Justin Pedneault \u201919 (NUR)<\/a>, has pursued this cause passionately on campus, together with firefighter Benjamin Roper. Pedneault is a Manchester, Connecticut, native, and joined a volunteer ambulance association in high school.<\/p>\nThe two walked every floor of every UConn building in Storrs, Hartford, Stamford, Avery Point, Waterbury, and at the Law School to ensure that there would be an AED close enough to become \u201cHEARTSafe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was something very important to me and it really started by getting the proper funding for it,\u201d said Pedneault. \u201cI am very grateful to the University for making this a priority.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are now about 135 new AEDS on the UConn campuses, including about 90 in Storrs. There are also 270 new medical supply kits, which include a tourniquet, wound dressing, and shears to stop bleeding during an emergency.<\/p>\n
\u201cUConn has shaped me as a person by providing an environment and culture that allowed me to run with my ideas,\u201d said Pedneault, who graduates this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see the AED program as my legacy to UConn,\u201d he added, \u201cand if the deployed medical devices save just one person, all the time and effort I have devoted to this program was worthwhile.\u201d<\/p>\n
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