Tom Baldwin, NRP, CMTE, MBA
GMR
Tom Baldwin is the VP of Safety for Global Medical Response (GMR). He leads a 37-person professional safety team that supports 7,000 ground ambulances, 450 air medical aircraft and 150 fire apparatus. He has been a leader of GMR’s national COVID-19 response, responsible for the safety of the company’s 38,000 employees—including critical, frontline first responders and call-center personnel—as well as the development of augmented safety protocols in the wake of the virus.
Greg Botz, MD, FCCM
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Greg H. Botz, MD, FCCM is the University of Texas Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He also serves as an Adjunct Clinical Professor in Anesthesiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has served as the UT Chancellor’s Health Fellow in Quality of Care and Patient Safety. He received the 2018 Pete Conrad Global Patient Safety Award for his work in the Medical-Tactical Bystander Rescue Care Program.
Erik Bratton, CMTE, MTSP-C
Hospital Wing - Memphis Med. Ctr. Air Amb. Svc., Inc.
Alabama, West Tennessee, and parts of Mississippi and Arkansas.
He previously served as Director of Operations (FAA Part 119) Director of Safety for the Memphis Medical Center Air Ambulance Service (dba Hospital Wing). Erik has over 30 years in various leadership positions in the military and civilian sector and has held these positions in the fire service and aviation industries. He is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and holds both the MTSP-C and CMTE certifications through the Association of Air Medical Services. He is also a fixed and rotor wing qualified pilot, and still flies both commercially and privately.
Jeff Currin
Margin Safety
For the past 15 years, Jeff’s work has focused on human performance for pilots, Safety Management System performance, and leveraging helicopter flight data monitoring program use. Currently, Jeff is the owner of Margin Safety, a safety data analysis provider geared for small aircraft operators. Before this, Jeff has served several safety positions with helicopter air medical operators as a FOQA program manager or as a safety analytics manager. Jeff also has experience as a research associate at the University of Oregon and a contract researcher for NASA Ames. His research has included attention development in 3-5-year old children and various aviation focused human performance studies looking at decision making, attention, and the effects of low food intake on pilot performance. Jeff is also an active commercial F/W pilot and works to ensure safe practices are adopted in general aviation.
Johnny Delgado, DM, MBA, BSc, REMT-P, CMTP
The Anastasia Group LLC
Johnny is an aviation, healthcare and public safety professional with over 40 years of service. Experiences include Chief of an Emergency Services agency with responsibilities including, emergency response, Domestic Preparedness and Communications and moved onto Program and Project Management as the Director for an air ambulance service based in South Florida. He’s also served on many of Florida’s disaster related task forces and authored Florida’s first Air Medical Disaster Response Plan. He has participated in disaster responses anddelivery of international training programs in the U.S., Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, India and Asia.
Johnny is currently working as a governmental and public safety consultant as well as working as a reserve law enforcement officer for one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the U.S.
J Heffernan
Consultant
SME on Aviation Safety, Safety Management Systems, Aircraft Operations (Helicopters and Fixed Wing) and aircraft accident investigation. J is a pilot with 4000+ hours in helicopters and 1200+ in multi engine turbojets, and has flown 34 different models of aircraft to include Marine One. He has an ATP in jets and Commercial Privileges in Helicopters. J is currently retired, but in the past he was a line Captain, Site Manager, Director Of Safety, and Vice President of Operations at CJ Systems Aviation Group, Director of Safety at HAI (twice), Vice President of Aviation & Product Safety at Sikorsky, and Director of Safety at Air Evac Lifeteam, Outside of Air Medical Aviation, J was a Marine Aviator for 23 years retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel.
Scott Hencshel, LSSMBB, BSP, CCA
Imminent Domain, LLC
Scott is a Business Transformation Leader, facilitator, highly sought speaker and teacher with over 30 years of federal government experience in healthcare leadership, business transformation, strategic planning, process improvement, change management, and education. Scott is a certified Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Master Black Belt, certified Balanced Scorecard Professional (BSP) and a GE Healthcare trained Change Agent. He teaches LSS into the Masters of Healthcare Administration (MHA) courses at several universities. Scott has also facilitated the development of numerous Balanced Scorecards in very diverse industries to include government healthcare, private schools, and private health clinics.
Lance Hofmann
Amazon
Lance Hofmann, MS, MBA, CSP, serves as Amazon’s Director of Workplace Health and Safety for North American Customer Fulfillment (NACF) leading the TSSL, Relo, Vendor Flex and Safety Operations Excellence teams. Lance's organization at Amazon involves ~3K+ safety professionals and is responsible for over 600K+ associates spanning across 286 fulfillment centers across U.S and Canada. Prior to his career in Amazon Lance has worked as a Director of Safety GE Aviation, Dow Corning Chemical & Hemlock Semi-Conductor, Air Medical Groups Holdings and Ingersoll Rand. Lance’s education includes Master’s degree in Environmental Health and Safety, and an MBA, while holding the certifications of Safety Management System (SMS) and Certified Safety Professional (CSP). Before his career in EHS, Lance served in United States Army with over 20 years of service within the Army Special Operations Command. In his spare time, he enjoys the outdoors, teaching and finding ways to give back to Veteran causes.
Justin Koper
EmergyCare
Justin Koper MS, CSP, MTSP-C, FP-C, DICO-C currently serves as the Director of Clinical Quality for EmergyCare based in Erie, PA. He has served in the emergency medical profession for nearly 20 years and spent over 10 years in the air medical field as a flight paramedic. His educational background includes a master’s degree in safety management from West Virginia University and undergraduate degrees from Youngstown State University. He has served as a safety subject matter expert for national EMS organizations, a textbook editor and content author, and a lecturer at national conferences. In addition to his work with EmergyCare, Justin is a member of the board of directors for the National Association for Public Safety Infection Control Officers (NAPSICO) and is an adjunct faculty member at Youngstown State University in their Public Health program.
Jeff White
HealthNet Aeromedical Services
Jeff White, MS, CHSP, MTSP-C, FP-C has served twenty-seven years in Emergency Medical Services and the Fire Service. He currently holds the position of Director of Safety for HealthNet Aeromedical Services, Inc. His career has spanned volunteer, career, rural and urban. He currently works to increase safety awareness in EMS by assisting agencies build their own safety management systems. He currently supports NAEMT as the West Virginia Educational Representative. Aside from his full-time position at HealthNet he is still providing clinical care in the aeromedical and ground environment and serves as a volunteer firefighter. He is an instructor for WV Public Service Training, WVU Fire Service Extension, National Fire Academy and Spec Rescue International.
Donna York, DNP, RN, CMTE
ZOLL Golden Hour | emsCharts
Donna has been engaged in flight/transport nursing for 30+ years, serving in the roles of staff nurse, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Chief Flight Nurse, Educator and Program Director.
Safety in transport is one of Donna’s core values. Having lost a number of friends and colleagues to air medical incidents and accidents, Donna has brought how these experiences impacted her to the SMTA since its inception in 2009 to strengthen the safety science and practice of transport providers. Since 2006, Donna has worked for ZOLL Golden Hour | emsCharts as the translator of customer needs to software and process development. She is passionate to move the analysis of this information forward, linking the clinical with the operational, safety and business logistics. She believes this linking will aid in strategic decision-making and policy formation to improve patient transport for providers and patients. Donna recently completed a Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) to advance her skill and foster the integration of safety, clinical and operational data to real solutions.
