Aristides is a lead nurse practitioner working in the emergency department at Olive View UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar, California and directs the telephone follow up program for the department. He also serves as the Director of Nursing and Critical Care Transport for AmeriCare ambulance service. He is Associate Director of Project SEMILLA and Co-Director of the Resuscitation Course for Project SEMILLA, which is a group of health care providers that are working in building emergency capacity in Nicaragua. As a member of Project SEMILLA he has lectured internationally, conducted research, written chapters in the resuscitation and trauma manuals for Project SEMILLA, assisted in the planning and development of Project SEMILLA courses and has mentored visiting physicians. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Nursing at San Diego State University in San Diego, California and then earned his Master of Science degree in Nursing-Family Nurse Practitioner at California State University Dominguez Hills, in Carson, California. He holds national certification with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners as an Emergency Nurse Practitioner and is a Certified Emergency Nurse.

Research Interests: Resuscitation, trauma, EMS

Affiliations: www.projectsemilla.org

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