ABBREVIATED BIOGRAPHY

Christina Martinka is the president and chief instructor of Air Medical Experts LLC; board certified critical care flight paramedic, clinical bioethicist, a previous rotor wing provider, clinical educator, and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) specialist for PHI Air Medical - AirCare 3 in Leesburg, VA.  Additionally, Ms. Martinka worked as an adjunct faculty instructor for the Department of Emergency Health Sciences, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Honors College. She has given lectures at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Children’s National Medical Center, the Critical Care Transport Medicine national conference, the Air Medical Transport national conference, The Journal of Emergency Medical Services - EMS Today national conference, and numerous municipal and federal Fire/EMS agencies and has been invited to lecture overseas. In addition to teaching ACLS, PALS, ITLS, and BLS and focused clinical presentations on difficult airway management and intervention, intraosseous infusion, drowning spectrum, emergency obstetrical care in the field, pediatric critical care, and neonatal critical care transport. Martinka has developed and presented original material on prehospital management of patients with cardiac assist devices; crush injuries; compartment syndrome; therapeutically induced hypothermia, acute hypothermia, and hyperthermia management and is an expert on pre-hospital difficult airway management. Martinka's passion for education comes from her specialty of teaching critical care paramedicine to those who have never cared for a critical care patient as well as the special operations community.  Through her own developed instructional tactics, Martinka makes difficult concepts fun and relatable for EMS providers. Ms. Martinka received her undergraduate education at Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and her Master's in Bioethics from Harvard Medical School (Boston, Massachusetts) with academic concentrations, and research in the fields of virology, parasitology, biochemistry, microbiology, immunology, and human genomics analysis as it applies to dynamic disease predisposition. Christina has held paramedic practice certifications and licensure in Arizona, Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. She now resides near Loudoun County, Virginia with her husband and partner Chris, and their 90 lb Czech Shepherd.