To safely transport people with medical needs hundreds or thousands of miles requires careful coordination. SentinelMED’s medical escort teams brings together people with the planning skills, logistical background and medical training to care for people who are recovering from accidents or serious illness or who have chronic medical conditions.
Their experiences in the medical transport field include civilian and military aeromedical transport, assisting travelers after natural disasters and providing medical care after terrorist attacks. Those experiences help our team understand the complexities of transporting sick, elderly or injured patients in stressful circumstances.
Members of the SentinelMED team include:
Jim Evans, MD, managing director. Evans oversees SentinelMED’s medical escort team. SentinelMED’s medical escorts provide medical care and assistance to hundreds of patients each year. These escorts make it possible for patients to travel short and long distances on commercial airlines.
Dr. Evans also has served as a medical escort and directed medical care as an assistant medical director for a large global assistance company. He is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
Eugene Delaune, MD, medical director. Delaune helps plan and execute air medical transport for hundreds of people each year. Before joining SentinelMED, he worked as a U.S. Air Force flight surgeon. During assignment in Baghdad, Iraq, he served as the primary physician who determined “fitness to fly” for patients who were being considered for evacuation out of war zones.
Dr. Delaune is a board-certified physician and a fellow in the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is a native English speaker and is fluent in German.
Diane Mortiere, director of medical services. In her role as director of medical services, Diane manages SentinelMED’s pool of medical escorts, as well as its medical equipment, escort training and credentialing. She also works as an emergency department nurse in a Level 1 trauma center in Washington, D.C, where she has been clinically active for more than 30 years.
Before joining SentinelMED, Diane spent 16 years managing the medical team for a large global medical travel assistance company based in Washington. She also has been the medical lead on teams that conducted auditing and certification of domestic and international air ambulance providers. She has deployed and responded to several mass casualty events involving international travelers, including the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that devastated Thailand and the crash of an Air France flight in Toronto in 2005.
Diane is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Emergency Nurses Association, Society of Trauma Nurses and the International Society of Travel Medicine. She is certified in ACLS, BLS, ATCN, TNCC, PALS and CEN.
Philippe Socka, senior logistics manager. Phillippe has worked in logistics management for 13 years with several different international management assistance companies. He is experienced in working closely with emergency medical doctors, nurses and senior officials to extract and transport patients from high-risk travel areas.
In 2007, he founded Manengouba Foundation Incorporated, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is working to modernize education in Cameron by supporting technology and education programs. A native of Cameroon, Philippe is fluent in English, French and two African languages.
Reade Bush, PA-C. Reade provides medical oversight for domestic and international travelers who sustain medical emergencies, and coordinates care to facilitate medical evacuations and repatriations.Reade is a practicing physician assistant at a Level 1 trauma center. He is also an assistant medical director at Europ Assistance USA/Generali Global Assistance, a leading provider of travel assistance, travel insurance and risk management services.
Reade has worked on teams that provide medical triage and patient care for large scale events and responded to numerous small and large-scale fire and emergency incidents. He is a native English speaker with moderate proficiency in Spanish.
Lori Calavan, PA-C. Lori also provides medical oversight for domestic and international travelers who sustain medical emergencies, and coordinates care to facilitate medical evacuations and repatriations.Lori is a practicing physician assistant who works in surgical critical care at a Level 1 trauma center. She is also an adjunct professor in the physician assistant program at Quinnipiac University.
Lori is a native English speaker and is proficient in French and Spanish.
Why the Knowledge and Experience of a Medical Escort Team Matters
The medical escorts who work for SentinelMED are physicians, physician assistants, nurses and paramedics who are trained or experienced in emergency and critical care medicine. They can accompany people who are sick, ill or elderly during travel on commercial aircraft, a cost-effective alternative to air ambulance transport.
Our team works closely with hospital case managers and family members to choose medical escorts for patients based on their medical, cultural and primary language needs. SentinelMED helps manage all aspects of air medical transport, including speaking to the treating and receiving facility staff, obtaining medical clearances, arranging air and ground travel and hotels, obtaining visas and proper travel documents, and acquiring travel oxygen and necessary medications and equipment.
The SentinelMED team understands the complexity of delivering exceptional care to patients who need assistance during travel. Please contact us to learn more about the services that SentinelMED offers or its staff.
