Aaron Asay is the Chief Medical Officer for Aerial Recovery, overseeing all medical preparations and response to humanitarian events. He is a practicing Physician Assistant with extensive experience in austere and rural medicine, primary care, and trauma, including 6 years as the primary care provider of a small island community in Hawaii and over a decade caring specifically for underserved communities. He is also a CBRNE (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosive) injury and trauma specialist on a disaster rescue team with the US Air Force. He worked as lead medical operator and team lead with Operation Underground Railroad, with numerous successful high-risk missions in a variety of international locations, conducting undercover child sex trafficking investigations. His work has also included developing standards of operation and training guidelines for this unique niche of field medicine. He has worked as a professional urban and wildland firefighter and paramedic, including being a member of an elite civilian rescue squad with special training in technical rescue, hazardous material response, mountain and swiftwater rescue, and confined space urban disaster response.
