Preliminary Program

Kyle Danielson serves as Director of Operations at Airlift Northwest / UW Medicine, a multi-state academic air medical program based in Seattle. With a background spanning clinical practice, operations leadership, and research, he brings a unique perspective on the strategic and operational challenges facing air medical transport programs. 

 

Kyle also advises air medical leaders on program expansion, network optimization, and base positioning using spatial analytics and location intelligence. His work focuses on helping programs make data-informed strategic decisions about service area design and resource allocation. 

 

He earned a Master of Nursing from the University of Toronto with a specialization in resuscitation science and a Master of Public Health from Simon Fraser University, where his research focused on optimizing early activation of helicopter EMS for major trauma in British Columbia. Kyle serves as Clinical Liaison to the Resuscitation Engineering Science Unit (RESCU) at UW Medicine and is active in research advancing air medical transport, health systems, and resuscitation science. 

Dr. Katie Lin is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary.

 

She works as an Emergency Physician at the Foothills Medical Centre, a Stroke Physician with the Calgary Stroke Program, a Critical Care Flight Transport Physician with STARS Air Ambulance, an expert advisor for the Heart and Stroke Foundation, Deputy Director of Podcasts for EM Cases Podcast, and creator and director of the SYNAPSE: EM Neuro Essentials Course.

 

Dr. Lin completed her FRCPC emergency medicine residency training and stroke subspecialty training in Calgary alongside a parallel Master of Public Health through Harvard. She is an award-winning speaker and educator with interests in medical education and knowledge translation, neurocritical care, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

 

Outside the hospital and helicopter base, you’ll find her reading, traveling, running, and hiking. 

Stephen is a consultant with Scotland’s Emergency Medical Retrieval Service. He led the establishment of the team from a small voluntary service in 2004 to what is now a fully government funded aeromedical retrieval organization. 

 

He is the author of Peak Performance Under Pressure, a book discussing decision making in high pressure situations and the effects of human factors on team and individual performance. He trains medical, rescue, military and police personnel internationally in this area.  

 

Stephen led the team establishing the Diploma in retrieval and transfer medicine for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He developed and contributes to the organization of the annual UK retrieval conference. Stephen is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the University of Glasgow. 

 

He has been an active voluntary member of Arrochar mountain rescue team for 30 years and holds the Mountain Leader Award. Stephen acted as medical officer on seven international expeditions in mountain, desert, jungle and arctic environments before establishing the first expedition medicine course in the UK. 

 

Stephen has been providing expert opinions in legal cases for over fifteen years. He was the Scottish Ombudsman’s first advisor in emergency medicine and prehospital care and has been an expert witness for the General Medical Council for ten years. He also works with the Procurator Fiscal in relation to fatal accident inquiries. 

 

Visit his website at CoreCognition.co.uk