Vice Admiral Robinson assumed duties as the 36th Surgeon General of the Navy and Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery on August 27, 2007. Vice Admiral Robinson is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. He entered the naval service in 1977 and holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, through the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program. Following completion of his surgical internship at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, he was commissioned.

Vice Adm. Robinson’s first assignment was as a General Medical Officer, Branch Medical Clinic, Fort Allen, Puerto Rico, before reporting to the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, in 1978 to complete a residency in General Surgery. His subsequent duty assignments included: Staff Surgeon, U.S. Naval Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan, and Ship’s Surgeon, USS MIDWAY (CV-41).

After completing a fellowship in Colon and Rectal Surgery at Carle Foundation Hospital, University of Illinois School of Medicine Affiliated, Champagne-Urbana (1984-85), Vice Admiral Robinson reported to the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, as the Head of the Colon and Rectal Surgery Division. While there, he was called to temporary duty in 1987 as Ship’s Surgeon in USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV-67) and in 1988 as Ship’s Surgeon in USS CORAL SEA (CV-43).

Vice Admiral Robinson reported to Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA, in 1990 as the Head of the General Surgery Department and Director of General Surgery Residency Program. He was appointed Acting Medical Director for the facility in 1994. While at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Vice Admiral Robinson earned a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of South Florida. In 1995, Vice Admiral Robinson reported to the Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, as the Force Medical Officer serving in that capacity for two years. Following that assignment, he reported to Naval Hospital Jacksonville in 1997 as the Executive Officer. In January 1999, as Fleet Hospital Jacksonville Commanding Officer, Vice Admiral Robinson commanded a detachment of the fleet hospital as a medical contingent to Joint Task Force Haiti (Operation New Horizon/Uphold Democracy).

In August 1999, Vice Admiral Robinson reported to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) as the Director of Readiness and was selected as the Principle Director, Clinical and Program Policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs in September 2000, where he also served as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Clinical and Program Policy. Vice Admiral Robinson was assigned as Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka from September 2001 to January 2004, after which he received assignment back to BUMED as Deputy Chief of BUMED for Medical Support Operations with additional duty as acting Chief of the Medical Corps. In July 2004, Vice Admiral Robinson reported as Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. He assumed the duties as Commander, Navy Medicine National Capital Area Region in October 2005.

The author of numerous presentations and publications, Vice Admiral Robinson holds fellowships in the American College of Surgeons and the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery. He is a member of the Le Societe Internationale de Chirurgie, the Society of Black Academic Surgeons, and the National Business School Scholastic Society, Beta Gamma Sigma. He holds certification as a Certified Physician Executive from the American College of Physician Executives. Vice Admiral Robinson’s personal decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit (two awards), Defense Meritorious Service Medal (two awards), Meritorious Service Medal (three awards), Navy Commendation Medal, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Navy Achievement Medal and various service and campaign awards.

Lieutenant General Eric B. Schoomaker was sworn in as the 42nd Army Surgeon General on 11 December 2007 and assumed Command of US Army Medical Command on 13 December 2007. Before this selection, LTG Schoomaker served as the Commanding General Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command.

LTG Schoomaker was born into an Army family in Detroit, Michigan. In 1970 he graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, was commissioned a Second Lieutenant as a Distinguished Military Graduate, and awarded a Bachelor of Science degree. He received his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1975 andcompleted his Ph.D. in Human Genetics in 1979.

He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, from 1976 to 1978, followed by a fellowship in Hematology at Duke University Medical Center in 1979. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in both Internal Medicine and Hematology. His military education includes completion of the Combat Casualty Care Course, Medical Management of Chemical Casualty Care Course, AMEDD Officer Advanced Course, Command and General Staff College, and the US Army War College.

LTG Schoomaker has held a wide variety of assignments. From 1979 until 1982, he was a research hematologist at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He served as Assistant Chief and Program Director, Department of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 1982 - 1988; Medical Consultant to Headquarters, 7th Medical Command, Heidelberg, Germany, 1988 - 1990; Deputy Commander for Clinical Services, Landstuhl Army Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany, 1990 - 1992; Chief and Program Director, Department of Medicine and Director of Primary Care, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA, 1992 - 1995; Director of Medical Education for the Office of The Surgeon General/HQ USAMEDCOM conducting a split operation between Washington, DC, and Fort Sam Houston, TX, 1995 - 1997; and Director of Clinical Operations at the HQ USAMEDCOM, February to July 1997. From July 1997 to July 1999, he commanded the USA MEDDAC (Evans Army Community Hospital) at Fort Carson, CO. He attended the US Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, PA, from 1999 to 2000 followed by assignments as the Command Surgeon for the US Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) from July 2000 to March 2001, and Commander of the 30th Medical Brigade headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, from April 2001 to June 2002.

The Army Surgeon General appointed General Schoomaker to the position of Chief of the Army Medical Corps when he assumed command of the Southeast Regional Medical Command/Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center from June 2002 to June 2005. Prior to commanding the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command, he was the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick, Maryland from July 2005 – March 2007.

His awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, the Legion of Merit with four oak leaf clusters, the Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal and the Humanitarian Service Medal. He has been honored with the Order of Military Medical Merit and the "A" Proficiency Designator and holds the Expert Field Medical Badge.

LTG Schoomaker is married to a former Army Nurse Corps Officer and yoga instructor and has three school-aged children.

