Medicine (MED) Faculty/Staff

Georgetown University Medical School, Washington, DC - M.D. 1973
Internal Medicine Residency Georgetown Univeristy Hospital 1976
Fellowship in Medicine, Endocrinology, Georgetown University 1976-1977
Chief Resident, Department of Internal Medicine 1977-1978
Fellow in Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Walter Reed 1980
Stanford University Faculty Development Program 1987

Dr. Louis N. Pangaro is Professor of Medicine at the Hebert School of Medicine of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
His medical degree is from Georgetown University (1973), where he also did a residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in endocrinology. He was a research fellow in endocrinology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and develop a radioimmunoassay for 3,5 Diiodothyronine. Dr. Pangaro joined the Uniformed Services University in 1978, with positions as Director of Fourth Year Programs, Clerkship Director and Vice-chair for Education. He was appointed Professor with tenure, in 1998. He was served as Department Chair from 2008 to 2018. Since 2009 Dr. Pangaro has been one of the faculty leaders of curricular redesign for the USU School of Medicine.
Dr. Pangaro's scholarly work is in the evaluation of the competence of medical trainees and has published more than 100 articles relating to medical education. He created "standardized examinees" to calibrate the validity of the prototype clinical skills examination of the US Medical Licensing Exam. He introduced the concept of "synthetic", developmental frameworks for defining expectations of students and residents (the "RIME scheme", for reporter-interpreter-manager-educator) that is now used in EPAs and milestones. The RIME alternative to the traditional knowledge-skills-attitudes paradigm is used in many American medical schools.
Dr. Pangaro has personally evaluated and given individual feedback to several thousand medical students. Nearly all of them are still part of the military medical community. As a facilitator in the Stanford Faculty Development Program he has worked with more than one thousand military faculty on their teaching skills. Starting in 2000, Dr. Pangaro created a six-day course for military GME program directors in assessing competence, and nearly 300 program directors have participated in the last decade. He has published and spoken widely on faculty development and leadership in medical education. He co-directs the annual Harvard Macy International Program for a Systems Approach to Assessment in the Health Sciences Education. His department has initiated an MHPE and PhD program in medical education.
Dr. Pangaro has served as an at-large member of the National Board of Medical Examiners, and on the editorial boards of Academic Medicine and Teaching and Learning in Medicine, and is past-chair of the Research in Medical Education Conference Committee of the GEA/AAMC. He has served as President of the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM), and of the Alliance for Clinical Education (ACE), the coordinating council for eight national organizations of American clerkship directors. Dr. Pangaro has been honored by the AAMC with the Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award (2005), by USU students with the Clements Awards for Excellence in Education (1990) and by the USU Faculty with the inaugural Carol Johns Teaching Medal (2001). He has been recognized by the NBME with its Edith J. Levittt Distinguished Service Award; by CDIM with all three of their awards: the inaugural award for Outstanding Program Development (1998, now named the Louis Pangaro Award), the Outstanding Educational Research Award (2000), and the Outstanding Service Award (2005); and by the British Embassy Players for his production of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1990). He was recognized by the Army chapter of the American College of Physicians with its inaugural Master Teacher Award (1997) and by the Washington, DC chapter of the College with its Sol Katz Teaching Award (2005) and its Laureate Award (2012). In 2010, Dr. Pangaro was named as a Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP), and in 2012, he received the Distinguished Medical Educator Award the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine. In 2018 he received the John P. Hubbard Award from the NBME for excellence in the field of evaluation in medicine.


The themes of my scholarly work are seen in these selected publications, including studies and essays.

Google scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=J-AjoWsAAAAJ&hl=en

