Southeast Coalition

Southeast Coalition

Counties Served

Atlantic | Cape May | Monmouth | Ocean

Coalition Members

Southeast Coalition Leader

Lawrence Phillips is Director of Safety and Security at Shore Medical Center based in Somers Point, New Jersey and is the Safety officer for his organization.

In this role, Larry oversees operation of the Safety, Security, and Emergency Management Programs, as well as all Emergency Preparedness efforts which include staff training and exercises.  In his role as Safety Officer, he chairs Shore Medical Centers Environment of Care, Safety, and Emergency Preparedness Committees.  

Larry is in his thirty-first year of healthcare Safety, Security, and Emergency Management.  Larry spent 26 years at Good Samaritan health System in Lebanon, Pa. before his relocation to New Jersey, and has been at Shore Medical Center the last 5 years.

gerard-carrollClinical Advisor Southeast Coalition

Gerard Carroll, MD, FAAEM, MICP is an Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services Physician at Cooper University Hospital. He also serves as an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Cooper Medical School at Rowan University, and Director of the Emergency Medical Services Fellowship at Cooper.

Dr. Carroll is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services and is licensed as a Paramedic. Prior to this, Dr. Carroll served as an EMT for over 25 years and now serves as the Medical Director for Cooper’s Division of EMS, Disaster, and Transport Medicine.

Dr. Carroll loves the varied practice environments of EM and EMS and brings the different aspects of these as part of his regular medical practice.