Shane Turner, RN, NRP, CFRN, FP-C, CMTE
Faculty Chairperson
Abiomed, Critical Care Transport Trainer

Shane Turner is a Critical Care Transport Trainer with Abiomed and Chair of the CCTA Faculty Mentor team. With over 20 years working in healthcare, Shane's bedside manner and never-ending pursuit of education are core to his fundamentals values as a healthcare professional. From the wide-eyed volunteer to the professional critical care provider, Shane's core mission is to help people in need- to help the patients we serve, the communities we live in and to help the other providers to be the best they can be. 

Matthew Benson, BSN, RN, NRP

Matt Benson graduated Cum Laude from Winona State University in 2015 with a BSN. He also graduated from Creighton’s University Paramedic Program in 2018 and has worked within the Critical Care Transport space for 4 years. For three of those years, he has been with Duke Life Flight where he is Clinical Nurse IV and Chair of the Quality Committee. Matt has been published in 2021 in the Air Medical Journal for the article Critical Care Transport of the Portable Ventricular Support Device as well as a Poster Presentation at AMTC 2022 on a Review of COVID-19 ECMO. 

Mandy Gainey
Med-Trans Corp, Professional Development Manager

Mandy Gainey has been a flight nurse with Med-Trans since 2017 and currently serve as a Professional Development Manager. In her role as a nurse for the past 12 years, she has served communities in both South Carolina and Alabama, in healthcare settings ranging from very large regional specialty centers to small community hospitals. Mandy never claims to know all the answers or to be an expert in all the areas, but instead, works to foster an environment that allows for questions to be asked without fear or judgment. Mandy is passionate about teaching and finds nothing more exciting than seeing someone grasp a new concept or skill that will impact their patient care. Mandy also serves as a TPATC instructor for ASTNA. She lives with her husband in Charleston, S.C. (who serves on the South Carolina National Guard as an Apache pilot) and they love spending time out on the water or at home with their very fat cat, Walter.  

Jeremiah Gleitz, BAS, FP-C
Life Link III, Flight Paramedic

Jeremiah Gleitz is a Flight Paramedic and Regional Clinical Manager for Life Link III based out of Minneapolis, MN. As a flight paramedic, he has served as a field training officer, base lead, and mobile ECMO specialist. Mentorship has always been a passion of his and he strives to be a lifelong learner. Aside from work and the Critical Care Transport Academy, he spends his free time doing all things outdoors, traveling with his dog, and doing DIY projects around the house.  

Robin Wallace, BSN, RN, CFRN, CEN, NRP
Erlanger LIFE FORCE Air Medical, Flight Nurse

Kim Morgan, MSN, RN, CFRN, TCRN, NREMT
HealthNet Aeromedical Services, Flight Team Leader/Flight Nurse

Kim Morgan is a flight nurse with HealthNet Aeromedical Services for the past 7 years and brings over 26-years of nursing experience to her patients. Her first 21 years as nurse, she worked in the Emergency Department at a busy Level 1 Trauma Center in West Virginia. She is currently working as Flight Team Lead for her base, which includes flying 1 shift a week and one of Flight Training Officers. She is a wife and mom to three (mostly) grown daughters. She loves being able to help others achieve their goals and she started as a mentor with the CCTA faculty in 2020. 

Dan Rauh, MS, ACNP-BC, CFRN, EMT-P

UC Air Care, Flight Nurse Practitioner

Dan is currently a nocturnal intensivist managing patient's in a large medical/surgical ICU in central Indiana. He most recently retired from the University of Cincinnati as a flight nurse practitioner with UC Air Care where he spent almost 8 years and of 13 years of flight experience. He is also a member of the podcast team at Heavy Lies The Helmet. He speaks nationally on a multitude of critical care & flight medicine topics, specifically metabolic derangements, point-of-care ultrasound and critical thinking in critical care. In his spare time Dan lives on a 100 acre farm in Southeastern Indiana with his wife Sheilah. You’ll often find him on a tractor or in a deer blind with his grandson Conner and their American bully Mugsy.

Nick Volz, NRP, FP-C
University of Utah AirMed, Flight Paramedic

Nick Volz began his fire and EMS career in the suburbs of Chicago in 2004. In 2007, he became a paramedic and transitioned to a flight paramedic in 2012. Nick has flown in Illinois, Colorado, and now work as a clinical base coordinator and flight paramedic for the University of Utah AirMed and holds a Bachelors of Science in Emergency Service Leadership. Nick enjoys time hiking, camping, skiing, and fishing with his wonderful wife (who also works as a flight coordinator), two sons (11 years old and 7 months old), and two mutts.  

Kari Zabala, RRT, FP-C

Life Flight Network, Director of Clinical Education

Kari Zabala is the Director of Clinical Education at Life Flight Network in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. With over 20 years of flight experience as a Respiratory Therapist and Certified Flight Paramedic, Kari also has extensive experience caring for critically-ill neonates and pediatric patients.  

Kari’s advocacy for providing innovative education to transport clinicians on the ground and in the air provides a next-level approach to traditional methods. Kari resides in Spokane, WA and enjoys playing tennis and golf, spending time with her family and the real boss of the show, her 18 year old cat, Kitters.