PUTNEY — It may be a few years away, but a new device with a long history of development could replace the AEDs that are ubiquitously attached to walls around the United States.

Norman Paradis, of Putney, has spent his career as an emergency physician, the last 13 years at Dartmouth Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., where he's a professor emeritus of emergency medicine.

Though he is an emergency physician, he now works primarily in academic medical research and private sector biomedical device development and was one of the first physicians to complete a research fellowship in resuscitation.

Paradis is a graduate of Marlboro College and received his medical license from Northwestern University

He also ran the emergency department at Southern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington and spen

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