WEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC SAFETY EXPO

2010 Faculty

 

 

 • Anita Allicoat, MSN, NP-C

 

 • Wayne Appleton

 

 • Brent Burger

 

 • Dave Dodson

 Dave Dodson is the Owner and Lead Instructor for Response Solutions. He has over 24 years as a Fire & Emergency Service Responder and has served as a Battalion Chief, Safety Officer, and Emergency Management Coordinator. Dave is a nationally-recognized author and lecturer on safe emergency operations and is the course developer for popular programs including “The Art of Reading Smoke,” “The Art of First-Due,” and the “Incident Safety Officer Academy.” Response Solutions professionals have taught and consulted with hundreds of fire departments, agencies, and corporations including Las Vegas Fire & Rescue, Fort Worth Fire Department, Lake County MABAS Divisions, Toronto Fire Services, the Fire Department Safety Officers Association, Hewlett-Packard, Wal-Mart Distribution, QWEST Communications, and the United States Air Force. The Company’s approach is lauded as practical, street-wise, and effective.

 

 • Ed Fernley

 

 • Lt. Col. Dave Grossman

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman is an internationally recognized scholar, author, soldier, and speaker who is one of the world's foremost experts in the field of human aggression and the roots of violence and violent crime.

 

Col. Grossman is a former West Point psychology professor, Professor of Military Science, and an Army Ranger who has combined his experiences to become the founder of a new field of scientific endeavor, which has been termed “killology.” In this new field Col. Grossman has made revolutionary new contributions to our understanding of killing in war, the psychological costs of war, the root causes of the current "virus" of violent crime that is raging around the world, and the process of healing the victims of violence, in war and peace.

 

Col. Grossman has been called upon to write the entry on “Aggression and Violence” in the Oxford Companion to American Military History, three entries in the Academic Press Encyclopedia of Violence and numerous entries in scholarly journals, to include the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.

He is the author of On Killing, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; has been translated into Japanese, Korean, and German; is on the U.S. Marine Corps Commandant's required reading list; and is required reading at the FBI academy and numerous other academies and colleges. Col. Grossman co-authored Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence, which has been translated into Norwegian and German, and has received international acclaim. Col. Grossman's most recent book, On Combat, has also placed on the U.S. Marine Corps Commandant's Required Reading List and has been translated into Japanese and Korean.

He has presented papers before the national conventions of the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

He has presented to over 50 different colleges and universities worldwide, and has trained educators and law enforcement professional, in the field of school safety, at the state and regional level, in 49 states and over a dozen foriegn nations.

He helped train mental health professionals after the Jonesboro school shootings, and he was also involved in counseling or court cases in the aftermath of the Paducah, Springfield, Littleton, Virginia Tech, and Nickel Mines Amish school shootings.

He has been an expert witness and consultant in state and Federal courts, to include serving on the prosecution team in UNITED STATES vs. TIMOTHY MCVEIGH.

He has testified before U.S. Senate and Congressional committees and numerous state legislatures, and he and his research have been cited in a national address by the President of the United States.

Col. Grossman is an Airborne Ranger infantry officer, and a prior-service sergeant and paratrooper, with a total of over 23 years experience in leading U.S. soldiers worldwide. He retired from the Army in February 1998 and has devoted himself to teaching, writing, speaking, and research. Today he is the director of the Killology Research Group, and in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks he is on the road almost 300 days a year, training elite military and law enforcement organizations worldwide about the reality of combat.

 • Dave Larton

Dave Larton is Coastal Region ACS Officer for the California Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA).  Based at CalEMA's Regional Emergency Operations Center in Oakland, Dave currently manages the staff of a sixteen County area ranging from the Oregon border to the Monterey County line.  

Dave has more than thirty-five years of emergency services experience, including thirteen as a Dispatcher/Trainer for the Gilroy, (CA) 9-1-1 Communications Center.  He was named the 1999 recipient of the Ramona Raymond Pillar of Excellence Training Award by the Santa Clara County Public Safety Communications Managers Association, and was twice named the Department's Dispatcher of the Year.

 

A nine-year veteran of the Department’s Hostage Negotiation Team, Dave has served as a Tactical Dispatcher, a certified Basic and Advanced Hostage Negotiator and Technical Specialist. He is a California POST certified Peer Crisis Counselor, and is a member of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF).  He is a certified S-258 Communications Incident Technician (COM-T) as well as an Incident Communications Center Manager (INCM).  He is also a certified Basic Law Enforcement Instructor with the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TCLEOSE).

