LifeFlight Leadership

Executive Leadership

Medical Leadership

  • Stephan Russ

    M.D., Associate Chief of Staff, Vanderbilt University Hospital Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine

  • Jeremy Brywczynski

    Medical Director, LifeFlight Air Transport Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine

  • Brad Dennis

    Associate Medical Director, LifeFlight Air and Ground Trauma Associate Professor, Surgery

  • Rebecca Sokel Kidd

    Medical Director, LifeFlight Air Pediatrics Associate Professor, Clinical Pediatrics

  • Jared McKinney

    Medical Director, LifeFlight Ground, Communications and Event Medicine Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine

Administrative Leadership

Air Transport Division Leadership

  • Chris House

    MSN, RN, CEN, AEMT
    Chief Flight Nurse, LifeFlight 4

  • Lis Henley

    FNP, MSN, RN, EMT
    Flight Nurse Practitioner, Interim Chief Flight Nurse, LF 6

  • Rita McCoy

    BSN, RN, CEN, NREMT
    Chief Flight Nurse, LifeFlight 8

  • Kathy Nippers

    FNP-BC, MSN, CCRN, CEN, AEMT
    Flight Nurse Practitioner, Chief Flight Nurse, LifeFlight 5

Ground, EMS, Event Medicine and Emergency Communications Division Leadership