Dartmouth Hitchcock Advanced Response Team (DHART) has named Michael B. Mulhern as its new director. Mulhern has worked for DHART since 2012 when he was hired as a flight paramedic. His term as director began in October.
Mulhern has worked in emergency medical services since 2002. He became certified as a paramedic in 2008 and worked in that capacity in the cities of Manchester, NH, and Lawrence, MA, later transitioning to working as a search and rescue flight paramedic for the U.S. State Department before joining DHART.
Mulhern was previously on the board of directors for the National Flight Paramedic Association and currently sits on the board of directors for the Association of Critical Care Transport. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and is currently pursuing a master’s of business administration at Southern New Hampshire University.
DHART helicopters and ambulances respond to thousands of transport requests annually in New Hampshire, Vermont, western Maine, upstate New York, and beyond as needed, delivering patients to Dartmouth Health’s Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) and other hospitals, and serve as an extension of DHMC in the air and on the road. The transportation team includes highly trained emergency medical professionals who can provide treatment in the field, and in the air, and is equipped to provide services many air ambulances do not, such as blood transfusions and other emergency procedures. DHART operates helicopter hangars in Lebanon and Manchester.
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