Thomas Crabtree, MD, MHCDS, FACS | Vice Chairman, Group Medical Director

Dr. Crabtree is the Group Medical Director for AMI a global company with deep expertise in the delivery of healthcare solutions in remote, challenging, and under-resourced environments.

Prior to forming AMI, he retired as a Colonel from the US Army. During his military career, Dr. Crabtree served as a trauma and reconstructive surgeon in multiple domestic, overseas, and combat settings. He was also seconded to the UN on several occasions to support various Department of Peacekeeping Operations missions.

Dr. Crabtree also served as the medical director and the senior medical advisor to the US Pacific Command’s Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance. He held the same position with The Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Civil-Military Relations Global Health Program. In this capacity, Dr. Crabtree was responsible for guiding, brokering, and executing myriad civil-military medical assistance efforts and health development programs around the globe.

At AMI, Dr. Crabtree has built an extensive network of private clinics across Africa and the Middle East linked by AMI-owned and operated aeromedical platforms. He also recently led large-scale AMI efforts running multiple USAID-supported Ebola Treatment Units across Western Africa and served as a clinical director of three WHO Trauma and Maternity Hospitals in Mosul.

Dr. Crabtree is a graduate of Harvard and Stanford. He completed his general surgery training in San Francisco and Tucson and his plastic surgery training in Washington DC and Baltimore.

During his time in Iraq, Dr. Crabtree participated in an award-winning HBO Documentary film Baghdad ER. The film can be accessed via HBO.com