Alson S. Inaba, MD, FAAP, PALS-NF

Alson S. Inaba, MD, FAAP, PALS-NF was born and raised on Honolulu, Hawaii and graduated from the Tufts University School of Medicine (with AOA honors) in 1987. He then completed both his Pediatric residency and Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship training at Children's Hospital Oakland (1987-1992). Since that time, he has served as an attending physician in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children (KMCWC). He is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine and is very involved in the training of medical students and pediatric residents. Dr. Inaba serves as the Course Director for all of the Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) courses at The Queen's Medical Center. Although he has numerous publications, his passion has always been is in teaching and education. During the past 25 years, he has received 12 teaching awards from the medical students and residents. Dr. Inaba's major teaching interest is in the area of PALS. Dr. Inaba served as the PALS National Faculty for the State of Hawaii (2002-2007) and was involved in writing the bridge materials for the PALS 2005 guidelines. He has also served on the AHA National Emergency Cardiovascular Care PROAD Subcommittee (2005-2008), which oversees all of the other subcommittees in the AHA. Dr. Inaba has helped to establish numerous automated external defibrillator (AED) public access defibrillation (PAD) programs through the State of Hawaii, including the 100 AED program for the State of Hawaii airports system ("Operation Stay'N Alive," which has saved numerous lives since it was established in December 2006). One of Dr. Inaba's teaching tips for teaching proper chest compression rates ("Stayin Alive") was published by the AHA in their Fall 2006 edition of CURRENTS and this tip is now used worldwide in teaching proper CPR techniques. Dr. Inaba has also assisted in the development of PALS programs internationally by providing PALS instructor training for numerous physicians and nurses from Japan. Dr. Inaba's other CPR teaching tip ("Dr. Al's 5 & 2 Rule for High Quality CPR, which was published in JEMS in November 2006) is also taught in Japan. He is very honored to serve on the editorial board of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Practice and would love to hear about other people's creative teaching tips in PALS. The two things he is the most proud of are his awesome sons Adam and Andrew who both are graduates of Creighton University School of Dentistry and the UCLA Endodontics Residency program

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