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32. Council of Canadian Academies and Canadian Academy Maryland. He holds a BA in Communications and a Graduate
of Health Sciences. Expert panel on the medical and physi- Certificate in Adult Education & Instructional Design, both
ological impacts of conducted energy weapons. Ottowa, ON, from the University of Windsor. Mr LeClair served for 6 years
Canada: Council of Canadian Academies and the Canadian as a Tactical Paramedic with a SWAT team in Metro Detroit,
Academy of Health Sciences; 2013. Michigan, and 14 years as a Military Police Sergeant in the
Canadian Forces Reserve. A member of the MTOA, NTOA,
SOMA, and ILEETA, he instructs Special Operations medi-
Mr LeClair is an advanced care paramedic employed in On- cine on a part-time basis and has trained more than 3,000
tario, Canada, for three decades, with most of those years military, police, and medical personnel in seven countries on
consumed in the study and practice of Special Operations med- four continents.
icine. He is an honors graduate of the Advanced Care Para-
medic Program at the Michener Institute for Applied Health Major Meriano is a practicing emergency physician. He has
Sciences in Toronto and the Advanced Counter Narcotics & served in various capacities with the Canadian Forces and Re-
Terrorism Operational Medical Support Program at the Uni- serves since 2003. Comment and suggestions can be sent to
formed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, sofclinicalcorner@gmail.com.

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