Conceptual Frameworks of Assessment
• Pangaro L, A New Vocabulary and Other Innovations for Improving Descriptive In-training
Evaluations, Academic Medicine, 74: 1203-1207, 1999.
• Pangaro LN, A Shared Professional Framework for Anatomy and Clinical Clerkships, Clinical Anatomy, 2006, 19: 419-428.
• Pangaro L, ten Cate O, AMEE Guide - Frameworks for Learner Assessment in Medicine Medical Teacher, 35, 524 – 537, (2013)
• Pangaro L, Investing in Descriptive Evaluation: a vision for the future of assessment. Medical Teacher. 22(5), 478 - 481, 2000.
• Rodriguez R, Pangaro L, "Mapping the ACGME competencies to the RIME Framework", Academic Medicine, 87 (12), 1781.
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Research on RIME and Evaluation Systems
- Meyer EG, Kelly WF, Hemmer PA, Pangaro LN, The RIME Model provides a context for Entrustable Professional Activities across Undergraduate Medical Education, , Acad Med , 2018;93:954.8;93:9548;.
• Hemmer P, Hawkins R, Jackson J, Pangaro L, Assessing How Well Three Evaluation Methods detect Deficiencies in Medical Students' Professionalism in Two Settings of an Internal Medicine Clerkship, Academic Medicine 75, 167 - 173, 2000.
• Gaglione MM, Moores L, Pangaro L, Hemmer PA Does Group Discussion of Student Clerkship Performance at an Education Committee Affect an Individual Committee Member’s Decisions? Academic Medicine 80:S55-S58, 2005.
• DeWitt DE, Carline D , Paauw DS , Pangaro L, A Pilot Study of a "RIME" framework-based Tool for Giving Feedback in a Multi-specialty Longitudinal Clerkship, Medical Education, 42: 1205 -1209, 2008.

Standardized Examinees and Simulation
• Pangaro LN, Worth-Dickstein H, Macmillan K, Shatzer J, Klass D, Performance of "Standardized Examinees" in a Standardized Patient Examination of Clinical Skills, Academic Medicine. 72: 1008 –
• Worth-Dickstein H, Pangaro L, MacMillan MK, Klass DJ, Shatzer JH Use of "Standardized Examinees" to Screen for Standardized-patient Bias in a Clinical Skills Examination, Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 17(1), 9 – 13, 2005.
• LaRochelle JS, Durning SJ, Pangaro LN, Artino AR, van der Vleuten C, Schuwirth, Impact of Increased Authenticity in Instructional Format on Preclerkship Students' Performance: A Two-Year, Prospective, Randomized Study, Acad Med. Oct;87(10):1341-7, 2012.

Assessment of Competence
• Pangaro LN, Holmboe, “Evaluation Forms and Formal Rating Scales”, Practical Guide to the Evaluation of Clinical Competence, ed Holmboe and Hawkins, Elsevier, 2008, p 24-41.
• Donato AA , Pangaro L , Smith C, Rencic J , Diaz Y , Mensinger J , Holmboe E, Evaluation of a Novel Assessment Tool for Observing Medical Residents, a Randomized Controlled Trial, Medical Education, 42: 1234-1242, 2008.
• Durning SJ, LaRochelle J, Pangaro L , Artino A Boulet J, vanr der Vleuten C, Hemmer P ,
• Does the Authenticity of Preclinical Teaching Format Affect Subsequent Clinical Clerkship Outcomes? A Prospective Randomized Crossover Trial, Teaching Learning in Med. ,(2):177-82, 2012
• Durning SJ, Artino AR Jr, Pangaro LN, van der Vleuten C, Schuwirth L. Perspective: redefining context in the clinical encounter: implications for research and training in medical education. Academic Medicine , 85(5):894-901, 2010