As a Communications Specialist with California’s Urban Search & Rescue Task Force 3, Dave responded to the World Trade Center in September of 2001.  Dave also served with the Olympic Public Safety Command at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.  He is rated as a Weapons of Mass Destruction First Responder, and is a graduate of the Federal Department of Homeland Security’s COBRA WMD School in Anniston, Alabama.

Dave is a Founding Member of the National Incident Dispatchers Association, a member of the California Association of Hostage Negotiators, NENA, APCO, a former Vice President of the California Fire Chiefs Association (Communications Section, Northern Division), the California Tactical Dispatchers Association, the California Association of Police Training Officers, and the National Association of Field Training Officers.  Dave is a Commercial Regional Vice President for NENA's California State Chapter, CALNENA. He is the Associate Editor of 9-1-1 Magazine, and has been a contributing author for Homeland Protection Professional magazine.

 

He is the co-author of "Incident Dispatcher: A Guide for the Professional Tactical and Incident Dispatcher".  Dave has been a technical consultant to the media, including script preparation for the ‘Ally McBeal’ television show and the History Channel.  A popular national 9-1-1 Instructor and Trainer, Dave serves First Contact 9-1-1 as its Operations Section Chief. 

 • Barry Lindley

 

 • Murrey Loflin

Murrey E. Loflin began his fire service career with the Beckley Fire Department on June 1, 1979. He was hired by the Virginia Beach Fire Department in 1983 as a fire fighter/EMT where he became the safety officer in January 1986. In 1988 he was promoted to the rank of captain and served in addition as the incident safety officer and infection control office for the fire department.  Loflin was promoted to battalion chief in 2001 where he retired in August 2006. Later that year he was hired by the West Virginia University Extension Services in Morgantown, W.Va., and serves as the director of fire service extension and the director at the State Fire Academy in Weston.  Loflin has served as chairman and past chairman of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), the Fire Service Section executive board and is the secretary of the NFPAs Fire Service Occupational Safety and Health (FSOSH) technical committee. He is also a member of the NFPAs Incident Management Functional Positions Professional Qualifications technical committee.  Loflin received in associate, bachelor’s and master’s in occupational health and safety from Marshall University and is the coauthor of the book Emergency Incident Risk Management. He is a contributing author for NFPAs Fire Department Occupational Health and Safety Standards Handbook, Managing Fire and Rescue Services and the 2008 NFPA Fire Protection Handbook.

 • Eric E. Loudermilk

Cpl. Eric E. Loudermilk of the Charleston Police Department is a veteran officer with approximately fifteen years experience and the majority of his service has been in the uniformed patrol division. He was a detective assigned to the Metro Drug Unit and also did undercover and numerous drug investigations. He is a very good communicator and does well in passing this verbal judo philosophy onto other law enforcement officers. He is just beginning a new assignment as a school resource officer at Stonewall Jackson Middle School in Charleston. Cpl. Loudermilk does an excellent job in his Verbal Judo Presentations. 

 • Chris Malliard

Chris Mailliard is the President and CEO of Fusion Preparedness based in Denver, Colorado.  Chris has over 15 years in emergency response as a Firefighter/Paramedic and Tactical Medic. He has served as a Tactical Paramedic with West Metro Fire Rescue (Colo.) and the Lakewood (Colo.) Police SWAT Team. In addition to his Fire/EMS experience Chris has served as the Chief of Operations for the National Medical Response Team – Central. He is also qualified as a Technical Rescue Technician, Haz-Mat Technician, Fire Officer, and Fire Instructor.  Chris is an author and Subject Matter Expert on Weapons of Mass Destruction, Active Shooter Response, Tactical Medicine, and Incident Management. 

