Daniel Davis, MD, EMS Medical Director

Dr. Daniel Davis completed his undergraduate training at UCLA, where he was a National Merit, Regents, and Alumni Scholar as well as a varsity member of the 1987 NCAA National Championship Volleyball Team.  He attended the UCSD School of Medicine, where he remained for his residency training in emergency medicine.  As a third year resident, he was recognized as the “UCSD Medical Center House Officer of the Year,” the first for his department.  During his senior year, he served as Chief Resident and was named “Outstanding Emergency Medicine Resident.”  As a resident, Dr. Davis developed research interests in brain injury and resuscitation and was recognized nationally as the 1999 recipient of the “Council of Residency Directors Academic Achievement Award.”  He took a lead role in the San Diego Paramedic RSI Trial under the guidance of Dr. David Hoyt of the UCSD Division of Trauma.  In 2001-2003 Dr. Davis was the recipient of the SAEM Scholarly Sabbatical Grant and the UCSD Rosen Faculty Research Development Grant, which afforded him the opportunity to explore the relative roles of excitotoxicity and apoptosis in ischemic brain injury.  Dr. Davis received the 2003 SAEM Young Investigator Award and has won the SAEM Young Investigator Research Paper Award twice.  He was faculty in the UCSD Department of Emergency Medicine through 2015, where he served as Ultrasound Co-Director, Medical Student Director, Founder/Director of the UCSD Emergency Medicine Research Associate Program, Base Hospital Medical Director, Resuscitation Director, and Founder/Director of the UCSD Center for Resuscitation Science.  He currently serves as Medical Director for Air Methods and EMS Medical Director for Logan Health.  He works clinically as an emergency physician, hospitalist, and primary care physician at Logan Health in Chester, Shelby, and Cut Bank.  Dr. Davis has over 200 published journal articles, abstracts, and book chapters.  He has received grant support from multiple external agencies, including the NIH, American Heart Association, Department of Defense, Zoll Medical, the UC Regents, Care Fusion, and Masimo Corporation and served as Principal Investigator of the prestigious Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium grant.  Perhaps his most impactful work to date has been the development of the Advanced Resuscitation Training (ART) program, which uniquely links performance improvement data to training to reduce preventable deaths in the hospital and prehospital environments.  He speaks internationally on the topics of resuscitation, ventilation, traumatic brain injury, and prehospital medicine.

Trang Huynh, MD, FAAP

Dr. Huynh is a neonatologist, Associate Professor, Director of Neonatal Telemedicine, and Director of Oregon Health and Science University’s (OSHU) Neonatal Resuscitation Program.
Dr. Huynh attended medical school at the State University of New York in Syracuse, completed her Pediatrics residency at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and her fellowship training in neonatal-perinatal medicine at Columbia University in New York.
Dr. Huynh’s expertise is neonatal resuscitation, with publications on reducing hypothermia in preterm infants following delivery, factors modulating effective chest compressions in the neonatal period, the ergonomics and preferred method for optimizing delivery of CPR in infants, the effectiveness of mask ventilation during CPR, and characterizing prehospital response to neonatal resuscitation. She is a co-investigator on an NIH-funded research characterizing pediatric safety in the prehospital setting and a recipient of grants to develop a neonatal resuscitation curriculum for EMS providers.

Lisa Merriman, MD

Lisa Merriman, MD, grew up in Canby, Oregon. She attended medical school at Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, then completed her general surgery residency and surgical critical care fellowship at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, graduating in 2021. She has worked at Billings Clinic as a trauma and emergency general surgeon and surgical critical care physician since August 2021. She and her husband Joel live in Billings with their three Great Danes and two horses while their daughter Valerie remains in Albuquerque. Lisa enjoys hiking, horseback riding and most outdoor activities.

Todd Mohr, PA

Todd Mohr is a Physician Assistant working at St. James Healthcare in Butte. He has worked in the Emergency Department at St. James for 15 years. Todd grew up in Deadwood, South Dakota and became interested in helping others as a teenager when he joined the Volunteer Fire Department at age 14 as a Junior Volunteer. He became an Emergency Medical Technician and worked on the Ambulance at age 16. He joined the US Air Force at age 17 as a Fire Protection Specialist and quickly rose through the ranks. Todd served primarily as a Rescue Crew Chief and was responsible for motor vehicle accident patient extrication, aircraft crash rescue pilot, and was assigned to the Space Shuttle Rescue Team while stationed in Germany. He completed the Air Force Physician Assistant Program 25 years ago and was assigned to Malmstrom AFB in Great Falls, Montana. He thoroughly enjoys the opportunities that Montana provides his family to spend time together in their passion for golfing, skiing, and hunting. His other noted patient care experiences include serving as a SWAT Medic and on Helicopter EMS. Todd is the Medical Director for several Volunteer EMS Services in Southwest Montana and believes it is his way to “give back to his roots” which has allowed him to have the “most blessed career experiences in the world!”

