ORANGEBURG, New York—Dynarex Corporation, a durable medical equipment and disposable medical products company, honored Jamie Gray, Alabama State EMS Director, with the 2023 Dynarex EMS First Responder Caring Award (FRCA). This nationally recognized award is given to EMS professionals who show outstanding dedication to their community.
During the opening ceremony of the EMS World Expo in New Orleans, Dynarex Corporate Training & Events Director John Burns presented the FRCA to Gray in recognition of his many years of extraordinary service.
Gray is EMS director for the State of Alabama in addition to actively running medical calls on a volunteer basis and serving as a firefighter for nearly 25 years. Gray is also a disaster medic with the National Disaster Medical System and a volunteer member of a Law Enforcement Special Operations Unit Evacuation Team. He acts as the current chair of the South Region of the National Association of State EMS Officials.
"Mr. Gray epitomizes servant leadership and inspires others to give back and pay it forward," said nominator Doug Roberts. "He is always quick to render aid in a time of need or assist in any way that he can. He is always striving to advance EMS on a local, state and national level."
Gray was formerly the director of the Alabama Opioid Assistance Project and vice chair of the Alabama Mutual Aid System Advisory Council, as well as serving on the Emergency Medical Services for Children Advisory Council, Opioid Crisis Advisory Council and the Data Driven Prevention Initiative Advisory Council.
For the past six years, the Dynarex First Responder Caring Award has recognized an EMS professional or agency that has demonstrated exceptional caring through community service actions and/or programs designed to improve the health and safety of the community they serve.
For more information about the FRCA and past winners visit dynarex.com/ems-frca.