Charles P. Friedman, PhD. is currently the Chief Scientific Officer for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As ONC’s chief scientist, he leads a group responsible for tracking and promoting innovation in health IT, for research programs to improve technology, for applications of health IT that support basic and clinical research, for evaluation of all of ONC’s programs, for programs to develop the health IT workforce, and for activities supporting global eHealth. Dr. Friedman served as Deputy National Coordinator for two years prior to assuming his new position. He was lead author of the national Health IT Strategic Plan released in June of 2008.

Prior to joining ONC, Dr. Friedman was Associate Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. In this capacity, he founded the Center for Research Informatics and Information Technology, and functioned as the Institute's Chief Information Officer. Dr. Friedman first joined NIH in 2003, as a Senior Scholar at the National Library of Medicine.

From 1996 to 2003, Dr. Friedman was Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh where he established a health sciences-wide Center for Biomedical Informatics, a well-funded program of informatics research, and masters and doctoral degree programs in biomedical informatics. He also served as Chief Information Officer for the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences.

Dr. Friedman obtained bachelors and masters degrees in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also received a PhD in education from the University of North Carolina (UNC). He wrote his first computer program in 1966. He spent over 19 years on the medical school faculty at UNC and served as Assistant Dean for Medical Education and Informatics. In 1985, he established the Laboratory for Computing and Cognition at UNC and, in 1992, started UNC's medical informatics training program.

Dr. Friedman has written extensively for scientific journals, and authored a well-known textbook. He is a past president of the American College of Medical Informatics, and was the 2005 chair of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Dr. Tibbits was inducted into Senior Executive Service in February 2004, appointed Deputy Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Development for Department of Veterans Affairs on 7 December 2006. Dr. Tibbits is currently on assignment as Chairman, Transformation-21 Work Group to set in place the IT organization, processes, projects, and knowledge management tools necessary to prepare VA to opeate in the 21st century. Dr. Tibbits served in DoD as Director of the Business Management and Modernization Program and Transformation Support Office until September 2005, and stood up and served as Deputy Director of Military Health System Office of Transformation, representing Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs).

Dr. Tibbits is experienced senior executive leader in change management, organizational development, managing global health IT systems, planning, problem-solving, metrics, outsourcing, contracts, finance, employee effectiveness, and customer satisfaction.

Dr. Tibbits served as Program Executive Officer of $400M Defense IT enterprise, with 18 yrs leading change management, process re-engineering, and IT initiatives supporting health care of 8.5M people, 50M visits, 1M admissions annually in Military Health System. He has developed strategic plans for technology insertion for global integrated delivery network; developed and implemented two worldwide medical record systems; restructured IT management, and regularly represented IT projects to highest DOD executives and Congress. He implemented first and largest change management and benefits realization program in DOD in support of largest medical IT program in DOD.

Dr. Tibbits developed life-cycle cost-benefits model and management approaches for $1.6B IT initiative, largest medical program in DOD. He initiated configuration control process for worldwide IT programs; developed Military Health System Strategic and IM/IT Plans; designed governance structure for senior executive management of process re-engineering and IT capital investment. Dr. Tibbits led operational test and evaluation of largest DOD medical IT system in 14 military hospitals and associated clinics; led development of solutions to link user satisfaction with system performance and life-cycle cost. Dr. Tibbits led IT operations for approximately 100 hospitals, 500 clinics, 100 data centers, networks, and 125,000 desktops; and implemented controls to manage total ownership costs.

Dr. Tibbits validated actual costs and benefits against life-cycle cost-benefit models for global IT initiatives; implemented performance metrics, resulting in reduction in cost of operations; developed test plans for MHS IT initiatives to measure performance & customer satisfaction; initiated measurement for clinical applications of customer satisfaction & engineering improvements; led data quality initiatives to eliminate duplicate patient records; and established the architecture for executive information system to improve data base synchronization and data quality.

Dr. Tibbits initiated data management for health service research for 8.5M beneficiaries, to measure quality of health service data; initiated connectivity to the work-site, bringing health care to customer, keeping workers on job; led development of health service metrics for integrated delivery network; led development and use of first operational architecture for managed care based on process models of global integrated delivery network, enhancing systems interoperability, and eliminating redundant software development among programs. Dr. Tibbits led negotiations for $900M IT contract to implement user-driven software design; and led negotiations for software, hardware, & communications for $200M/year project.

Dr. Tibbits developed short and long-term budgets for $400M IT operations; initiated health-service process, model-based program for financing IT programs, resulting in first significant increase in medical IT investment in the Defense Health Program.

Rear Admiral Jeffries began his naval career in 1976 through the Armed Forces Health Professional's Scholarship Program and earned his BA from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He completed graduate studies at the University of Colorado in secondary education, earning a State of Colorado teaching certificate. He graduated from the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Des Moines, Iowa in 1979.

Rear Adm. Jeffries completed an internship and Family Medicine residency at Naval Hospital Pensacola, Fla. in 1982 and immediately attained Board Certification from the American Board of Family Practice. His first staff assignment was to Branch Naval Hospital Twenty-nine Palms, California, where he received appointments as Head, Family Practice Department, Acting Director Clinical Services, and Chief, Medical Staff.

In August 1984 Rear Adm. Jeffries was transferred to the Department of Family Medicine at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, serving as Staff Family Physician, Residency Faculty and Clinic Director. In 1986 he was promoted to Director, Residency Training where he attained Board Certification in Family Practice from the American Osteopathic Board of General Practice and Fellow, American Academy of Family Physicians. Rear Adm. Jeffries is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Association of Military Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons (Past President), Uniformed Services Academy of Family Physicians, American Osteopathic Association, and the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States.

