MTLI: Past, Present, and Future. This is a special podcast where I have the pleasure to welcome ten individuals who have been involved with the Medical Transport Leadership Institute, or MTLI, over the years. We are doing this show as part of the 25th Anniversary of the genesis of MTLI and the week before classes begin that will produce the 24th gr…

An interview of Edward Marasco, the Vice President of Business Development for Quick Med Claims, which provides revenue cycle management and consulting services for medical transport organizations nationwide. Previously, he was a Regional Vice President of Hospital Based Services with Air Methods Corporation after the acquisition of CJ Systems. At …

An interview of Mark Mennie, an International CommercialPhotographer who has specialized in photographing Air Medical andCritical Care Transport, including Medical Evacuation Environments. Mr. Mennie is aCanadian citizen, and has been doing work in the United States since 2001. Mark has done work for the Association of Air Medical Services, the Air…

An interview of Eileen Frazier, the Executive Directorof the Commission on the Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems, or CAMTS. Ms.Frazier has a wealth of experience in air medical transport, including being theChief Flight Nurse at University MedEvac at the Lehigh Valley Hospital inAllentown, Pennsylvania and serving on a number of boards and…

An Interview of Craig Yale, the President of the YaleGroup, LLC. Mr. Yale has over 45 years of experience inthe development and management of not-for-profit, for profit private, andpublic corporate services that have included emergency ground and air medicalprograms. Craig is a paramedic and has his bachelor’s degree in business withan emphasis in …

An Interview of Robert Tester, the Senior Director of the LIFE FORCE Air Medical Service at Erlanger Health System. Robbie has been with LIFE FORCE since 1998 when he started as a Flight Paramedic. He has held several positions at the program including Program Manager, Administrator, Vice President, and now Senior Director at Erlanger. His current …

An Interview of Michael Benton, the Founder, Managing Director, and Principal Consultant with VyClimb Consulting, LLC. Mike started VyClimb Consulting, LLC in 2015 and had previously worked at Air Methods and Med-Trans Corporation as an Air Medical Line Pilot, National Relief Pilot, Aviation Compliance Manager, Check Airman, and Regional Aviation M…

Episode 36 - An Interview of Roxanne Shanks, the CEO of LifeFlight Eagle and Executive Director of the Association of Critical Care Transport in Kansas City, Missouri. Roxanne has been in her role at LifeFlight Eagle since 2012 and as the Executive Director of ACCT since 2014. She has also been a partner with Fitch & Associates since 2019. Prior to…

An Interview of Tom Allenstein, the President & CEO of MedFlight of Ohio and MedCare Ambulance headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Tom has been the CEO since 2015 and served as the Chief Clinical Officer & Chief Operating Officer of MedFlight from 2004. He also became President & CEO of MedCare Ambulaance in 2020, an ALS / BLS ambulance program that h…

Episode 34 - An Interview of Michael Christianson, the Senior Executive Director of Sanford Air Transportation headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I talk to Mike about the history of Sanford AirMed including previous programs, how their program is organized for both their clinical and aviation services, aircraft and bases, the corporate avi…

An Interview of Andrea Robertson, the CEO of STARS in Canada. I talk to Andrea about the history of STARS, their program services, air medical services in Canada, and COVID-19. Andrea has been the President &CEO of STARS since March 2012. She served as the Chief Operating Officer fromJune 2011. Before joining STARS Andrea held theposition of Senior…

An Interview of Maura Hughes, the CEO of Boston MedFlight. In the podcast we talk about the history of Boston MedFlight as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit consortium air medical program, the development of the FAA Part 135 Certificate, the type of aircraft they fly, their critical care ground ambulances, their team configuration, the impact of COVID-19, t…

An Interview of Mr. Brian Shaw, the President of the National EMS Memorial Bike Ride. Brian talks about the history of the ride and the special plans for the 20th Anniversary rides in 2020, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Brian's full-time work is with the Emergency Medical Service Institute as the Deputy Director and they oversea EMS Operations for …

An interview of Mr. Jonathan Bundt regarding Post Traumatic Stress with COVID-19 and George Floyd's death at the hands of the Minneapolis Police. Jonathan is an Organizational Consultant and Trainer with his own company called Masa Consulting since 1993. Jonathan has degrees in Child Psychology and Jewish Studies, Counseling and Psychotherapy, and …

COVID-19 and what a number of air medical programs are doing during this very challenging pandemic. The purpose of the podcast is for programs to learn from each other. Fifteen programs were reached out to and interviews with five of them were completed on Monday, March 23, 2020. This was due to many individuals being in the thick of the epidemic a…

Episode 27 - An interview of Rex Alexander, a consultant specializing in safety training related to the air medical and helicopter industry and President of the National EMS Pilots AssociationAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 26 - An Interview of Dr. Mike Abernethy, the Chief Flight Physician with the University of Wisconsin Med Flight Program and an associate professor with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 25 - An Interview of Dr. Bryan Bledsoe, an Emergency Physician, Researcher, and EMS AuthorAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 24 - Voices of the Past Presidents of the Association of Air Medical Services on The Critical Issues, Challenges, and Accomplishments during their Terms as Part of the AAMS 30th Anniversary CelebrationAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 23 - An Interview of Doctor David M. Lam, Adjunct Associate Professor at the Center for Trauma and Anesthesiology Research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who Talks about His 30 Years of Research on the History of Air Medicine. There are also Interviews of Dawn Mancuso and Jonathan Godfrey on the AMTC and Vision Zero in the…

