PHYSICIAN RESPONDER UNIT
Narberth Ambulance operates a Physician responder unit, staffed by Board certified Emergency Medical Physicians. The vehicle is a 2008, Ford Expedition equipped with state of the art medical equipment. Narberth has four Physicians who rotate being on call to assist our ambulance crews with onsite medical direction, advanced field procedures and various additional clinical disciplines. These same Physicians provide advanced training to our clinical personnel under the leadership of Dr. Joe Bushra. To our knowledge, this is one of the only response units of its kind in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
JOSEPH BUSHRA, MD
MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Joseph Bushra,MD, FAAEM, NREMT-P has been involved in EMS for more than 20 years. He serves as the Medical Director and Board of Director for Narberth Ambulance. He is employed as an attending physician and Lankenau Hospital Emergency Department.
JAMES ROWLEY, MD
ASSISTANT MEDICAL DIRECTOR
James Rowley, MD, FAAEM has been involved in EMS for more than 25 years. He serves as an Assistant Medical Director for Narberth Ambulance. He works as an attending physician at Abington Memorial Hospital Emergency Department. James also serves on the Narberth Ambulance Board of Directors.
ALVIN WANG, DO
ASSISTANT MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Dr. Alvin Wang, DO FAAEM FAEMS PHP, has been actively involved with Narberth Ambulance for over 20 years. He is double board-certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine in both Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services and has been conferred Fellow status by the National Association of EMS Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Wang holds a faculty appointment as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Jefferson University and serves as the EMS director for Jefferson Health System Northeast in Philadelphia. Dr. Wang graduated with a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Pennsylvania State University and completed his paramedic training at the Center for Emergency Medicine of Western PA before attending medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his emergency medicine residency at Temple University Hospital and subsequently served on the academic faculty at Temple University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Sidney Kimmel Medical College.
Since the age of 16, Dr. Wang has been continually involved with EMS, working in rural, urban, and suburban settings as an EMT, Nationally Registered Paramedic, and a critical care flight paramedic. In addition to his roles at Narberth Ambulance, he serves as the Chief Medical Officer and Regional EMS Medical Director for the Montgomery County Department of Public Safety and as a federal medical officer for the HHS TACMED SPEAR team. As a graduate of the NTOA Basic SWAT school and the CONTOMS EMT-T course, Dr. Wang also serves as the embedded medical director and SWAT medic for the Haverford Township Special Response Team and the Bucks County South SWAT Team. Dr. Wang's academic medical interests include austere and operational medicine, mobile integrated health, vulnerable prehospital patient programs, difficult airway management, and critical care patient transport. He is a founding member and past president of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Association of EMS Physicians and was recently elected President of the Pennsylvania Emergency Health Services Council (PEHSC) in 2024. Dr. Wang is a long-time resident of Lower Merion Township and resides in Penn Valley.
DANIELLE LEVINE, MD
ASSISTANT MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Danielle Levine, MD, started with Narberth Ambulance as a volunteer EMT in 2012. She continued her volunteer efforts while attending medical school as well as during her post-graduate residency training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Born and raised in Monmouth County, NJ, Dr. Levine’s interest in EMS began at a young age. She started as a volunteer with her hometown’s first aid squad, where she completed an EMT course in 2003. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Brown University in 2009. She then moved to Philadelphia for a career as a high school biology teacher, simultaneously receiving her Masters of Education from Arcadia University in 2011. Levine went on to graduate from Sidney Kimmel Medical College with her medical degree in 2017. Next, she completed a residency in emergency medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in 2020, followed by a fellowship in EMS at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 2021. In addition to holding the position with Narberth Ambulance, Dr. Levine currently works as an emergency medicine attending physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.