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Captain Martha Ellis Salt Lake City Fire Department Martha has been in the fire service for over 13 years and currently holds the rank of Captain for Salt Lake City FD. In addition to currently working as the Salt Lake Department of Airports Fire Marshal, she's also works as a Certified Fitness Coordinator. Martha is the 5 time Women's World Champion, Firefighter Combat Challenge. She held the Women's World Record for 8 consecutive years. She is the Fitness Editor for Fire Rescue Magazine, as well. Look for the monthly fitness articles and photos in FireRescue. Magazine. Martha@fit2serve.com	Captain Jeff Ellis Murray City Fire Department Jeff works as a Captain for Murray City FD. He has 22 years of service with Murray and has been instrumental in developing the department's fitness program. He continues to provide services as a Certified Fitness Coordinator for department members. Jeff is the two time over all World Champion and two time over 40 World Champion at the Firefighter Combat Challenge. He is the only individual to ever win the over all and the over 40 in the same year. His over 40 world record run, set in 1997 was the longest standing record in Combat Challenge history, at 6 years. Jeff@fit2serve.com

Thomas Armeli, M.S., CHFI Mr. Armeli has more than 28 years of experience developing, designing and evaluating training programs in the public and private sectors. He is certified by the American College of Sports Medicine as a Health and Fitness Instructor. As HMI’s Senior Field Analyst, he is responsible for coordinating all training programs and assists in designing and delivering a job tasks analysis projects. He has assisted in developing, designing and validating job-related physical ability tests for over 40 clients including commercial businesses, fire and police departments, and federal security services nation-wide. He is responsible for curriculum development, marketing and instruction for HMI’s Certified Fitness Coordinator Workshop©, a program that trains individuals to develop, execute and manage organization-level fitness programs. He is also the project lead for maintaining and enhancing HMI’s state-of-the-art physical fitness assessment and exercise prescription software package, FitScan®. A retired ArmyOfficer, while he was on active duty Mr. Armeli was responsible for developing, managing and evaluating numerous unit-level fitness programs for units ranging in size from 30 to 500 personnel. Mr. Armeli possesses a B.S. in engineering from the United States Military Academy, holds an M. S. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and is a 1992 graduate of the US Army War College. Additionally, he holds a certification from the American College of Sports Medicine as a Health & Fitness Instructor.	Ann Grediagin, Ph.D., R.D. Dr. Grediagin received a B.S. degree in Nutrition from Oregon State University in 1983, an M.S. in Sports Nutrition from Georgia State University in 1992 and her doctorate in Sports Nutrition from Oregon State University in 2000. She has served as the Chief of the Nutrition Care Division of several large metropolitan hospitals, a staff dietitian for a major medical group and has advised the US and Canadian Forest Services on the nutritional needs of wild land firefighters. Dr. Grediagin has an ongoing consultation relationship with the US Army’s Center for Health Promotion and Preventative Medicine where she provides advice on the Army’s nutritional policy. Additionally, she has made numerous presentations on nutrition and its effect on human performance. Actively engaged in sports nutrition and physiology research, Dr. Grediagin is senior technical advisor to Health Metrics, Inc. in the area of applied nutrition science and contributes her expertise to both our Certified Fitness Coordinator program and related corporate publications.