Member Spotlight: Joe Mazzola, MPA

Joe Mazzola, MPA

COTS Board of Trustees Member
FC Health Commissioner

February 2025

• Where were you born and/raised? Cleveland, OH

• What was your first job? First job was golf caddie at 12

• You have two weeks off and a plane ticket to go anywhere. Where would you go? Not sure. Carribean, South America, Africa, or Europe. Maybe Yellowstone, National Parks. Anywhere for 2 weeks sounds great, though.

• What would you like your fellow COTS partners to know about you? How much I appreciate their dedication to COTS and our community. It’s an honor to be apart of the board.

• What made you decide to be a physician/nurse/EMT/emergency manager (whatever your chosen career path)? Opportunity, really. Sometimes your career leads in a direction you didn’t think would happen. I have been fortunate to have several unexpected opportunities leading me to public health.

• What hobbies do you participate in your free time? Golf and live music.

• If you could be any superhero, who would you be?  Any of the Guardians of Good Health, but probably Globey.

• What is your favorite thing to do in the Winter season? Watch golf and hit golf balls in my garage.

• If you won the Powerball, what’s the first thing you would do? If I won, I would buy my mom a house.

• What was the first concert you attended? I have seen Dave Matthews Band the most, but my first concert was me tagging along with my sisters to a Van Halen show in the 1980s..way too loud.