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Meet The UCR
Instructor Team
Aydin Calsetta
Carrie Epstein
Delia Lin
Emily Tully
Federico Giannuli
Grace McPadden
Jeremy Lesser
Kathryn Wilkinson
Madeline Plumb
Nicole Angelescu
Rachel Perry
Riley Sullivan
Tobias Fraedrich
Alexsia Newman
Joseph Pontoriero
Hannah Linder
Grace Gewirtz
Rachel Antonelli
Jack Nemec
Ritika Parikh
UConn Rescue currently has a team of 20
American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) instructors and Stop the Bleed instructors. We work hard to consistently offer the highest-quality, most accessible and affordable classes to the University of Connecticut community. All our instructors are cross-trained to serve as Stop the Bleed Instructors as well as AHA BLS Instructors to further our offerings and education.
Justin Pedneault
AHA Training Site Coordinator
Hello everyone. I'm Justin and I've been a part of UConn Rescue since 2015 just after it was founded. I am responsible for the creation of the training program. I have been working in EMS since I was 14 years old and I love teaching and working with our instructor team. I now serve as the Training Site Coordinator from the American Heart Association, overseeing all training compliance at UConn Rescue. I graduated from UConn in May of 2019 and I have been working since August 2019 as a Registered Nurse in the Medical ICU at Hartford Hospital. I also graduated from Hartford Hospital's Paramedic Program and work as a Paramedic on a private 911 only ambulance.
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