Dr. Rahul Singh Sardar graduated from Karnatak University and obtained his Fellowship in Anaesthesia from the College of Anaesthetist, Ireland and a Membership from the Royal College of Anaesthetist, UK. He began his career in and Accident & Emergency and Acute Medicine, which was followed by the Basic Anaesthetic training in London, South East Thames Deanery.

Prior to ICATT, Dr. Sardar was posted in Scotland, Greater Glasgow and Clyde Deanery. He lead the Aeromedical Retrieval and Repatriation team that carried out both, Category 1 as well as planned transfers using helicopters and fixed wing aircrafts.

This job involved being on challenging geographical and rough weather conditions of the Highlands along with complex medical scenarios. The attributes of Teamwork, Leadership, Situational awareness and contingency planning were ingraind. He presented his work on Aeromedical services in The World Congress of Critical Care in Lisbon, Portugal (European Society of Intensive care Medicine).

He further pursued his interest in Pre hospital Trauma and Critical Care by getting trained in Expedition Medicine and completed his module in Chamonix from France WMT (Wildernesses Medical Training).

During his Higher Specialist training in Anaesthesia, in The Northwest Deanery, Manchester, Dr. Sardar was awarded the Robbie McKendric prize by ANWICU (Association of Northwest Intensive Care Units) for his work on Cardiorespiratory Monitoring during transfer of Critical Patients.

Dr. Sardar is one of the Founding Members of ICATT. Apart from bringing his skill set home to India, his ambition is to make ICATT a pioneer in Specialised, Structured Aeromedical Services - at par with the best in the sector. He has a special interest in ECMO and his dream is to launch the first ever dedicated Airbourne ECMO team with its own portable kit and Specialists.

Dr. Shalini Nalwad graduated from Mysore University and obtained her Fellowship in Anaesthesia from the College of Anaesthetist, Ireland. She also has a Membership from the Royal College of Anaesthetist, UK. She secured the prestigious medical training programme of The Northern Ireland, Deanery. During her tenure as a trainee in a medical rotation, she led the Cardiac Arrest Team, the Mobile Cardiac ICU and has lysed the patients in the community, and successfully resuscitated cardiac arrests in the community.

She has gained extensive experience working in the Tertiary Intensive Care Unit in Belfast for three years which mainly deals with trauma. She is associated with Europe’s leading Air ambulance company and has transferred Level 2 to Level 3 patients across the world.

She was able to retrieve patients from 5 countries, 2 continents in 72 hours and has undeterringly airlifted patients from Libya in midst of the turmoil.
She was also part of the Panel at the 6th Annual Conference of Indian College of Anaesthesiologists in collaboration with University of Minnesota, USA, Nov 2014. Dr. Nalwad is an ECMO specialist from Leicester Glenfield Hospital UK, (June 2015) and will be launching the first ever Airborne ECMO in India.

Realising the gaps in Indian medical system she, along with others have associated to form ICATT, which can help make the emergency medical transfer a reality in India and also make it affordable to the needy.