By CHARLES RICHARDS
eParisExtra.com
Dr. Sharon Malone
A new medical director for Paris Emergency Medical Services will assume duties on Wednesday.
In its meeting last week, the Paris City Council approved a one-year contract for Dr. Sharon Malone, the medical director for the PJC EMS program.
She succeeds Dr. Eduardo Wilkinson, who has opened a medical practice in Richardson. Wilkinson has been Paris’ EMS medical director since 2008.
“I am grateful for everything Dr. Wilkinson has done for Paris EMS,” local EMS coordinator Kent Klinkerman told the council.
Dr. Malone lives in Van Alstyne but is in Paris on a regular basis “and is very interested in being the EMS medical director,” Klinkerman said.
He called her an experienced EMS medical director who is capable of helping Paris EMS maintain a quality EMS program.
Besides being medical director for the PJC EMS, Dr. Malone is medical director for Grayson County College, Lone Star Ambulance, Denison Fire Department, Sherman Fire Department, the City of Whitewright, the Preston Volunteer EMS and Texas Vital care EMS. She is assistant medical director for Collin County.
She was named the EMS Medical Director of the year in 2008.
Dr. Malone will receive $1,000 a month from the City of Paris as compensation for her services under a contract that runs through Jan. 30, 2013.
She has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (president of her class).
Charles Richards Charles Richards moved to Paris in 2004 after retiring from a 40-year career in journalism – the last 26 years as a news writer and sports writer with The Associated Press in Dallas and Washington, D.C. In mid-2004, The Paris News coaxed him out of retirement, and he began covering the police, court and regional beat for The Paris News. Then in early 2005, he was switched to coverage of a sharply divided Paris City Council. He was appointed by the City Council in 2006 to the 12-member City Charter Review Commission, which extensively rewrote the outmoded document. His writing awards include two first-place awards in statewide competition for feature writing. The most recent was his 2005 story on a Paris doctor’s startling use of leeches in a successful attempt to re-attach a man’s severed ear. Over his career, Richards’ interview subjects include Alabama Gov. George Wallace, President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush, David Koresh, Arnold Palmer, Muhammad Ali and numerous other political and sports figures. He is an alumnus of Texas Tech, where he was editor of the school newspaper. He lives in Paris with his wife, Barbara, who is retired after 30 years as a teacher and high school counselor.
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