Curricular Reform, and educational systems
• PangaroL, The Role and Value of the Basic Sciences in Medical Education: The Perspective of Clinical Education - Students’ Progress from Understanding to Action, J International Assoc of Medical Science EducatorsVolume 20-3 307 – 313, 2010
• Finnerty EP, Chauvin S, Bonaminio G, Andrews M, Carroll RG, Pangaro LN. Flexner revisited: the role and value of the basic sciences in medical education. Academic Medicine. 85(2):349-55. 2010
• Pangaro L, Bachicha J, Brodkey A, Chumley-Jones H, Fincher RM, Gelb D, Morgenstern B, Sachdeva A, Expectations of and for Clerkship Directors - A Collaborative Statement from the Alliance for Clinical Education, Teach Learn Med2003 15: 217-222.
• Pangaro LN, editor, Leadership and Success In Medical Education, American College of Physicians, series on Teaching Internal Medicine (J. Ende, general editor), 2010, ACP Press, Philadelphia, PA.
• Gimbel R, Pangaro LN, Barbour G, America’s “Undiscovered” Laboratory for Health Service Research, Medical Care, Med Care. 2010 Aug; 48(8):751-
• Pock A, Pangaro L, Gilliland W, , The "Pillars" of Curriculum Reform" (manuscript #ACADMED-D-13-01220R1, Academic Medicine, accepted for publication,/69.
• Pangaro L, [invited] Commentary: getting to the next phase in medical education-a role for the vice-chair for education Academic Medicine, 2012 Aug;87(8):999-1001.
Faculty Development
• Roop S, Pangaro L, Measuring the Impact of Clinical Teaching on Student Performance during a Third Year Medicine Clerkship, Amer J Med. 110 (3). 205-209, 2001. (accompanying editorial, by Irby and Papadakis, "Does Good Clinical Teaching Really make a Difference?")
• Guidebook For Clerkship Directors, co-editor, 3rd edition, Ruth-Marie Fincher general editor, Alliance for Clinical Education, 2005.
• Schuster B and Pangaro L, Understanding Systems of Education: What to Expect of, and for, Each Faculty Member, in Leadership Careers in Medical Education, ed Pangaro, American College of Physicians, 2010, pp 51-71.
• Pangaro LN, editor, Leadership and Success In Medical Education, American College of Physicians, series on Teaching Internal Medicine (J. Ende, general editor), 2010, ACP Press, Philadelphia, PA.
- Pock AR, Ottolini M, Pangaro LN, Gilliland WR.COL, Reamy BV.Col, Hemmer PA, StephensM, O'Brien A, and Laughlin L Academic Change Management: Leadership Lessons From Curricular Reform, Military Medicine 2015 180:4S, 158-160
- O'Malley PG, Pangaro LN. Research in Medical Education and Patient-Centered Outcomes: Shall Ever the Twain Meet? JAMA Intern Med. 2016 Feb 1;176(2):167-8.

Electronic medical record
• Stephens MB, Gimbel RW, Pangaro L, The RIME/EMR Scheme: An Educational Approach to Clinical Documentation in Electronic Medical Records, Academic Medicine, 86, (1):11-14, 2010
• Hanson JL, Stephens MB, Pangaro LN, Gimbel RW, Quality of Outpatient Clinical Notes: A Stakeholder- derived Definition with Implications for a Quality Rating Instrument: A Qualitative Study, BMC Health Services Research, Nov 19;12:407, 2012.
• Harry B. Burke, Albert Hoang, ,1 Dorothy Becher, , 1 Paul Fontelo, ,3 Fang Liu, 3 CAPT Mark Stephens, Louis N. Pangaro, Laura L. Sessums, Patrick O’Malley,, Nancy S. Baxi,Christopher W. Bunt,Maj. Vincent F. Capaldi, Julie M. Chen, Barbara A. Cooper, David
A. Djuric,Joshua A. Hodge, Shawn Kane, Charles Magee, Zizette R. Makary, Renee M. Mallory, Thomas Miller, Adam Saperstein, Jessica Servey, Ronald W. Gimbel, QNOTE: A validated instrument for evaluating the quality of clinical notes, J Amer. Informatics Assoc, J Am Med Inform Assoc 2014;0:1–7.

Academic Leadership
- Pangaro L, Leadership education for physicians – how it fits in their culture Perspectives on Medical Education, Jun;8(3):131-132.

2009 Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX
2006 Residency in Internal Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC
2003 MD, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, OH
1997 MSPH (Parasitology), Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA
1994 BS (Biological Sciences), University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA

Dr. Bennett is an Infectious Disease physician in the U.S. Army with extensive experience in the design and conduct of clinical trials, to include vaccine trials, and epidemiologic studies. Dr. Bennett managed the International Reference Center for Malaria Serology at WRAIR overseeing testing of clinical samples from DoD, PATH-MVI, and USAID sponsored clinical trials. He headed the U.S. military’s clinical effort testing the first P. vivax vaccine by controlled human malaria infection and was a lead clinical investigator testing other candidate malaria vaccines in the U.S. military pipeline. As the Chair of the U.S. military’s malaria vaccine Integrated Product Team he directed and prioritized the clinical development efforts for candidate vaccines within the joint U.S. Army-Navy Military Malaria Vaccine Program. He came to the Uniformed Services University and assumed the role of PI for a series of epidemiologic studies describing skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI); more specifically, his lab focuses on Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA SSTI, transmission, and colonization and among Army trainees at Fort Benning, GA. Military trainees in congregate settings are known to be at increased risk for S. aureus and MRSA colonization and infection. Knowledge gleaned from studies in this high-risk population can inform the design and implementation of clinical trials to evaluate novel medical countermeasures to reduce the high morbidity caused by this pathogen.