 • Nick Nelson

Nicholas E. Nelson started his career in Fire and EMS in 1981 with the Vienna Volunteer Fire Department in Vienna, WV.  During his membership with VVFD he was a firefighter/assigned to the department fire investigation unit and the department bylaws committee.  He continued his career as an EMT dispatcher and paramedic with St. Josephs Hospital Ambulance Service in Parkersburg, WV from 1985 until 2000. Nelson also worked as a paramedic for Charleston Emergency Ambulance service in Charleston, WV in 1985 & 86.  He returned home to serve the City of Parkersburg, WV as a police officer from 1988 until leaving in 2000 advancing the ranks to Patrol Sergeant and served as Vice President of the local Fraternal Order of Police.  In July of 2000 he was hired by Norfolk Fire and Paramedical services. He graduated from Tidewater Regional Fire Academy 72 and was assigned to operations with assignments including Engine 14, E7 and Rescue Company 2.  His duties included acting Lieutenant and Fire Apparatus operator, field Training Instructor- EMS- City of Norfolk/Tidewater Community College, instructing new recruits and in-service training for both fire and EMS classes. A Member of the  City of Norfolk Technical Rescue Team, City of Norfolk Hazardous Materials Response Team, and Tidewater Regional Technical Rescue Team and Southside Regional Hazardous materials response Teams. He was the lead instructor for the City of Norfolk Fire-Rescues In-house EMT-I classes 4&5.  He has assisted training of new fire recruits as an instructor for Tidewater Regional Fire Academies in both fire and EMS classes. Currently, he is a Lieutenant assigned to Rescue Company 1 covering the Downtown and West sides of the City.  Nelson has spoke at numerous state and local seminars including being a guest speaker at the World Safety Organizations 1999 International meeting in Memphis TN, the 2003 Firehouse Expo, in Baltimore MD, the 2004 Virginia Fire Chiefs Association Seminar in Virginia Beach, VA and numerous other state and local seminars.   He holds a Bachelors degree from Glenville State College in Glenville, WVA and a Masters Degree in Human Resource Management from the University of Richmond.  He is the 3^rd District Vice President of Norfolk Professional Firefighters Local 68 and serves as the Public Safety Representative for the City of Norfolk Public Employees Retirement Board. He also sits on the Board of Directors for Norfolk Firefighters Federal Credit Union.

 • Dennis Rubin

On April 16, 2007, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty appointed Dennis L. Rubin Chief of the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department – the same Department Rubin joined as a line firefighter at the age of 21.  Rubin commands a staff of over 2,000 sworn and civilian employees and manages an annual operating budget in excess of $180 million.  The Department he leads is responsible for protecting more than 1 million people who visit, work, and live in the Nation’s Capital each day as well as safeguarding our precious national landmarks from the U.S. Capitol to the White House.  Prior to his nomination, Rubin was the Fire Chief of the Atlanta Fire and Rescue Department.

 

Chief Rubin’s experience in fire and rescue service spans more than 35 years. He has served as a company grade officer, command level officer, and Chief in other cities including Chesterfield and Norfolk, Virginia and Dothan, Alabama.  In 1994, he served as the President of the State Fire Chiefs Association of Virginia. Rubin was the host Fire Chief for the 1999 Southeastern Fire Chiefs Association conference held in Dothan, Alabama.  He serves on several committees with the International Association of Fire Chiefs, including a two-year term as the Health and Safety Committee Chair. Chief Rubin was the host Fire Chief for the “Wingspread IV and V” conferences held in 1996 and 2006.

 

Chief Rubin’s educational accomplishments include a Bachelor of Science Degree in Fire Administration from the University of Maryland and an Associates in Applied Science Degree in Fire Science Management from the Northern Virginia Community College. He is a 1993 graduate of the National Fire Academy’s Executive Fire Officers Program (EFOP).  Rubin is a Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) and has obtained the Chief Fire Officer Designation (CFOD) and Chief Medical Officer Designation (CMO) presented by the Center for Public Safety Excellence.

 

Rubin’s teaching credentials are significant.  They include a field instructorship with the University of Maryland Fire & Rescue Institute and Associate Instructorships with the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and Rio Salado Community College in Mesa, Arizona. Rubin has been an adjunct faculty member of the National Fire Academy since 1983.  At the National Fire Academy he instructed, as well as developed, many courses.  Rubin is also a popular speaker and lecturer at the local, state, national and international levels.

 

Rubin is the author of a full-length book entitled Rube’s Rules for Survival that is available through Penn Well Publishing.  He is also a long-standing contributing editor of FIREHOUSE Magazine, and has written more than 140 technical articles related to fire department operations, administration, training, and safety.

 

Chief Rubin has a strong commitment to community service and lives in Washington, D.C.  He has three children -- Dennis II, Andrea, and Ashley -- and one grandchild named Luke.

 

 • Keith Vititoe