In August of 1990 he served in Operation Desert Shield as Artillery Regimental Surgeon, 11th Marines. While in theater he was deputy then acting Division Surgeon. A year later he was assigned to the 1st Marine Division as Division Surgeon. In December 1992 he was appointed Marine Forces Central Command and I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) Force Surgeon for Operation Restore Hope, Somalia.

In the summer of 1993 Rear Adm. Jeffries was re-assigned to Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton as Family Practice Department Head and Residency Program Director. In 1996 he was appointed Chairman, Executive Committee of the Medical Staff and completed his tour as Director, Medical Services. In October 1998 he reported to Marine Forces Pacific, Camp Smith, Hawaii, as the Force Surgeon. In April 2000 he assumed duties as the Deputy Commander for Clinical Services at Tripler Army Medical Center until April 2003 when he assumed command at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton. In August 2005 Rear Adm. Jeffries reported to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery as the Deputy Chief for Future Plans and Strategies. Soon after his arrival, Rear Adm. Jeffries was deployed as the JFMCC Surgeon in support of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. From November 2005 to July 2007 Rear Adm. Jeffries was Medical Officer to the Marine Corps. He then assumed command of National Naval Medical Center and Regional Commander Navy Medicine National Capitol Area in Bethesda. In August 2008 he returned to Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps as a 2-star select to be the USMC Medical Officer.

Rear Adm. Jeffries’ personal decorations include the Legion of Merit with four Gold Stars, Bronze Star, Joint Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal with one Gold Star, Combat Action Award, Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Navy Unit Commendation, Meritorious Unit Commendation, Bronze Star, Army Order of Military Medical Merit, and Artillery Order of Saint Barbara.

Rear Admiral Valentin is a native of Seattle, Washington. After receiving her Bachelor of Science degrees in Zoology and Psychology at the University of Washington, she completed a Masters degree in Public Health (Health Policy and Planning), and a Master of Science degree in Public Health (Biostatistics) at the University of Hawaii. In 1982 she was commissioned as a Lieutenant Junior Grade, Medical Service Corps, United States Navy, and for the next decade she served in a variety of department head and administrative officer positions at Naval Hospital San Diego, California; Admiral J. T. Boone Branch Medical Clinic in Norfolk, Virginia; Naval Medical Clinic Norfolk, Virginia; U. S. Naval Hospital Guam; Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C.; and U. S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan. Rear Admiral Valentin served as Director for Administration at Naval Medical Clinic in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii from 1994 - 1997. Following that duty, Rear Admiral Valentin reported to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and became the Branch Head for TRICARE Marketing and Communications. In October 2000, Rear Admiral Valentin became the Director, Regional Operations, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) TRICARE Management Activity. There, she led staff and joint service teams in developing plans and strategies to implement statutory and policy guidance for the delivery of healthcare services to eligible beneficiaries worldwide. From April 2003 until April 2006, she served as Executive Officer, Naval Hospital Corpus Christi, Texas; and from May 2006 through May 2008, she served as Commanding Officer, Naval Hospital/Health Clinic Cherry Point, North Carolina. Formerly, she served as Chief of Staff for Navy Medicine National Capital Area. Rear Admiral Valentin was promoted to her current rank on 1 September 2009. On 1 October 2009, Rear Admiral Valentin will assume duties as Chief, Medical Service Corps. Rear Admiral Valentin has achieved Fellow status in the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Academy of Healthcare Management. Her personal decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal; Legion of Merit; Defense Meritorious Service Medal; Meritorious Service Medal (3); Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (3); and Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal.

Col. Claude Hines Jr. is the Program Manager (PM) for the Defense Health Information Management System (DHIMS). He is responsible for managing a $400 million annual budget, which includes acquiring the solutions that support direct patient-provider relationships, population health, medical surveillance, clinical decision support and force health protection for all Military Health System beneficiaries. Col. Hines is also responsible for integrating our home station clinical information management/information technology solutions such as AHLTA—the military’s electronic health record—and scaling those capabilities for use within the Theater Medical Information Program (TMIP) "Family of Systems." Col. Hines provides overarching technical standards and developmental practices used by the four TMIP Service infrastructure program offices that play a key role in training and fielding the TMIP systems in a Theater of operations.

Prior to his role as PM for DHIMS, Col. Hines was PM for the Theater Medical Information Program-Joint (TMIP-J) where he was responsible for integration of the Theater automated information systems and management of multiple contracts valued at over $50 million annually. Previous to that assignment, Col. Hines was the Product Manager for the Army’s TMIP infrastructure office, Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4). During his tenure at MC4, he was responsible for first deploying the TMIP software suite to the field during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Col. Hines’ past assignments include: Chief of Logistics and S-4 for the dual mission Würzburg Medical Department Activity (MEDDAC) and the 67th Combat Support Hospital in Germany; PM for the Laboratory Integrated Delivery System at the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia (DSCP), Philadelphia, Pa.; Chief, Customer Support in the Directorate of Contracting, Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), Washington, D.C.; Chief, Medical Materiel, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), Washington, D.C.; Battalion S-4, 85th Medical Battalion, Fort Meade, Md.; and Commander of Delta Company, WRAMC, Fort Myer, Va. COL Hines began his career with the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps as the Medical Platoon Leader for Headquarters and Battery 56th Field Artillery Command in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany.

Dr. Folio is a radiologist in Body Imaging at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD.

He is an Associate Professor of Radiology in addition to Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland.

He retired from the Air Force as a Colonel this summer and recently wrote his 5th book; this one on Combat Radiology; to be published by Springer this winter.

Dr. Folio was most recently a chest radiologist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington DC for the last four years.

He deployed twice to Iraq while in the military, with several other deployments to the Middle East.

