Meet the Crew

Each University Hospitals MedEvac Team is made up with over 20 years of experience and education. The crew consists of two highly trained medical staff, including a Registered Nurse and a Nationally-Registered Paramedic with at least five years of emergency and critical care experience each. Our Pilots are the most experienced pilots in the aviation industry with over 2,000 hours of helicopter experience, including more than 1,000 helicopter hours as pilot-in-command and 100 hours of unaided night-time flight as pilot-in-command. Although the program follows Visual Flight Rules, all of our Pilots are rated to fly helicopters solely by reference to instruments for additional safety.
Medical crews are trained and prepared to provide:

• Advanced airway management
  • rapid sequence intubation
  • placement of surgical airways
• Advanced cardiac monitoring
  • management of invasive lines and Swan-Ganz catheters
• Blood and blood product administration
• Cardioversion and defibrillation
• Initiation and titration of medication infusions
• Needle thoracostomy
• Trancutaneous and continuation of transvenous pacing
• Ventilator management
  • non-invasive ventilation (CPAP/BiPAP)

Administration
Wayne Fleck, Program Director
216-509-7205, E-mail

Jeff Lubin, Medical Director
216-844-1636, E-mail

Keith Perry, Aviation Services Manager
E-mail

Mark Dailey, Medical Base Supervisor
216-509-7236, E-mail

Kurt Tietjen, Medical Base Supervisor
216-570-8350, E-mail

Deb Revello, Clinical Educator
440-289-6297, E-mail

Kobie J. Brooks, Business Relations and Development
216-509-7880, E-mail

Pilots MUST have:

• A Class 2 medical certificate
• Over 2,000 rotor wing flight hours
• Over 1,500 hours of helicopter flight hours
• Over 1,000 helicopter hours as pilot in command (PIC)
• Over 100 hours of unaided night-flight time as PIC
• Over 500 hours of turbine time
• Must be helicopter instrument rated.

Nurses over 3 years of in-hospital critical care experience

• ACLS
• BTLS
• PALS
• CPR
• NRP

Medics over 3 years of emergency and critical care service

• ACLS
• BTLS
• PALS
• CPR
• NRP
• NREMT-P

Mechanics must be:

• Certified in airframe and powerplant mechanics,
• Factory school education in the airframe and engines for the BK117
• Over 2 years experience with the BK-117.

Communication specialists have over 3 years of 911 dispatching services.