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LifeFlight Event Medicine also provides coverage at other events such as this summer’s CMA Fest, where Coy Abercrombie, AEMT, left, and Matt Fuson, CCP, were among team members working the downtown Nashville music festival.
June 5, 2026

Vanderbilt LifeFlight offers tips to avoid injury and illness at CMA Fest  

More than 100 Vanderbilt Advanced Emergency Medical Technicians, paramedics, registered nurses, nurse practitioners and doctors will work the four-day festival, putting in an anticipated 1,700 total hours.

November 11, 2025

Allan Williams remembered for dedicated service to Vanderbilt LifeFlight, patients and colleagues

Allan Williams, MSN-Ed, RN, CFRN, EMT-P, flight nurse/paramedic for Vanderbilt LifeFlight, 55, died Nov. 8, during his service as a member of LifeFlight 1, based in Gallatin, Tennessee. The LifeFlight helicopter went down in an unpopulated area in Wilson County, Tennessee.

LifeFlight Event Medicine also provides coverage at other events such as this summer’s CMA Fest, where Coy Abercrombie, AEMT, left, and Matt Fuson, CCP, were among team members working the downtown Nashville music festival.
July 23, 2025

LifeFlight Event Medicine team honored for contributions to athletic training

The award reflects more than a decade of collaboration between LifeFlight and numerous athletic organizations, both collegiate and professional.

Jessica Van Meter, DNP, APN-BC, CCRN
July 16, 2025

Jessica Van Meter selected as American Academy of Nursing fellow

June 16, 2025

From stadium to stents, quick response saves soccer fan

When her evening pivoted from cheering for Nashville Soccer Club to suffering a heart attack, well-coordinated teams kept Leigh Anne Clark’s heart and life safe.

Nearly 500 paramedics and emergency medical technicians recently came to Vanderbilt to train in neonatal resuscitation practices.
June 12, 2025

Neonatal resuscitation initiative expands: First responders learn lifesaving techniques

Each day, 50 to 60 Nashville Fire employees participated, beginning with lectures and followed by hands-on group exercises facilitated by LifeFlight instructors.