MATTHEW LEVY

Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services

Dr. Matthew Levy has spent three decades shaping emergency medical care in Howard County and beyond, serving as EMS medical director and chief medical officer for public safety at the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services. Levy joined the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2009 and was later named a professor there, a milestone he regards as the most significant personal accomplishment of his career and one that reflects decades of teaching, scholarship, mentorship and service.

Levy earned a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2006, following a Bachelor of Science in emergency health services from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2000 and a Master of Science in the same field in 2008. He completed his emergency medicine training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he served as chief resident in 2009.

Throughout his career, Levy has worked with dedicated colleagues to translate evidence into practical programs that improve survival and resilience. Together, his teams implemented the PulsePoint smartphone cardiac arrest alert system, established one of the nation’s first countywide Stop the Bleed public-access hemorrhage control programs and developed an EMS direct-to-cath lab pathway for heart attack patients that was recognized for clinical innovation.

Levy led the development of Maryland’s first ground-based prehospital blood transfusion program. Recognizing that severe hemorrhage remains a leading cause of preventable death and that earlier transfusion improves outcomes, he guided the creation of clinical and operational protocols, prehospital logistics, paramedic training curricula, physician oversight and quality improvement processes. The program reduces time to resuscitation, has been adopted by more than one third of Maryland EMS systems and has informed regional and national best practices in hemorrhage care.