Dr. Folio has 3 Masters Degrees, his most recent, a Masters in Public Health from UC Berkeley.

Dr. Folio has four medical specialties, has been awarded Fellow of 2 National Medical Colleges, to include American Osteopathic College of Radiology.

He has over 60 publications in peer reviewed journals and dozens of periodical publications.

Dr. Folio has chaired several trauma conferences both nationally and internationally.

COL López earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey in 1981 (Magna Cum Laude). COL López graduated from the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) four-year program as a Distinguished Military Graduate and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve in June 1981; he received his Regular Army commission in 1983. In 1984, COL López earned his Master of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez. In 1995, COL López earned his Master of Science Degree in Computer Information Systems from Saint Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX, as a Distinguished Graduate with a 4.0 GPA. Having entered active duty in January, 1985, COL López has 23.5 years active duty; 17 of those being in Information Management/Information Technology in both tactical and fixed-facility environments.

COL López’ military education includes the U.S. Army War College, Command and General Staff College (Commandant’s List), U.S. Army Medical Department’s Executive Skills Course, Combined Arms and Services Staff School, the U.S. Army Systems Automation Officers’ Course, and the AMEDD’s Combat Casualty Care Course, Officer Advanced Course (Honor Graduate), and Officer Basic Course (Commandant’s List).

Prior to COL López’ selection as CIO, he served as Deputy CIO and Director, Plans, Policies, and Resources in the Office of the ACSIM. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College where he served as a Senior Service College Fellow at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC. Prior to attending the War College, COL López served as Commander of the U.S. Army Medical Information Technology Center (USAMITC). Previous assignments include Chief Information Officer for Madigan Army Medical Center and the Western Regional Medical Command, Fort Lewis, WA., Assistant Chief of Staff for Information Management – G-6/CIO, 44th Medical Brigade, Fort Bragg, NC, and Chief, Information Management Division, Blanchfield Army Community Hospital, Fort Campbell, KY.

Other assignments include Ambulance Platoon Leader, Treatment Platoon Leader, and Executive Officer, Medical Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fulda/Wildflecken, FRG; Adjutant, 67th Evacuation Hospital, Wurzburg, FRG; Commander, Company B, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Fort Bliss, El Paso, TX, and Chief, Plans and Integration Branch, Tactical Systems Division, U.S. Army Health Care Systems Support Activity (HCSSA), San Antonio, TX. In 1993, COL López was selected to attend fully-funded graduate school at Saint Mary’s University under the AMEDD’s Long Term Health Education and Training Program.

COL López’ awards and decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal (5 Oak Leaf Clusters), Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal (2 Oak Leaf Clusters), National Defense Service Medal (one service star), Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Overseas Service Ribbon, Army Service Ribbon, Army Superior Unit Award (Blanchfield Army Community Hospital, Fort Campbell, KY), the Air Assault Badge, the Parachutist Badge, the Expert Field Medical Badge and the Order of Military Medical Merit.

COL López is married and has two daughters.

Col Russell performed his undergraduate (Accounting) education at Villanova University.

Dr. Russell began his military career by attending the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), after spending five years in the private sector as a Certified Public Accountant. Upon graduation of medical school he started his Pediatrics Residency at Wright Patterson AFB. He was then assigned as a staff pediatrician at March AFB for two years before starting a Fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at USUHS. After fellowship he practiced medicine as a staff pediatric infectious disease specialist for one year, prior to being named as the Chief of Pediatric Infectious Disease at Wilford Hall Medical Center. During his last 2 years at Wilford Hall Medical Center he also acted as the Director of Clinical Informatics.

Prior to his current position, he served as Chief of the Medical Staff at Randolph AFB, followed by 4th Medical Operations Squadron Commander at Seymour Johnson AFB and Division Chief for Medical Innovations at Air Force Medical Service Agency. Dr. Russell was appointed as the Chief Medical Information Officer in August 2009.

Colonel Jesus E. Zarate is the Chief Information Officer of the Air Force Medical Service, Bolling Air Force Base with offices located in Falls Church, Virginia. He is responsible for all medical information systems, data and infrastructure for 75 Medical Treatment Facilities. He executes a $22M AFMS Information Technology annual budget. He provides leadership and integration for MAJCOM Chief Information Officers. Col Zarate is the Associate MSC Corps Chief for Information Management & Information Technology.

Colonel Zarate was commissioned into the Air Force Medical Service entering active duty in 1988 after completing his Master’s Degree from Trinity University in San Antonio Texas. Since his entry into the Air Force, he has held a variety of administrative and high-responsibility management positions across the Air Force Medical Service and is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems.

Alfred Hamilton, Vice President, Strategic Federal Healthcare Operations served in the U.S. Army for over 20 years as a Medical Service Corps Officer with the U.S. Army Medical Department. He has held challenging positions such as Chief Information Officer, Director of Human Resources, Operations Manager, Professor teaching in a Master of Business Administration and Master of Healthcare Administration programs through Baylor University, and advisor to the Executive Staff of United States Central Command Headquarters and the Army Chief of Staff Headquarters.

While serving in the U.S. Army, Al Hamilton was engaged in a joint project for the deployed environment and an Army project that was targeted to enhance the capabilities of all Service Members. The joint project was a Joint Telemedicine Medical Network initiative aimed at the allocation of dedicated bandwidth to support telemedicine activities within the United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) Area of Responsibility. This project was focused on understanding and building the capability to support the urgent telemedicine needs of the medical community in a deployed and mobile environment.