Episode 22 - News and Information, Air Medical Crashes, RoadID, and an Interview of Scott Kunkel, a paramedic, flight nurse, and an air medical executive who will be talking about Updates on New Developments in EMS and Their Impact on Air Medical ServicesAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 21 - News and Information, CareFlite Crash Update, and an Interview of Tammy Chatman, who is the Professional Relations/Marketing Manager and Public Information Officer for the Flight For Life Transport System's McHenry, Illinois base who will be talking about Public Relations and MarketingAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 20 - News and Information, CareFlite Crash, and an Interview of Steve Johnson, Director of Government Affairs and Industry Relations for PHI Air Medical who will be talking about EMS and Air Medical EducationAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 19 - News and Information and an Interview of Mike Biasatti, the Founder and Webmaster of EMS Flight Crew - a New Web Portal Serving the Air Medical CommunityAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 18 - News and Information and an Interview of Dustin Duncan, Chairperson of the Family Grant Fund and Children’s Scholarship Program Committees for the MedEvac Foundation InternationalAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 17 - News and Information and an Interview of Krista Haugen, Megan Hamilton, and Teresa Pearson who are the co-founders of the Survivor's Network for Air and Surface Medical TransportAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 16 - News and Information, Iceland Volcano Update, and an Interview of Dr. Kevin Hutton, Chairman of the MedEvac Foundation InternationalAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 15 - News and Information, Iceland Volcano, and an Interview of Hayden Newton, Chairman of the Association of Air Ambulances in the United KingdomAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 14 - News and Information and an Interview of Rollie Parrish, Founder and Webmaster of FlightWeb.comAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 13 - News and Information, Hospital Wing Crash Update, and an Interview of Steven Sweeney, Board Chair of the Air Medical MemorialAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 12 - News and Information, Hospital Wing Crash, an Interview of David Kearns, the Coordinator of the CONCERN Network. I also check in with Tim Pickering, Vice President of the Association of Air Medical Services, regarding the AAMS Spring Conference in the First Response sectionAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 11 - News and Information, an Interview of Denise Landis, Chairperson, and Kris Nelson, Co-Director of the Graduate School, with the Medical Transport Leadership Institute in Wheeling, West Virginia. I also check in with Kathy Nichols, former flight nurse with West Michigan Air Care who recently returned from a medical mission to Haiti in t…

Episode 10 - News and Information, David Kearns in First Response regarding the Alaris MedSystem III, and an Interview of Dr. Daniel Hankins, Medical Director of Mayo Clinic Medical Transport and current President of the Association of Air Medical Services and Dawn Mancuso, the Executive Director and CEO of AAMS…

Episode 9 - News and Information and an Interview of Mr. Howard Ragsdale, President, and Mr. Christopher Eastlee, Managing Director, of the Air Medical Operators AssociationAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 8 - News and Information, Southwest Med Evac Crash, Rex Alexander on NEMSPA's New Helipad Safety Sign Program in First Response, and an Interview of Drs. Howard Werman and Cathy Jaynes, the Medical Director and Director of Research for the new Center For Medical Transport ResearchAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 7 - News and Information, an interview of Tom Judge, Jason Schwebach, and Lisa Tofil, the President, Vice President, and Executive Director of the new Association of Critical Care Transport, formerly the Patient First Air-Ambulance Alliance, and the initial report on the Southwest Medevac crash…

Episode 6 - News and Information, a "First Response" Interview of Mr. Dave Hardin - Air Evac LifeTeam Director of Safety on his work with the Haitian Air Medical Response, and an interview of Mr. Lee Aase, Manager of Syndication and Social Media for the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MinnesotaAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 5 - News and Information including Haitian Air Ambulance Response, a "First Response" Interview of the Survival Flight Crew who transported two Patients from Haiti, and an interview of Mr. Jonathan Godfrey, a flight nurse, air medical crash survivor, and chair of the Vision Zero Initiative for the Association of Air Medical Services…

News and Information, with Initial Reports on the Air Medical Response to the Haitian Earthquake, and an Interview of Mr. Colin Collins, an Advisor to the Board of Directors of Air Evac LifeTeam and Mr. Seth Myers, the current President and CEOAutor: EPNetwork™

News and Information including Interview of Louis Lombardo, Auto Safety Researcher, former Physical Scientist with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and a past board member of the MedEvac Foundation InternationalAutor: EPNetwork™

News and Information including Interview of Dr. Bill Gerard, Chief of Emergency Medicine at Palmetto Health Richland Hospital, Medical Director LifeNet South Carolina and Richland County EMS, and the Founder & CEO of RSQ911 SolutionsAutor: EPNetwork™

Episode 1 - News and Information including Interview of Joe Tye, First ASHBEAMS (AAMS) President and CEO of Values CoachAutor: EPNetwork™