residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, MD, and an EMS fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also served as a flight physician for STAT MedEvac. He is dual board-certified in Emergency Medicine and EMS, holds an MBA from the University of Maryland, and maintains his National Registered Paramedic licensure. He serves as medical advisor to several regional technical rescue, tactical, and wilderness search and rescue teams and is a medical officer with the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) Trauma and Critical Care Team (TCCT). He is primarily responsible for the central Springfield (Baystate Medical Center) region in addition to overall leadership of the Baystate Health EMS program. Dr. Kelly is originally from Marblehead, MA, and is happy to be back in New England to meet, work with, and learn from all our prehospital clinicians in the region.

Department of Emergency Medicine
Baystate has the second-busiest emergency department in the state with over 50% of the patients arriving by EMS.

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