Meet the Team
Charlie Gray had been in two industries most of his early adult life: restaurants and music. He started working in restaurants in 1993 and has been behind a DJ booth since 1994. What those two decades taught him about having fun with a crowd, engaging a room, and developing the kind of speaking ability that most instructors spend years trying to fake. That did not go anywhere when he changed careers. It became his teaching style.
His academic background runs deep in the biological sciences, through a Bachelor of Science and into doctoral-level veterinary study. He knows his medicine cold, but he also knows that teaching medicine is not about talking at people. It is about making the material approachable and understandable. He has been told he can break it down for a six-year-old. He takes that as a compliment.
When the pandemic ended his restaurant management career in 2020, he did not go back. He got his EMT in 2021, ran wildland fire on an engine crew that same season, became an AEMT, worked as a wilderness medic, taught CTE, joined the University of Utah as an adjunct AEMT instructor, and has been running event medical response at Rice-Eccles Stadium since 2022. He founded a private EMS training program in 2024 and relocated and relaunched it as 4Front Emergency Training Center in Roy in 2025.
He is an "Edu-tainer." He figured out early on in EMS that people learn better when they are engaged, and that medicine does not have to be boring. You can learn meaningful and impactful life-saving skills and have fun. He supplies both, at the same time, without apology.
He has been called a favorite teacher more times than he can count. He takes that more seriously than any credential on his wall.
He knows his medicine. He just makes it fun and impossible to forget.
Credentials & Certifications
Our lead instructor team brings decades of combined EMS experience to every cohort, with backgrounds spanning maternal health, critical care, and patient assessment. That range shapes an approach built on calm, clear coaching under pressure – the kind of presence that puts students at ease within minutes of meeting them.
Our instructors are tough when the moment calls for it, direct when a correction is needed, and genuinely invested in student success in a way that students recognize immediately and do not forget.
Our team holds NAEMSE EMS Instructor certifications at both Level I and II, includes a Prodigy EMS Instructor, and has served at the state level evaluating advanced EMS providers for nearly a decade. That depth of evaluation experience means our instructors know exactly what the standard looks like, and will make sure you meet it.
Recognition for our instructor team includes EMS Educator of the Year from the Utah Bureau of EMS, Post-Secondary Educator of the Year honors, and HOSA Post-Secondary Advisor of the Year at both the State and International Leadership Conference level. The recognition confirms what our students already know.
It is always about the student. Full stop.