About

Dr. Abo is a wilderness EMS & emergency physician & toxinologist in Florida & assistant professor for Florida Statue University School of Medicine. He started in EMS over 28 years ago as a teenager in high school in Mount Laurel, NJ. After completing a bachelor’s degree in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also obtained his NREMT-P, CCEMT-P, & FP-C, he stayed on as faculty for the Center for Emergency Medicine & the University of Pittsburgh Department of Emergency Medicine as a researcher & Coordinator of Education in International Emergency Medicine/EMS. He then spent some time abroad living in India just prior to starting medical school in the San Francisco Bay area. After walking with honors from a dual medicine & master’s in public health program from Touro College of Medicine – California, he took time off prior to residency to start a non-profit in Africa aimed at decreasing maternal & neonatal mortality & trauma. He completed a four-year emergency medicine residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center – Miami Beach & Ryder Trauma Center in Miami, FL, while completing a fellowship in wilderness medicine through the Wilderness Medical Society. After residency, Dr. Abo completed an EMS fellowship at the University of Florida where he then accepted a full-time position. Throughout all his training, Dr. Abo has remained clinically active in EMS FL-5 DMAT disaster team, FEMA/Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Urban Search & Rescue (USAR) Task Force 1 (FLTF1). In 2019, he left his full-time position with the University of Florida to move to Naples. He has also remained active as a paramedic physician with current specialty rescue certifications with various services globally & continues to do research & lecture globally. Dr. Abo has authored numerous chapters & research on a variety of EMS and wilderness medicine topics including multiple chapters in Wilderness EMS Textbooks for envenomation, marine envenomation, austere medicine, & water rescue. He currently oversees medical direction & consultation for several projects, services, EMS schools, media production, and specialty training including being one of only four course directors for the Wilderness EMS Medical Director’s Course. He also serves as medical director for the International Board of Specialty Certifications (IBSC) where he helped to create the Wilderness Paramedic Certification (WP-C) as well as consultant to the FBI Special Hazards Response teams. Dr. Abo is an innovator in Emergency & Pre-Hospital Medicine, the recipient of several awards for education, heroism, & valor.