Paul Maniscalco
Former Deputy Chief Paramedic for the City of New York & Asst. Professor, George Washington University Medical Center

Paul M. Maniscalco is an assistant professor at The George Washington University, a past president of the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT), chairman of the NAEMT National EMS Administrators Division, and a former Deputy Chief/Paramedic for the City of New York. Chief Maniscalco has over 30 years of public safety response, supervisory, and management experience.

Chief Maniscalco has lectured extensively and has published widely in academic and professional journals on EMS, fire service, public safety, and national security issues.  He is an appointee to the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council—Senior Advisory Committee for Emergency Services, Law Enforcement, and Public Health and Hospitals. He is also a member of the Department of Defense, Defense Science Board (DSB), Transnational Threat Study and the Defense Science Board—Homeland Defense—Chemical Weapons Task Forces, a member of the DoD/DoJ Interagency Board (IAB), an advisor to the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency ECOMPASS project, a member of the board of advisors for the Oklahoma City Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, and an appointee to the Centers for Strategic and International Studies' Homeland Security Task Force.

Paul M. Maniscalco also holds an appointment to the United States Congressionally mandated National Panel to Assess Domestic Preparedness (Gilmore Commission) and to the Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government and U.S. Department of Justice—Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness.

Paul M. Maniscalco earned his baccalaureate degree in public administration from the City University of New York and a master of public administration—foreign policy and national security—from the New York University Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He is presently a doctoral degree candidate in business administration–organizational behavior, with a research focus on organizational responses to disasters and terrorism.