BA: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
MD: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
Post-doctoral training: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD

Dr. Haigney is a board certified cardiologist and electrophysiologist who attends in the Walter Reed Cardiology and Genetic Cardiology clinics. The Haigney Cardiovascular Laboratory is primarily concerned with identifying mechanisms of sudden cardiac death, including those related to genetically transmitted arrhythmia syndromes. The lab combines basic and clinical investigations in a translational approach. A tachycardia-pacing model of large animal heart failure has been in place for ten years and has allowed evaluation of specific ion channels and their alteration by heart failure. The clinical research component has evaluated a number of approaches to prediction of arrhythmic events, with particular emphasis on unstable repolarization as manifest by QT interval variability. The laboratory has investigated the use of inducible pluripotent stem cell derived myocytes to understand the mechanisms of cardiac arrest in human subjects. Dr Haigney is the Director of the newly-established Military Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (MiCOR), a program intended to understand the impact of military service- particularly stress, weight-gain, exercise, and pharmacotherapy- on cardiovascular risk. He is the Deputy Director of the Collaborative Health Initiative Research Program (CHIRP), an NIH and DoD sponsored center for evaluating genomics in the military health system. Dr. Haigney is particularly interested in iatrogenic factors contributing to sudden death, including the impact of prescription medications, particularly synthetic opioids, and sympathomimetic supplements.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Office A3060, Hebert School of Medicine, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda MD 20814
Phone: 301-295-3826
Fax: 301-295-3557
For appointments, please contact my Administrative Assistant: 301-295-3617
For appointments in the Genetic Cardiology Clinic at Walter Reed, please call 301-295-4939

University of Florida
Uniformed Services University
Walter Reed NMMC Internal Medicine Residency
Walter Reed NMMC Rheumatology Fellowship

1999 B.S. Biology (with Honors), University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
2004 Ph.D. Immunology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Dr. Lees started his career by training in T cell biology and cellular cancer immunotherapy. During his subsequent postdoctoral fellowship at he focused on the interactions between T cells and host tissue during autoimmune reactions, particularly focusing on autoimmune neuroinflammation. He then moved on to further investigations of autoimmune inflammation with studies on type I diabetes and a continued focus on neuroinflammation which remains active within the lab.

Undergraduate - Unites States Naval Academy - BS, Chemistry 1993
Medical School: Vanderbilt University - MD 1997
Internship/Residency - Internal Medicine, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth 1997-1998/2002-2004
Fellowship - Gastroenterology, National Capital Consortium 2004-2007
- Therapeutic Endoscopy, University of Maryland 2006-2007

CAPT Young received his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the United States Naval Academy, where he was awarded the Karl Montor Prize in leadership, in 1993. He earned his Doctor of Medicine from Vanderbilt University, where was awarded the Albert Weinstein Prize in Medicine, in 1997. He completed his internship in Internal Medicine at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA in 1998. After graduating at the top of his flight surgery class in 1999, he was assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 106, the F/A-18 Fleet Replenishment Squadron for the East Coast, at NAS Oceana, VA
He returned to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in 2002 and completed his Internal Medicine residency in 2004. He then transferred to the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD for his Gastroenterology Fellowship. During the third year of this fellowship, he spent nine months at the University of Maryland, Baltimore MD, training in Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy. During his senior year of fellowship, he was Captain of the Gastroenterology Jeopardy team which won the National Championship at the American College of Gastroenterology’s Annual Scientific session, besting 140 programs from across the nation. He graduated from Gastroenterology Fellowship, and was selected the Internal Medicine Fellow of the Year, in 2007. After graduation, CAPT Young deployed to Expeditionary Medical Facility Kuwait, where he served as the sole gastroenterologist for the forces deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
He returned to the National Naval Medical Center in 2008 and assumed duties as the Associate Program Director for the National Capital Consortium’s Gastroenterology Fellowship. Also in 2008, he was named Director of Clinical research, directly overseeing the conduct of over 20 research protocols. In 2010, he was selected as the Director of Medical Operations for the USNS COMFORT. He deployed in support of Continuing Promise 2011, a humanitarian Mission serving nine partner nations in Latin America and the Caribbean. In this role, he oversaw the care of 66,000 patients, facilitated 1,100 surgeries, and coordinated veterinarian care for over 3,500 animals.
In 2012, he was selected as the Program Director for the fellowship Program at the National Capital Consortium, the largest Gastroenterology in the Department of Defense. From 2012-2015, he served as the Specialty Leader for Navy gastroenterology. He continues to be actively engaged in clinical research where his areas of focus are Barrett’s esophagus and the detection and prevention of colorectal cancer.
Captain Young is board certified in Gastroenterology. He has attained Fellow status in the American College of Physicians, the American College of Gastroenterology, and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He holds an appointment as an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences where he is currently the Director of the Digestive Diseases section.

