Frank J. Karluk, MA, PMP, NRP has over 30 years’ experience in the medical field in multiple areas to include advancing patient care on the battlefield, direct patient care in the hospital setting, instruction, and curriculum development. Twenty-one of these years were in service to the United States Army with various assignments that included combat operations in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. During this deployment he served as the Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge of an Army MEDEVAC detachment that was tasked to directly support the Special Operations Command during high-risk kinetic operations involving active warfare, including lethal force. He and his unit were the first Army MEDEVAC unit to conduct in flight blood resuscitation and he is credited with being the first flight paramedic to perform an emergency escharotomy in flight under the remote direction of a trauma surgeon. He maintains active licensure and certifications and is currently a faculty member at The George Washington University. Mr. Karluk has been invited to speak at international conferences and has been a spokesperson within the Medical/ Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high yield Explosives (CBRNE) community before the Joint Chiefs, and other high level governmental leadership post 9/11.

Mr. Karluk holds a master’s degree in Emergency and Disaster Management and graduated with high honors. He continues to share is experiences in the development of future medical simulation and training efforts and has been cited in multiple efforts that have expanded the abilities of a multidisciplinary practitioner community that includes medical providers both inside and outside the military. Most recently he managed the over $90M efforts within the Defense Health Agency, Medical Simulation portfolio, and designed and implemented curriculum within the U.S. Department of State, Special Agent training that was based on recent lessons learned during worldwide deployments into austere locations of conflict.