
Doug Wolfberg
Attorney, EMS Practitioner “Less Stress is Best: Find the Fun and Bring the Balance to Your EMS Life”
Saturday, January 22. 2022 | 8:15am – 9:45am
Doug Wolfberg is one of the nation’s best known and most respected EMS leaders. Doug’s work over the decades has helped shape the field of EMS law while helping EMS professionals across the United States better understand the legal environment and risks which confront EMS agencies.
Doug is an EMS attorney and founding partner of Page, Wolfberg & Wirth, the nation’s leading EMS law and consulting firm. Doug’s work at PWW encompasses compliance, reimbursement, EMS system assessment and design, training and transactional law.
Before becoming an attorney, Doug worked as an EMS practitioner, starting in the field in the late 1970s. He later became a county EMS director, and then managed a three-county regional EMS system. He worked for several years in a statewide EMS agency, and then at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a Federal EMS official.
Doug has written hundreds of articles in all of the leading EMS publications, and is an author or contributor to several well-known books in the EMS profession. He is also a co-founder of the National Academy of Ambulance Compliance, and principal developer of certification courses including the Certified Ambulance Documentation Specialist (CADS) program.
Doug is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the Commonwealth Law School, where he teaches EMS and healthcare law. He earned his law degree magna cum laude from the Widener University School of Law.
An avid bicyclist, Doug is an annual participant in the National EMS Memorial Bike Ride, riding from Boston to Washington, D.C. each year to honor EMS professionals lost in the line of duty. Doug is also a musician and is the author of a book about the Beatles.