Paul M. Maniscalco
Senior Research Scientist

Paul M. Maniscalco is a Senior Research Scientist with 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. During his tenure he has had the responsibility of responding to and managing a wide array of events ranging from aviation & rapid transit emergencies, natural & manmade disasters to civil disturbances and acts of terrorism. Chief Maniscalco has also been engaged in command roles for managing special events such as dignitary visits, national political conventions and a wide variety of mass gatherings. He has also participated in public safety, emergency and disaster response capacity building projects in the nations of India, St. Maarten, Turkey, Kenya and Tanzania collaborating with organizations such as the UN, PAHO, WHO and IFRC/ICRC.

Paul has lectured extensively and is widely published in academic & professional journals on Emergency Medical Service, fire service, public safety and national security issues. He is the co-author of the Brady textbook “The EMS Incident Management System: EMS Operations for Mass Casualty and High Impact Incidents”; a contributing author to the Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institutes “Hype or Reality? The ‘New Terrorism’ and Mass Casualty Attacks”; the USFA “Guide to Developing & Managing an Emergency Service Infection Control Program”; National Fire Service Incident Management System Consortiums “Model Procedures Guide for Emergency Medical Incidents, First Edition”; the co-author “Understanding Terrorism and Managing the Consequences”; Mass Casualty and High Impact Incidents: An Operations Management Guide; Terrorism Response: A Field Guide for Law Enforcement and Terrorism Response: Field Guide for Fire and EMS Organizations (Prentice Hall/Brady) and a contributing author to the International Federation of Red Cross / Red Crescent Societies and Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health Center for Disaster and Refugee Studies “Public Health Guide for Emergencies”.

Chief Maniscalco is an appointee to the President’s Homeland Security Advisory Council - Senior Advisory Committee for Emergency Services, Law Enforcement, and Public Health and Hospitals; a member of the Department of Defense, Defense Science Board (DSB), Transnational Threat Study and the DSB - Homeland Defense – Chemical Weapons Task Force; a member of the DoD/DoJ, Interagency Board (IAB); an advisor to the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency ENCOMPASS project; a member of the Board of Advisors for the OKC 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 -- Public Health & Safety from the City University of New York, and a Master of Public Administration – Foreign Policy & 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 response to disasters and terrorism.