Dr. Meg Marino
is a nationally recognized leader in emergency medicine and prehospital care, known for reshaping EMS systems through bold clinical innovation, trauma-informed leadership, and deep respect for the medics delivering frontline care. With more than a decade of EMS experience, she has built a career defined by elevating clinical standards, strengthening systems, and creating programs now modeled nationwide.
Dr. Marino completed her medical degree at Louisiana State University School of Medicine
where she first developed her commitment to community-centered emergency care. She went on to complete a rigorous Pediatric Residency at Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado, training in one of the nation’s most diverse and high-acuity clinical environments. She then pursued a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at the Baylor College of Medicine at Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, gaining specialized expertise in airway management, trauma, critical care, and prehospital systems. This combination of emergency medicine and pediatric expertise forms the foundation of her leadership in EMS, clinical program development, and national-level innovation.
As Director and Medical Director of New Orleans EMS
Meg led a $29M, 70,000-call-per-year operation and drove transformational change across protocols, education, research, and culture. She remained deeply embedded in field response—including being on the ground during the January 1st Bourbon Street mass-casualty terrorist attack—providing real-time clinical leadership through some of the city’s most challenging events.
Meg implemented the New Orleans Prehospital Blood Program,
a landmark initiative credited with reducing the city’s murder rate by 30% by improving survival for victims of penetrating trauma. She also expanded trauma protocols, modernized airway and analgesia pathways, redesigned behavioral health management, and strengthened pediatric and neonatal field care. Her work has repeatedly proven that well-designed EMS programs save lives at a population level.
developing protocols, curricula, and simulation programs for one of the nation’s largest EMS systems. Her global experience includes delivering critical care in post-earthquake Haiti, reflecting a career grounded in service, adaptability, and compassion
Before Leading New Orleans, she spent four years with the Houston Fire Department
Dr. Marino brings a rare blend of clinical excellence, operational insight, research engagement, and human-centered leadership
She builds systems that work—not just in theory, but in the hands of real medics responding to real emergencies. Agencies seek her guidance because she understands the demands of the street, the needs of clinicians, and the strategies required to create sustainable, high-performing EMS systems.
She has shaped modern EMS. Through her consulting work, she continues to shape what it will become.