Walter Bailey Price II, BA, NRP, CCP
Advisory Board member (non-voting) · Adviser — Clinical Operational Oversight and Pre-Hospital Protocol Integration
EMS Section Chief, Alabama Fire College; Chief Inspector, Alabama Athletic Commission
Biography
Chief Walter Bailey Price II, BA, NRP, serves as EMS Section Chief at the Alabama Fire College and as a Chief Inspector for the Alabama Athletic Commission. A Nationally Registered Paramedic and seasoned Critical Care Paramedic with more than two decades of high-acuity field, transport, and academic leadership—including twelve years directing the Fire College’s accredited EMS programs—Chief Price bridges advanced pre-hospital medicine with statutory combat sports regulation. Parallel to managing ringside venue compliance and athlete safety operations across Alabama, he provides fight medicine research initiatives with direct operational expertise in acute trauma triage, ringside emergency action planning (EAP), rapid resuscitation pathways, and prospective injury surveillance, ensuring clinical safety protocols translate into actionable, enforceable field standards.
Role at Fight Medicine Research Institute
- Roles
- Advisory Board member (non-voting); Adviser — Clinical Operational Oversight and Pre-Hospital Protocol Integration
- Responsibility
- Advise on clinical operational oversight and pre-hospital protocol integration, including acute trauma triage, ringside emergency action planning, rapid resuscitation pathways, and prospective injury surveillance.
- Board
- Non-voting advisory member. Independent member.
- Appointed
- Board meeting of 8 November 2026, effective 9 November 2026.
- Expertise
- Prehospital and critical care paramedicine; EMS education and program leadership; Ringside venue compliance; Emergency action planning