Tufts Seniors win top honors at National EMS Conference
Seniors Eric Grin and Julia Perugini took first place in the Richard W. Vomacka Student Speaker Competition
Seniors Eric Grin and Julia Perugini received first place in the Richard W. Vomacka Student Speaker Competition at the 30th Annual National Collegiate EMS Foundation (NCEMSF) Conference in Boston on February 25. Their winning presentation was titled: “From Brugada Syndrome to Commotio Cordis: Sudden Cardiac Death in Young People.” Grin and Perugini are members of Tufts EMS (TEMS), a student-run volunteer EMS agency that has been providing 24/7 emergency medical care to Tufts campus since 1985. All TEMS members are MA-licensed Emergency Medical Technicians.