Chief LeDuc has faithfully served the SHS membership for the past nearly 20 years as At Large Director, Secretary, and now Treasurer.
He retired from Broward County Fire Service as executive assistant fire chief after 30 years and then joined the Country’s largest provider of firefighter physicals as Chief Strategy Officer, now the Chief Executive Officer. He holds a master’s degree in fire service executive leadership and is a credentialed fire officer and Fellow in the Institute of Fire Engineers. Chief LeDuc spearheaded the creation of the IAFC SHS Providers Guide to Firefighter physicals and the Elected Officials Guide, represented the Section as the Chair of the First Responder Center of Excellence advisory board on firefighter physicals and serves on the technical committee of NFPA First Responder Standard on Occupational Health including NFPA 1580. Chief LeDuc also co-chairs the SHS efforts to address repetitive head trauma and concussion injuries in firefighters.
He is a peer reviewer both for professional credentialing and agency accreditation with CPSE, is the editor of Fire Engineering’s book Surviving the Fire Service and serves as a fire service advisor to numerous FEMA funded firefighter health studies.