Joshua Frances

Joshua C. Frances, MPH, CHEC, EMT-I is the Director of Emergency Management at Maine Medical Center, northern New England’s largest and only Level-1 trauma center. He is responsible for directing and guiding all of the planning and response activities related to disaster and emergency management and serves as one of the hospital’s Incident Commanders. Joshua sits on a number of committees and workgroups at Maine Medical Center and works hard to incorporate emergency management activities in to the day-to-day operations of the hospital. Joshua is also involved at the national level on a number of hospital disaster preparedness working groups and is the Administrative Section Chief with the US Department of Health and Human Services National Disaster Medical System Northern New England Disaster Medical Assistance Team. Similar to the National Guard, these federal teams deploy to major disasters, national security special events and acts of terrorism around the globe.

Joshua received his undergraduate degree in communications from Syracuse University and his Masters of Public Health from University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, in Biddeford Maine. He is a Certified Hospital Emergency Coordinator and maintains his EMT-Intermediate license which he has held since 1994.