The Army project he worked with is called the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program. This Program has the potential to transform the way the Department of the Army views fitness. The Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program will improve Soldier performance and readiness while building confidence to lead, courage to stand up for one's beliefs, and compassion to help others.

Al Hamilton holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Augusta State University, Masters of Science Administration in Software Engineering from Central Michigan University, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Information Decision Systems/Decision Science from The George Washington University. His most recent accomplishment was being selected as a member of the most prestigious Military Medical Society; the Order of the Medical Military Merit, to attend the Nobel Peace Prize Week, and selected to serve as a Fellow with the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME).

As a key member of Evolvent’s management team, he will assist in strategically developing and executing technical and business solutions for Evolvent’s growing client base in Federal Healthcare. In addition, he will be involved in providing thought leadership internally and externally to continually enhance Evolvent’s practice of bringing real value to it customers and working collaboratively to ensure efficient and effective solutions are implemented.

Lt Col Timothy Lacy (M.D.) is widely published in the fields of psychiatry, medical education, and neuropsychotherapy and is the recipient of many local and national awards for his academic work. He is currently Chief of Telehealth, Imaging, and Cybermedicine in the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General’s Directorate for Medical Modernization and is leading all telemedicine initiatives in the U.S. Air Force. He has recently spearheaded and funded the largest Department of Defense deployment of virtual reality treatment systems for post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans of current military operations. He is also leading the development of behavior imaging, virtual worlds and avatar technology for use in psychological treatment and prevention in the U.S. Air Force.

Dr. A. Tamara Crowder assumed her current position as Chief of Staff for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center on 2 March, 2009. As Chief of Staff, she is responsible for day to day management and execution of all DVBIC programs within the DVBIC network to include many US Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force installations throughout the US and at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany as well as two civilian TBI treatment facilities.

Dr. Crowder has held a variety of military scientific research and administration management positions throughout her career to include: Research Associate at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, the National Institutes of Health, and Science Department Chair at Massanutten Military Academy. She has also served as a subject matter expert at military scientific peer and programmatic reviews.

Prior to her current assignment, Dr. Crowder served as the Contracting Officer Representative for the Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury and Deployment Related Medical Research Programs at the Medical Research and Material Command, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program. A native of Virginia, Dr. Crowder earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Maryland and a Masters Degree in Microbiology and a Doctoral Degree in Neuroscience from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Dr. James P. Kelly, a neurologist who is one of America's top experts on treating concussions, has been appointed director of a new Department of Defense center that will conduct research as well as diagnosis and treatment planning to help members of the military with psychological health problems and traumatic brain injury.

The National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE), which is scheduled to open in spring 2010, is a component center of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE).

NICoE will be a 72,000 square-foot, two-story facility located on the Navy campus in Bethesda Md., adjacent to what will be the new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. It will have close access to the Uniformed Services University and the National Institutes of Health.

The new center is being built and equipped through the philanthropy of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, Fisher Foundation and other individuals and groups. When construction is completed, the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund will turn NICoE over to the Department of Defense. DCoE will then operate the center.

"We are bringing Dr. Kelly to NICoE now to assemble a world-class team and plan landmark programs and research so the new center can begin benefiting our warriors as soon as its doors open," said Brig. Gen. Loree K. Sutton, DCoE director and the highest ranking psychiatrist in the Army. "Thanks to the generosity of donors who are raising money to build NICoE and the talented staff we will assemble, we're looking forward to making major strides to help build better lives for the brave men and women we serve."

Kelly is on a leave of absence from his position as professor of neurosurgery and physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. His past positions include assistant dean for graduate medical education at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and the neurology residency program director at the Northwestern University medical school.

The new NICoE director has also served as director of the Brain Injury Program at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. He was the neurologist for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League and is consulted frequently by professional, elite amateur and youth athletes who have sustained concussions.

Dr. Marshall is the Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Navy Medicine. Dr. Marshall also serves as residency faculty at the Dewitt Army Community Hospital Family Medicine Residency.

Dr. Marshall performed his undergraduate (Microbiology) and medical school education at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He completed a family medicine residency at the Pensacola Naval Hospital, during which time he also served three years as a Marine Corps Medical Officer, Okinawa, Japan.

After residency, Dr. Marshall served as family medicine staff at the Marine Corps Air Station in Iwakuni, Japan. He subsequently completed a faculty development fellowship at the Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA, as well as a Masters in Public Health at the University of Washington.

After fellowship, he served at the Puget Sound Family Medicine Residency for six years and was the Research Director, Chair of the Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee, Assistant Program Director and Clinic Manager.

After a tour as the 3rd Marine Division/III MEF Surgeon, he returned to the Puget Sound Family Medicine Residency and served as residency faculty and the NavMedWest (western half of Navy Medicine) AHLTA Regional Clinical Champion. He completed a Masters in Information Systems/Management in January 2007.

In May of 2008, Dr. Marshall was appointed as the first Director of Clinical Informatics for Navy Medicine and served as the de facto Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO). In July of 2009, he was officially named the first CMIO of Navy Medicine.

His interests include evidence-based medicine, patient-centered medical home, clinical informatics research, teaching, sailing and lacrosse.

Raised in northern Indiana, Captain McGue received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Michigan Technological University in 1975. He entered Indiana University Medical School under the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program and graduated in May 1979. His first Navy tour was at Naval Regional Medical Center Jacksonville, Fla., as a resident in Family Practice, where he served as Chief Resident during his third year. After graduation in 1982, Captain McGue participated in the opening of the Aviation Family Practice Clinic at Naval Air Station Jacksonville and served on the residency teaching staff.

