CHRISTOPHER T. STEPHENS, MD, MS, NREMT-P, FP-C, is medical director for MFRI, assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and attending trauma anesthesiologist at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. He trained as a paramedic with the Houston, TX, Fire Department and served as a paramedic in Houston and Galveston, TX.