Jared Erb

Jared D. Erb, NRP, is a fourth-year medical student at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (DO ’26), where he has been actively involved in emergency and disaster medicine through clinical work, leadership, and advocacy. Before being elected WADEM SYP SIG Co-Chair, he served as a president within his school’s WADEM Student Chapter, helping to organize events that introduced medical students, nursing students, and others to disaster response principles and mass casualty preparedness. This included a full-scale multi-disciplinary mass casualty drill with over 150 participants and educators.

Before attending medical school, Jared worked as a paramedic, an experience that profoundly shaped his interest in emergency medicine, critical care, and disaster response. He has continued to build on that foundation through clinical rotations and academic work, with a growing focus on disaster preparedness education and the interface between emergency medical services and hospital-based care. He has also engaged in research studying the efficacy of hands-on training of mass casualty incidents and triage, hemorrhage control, and austere care.

Outside of medicine, Jared is involved in leadership and event planning in both professional and community settings, including organizing large-scale public events in the Boston, Massachusetts, USA region. His long-term goals include pursuing residency training in Emergency Medicine with further training in disaster medicine with a focus in mass gatherings and systems-based pre-hospital care.