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MedAire Grows into Global Medical and Security Company

Started from modest roots in 1985 by Joan Sullivan Garrett, company now has 350 employees and global offices.

Since it was founded in 1985, MedAire has responded to more than 1 million calls.

By Karen Di Piazza

September 28, 2017

In summer 1983, Joan Sullivan Garrett, then a critical-care flight nurse and chief medical officer, was aboard a helicopter evacuation flight, responding to a rural traffic accident in the San Tan Mountains in Arizona. She, her paramedic and the pilot were advised a car had rolled over and a child was thrown from the vehicle.

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