In 1985, he transferred to Naval Hospital Newport, R.I., as staff in the Family Practice Department, where his duties included running the emergency and disaster preparedness services. In 1987, Captain McGue entered civilian practice in Tiverton, R.I., while maintaining Selected Reserve status as the Medical Officer aboard USS Valdez (FF-1096).

In August 1990, he re-entered active duty in Newport, R.I., as a team leader in Family Practice, assisting in the stand up of the first Navy Military/Civilian external partnership at Newport Hospital. Transferring in 1993 to Fleet Surgical Team 2 in Norfolk, Va., Captain McGue deployed aboard the USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7) in support of MARG 93. Subsequently, he assumed duties as the Amphibious Group 2 Surgeon, based at Little Creek, Va.

In his next duty station at Naval Hospital Groton, Connecticut, he served as the Director of Clinical Services (DCS) and President of the medical staff. During this tour he participated in the development of a Military/Civilian external partnership with the Backus Hospital in Norwich, CT. In 1999, Captain McGue reported to Naval Ambulatory Care Center Newport, where he served initially as the DCS for Newport and engaged in the stand up of Naval Health Care New England; subsequently taking over as the DCS for all New England. In 2003, Captain McGue took orders to the new Naval Medical Education and Training Command, Bethesda, Maryland, where he served as Deputy Commander.

In August 2006, Captain McGue assumed duties as Commanding Officer of Naval Health Clinic Great Lakes, Illinois.

Captain McGue wears the Surface Warfare Medical Department Officer pin, and his personal awards include the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal with two gold stars, and the Navy Commendation Medal with two Gold stars. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, is Board Certified in Family Practice and Geriatrics, and is a graduate of the College of Distance Education at the Naval War College.

Captain McGue is married to the former Patricia McHugh of Syosset, New York. They have three children, Colleen, Timothy, and Eileen.

LTC Nanette Patton became the Chief Information Officer for Madigan Army Medical Center in October 2009. A Navy brat born at Cherry Point, NC, she received her Bachelor of Business Administration from Marymount University in Arlington, VA, in 1990. A Distinguished Military Graduate of the Georgetown Hoya Battalion, she was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Medical Service Corps and assigned to 62nd Medical Group at Fort Lewis, WA. She deployed to Saudi Arabia as an Assistant S-4 in support of Operation Desert Storm from January through May of 1991. Upon her redeployment, she became a platoon leader for the 423rd Medical Company, then its executive officer, and then its rear detachment commander when the unit deployed to Somalia. Upon the unit’s return to Fort Lewis in May 1993, she became the Aide-de-Camp to the Commanding General of Madigan Army Medical Center. Upon conclusion of her tour at Fort Lewis in July 1994, she had earned a Master of Science in Human Resources Management from Chapman University. After completing the AMEDD Office Advanced Course in December 1994, she became a company commander at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, TX, from January 1995 until February 1997. She was selected for Long-Term Health Education and Training and in December 1998 earned a MSBA (Computer Information Systems) from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. Her first assignment as a Health Systems Services Manager (70D) was as the Chief, Developmental Test and Evaluation, for the USA Medical Information Systems and Services Agency in San Antonio, TX, from January 1999 through December 2000. She then became the Chief Information Officer and Chief, Information Management Division at Ireland Army Community Hospital at Fort Knox, Kentucky. After 9/11, she was tasked to the Fort Knox Installation Management Center (IOC) as the Information Management Officer. Upon conclusion of the tasking, she remained in the IOC and became the Plans Officer for the G3/DPTM until January 2003. From February 2003 through July 2005, she served as the CIO and Chief, Infostructure Management Division for the USA Medical Information Technology Center. The Army then selected her for a 1-year fellowship at the think tank RAND in Santa Monica, CA, starting in July 2005. For her post-fellowship utilization assignment, she became a Program Analyst in the Program Analysis and Evaluation Directorate at OTSG. In March 2007, she was one of two AMEDD officers detailed as research analysts to the congressionally mandated DoD Task Force on the Future of Military Health Care. She returned to OTSG in January 2008 upon completion of the Task Force’s final report to Congress and was then tasked to be the Multi-National Corps – Iraq Health Information Systems Officer (HISO) in February 2008 for a 6-month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Upon her redeployment, LTC Nanette Patton became the Army Medical Department Deputy Chief Information Officer for Business and Theater Systems Integration in September 2008.

Military schools include the Army Medical Department Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Health Services Human Resources Manager Course, Combined Arms and Staff Services School, the Medical Information Management Course, and the non-resident United States Army Command and General Staff College. LTC Patton is a member of the DoD Acquisition Corps and is Level III DAWIA certified in Information Technology and Level II DAWIA certified in Program Management. LTC Patton recently completed the National Defense University’s Federal CIO certification program.

LTC Patton’s awards include the Meritorious Service Medal (three Oak Leaf Clusters), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal (three Oak Leaf Clusters), Army Achievement Medal (with one Oak Leaf Cluster), Southwest Asia Service Medal, Southwest Asia Bronze Star (2), Iraq Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal (GWOTSM), National Defense Service Medal, Kuwait Liberation Medal, Kuwait Liberation Medal (Saudi Arabia), and the Expert Field Medical Badge. She is recipient of the Order of Military Medical Merit and the Noble Patron of Armor.

LTC Patton has one daughter, Suzanne O’Halloran, who is a senior at Fossil Ridge High School in Fort Collins, CO.

