AOPA Pilot Magazine - January 2021 - 102

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40,000

The number of medical-related
calls annually to the AOPA Pilot
Information Center.

News & Notes
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PILOT PROTECTION SERVICES

Standing up for you

Meet the experts on
AOPA's Board of Medical Advisors
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MANY PILOTS-TOO MANY-experience delays associated with special issuance medical reviews by the FAA. It is frustrating, costly,
and not the way it should be. AOPA devotes significant attention to
this issue and has recently reappointed an AOPA Board of Aviation
Medical Advisors (BAMA) that will provide superb expertise in
advancing solutions to address long-overdue reforms to the FAA's
medical certification processes.

BRENT BLUE, M.D., is a senior aviation medical examiner and emergency
medicine and family medicine physician
in Jackson, Wyoming. He holds an ATP
certificate and is also a designated HIMS
AME who works with pilots on substance
abuse and dependence issues requiring
a comprehensive evaluation for medical
special issuance certification. He flies a
Cessna 185 and a 1943 Nooruyn Norseman
out of Driggs, Idaho.

CHUCK DENISON, PH.D., is a psychologist with offices in Broomfield, Colorado,
and Laramie, Wyoming, who specializes in
aviation neuropsychology and forensic psychology. He is authorized to conduct the
specialized testing under the FAA HIMS
program. Denison commutes to his offices
in his Aviat Husky A-1B bush plane and
spends much of his flying time in the backcountry, appropriately so since his backyard
is the Rocky Mountains.

IAN BLAIR FRIES, M.D., is an orthopedic surgeon and senior FAA HIMS AME with
practices in Vero Beach, Florida, and Brick,
New Jersey. Fries' aviation practice focuses
on special issuances, especially those that
require HIMS evaluations for alcohol and
substance abuse/dependence. An ATP with
more than 6,000 PIC hours and a CFII, he
holds a Learjet type rating and is somewhat
partial to TBMs after flying them for 20
years. He currently flies a Daher TBM 940.

SEAN MALONE, M.D., practices
internal medicine in Salisbury, North
Carolina, and is a senior AME. He is
clinical assistant professor in the department of internal medicine at Wake
Forest University School of Medicine.
He is active in the AOPA You Can Fly
Flying Club initiative and is a fellow in
the American College of Physicians. He
holds a commercial pilot certificate with
instrument rating and is an active pilot
in the beautiful hill country of North
Carolina.

RICHARD ROTH, M.D., is an infectious disease specialist in Savannah,
Georgia. He is the director of infectious
disease training at the Memorial Health
University in Savannah. He is a senior AME
with an office on the field at Savannah/
Hilton Head International Airport. Roth
is a 4,000-plus-hour ATP, type rated in
the Lear LR60 and Gulfstream GV/G450/
G550, and instructs at Flight Safety
International in the G450/G550, providing initial and recurrent training at the FSI
Savannah Training Center.

KEN STAHL, M.D., is board certified
in multiple disciplines including surgery,
thoracic surgery, and surgical critical care,
with certificates for advanced cardiac life
support, advanced trauma life support,
advanced trauma life support instructor,
advanced trauma operative management,
and pediatric advanced life support. He
holds an ATP certificate, and is healthcare division president for Convergent
Performance, a firm that provides customized assessments, tools, and human
performance training solutions.

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