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Members of the Maryland delegation to this year’s annual meeting of the National Association of EMS Physicians, held in New Orleans last week, received top honors for their poster presentation, “Preliminary and Potential Impacts of a Multi-Phase Intervention Utilizing an EMS-Human Services Partnership on Call Volumes Generated by EMS Super-Users.” The poster presented results of a study of call volumes received by the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service before and after partnership with the county’s Department of Health and Human Services. By connecting “super-users” with community care resources, the partnership reduced this vulnerable group’s call volume by 64%. The study was conducted by members of the fire and rescue service, working in collaboration with Roger Stone, MD, MS, Clinical Assistant Professor and Medical Director, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, Ben Lawner, DO, MS, EMT-P, Assistant Professor (now Director of Prehospital Services, Allegheny General Hospital), and Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine.