Mayo Respiratory Therapist Wins National Award

For Immediate Release 

IRVING, TX (January 20, 2005) – Edward L. Schneider, RRT-NPS, a transport respiratory therapist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, has won the American Association for Respiratory Care's (AARC) annual Surface & Air Transport Specialty Practitioner of the Year Award.

Schneider received the award at the recent AARC International Respiratory Congress held in New Orleans , LA.

The registered respiratory therapist is being honored for his dedication to providing state-of-the-art medical care to critically ill patients requiring air medical transport to Mayo's facilities. He has also played a key role in helping to reduce the facility's response time to dispatch calls, thus ensuring faster treatment for patients in need of immediate medical attention, and teaches an outreach program for referring hospital staff on pediatric respiratory illness and treatment.

Respiratory Therapists (RTs) are specially trained and licensed respiratory health care professionals assisting physicians in diagnosis, treatment, and management of respiratory diseases. RTs provide care in hospitals, outpatient centers, physicians' offices, skilled nursing facilities, and patients' homes.

The American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) is a not-for-profit, professional organization, consisting of 36,000 respiratory therapists, physicians, and other health care professionals. AARC is dedicated to assisting persons with respiratory diseases receive safe and effective respiratory care.

###

Contact: Beth Binkley
Binkley@aarc.org
American Association For Respiratory Care
9425 N MacArthur Blvd, Suite 100, Irving, TX 75063
972-406-4657, 927-243-2272