General Internal Medicine Fellowship Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD 2013 – 2015
Masters in Public Health (Global Health) Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 2013 – 2015
M.S. in Defense Analysis Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 2012 – 2013
Graduate Certificate in Stability Ops Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 2013
Internal Medicine Residency Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 2003 – 2005
Internal Medicine Internship Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 2002 – 2003
Doctor of Medicine Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 1998 – 2002
B.S. in Engineering Psychology United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 1990 – 1994

Raised in Hawaii and Oklahoma as the son of a career Marine Corps aviator, LTC Ramey Wilson graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1994 and was commissioned into the Field Artillery. Assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, he served as a Fire Support Officer, Battalion Reconnaissance/Survey Officer, Headquarters Battery Executive Officer, Firing Battery Executive Officer, and Battalion S-1/Adjutant.

Answering a call to serve as a military physician, Dr. Wilson matriculated into the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and graduated with his medical degree in 2002. After completing his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 2005, he returned to Fort Bragg and served as a staff internist at Womack Army Medical Center. Deploying with the 2-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment to Afghanistan from 2007-2008 as a Battalion Surgeon, Dr. Wilson returned to Womack to serve as the Chief of Internal Medicine. During his 15-month deployment, LTC Wilson worked extensively with the local Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), local Ministry of Health, and Afghan physicians to improve the medical services for civilians and Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).

In 2009, Dr. Wilson transferred to 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) to stand up a new battalion medical section in the newly formed 4th Battalion. Deploying to Afghanistan a year later, he helped stand up the new Special Operations Task Force-Southeast in Uruzgan province. During the deployment, Dr. Wilson worked closely with the local PRT and AusAid to support the development of the Afghan civilian medical system. Following this assignment, LTC Wilson earned a Master’s Of Science Degree in Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), concentrating on Stability and Reconstruction studies. His thesis explored the role of developing health and medical support for security forces as part of security strengthening efforts. In addition to this degree, Dr. Wilson earned a graduate level certificate in Security, Stability and Development in Complex Operations (SSDCO).

In June 2013, LTC Wilson was a General Internal Medicine Fellow at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he earned his Masters in Public Health and focused on medical education and global health. His research consisted of a needs assessment of the current medical sustainment program for Special Forces Medics. As part of the program, Dr. Wilson worked extensively with the Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine (CDHAM) at the Uniformed Services University. His work with CDHAM included a review of their cultural training program and he serves as an instructor for the Global Health Engagement and Medical Stability Operations Course (GHEMSOC).

Following the completion of the General Internal Medicine Fellowship in 2015, Dr. Wilson assumed the role as the Command Surgeon for 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. In this position, he trained and prepared Special Forces Medics to deploy in support of current contingency missions, supervised the delivery of medical care to members of the organization, and ensured the unit’s medical readiness. He recently deployed as the Command Surgeon for Special Operations Joint Task Force-Afghanistan/NATO Special Operations Command Component-Afghanistan, where he supervised all medical support to Coalition Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan and directed the health engagement strategy to support Afghan Special Security Forces.

In 2017, LTC Wilson assumed the duties of Command Surgeon, Special Operations Command-Africa (SOC-AFRICA) the sub-unified command of AFRICOM. In this role he serves as the Director of the SOC-AFRICA Surgeon's Cell and overseas overseas the medical operations in support of Special Operations missions on the African Continent.

