EMS Week is held May 16-22. It is a particularly special time to thank paramedics, EMTs and the entire Emergency Medical Services workforce for their service and sacrifices, and to recognize the historic legacy of Dr. Frank E. Boston.
Dr. Boston was a World War I veteran, doctor and surgeon, who served in France with the 92nd Division (Buffalo Soldiers). Following his return to Pennsylvania, he went on to start the First Aid Emergency Squad (now the Volunteer Medical Service Corp.), and Elm Terrace Hospital (now Jefferson Lansdale Hospital, part of Jefferson Health). The ambulance corp. and hospital, both located in Lansdale, PA, continue to serve their communities to this day - almost 100 years later.
Event participants include:
* United States Army Honor Guard
* The Washington Scottish Pipe Band (St. Andrew's Society of Washington DC Pipe Band)
* Deputy Chief Michael Knight, Washington DC Fire & EMS
* Gamunu Wijetunge, Director, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Emergency Medical Services
* Shane Wheeler, Volunteer Medical Services Corp.
* George Whitehair, Dr. Boston Researcher
* Khoi Pham, Marvel Illustrator
* Dr. Alvin Wang, Chief Medical Officer & Regional EMS Medical Director
* Kristy Van Hoven, Director, National EMS Museum & Authentic Scottish Dance Performer
About Dr. Frank Boston & the Boston Legacy Foundation
To learn more about Dr. Frank Erdman Boston, visit http://www.bostonlegacyfoundation.org. A comic book was also created highlighting Dr. Boston and his team of volunteers in action, http://www.docbostonadventures.com.
FLAG CEREMONY
* U.S. Army Honor Guard
INVOCATION
* Reverend Charles A. Quann, Pastor, Bethlehem Baptist Church
WELCOME
* George Whitehair, Dr. Francis Jeyaraj and Oulimata Sow, Boston Legacy Foundation
REMARKS
* Gamunu Wijetunge, Director, Emergency Medical Services, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
* Michael Knight, Deputy Chief, Washington DC Fire & EMS
* Shane Wheeler, Chief, Volunteer Medical Services Corp
* Dr. Alvin Wang, DO, FAAEM, FAEMS, Chief Medical Officer & Regional EMS Medical Director, Montgomery County, PA and Jefferson Health Northeast
PERFORMANCES:
* Washington Scottish Pipe Band, also known as the St. Andrew's Society of Washington, DC Pipe Band and authentic
Scottish dancer Kristy Van Hoven of the National EMS Museum
CLOSING REMARKS AND COMIC BOOK INTRODUCTION
* Khoi Pham, Marvel Comics Illustrator
* Heather Pham {DC Comic’s Teen Titans, Marvel’s Mighty Avengers, Spider-Man, and many more}
Guests are encouraged to learn about the WWI Memorial and Dr. Frank Boston, Boston Legacy Foundation
Dr. Frank Erdman Boston (1890-1960), WWI Veteran, Doctor, Surgeon, Founder of Hospital and Founder of Ambulance Corps. and recipient of two U.S. Presidential Citations. He was born and educated in Philadelphia and attended Lincoln University (the nation's first degree-granting Historically Black College), earned a pharmacy and a medical degree at Medico Chirurgical College (specializing in surgery), and began practicing at Mercy Hospital.
At the outbreak of World War I, he enlisted and joined the Army where he was sent to Fort Des Moines for officer training and served in France with the 92nd Division (Buffalo Soldiers) ending his military career as a major. Returning to civilian life, he established a medical practice in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, where he founded Lansdale's first volunteer ambulance corps, now the Volunteer Medical Services Corp. In 1934, he opened the Elm Terrace Hospital, which is now part of Jefferson Health.
Dr. Boston was highly regarded as an exemplary surgeon, a compassionate physician who treated the needy without compensation and a civic leader. During his life, he received many awards and after his passing a monument honoring his service was erected at 7th and Broad streets in Lansdale by his ardent supporters and patients.
Dr. Boston was not only a war veteran, doctor, and surgeon, but also a trailblazer:
* First African American to start an Ambulance Corps (1933 VMSC-Lansdale, PA)
* One of the first African Americans to start both a Hospital (1934 now part of Jefferson Health) and Ambulance Corps, both continue to serve the community!
* One of the first African American family of doctors (his brother was also a doctor)
* One of the first sets of African American brothers and doctors to serve in the military
* One of the first monuments to an individual African American was for Dr. Boston
* One of the first African American doctors to become a member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States
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