Jim Lantry, MD

Dr. James H. Lantry III is a Penn State graduate, a member of the United States Air Force (USAF), and a dual board-certified Emergency Medicine/Critical Care Physician. Dr. Lantry has extensive experience in austere medicine and en route critical care. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) Emergency Medicine residency and Critical Care Medicine fellowship. During this fellowship, he spent considerable time working in Port-au-Prince, Haiti assisting in the training and development of emergency medicine and critical care services.

After graduation, Dr. Lantry went on active duty for the USAF where he worked as a staff physician in the Emergency Department, Medical ICU, and Burn ICU of the largest Department of Defense (DOD) medical facility, The San Antonio Military Medical Center. Additionally, he served on faculty of Emergency Medicine at the Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences. Since joining the military, he has served as vice-director DOD Inpatient Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) program and co-director of the DOD ECMO transport program. He has cannulated in all areas of the world, from Afghanistan under rocket fire to a small Honduras medical facility with no fresh water or sterile services. He is responsible for thousands of miles of successful and complication- free ECLS transport.

Following his active-duty commitment, Dr. Lantry transitioned to the USAF Reserves and returned to UMMC and RA Cowley Shock Trauma Center as faculty of Emergency, Trauma, and Critical Care Medicine, and served as the Associate Program Director Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. While there, he worked as a vital staff member for the Lung Resuscitation Unit (LRU), a state-of-the art ECMO-focused ICU that contributed to UMMC being among the top three busiest ECMO centers in the United States.

Dr. Lantry has since transitioned to be the Cardiovascular ICU Medical Director, the ECMO Medical Director, and most recently the Critical Care Director of Quality Assurance of Inova Fairfax Hospital, Inova’s flagship 923-bed medical center serving primarily Northern Virginia, the Washington DC metro area, and beyond.

Dr. Lantry has been a leader for the Critical Care Air Transport Team (CCATT) for nearly a decade, acting as the theatre En Route Critical Care director in 2015, where he was responsible for assisting in the movement of hundreds of Coalition Forces out of the Middle East. Since 2019, he has directed the CCATT for the 934th Air Wing, responsible for coordinating global medical transports, deploying austere medical response teams, and training en route critical care providers for the entire DOD.