LTC Wilson is a graduate of the Naval War College’s Command and Staff Program, AMEDD Captain’s Career Course (Constructive Credit), AMEDD Officer Basic Course, the Field Artillery Officer Basic Course, Navy Dive Medical Officer’s Course, Army Flight Surgeon’s Course, Army Jumpmaster Course, Army Ranger School, Airborne School, and Air Assault Course.

His awards and decorations include: Bronze Star Medal with Two Oak Leaf Cluster, Meritorious Service Medal with Two Oak Leaf Cluster, Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Army Achievement Medal with Silver Leaf Cluster, Navy and Marine Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medical with Bronze Star, Afghan Campaign Medical with three Bronze Stars, Global War on Terror Service Medal, NATO medal with Bronze Star, Korea Defense Service Medal, Air Assault Badge, Combat Medic Badge, Combat Action Badge, Flight Surgeon Wings, Navy Dive Medical Officer Badge, Ranger Tab, and Senior Parachutist Badge. Dr. Wilson was inducted in the Order of Military Medical Merit (O2M3) in 2014.

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. BS, Medical Science, 1985
Medical College of Wisconsin. MD, 1988
Uniformed Services University. Master of Public Health, 2002.

Dr. Hemmer received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1988 and his Master in Public Health from the Uniformed Services University in 2002. He served on active duty with the United States Air Force from 1991 to 2012, retiring with the rank of Colonel. During his military career, he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and the Defense Superior Service Medal. In addition, he served as the Chief of General Internal Medicine at Wright Patterson Medical Center, the USUHS internal medicine clerkship director, President of the USUHS Faculty Senate, and was the first active duty officer to receive the Carol Johns Medal, the highest award USUHS faculty can bestow on a fellow faculty member. He is Professor of Medicine and the Vice-Chairman for Educational Programs, Department of Medicine, USUHS since 2008. He has been involved with US national leadership in undergraduate medical education, including serving as President of the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM)—the national organization representing those who teach internal medicine to medical students—and as a member of Group on Educational Affairs of the Association of American Medical Colleges. He has served on the Research in Medical Education (RIME) Steering Committee and chaired the RIME nominating committee. He served on the steering committee for USUHS curriculum form, chairing the assessment subcommittee. Subsequently, he chaired the Assessment subcommittee of the Executive Curriculum Committee at USU and is currently Chair of the Executive Curriculum Committee. Each year, he coordinates and co-leads a week-long 40 hour CME course for residency program directors on the Assessment of Clinical Competence. He is a member of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine and has recently completed his term on the AAIM Education Committee. He also serves as the representative from CDIM to the Alliance for Clinical Education (ACE), a multidisciplinary group formed to foster the advancement of the clinical education of medical students. He has more than 75 peer reviewed publications, book chapters, and invited articles. His interests include improving the descriptive (or narrative) evaluation of trainee performance, professionalism, and clerkship director professional development.

1973-1976 University of Maryland at College Park, Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry
1976-1980 University of Maryland at Baltimore, Doctor of Medicine
1985-1987 The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Master of Health Sciences in Epidemiology
1998-2001 The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Doctor of Philosophy, Human Genetics/Genetic Epidemiology

2016-2019 MHPE Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
2006-2009 Internal Medicine Residency San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, San Antonio, Texas
2002-2006 M.D. (magna cum laude) State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, New York
1999-2002 B.A. in Biochemistry Canisius College, Buffalo, New York

Lt Col Neubauer grew up in the Buffalo, NY area. Early interest in the outdoors eventually led to his achieving the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. He was also introduced to the "beautiful game" and remains an avid soccer player and youth coach to this day. Dr. Neubauer credits his mother (who worked as a hospital microbiologist) and experiences as a paramedic for developing his interest in medicine. After completing his undergraduate education at Canisius College in Buffalo, Lt Col Neubauer worked for several years as a professional ground and flight paramedic. In this latter role, he met Air Force Reserve Colonel Dr. Michael Torres who served as an early mentor. This led to his choice to pursue his medical education through the HPSP. At the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine, Dr. Neubauer served as Student Government President and is proud to have earned the Buffalo Surgical Society Prize (awarded to the top student in the 3rd and 4th year of medical school). After medical school, Dr. Neubauer completed his residency at SAUSHEC. He thereafter joined the teaching faculty in San Antonio. After serving in Iraq, he was selected as associate program director for the internal medicine residency program in San Antonio. Under the guidance of key mentors such as Col William Hannah, Col Rechell Rodriguez, and Dr. Temple Ratcliffe, Dr. Neubauer uncovered his interest in medical education. In 2012, he transferred to the Uniformed Services University where he has served as module director for the cardiovascular-pulmonary-renal module. Dr. Neubauer completed a Masters degree in Health Professional Education at USU in 2019. In July of 2017, he was selected to serve as the service chief for the general internal medicine division at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Currently serving in this role, Lt Col Neubauer is responsible for the PCMH (30,000 enrollees), inpatient medicine service (4 teaching services), Integrative Health and Wellness Division, Warrior Clinic, and Geriatric and Palliative Medicine Service.

