About Us

MD ONBOARD is a remote medical advisory services company. Our aviation-trained emergency medicine specialists—ER physicians and paramedics—deliver medical advice and support to the global aviation market, with a focus on real-time assistance to flight crews and ground staff, managing medical events from preflight to inflight to post-flight.

MD ONBOARD started its journey by listening.

Meeting with many of the leading commercial and business aviation companies and industry experts, we discovered both gaps and opportunities… opportunities that revealed a clear path to transform an industry.

Our vision was to build the world’s most advanced remote medical advisory service, while empowering aviation clients to make informed decisions when managing the risks associated with medical events.

With the directive of building unsurpassed crew confidence and capability, we have built a truly remarkable integrated system, which includes advanced training-related services, medical kit audit and upgrade recommendations, agile coordination with medical ground support, as well as proprietary reporting, analysis, and benchmarking services.

MD ONBOARD draws its strength from one of the world’s most robust and innovative healthcare ecosystems—Northwell Health and its world-class Center for Emergency Medical Services (CEMS) infrastructure. In addition to CEMS, Northwell has experience of special relevance to MDOB’s service offer: its global refurbishment center, training academy, air helicopter ambulance and organ transport programs, and expansive international telemedicine services.

The Northwell
Health Difference

Northwell Health

MD ONBOARD’s medical advisory services are built on the firm foundation of one of the most sophisticated healthcare organizations in the world—Northwell Health.

The Northwell clinical ecosystem consists of 21 hospitals, 900 outpatient centers, 16,900 physicians, and 19,000 nurses across more than 100 diverse medical specialties. Its ground and air ambulances conduct over 100,000 missions per year.

Northwell Health Ecosystem

  • 21 hospitals
  • 900 outpatient centers
  • 16,900 physicians
  • 19,000 nurses
  • 100,000 + ambulance missions per year.

Telehealth

Northwell Health has a robust suite of state-of-the-art telehealth capabilities specialized for Intensive Care Unit, Stroke, Skilled Nursing Facility, Emergency Room, and Psychiatric Emergency Room, to effectively respond to remote events in real time, serving the private sector and public/governmental entities, including the US State Department.

Research and development

Northwell Health engages in a vigorous program of wide-ranging R&D activities to foster innovation. Its Feinstein Institutes of Medical Research is made up of five different institutes devoted to behavioral science, bioelectronic medicine, cancer, health system science, and molecular medicine. The health system maintains 50 research laboratories and employs 5,000 researchers that generate over 250 patent filings and 2,700 published papers annually. In addition, it holds close relations with global strategic partners such as pharma and biotech firms, international trade agencies, and enterprise partners, to streamline collaboration and drive innovation. Northwell also has affiliations with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Academics

Northwell Health boasts world-class educational/academic resources—including 1,900 active residents and fellows, 160 graduate course offerings, and a Center for Learning and Innovation that provides continuing education to over 60,000 students per year. Northwell also has The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra-Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. Northwell is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).

Logistics

In addition to this deep, broad suite of services, Northwell Health's supply chain team is a 5B logistics organization that operates an 85,000-square foot distribution center, delivering over 3,000 product SKUs to facilities across New York state.

Ongoing innovation

The sum total of these assets and capabilities positions Northwell Health as a lead player on the global healthcare stage, and MD ONBOARD as imminent world leader/innovator in delivering medical advisory services to the aviation industry.

Our commitment to the industry

Advancement

In addition to serving our clients, we are committed to advancing the aviation industry. MD ONBOARD’s expansive research model, data collection, AI-enabled data analysis, and technologies are reshaping the way remote medical advisory services are developed and delivered across the global aviation ecosystem.

Research Initiatives

We support critical research initiatives, collaborate with industry experts, and confer with regulatory authorities, to share learnings, advance knowledge, drive innovation, and elevate best practices.

Benchmarks

We’re standard-bearers and standard-setters, establishing new benchmarks in safety and performance for the global aviation industry, now and into the future.