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About Us

The Highland Park EMS System provides medical oversight, education, and coordination for emergency medical services in Illinois Region X.

The section below highlights special events, joint training opportunities, and collaborative efforts with System and Regional partners. Images are either social in nature, or come from simulated training environments involving highly specialized personnel and equipment. None of these images show real patients or actual emergency response events.

Events / Media

1st Annual End of Summer Fest, Highland Park EMS System — a family-friendly day for EMS, ED staff, fire departments and families with a softball game, food trucks, and kids activities. September 26, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at Techny Park, 1750 Techny Road, Northbrook, Illinois. $10 flat fee per person for the CharBar food truck. To join a department softball team, email Paul Zabratanski at paulzabratanski83@gmail.com. Scan the QR code to RSVP.
1st Annual End of Summer Fest — September 26, 2026. Tap the flier to enlarge.
An EMS physician climbs the extended aerial ladder of a Deerfield-Bannockburn fire truck during training, with the Highland Park EMS System physician response vehicle parked below. Close view of the EMS Medical Director in a helmet and safety harness climbing high on a fire department aerial ladder against a blue sky. Highland Park EMS System providers and firefighters in tactical protective gear package a simulated patient during a drill, beside a Deerfield-Bannockburn Fire Department paramedic ambulance. Responders in tactical protective gear tend to a simulated patient on a stretcher beside a Wheeling Fire Department aerial truck during a multi-agency drill at a sports field. Fire and EMS apparatus from several area departments staged across a parking lot during a multi-agency mass-casualty drill. Fire, EMS, and law-enforcement personnel gather on a field for a debrief during a multi-agency drill.

Team

Medical Direction

Ben Feinzimer, DO, MS, FACEP
EMS Medical Director IL Region 10
Highland Park EMS System
Senior Clinician Educator, Pritzker School of Medicine

Leadership & Staff

Raeann Fuller, MSN, RN, CCRN-K
Manager, Emergency Medical Services
EMS System Coordinator

Jill Maryan, MSN, RN
Assistant EMS System Coordinator
Paramedic Education Training Director

Cheri Smirles, RN, MSN, MBA, CEN
EMS Coordinator
Continuing Education Coordinator

Eric Anderson, BSN, RN
EMS Coordinator
Program Lead Instructor