ABOUT

Jim Morrissey has been involved in emergency, disaster, wilderness, and tactical medicine for over 35 years. Jim is currently the Tactical Medical Program Director for Alameda County Emergency Medical Services. Jim was embedded with the San Francisco FBI SWAT team as the Senior Tactical Paramedic and has been on hundreds of FBI SWAT operations and many thousands of hours training with the team over a 19+ year span. He has a master’s degree in Homeland Security from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Jim is an internationally recognized leader in the field of high threat, mass casualty-violent incident multi-discipline response. Jim has developed and facilitated hundreds of full-scale exercises around the world; most of which were high threat violent mass casualty scenarios.

Jim has authored 2 field guides on wilderness and tactical medicine and has written over a dozen articles on tactical medicine, active shooter response and on the how-to’s of planning and execution of a mass casualty violent threat incident training scenarios. He has traveled and taught in over 20 countries, most recently training and facilitating multiple full-scale exercises with the highly respected Algerian Gendarmerie and Police Special Operations Group (GOSP) counter terrorism teams.

Jim’s hobbies include woodworking, basketball & tennis, inventing/re-engineering stuff, shooting, mountain biking and following Boston sports teams.