Eugene Delaune, MD

Dr. Delaune practices Emergency medicine in multiple U.S. states and serves as the medical director for SentinelMED, where he is actively involved in the planning and execution of the aeromedical transportation of hundreds of patients each year. He has medical licenses in 13 states, was trained by NASA as a landing-site Physician to care for astronauts in the event of an emergency landing at a TAL site, and was trained and certified by the U.S. Air Force as a Critical Care Aeromedical Transport Team (CATT) Physician. He is a native English speaker and is fluent in German.

Prior to joining SentinelMED, Dr. Delaune worked as an active duty U.S. Air Force flight surgeon at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida and Ramstein Air Base in Germany. He was called back to active duty in 2003. He was assigned to a forward operating base at the Baghdad airport, where he was responsible for the initial evaluation and treatment of battlefield injuries and served as the primary Physician determining the “fitness to fly” for patients being evacuated out of the war zone.

Dr. Delaune completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame, graduated from the Tulane University School of Medicine, and completed his Emergency Medicine residency at The George Washington University. He is a board-certified emergency physician and a fellow in the American College of Emergency Physicians. He has been published in the journal Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine on “In-Flight Emergencies on Civilian Aircraft,” and wrote the chapter on Aeromedical Evacuation in the textbook “Expedition and Wilderness Medicine,” which was published in 2008.

From 2001-2019, Dr. Delaune served as the Chief Medical Officer for Europ Assistance USA / Generali Global Assistance / GMMI, a large global assistance company. He also served on the Europ Assistance Group’s International Medical Director Committee.

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