Derek O. Hanley

Derek O. Hanley is a long-time paramedic and disabled veteran combat medic, author, published photographer, multi-instrumentalist, noted video producer, and is the founder of DOHP.

Derek served an active-duty tour in the U.S. Air Force as a paramedic and instructor, assigned to the 59th Medical Wing and stationed in the emergency department of the USAF level-one trauma center Wilford Hall Medical Center, where he received several awards and medals for his service.

Following this, Derek worked as a civilian paramedic in New York and served a tour with the Army National Guard as a combat medic and instructor with the 42nd Infantry Division, also receiving several commendations, including the Army Achievement medal, and a nomination for division soldier of the year. 

After moving to California, he was co-founder of a boutique commercial video production company in Oakland, producing and editing dozens of videos, while working with professional athletes, musicians, and CEOs.

Concurrently during this time, Derek became an EMT program director, teaching hundreds how to save lives, before starting his own business. He has feature-length film credits for cinematography, photography, and sound for his work on the independent film When the Man Went South, the first film to be shot on the island nation of Tonga completely in the Tongan native language. 

Derek’s pictures are heavily published in EMS World magazine, garnering the center spread with his photos from the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, and twice his images from the field have been selected for the cover.

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