Anthony Melendez, BS, RN
amsmelendez@sbcglobal.net

Tony Melendez, a native Californian, attended UCLA and graduated with two majors, psychology and biology, in 1986.  During his senior year, he was named a Dean's List Scholar.  He then attended Pierce College where he earned his associate degree in nursing. He was also elected class president at Pierce during his first year there, chosen by a predominately female student body. 

Tony's first emergency room position was at Santa Marta Hospital in East Los Angeles . His next stop was as the only RN in a stand-by ER in the San Fernando Valley that he helped transform into a paramedic receiving facility. When the Northridge earthquake hit in January 1994, he responded, while also recruiting his two roommates as volunteers, to help many patients needing sutures and casts. 

Tony moved onto North Hollywood Medical Center where he practiced emergency medicine in the ER for four years. He was honored by the Los Angeles Police Department for his care of a sergeant who was wounded during the televised North Hollywood bank robbery.  

When North Hollywood Medical Center closed, Huntington Memorial garnered Tony to work in their ER, where he has been for the past eight years.  During that time, he has become a mobile intensive-care nurse, and taught at many MICN development programs.

UCLA welcomed Tony to the CPC Fire Department Division four years ago. He is an educator and quality improvement coordinator at the Monterey Park Fire Department.