Dr. Douglas E. Rosendale, D.O., F.A.C.O.S, is the portfolio manager of Joint Interoperability Ventures within the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA’s) Office of Health Information (OHI). He is a Board Certified general surgeon with a background in advanced laparoscopic, thoracic, vascular, and GI endoscopy. Currently, he is the Chair of the Surgery Discipline for the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons. Dr. Rosendale was previously a Chief of Staff in the private sector and Chief of Surgery at the Grand Junction VA Medical Center (VAMC). Dr. Rosendale’s health IT background spans many aspects of “Quality and Performance” initiatives with the American College of Surgeons as a member of the Surgical Quality Alliance, Ambulatory Quality Alliance, Secretary of Health and Human Services “Value Exchanges,” and the VA National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. He leads a national program for VHA OHI collecting clinical and functional requirements for Federal Healthcare Centers and other VA/Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Ventures. In this role, he has been involved with VA/DoD integration and interoperability initiatives that can be extended for national deployment.

Dr. Rosendale is trained in medical informatics and is currently an Affiliate Faculty Member of Medical Informatics at Harvard Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Decisions Systems Group. His other professional experience includes Clinical Informatics/Quality and Performance, Patient Empowerment, for the VHA Chief Health Informatics Office (CHIO). He participates on White House Home Land Security Committees for policy and strategy development for health IT sharing for medical preparedness. He has also been involved in the development of enterprise strategies for the VA’s MyHealtheVet Patient Health Care Record.

Dr. Rosendale is the recipient of the 2006 American College of Osteopathic Surgeons “Presidential Recognition Award” for his outstanding contributions on the Surgical Quality Alliance Executive Committee for planning surgical quality improvement programs at the 2004-2006 Annual Clinical Assembly. He has been widely published in national journals, including Virtual Medical Worlds Monthly, American Journal of Surgery, Western Journal of Medicine, Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, American Journal of Physiology, and Informatics Today. Dr. Rosendale has presented research findings at a number of national forums and is a respected expert on the topics of electronic medical records, interagency interoperability, and surgical informatics.

In March 2009, Dr. Rosendale was appointed co-chair to the White House Homeland Security Council “Medical Public Health Information Sharing Environment “ (MPHISE) Work Group, a sub-Interagency Policy Council (sub-IPC).

Vish Sankaran was appointed Director of the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) program in the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in March 2007. As FHA director, he has driven collaboration among federal agencies to advance the adoption of interoperable health IT in order to allow for the secure exchange of health information within the federal government, and with state, tribal, and local governments and the private sector. This goal is being achieved through initiatives that provide federal business needs management, and systematic investment planning, reporting and interoperability architecture. Under Mr. Sankaran’s leadership, FHA has worked with federal agencies to rapidly and efficiently implement government-wide solutions for interoperable and secure health information exchange that address agency business priorities while protecting citizen privacy. FHA serves the needs of more than twenty federal agencies in domains as diverse as military and veterans’ healthcare, public health monitoring, long-term care and disability services, research, tribal health services and many other critical federal priorities. Before arriving at HHS in 2005, Mr. Sankaran worked in the private-sector healthcare technology field. He was the director of IT and product operations at CareScience Inc, a healthcare application service provider that helps hospitals and health systems improve care management, clinical performance and data sharing. While at CareScience, he developed strategies to achieve organizational goals, built cohesive teams, increased operational efficiency and reduced costs. In that position, he administered architecture and operations of healthcare software products, including health information exchange solutions. In February, 2009, Mr. Sankaran was named as one of the Federal 100 by the editors of Federal Computer Week. The Federal 100 recognizes individuals from government, industry and academia who significantly influenced how the federal government buys, uses or manages information technology. Federal 100 winners are recognized for their risk-taking, vision and pioneering spirit in the federal IT community. The Association for Federal Information Resources Management (AFFIRM) recognized Vish Sankaran for his “Leadership in Health Information Technology” at the organization’s annual End of the Season Luncheon held this last July. In September of this year the Federal Health Architecture was cited by InformationWeek 500 as one of “10 Government Organizations That Understand IT Innovation” for the development of the CONNECT gateway software.

Deputy Director of Programs and Operations of the Joint Theater Trauma System (JTTS). Her responsibilities include oversight of the US Department of Defense Trauma System Components which include the Joint Theater Trauma Registry, the JTTS Analysis Section, JTTS Level V Coordination of Outcomes Data, JTTS Special Projects, JTTS Automation and Data Acquisition Branches. She oversees the training of deploying nurses to Iraq and Afghanistan for collection of data for performance improvement for the wounded warfighter and reports combat casualty statistics to Health Affairs on deployed personnel

LTC Scott A. Svabek assumed duties as the Commander, and Principle Assistant Responsible for Contracting (PARC) of the USAMEDCOM Health Care Acquisition Activity (HCAA) from the Office of The Surgeon General (OTSG) where he served as an Operations Officer and the USAMEDCOM Liaison Officer to the newly established Warrior Care and Transition Office. Prior to that assignment he served as the DoD Medical Logistics Program Director for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense working directly for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Force Health Protection and Readiness where his primary focus was to effectively execute logistics aspects of the Department’s medical mission to maintain readiness to provide medical services and support to members of the Armed Forces during all military operations.