Michael Kremkau, MD, FACEP

Dr Kremkau started his career in medicine as an Emergency Medical Technician in 1994.  He became a Firefighter/EMT in 1998 with Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue and lived at a resident volunteer station while applying to, and later attending, medical school at Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU).  In 1998 and 1999 he was deployed with Northwest Medical Teams International to Honduras after Hurricane Mitch and to Northern Albania during the Kosovo refugee crisis for disaster medical relief.  He was involved in pre-hospital airway research and helped to set up the OR-2 National Disaster Medical Assistance Team while in medical schools and Emergency Medicine residency at OHSU.

After completing his residency in Emergency Medicine he moved to Missoula Montana in 2006 where he works as an Emergency Physician at St Patrick Hospital.  He has been a Reserve Deputy with the Missoula County Sheriff Office since 2006.  He has worked primarily with the Special Response Team (SRT), but also with patrol and Search and Rescue (SAR).  He attended the Primary SWAT Operator course at the Montana Law Enforcement Academy and numerous other advanced tactical trainings.  He holds certifications in swiftwater, high-angle and avalanche rescue.  He holds instructor level certifications for pistol and carbine, tactical medicine and combatives.  He also serves as medical director for Missoula City Fire, Missoula Emergency Services Inc, and Missoula County 911.

Dr Kremkau is also an instructor for Aerie Backcountry Medicine where he helps teach Wilderness EMT, Advanced Wilderness Life Support and specialized courses in austere medicine for Pararescue units of United States Air Force.  These courses focus on teaching advanced medical and rescue techniques in remote locations.

In 2019 he spearheaded a proposal and was awarded a Homeland Security grant to equip all emergency apparatus (ambulance, fire and law enforcement) in Missoula County with standardized medical equipment to respond to mass casualty events.  This included medical equipment for schools and other large organizations, as well as integrated training for dispatch, firefighters, law enforcement and ambulance providers.  He completed a subspecialty certification in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) with the American Board of Emergency Medicine in 2020 and hopes to complete a board certification in Disaster Medicine.  In 2020 he also helped start and is the medical director for the Missoula College Paramedic program.   He is currently involved the hospital and prehospital COVID-19 response.  Over the last 15 years he has responded to numerous critical incidents in our community including: tactical incidents,  river and mountain rescues, wildfires, multiple casualty scenes, an in-town avalanche that buried multiple victims among others.  In 2020 he was honored with dedicating a postage stamp to first responders by the Postmaster General. 

Ryan Pitts, MSN, RN, NRP, CFRN

Ryan has dedicated 26 years to EMS and Emergency care in multiple settings as a field clinician, ER nurse, educator and administrator. He lives and works in Kalispell, MT. He started his career as a volunteer Firefighter/EMT with the Smith Valley Fire Department, was a Lieutenant on the Crash Rescue crew at Glacier Park International Airport Fire for 8 years, and spent 15 years as a Firefighter/Captain/Paramedic with Evergreen Fire Rescue.   Ryan served as a flight paramedic with the ALERT flight program and has been the Director of the Flathead Valley Community College Paramedicine Program since 2016. He received his RN degree in 2015 and has worked in the Logan Health Emergency Department as a Nurse, Charge Nurse and Director, and was named the Logan Health Chief Nursing Officer in 2019.   In 2022 he took over the management of all of Logan Healths EMS network and currently serves as the Executive Director of Regional EMS. 

Jessica Reed, MSN, RN

Jessica Reed has been a nurse for 23 years and, most recently, the Chest Pain Coordinator at Intermountain Health – St. Vincent in Billings for the past three years. Jessica has a master’s degree in nursing informatics and loves the program's process improvement and data management aspects.

Apart from her career, she is a single mom of a ten-year-old son and two dogs and loves to read paranormal novels.

Janet Trethewey, EdD, NREMT

Janet Trethewey, EdD, NREMT is the Time Sensitive Illness & Injury Program manager at Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. She began working for the EMSTS section in 2015. Her initial responsibilities were assisting in the development, implementation, and assessment of the emergency cardiac system of care. This position has evolved to include other time-sensitive emergencies. She works with communities, 911 dispatch centers, law enforcement agencies, EMS agencies, and hospitals developing cohesive, data-informed systems. She provides training in High-Performance CPR, STEMI and stroke recognition, EPIC-TBI protocols and improved patient care to EMS agencies and critical access hospitals. Performance Improvement using data-driven assessments is a key interest for her. Her position allows her the privilege of traveling to every community in the state, working with amazing first responders and front-line health care workers. Janet also volunteers for a local ambulance service a few times a month to “put her own training into practice”. She is active in several professional groups including the American Heart Assn., the Resuscitation Academy and the Citizen CPR Foundation.

Janet retired after teaching for 25 years at MSU-Northern in Havre, MT. At MSU-Northern, she developed the Health Promotion program and taught courses in health, exercise science and education. She was the first certified athletic trainer to be hired by the College. She continued to be involved in the profession, serving on the Board of Athletic Trainers for Montana for 6 years.

She is married to a fire fighter/EMT and their son is a fire fighter/EMT. Their grandson is a teenager. In her spare time she has 2 dogs, a cat, and a large yard that all need TLC.