Christopher Winckler, MD, LP

C. J. Winckler serves as the deputy medical director for the San Antonio Fire Department, medical director for North Channel EMS/Wilson County ESD, and Texas Emergency Medical Task Force Region 8. He is an associate clinical professor at the University of Texas San Antonio Health Science Center and Texas A&M College Station. Winckler provides daily clinical supervision to over 2000 EMS providers. Dr. Winckler and multiple stakeholders, worked tirelessly to deploy whole blood in San Antonio. This is the first-time whole blood was available to save prehospital patients in hemorrhagic shock, for an entire American metropolitan city.