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W. Ann Maggiore, JD, NREMT-P

W. Ann Maggiore, JD, NREMT-P, is an attorney and a paramedic in Albuquerque, N.M. She has been a full-time paramedic, an assistant fire chief and a state EMS administrator. Currently, she's a shareholder in the Albuquerque law firm of Butt, Thornton & Baehr, P.C., where she practices law full time, defending physicians, police and EMS personnel against lawsuits. She's a frequent lecturer on EMS legal issues at national conferences and holds a clinical faculty appointment at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, where she teaches legal issues to faculty, residents and paramedic students. Contact her at desertrose@q.com.

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