Team
Andrew Azelton
BS, NRP, LP, FP-C, WP-C
Andrew is an austere and operational medicine specialist with more than twenty-five years in prehospital critical care, rescue medicine, and high-risk medical operations. He has written software for as long as he has run calls, and that systems background runs underneath the clinical work.
He is completing a Master of Science in Austere Critical Care at the College of Remote and Offshore Medicine Foundation and is board certified as a Flight Paramedic and Wilderness Paramedic. His career spans two decades in a high-volume urban EMS system, including special operations, clinical program development, and department-wide education leadership. His graduate research examines AI clinical decision support in austere systems — how these tools remain safe, usable, and trusted where connectivity, power, and oversight cannot be assumed. He founded the AI in Austere Medicine Project, an open-source research initiative, and serves on the Wilderness Medical Society's Artificial Intelligence Committee as an Edge AI Architect.
He writes the architecture and runs the call.
Clinical
Prehospital Critical Care · Damage Control Resuscitation & Whole Blood · Austere & Operational Medicine · Prolonged Field Care · Advanced Airway & Ventilator Management · Point-of-Care Ultrasound · Search & Rescue Medicine
AI & Systems
RAG-based CDSS Architecture · Edge LLM Deployment (Offline / Air-gapped) · Cloud AI Integration · Hybrid Cloud-Edge Systems · Remote & Non-standard Communications (Satellite, Mesh Radio, LTE) · AI/ML Pipeline Development · Python · Data Pipeline Design
Leadership & Instruction
Graduate-Level Research · Clinical Education & Curriculum Design · Scenario-Based Simulation · Program Management · Public Speaking & Conference Lecturing
Kendra Azelton
MSN, BSN, RN, CEN
Kendra is a trauma clinical data analyst and nurse educator with more than twenty years in emergency care. She began as a paramedic before moving to the emergency department, where she spent a decade as an ER nurse in a major health system. She holds a Master of Science in Nursing in nursing education, has been a Certified Emergency Nurse since 2015, and is a registered nurse licensed in Texas.
She serves as Clinical Data Analyst for Trauma Services at a Level I academic trauma center, following a role as its trauma educator. She collects and structures trauma registry data, builds the reporting and dashboards that trauma leadership works from, and supports TQIP reporting, trauma center verification, performance improvement projects, and published research. Her work sits where AKG's does: in the space between clinical practice and the data systems that measure it — registry quality, outcomes measurement, and turning trauma data into decisions that change care.
As an educator she has served as a TNCC course director and ran the annual trauma conference at a Level I trauma center — program development, speaker recruitment, and continuing education accreditation — alongside nursing curriculum development and clinical instruction.
Clinical
Emergency Nursing · Prehospital Care · Trauma Systems · Trauma Resuscitation · Triage & Acuity Assessment · Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN)
Data & Quality
Trauma Registry & Clinical Data Analysis · TQIP Reporting · Trauma Center Verification Support · Performance Improvement · Outcomes Measurement · Clinical Dashboards & Reporting · Research Data Support
Education
TNCC Course Direction · Conference Direction · Continuing Education Accreditation · Trauma Education · Nursing Curriculum Design · Clinical Instruction · Simulation-Based Training · Competency Assessment