LTC Svabek began his Army service in 1988 serving as the Division Medical Supply Officer for the 101st Airborne Division and supported the division during Operation Desert Shield and Storm. After the Officer Advance course, he moved to FT Lewis where he served in many different positions. Including the 18th MASH where he served as the Logistics Officer and Property Book officer for the 18th MASH and later was selected to serve as the MASH Executive Officer. Also while at FT Lewis, he commanded the 514th Ground Ambulance Company and assistant S-4 to for the 62nd Medical Group. He next attended the USAMMA internship and he was assigned to the AMEDDC&S serving as the principle instructor and Deputy Branch Chief for Army Medical Logistics Officer Course as a follow on assignment. In 1997 he was nominated to serve as a Multifunctional Logistics Officer (FA 90) with the 2nd Infantry Division as their Material Officer, responsible for ensuring the Division was able to execute its mission by making sure that Arms, munitions, food, fuel and repair parts were readily available. In 1998, LTC Svabek served as the Chief, Medical Exercise Coordination Branch where he was the Combat Service Support Expert and was responsible for conducting medical command and control simulations. From 2000-2003, LTC Svabek entered the AMEDD Acquisition Internship and subsequently served the Army Medical Command as the Chief of Contracting for both the Great plains and North Atlantic Regional Medical Commands. In 2003, he was handpicked to support the Coalition Provisional Authority and Reconstruction efforts in Iraq as the Medical Logistics and Contracting Advisor for the Iraqi Ministry of Health. Before moving to OSD he served as the Executive Officer for the Director of Medical Logistics for Office of the Surgeon General of the US Army.

He grew up outside Chicago and graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago with a degree in History. He earned his masters degree in Acquisition and Procurement from Webster University in 1999. He currently holds a level III Certification in Contracting and Level II in Program Management; He has published two articles on the reconstruction of the Iraqi Health Logistics system. He is also a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College. He is married to his wife Nancy and has two sons, SSG Tyrell Sackett and Colton Svabek. He is an avid golfer and his awards and decorations include: Bronze Star with OLC, DMSM, MSM with 6 OLC, Army Achievement with OLC, SWABS-3, GWOTE, GWOTS, KDSM, Army and OSD Staff Badges, Parachute Badge, Air Assault Badge, Expert Field Medical Badge, Ranger Tab, and Combat Action Badge.

Dr Robert Walker is currently serving as the Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) for the European Regional Medical Command in Heidelberg, Germany. In addition he serves as the Chief of Executive Medicine for United States Army Europe and maintains an active medical practice at the Heidelberg Army Health Center.

Dr. Walker graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and completed his residency training in Family Practice in Jacksonville Florida. He is board certified family practice physician. His areas of medical interest include Informatics, Family Practice, the Medical Home, Minor Surgery, and Dermatology.

Dr Walker has worked in numerous remote locations to include Georgetown Guyana, Thailand and Cambodia. He practiced in the US Virgin Island for five years as well as four years in Alaska. There he was Clinical Director and staff physician of the Public Health Service Hospital in Barrow, Alaska. This hospital is charged with the entire health care of the North Slope of Alaska.

He is currently leading an Army Medical Department initiative to simplify provider interfaces with numerous clinical systems and enhance clinical documentation through insertion of current technology and best practices.. This program started in Heidelberg and in now being deployed throughout the Army to include Afghanistan and Iraq.

Dr Walker and his team recently received the 2008 AMEDD Mercury Award for Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT) Team of the Year and the 2009 US Army Surgeon General’s Excalibur Award.

A native of Columbia, Missouri, LTC Jason Windsor is a graduate of the University of Central Missouri where he received his Bachelor of Science in Nursing. After completing four years of ROTC as a Distinguished Military Graduate, he received his Regular Army commission into the Army Nurse Corps in 1993.

LTC Windsor’s military assignments include staff/charge nurse on a combined orthopedic, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic, and urology floor at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center (AMC) in Aurora, Colorado; Charge/Asst. head nurse in the Emergency Dept, and Medical, Surgical, and Pediatric Intensive Care Units (ICU), and Pain Management Service, Tripler AMC, Hawaii; Officer in charge, Trauma/Triage, 127th Forward Surgical Team, Yongsan, South Korea; Head Nurse, ICU, Blanchfield Army Community Hospital and Head Nurse, Emergency Medical Treatment, 86th Combat Surgical Hospital, Fort Campbell, Kentucky; Presidential Nurse, White House Medical Unit, Washington, D.C.; Chief of Outpatient Clinical Systems and Clinical Informatics, Tripler AMC, Hawaii; Trauma Coordinator, CENTCOM, Afghanistan AOR; and currently as the Chief Medical Information Officer for the Northern Regional Medical Command.

LTC Windsor earned a Master’s of Science in Healthcare Informatics and a Master’s of Health Services Administration from the University of Maryland. He is a graduate of the Army Medical Department’s Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the Head Nurse Leadership Course, Defense Acquisition University specialty courses, and U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

LTC Windsor’s awards include the Army Medical Department Center and School’s Letterman Memorial History Award, Meritorious Service Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters (OLC), Joint Service Commendation Medal with 2 OLC, Army Commendation Medal with 2 OLC, Army Achievement Medal with 2 OLC, National Defense Service Medal with bronze star, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Global War on Terror Service Medal, Korea Defense Service Medal, NATO Medal, Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Army Superior Unit Award, Air Crewmember Badge, Expert Field Medical Badge, Combat Action Badge, and the Presidential Service Badge.

LTC Windsor is a member of the American Nurse Association, Emergency Nurse Association, Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, American Medical Informatics Association, Health Information and Management Systems Society, and CARING Informatics Association.

LTC Windsor is nationally certified in Trauma Nursing from the Emergency Nurse Association, nationally certified in Nursing Informatics from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. He is a published author and co-investigator on various research projects within the Army Medical Department and Military Health System.

LTC Windsor is married to JoEllen, a former Nurse Corps officer of Pine Grove, Pennsylvania and has two children, Zackary (8 years) and Nathan (6 years).