Summary
Joan Sullivan Garrett, an emergency air nurse who was galvanized by the death of an eight-year-old boy in her arms after an auto accident, launched a company called MedAire some 20 years ago in the Phoenix area. As nurse-turned-entrepreneur, Garrett acquired a company in a similar line of business in Australia and earned a listing on the Australian Stock Exchange. MedAire services more than 850 corporate jet fleets and more than 2,000 corporate and private jets, as well as 84 airlines. So far this year, the company has handled 26,582 in-flight medical emergencies, 5% of which were serious enough to divert the plane. She acknowledges that it is been a huge learning curve for her to emerge as a CEO.
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Making the World Safer to Fly
THE NEXT TIME you're in your private jet, or even if you have to suffer the indignity of flying commercially, look for the word "MedLink" posted s...
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