1994-98 BS, Biology, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
1998-2002 MD, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
2002-05 Internal Medicine Residency, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
2006-09 Infectious Disease Fellow, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
2015-2017 MS-HPEd, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions

Lieutenant Colonel Joshua D. Hartzell, MD currently serves as the Program Director for the National Capital Consortium Internal Medicine Residency Program at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC). His previous roles included being the Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency, Assistant Chief of Graduate Medical Education (GME), and Army Intern Director at WRNMMC and the the Assistant Dean for Faculty Development and Director of Internal Medicine Selectives at the Uniformed Services University. He is a board certified Internist and Infectious Diseases Physician.

Dr. Hartzell has a variety of research and scholarly interests. He has conducted research on infectious diseases to include pertussis, multidrug resistant organisms, leishmaniasis and Q fever. He was the lead author for the Armed Forces Practice Guidelines for the Management of Q fever and was a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention working group on Q fever that published similar recommendations. Dr. Hartzell’s primary interests, however, are medical education, mentoring, and leadership development. In particular, Dr. Hartzell has an interest in developing the leadership and teaching skills of residents and faculty. Dr. Hartzell attended the Stanford Faculty Development Clinical Teaching Course in October 2013 and has avidly been conducting faculty development since that time. Dr. Hartzell developed an military wide leadership curriculum for Graduate Medical Education that began in 2017.

United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, 1995
Georgetown School of Medicine, Washington DC, 1999

COL Kevin K. Chung is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and Georgetown University School of Medicine. After finishing a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Dr. Chung was assigned to the US Army Institute of Surgical Research (USAISR) where he has served in the capacity of Medical Director of the Burn Intensive Care Unit, Task Area Manager of Clinical Trials in Burns and Trauma, and the Director of Research for the USAISR over the last 12 years. He is currently the Chair, Department of Medicine, at USU.

COL Chung holds academic appointments at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences as Professor of Medicine and Professor of Surgery. In his career, COL Chung has authored over 180 manuscripts in peer reviewed journals, authored 13 book chapters, and has been an invited speaker for over 85 lectures internationally.

His research interests include burn resuscitation, critical care and organ failure.

2015 Ph.D. Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2014 Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins Hospital, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2011 Residency, Internal Medicine and International Health, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
2008 M.D. Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2004 B.A. Rice University, Houston, TX

2011 Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, MD, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
2003 B.S., University of California, Davis, CA , Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior

I have significant scientific experience in both government and academic environments. Currently I have appointments as a Research Neuroscientist with the War Related Illness and Injury Study Center (WRIISC) at the Washington DC VA Medical Center and as a Research Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). I have a BS in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior from the University of California, Davis and a PhD in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, with a focus on stress resilience and human performance from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). I was trained in the acquisition and analysis of electroencephalography at the UMD as well as in functional Magnetic Research Imaging at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Georgetown University Medical Center. I have published several articles utilizing psychophysiology and neuroimaging to examine cognitive and emotive processes in military service members (SMs), elite athletes and physicians. In addition to my scientific training, my administrative work at the National Science Foundation and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and responsibilities as a study manager for NIH, USUHS, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center clinical trials, has afforded me considerable experience with Federal government program management, regulatory compliance and science policy. My current research focus is on PTSD and mTBI uilizing fear conditioning, combat-related virtual reality, affective stroop, and telemedicine to reveal insight into the etiology of post-deployment health concerns in order to inform the next generation of rehabilitation and treatment for Veterans and SMs.

1990 Bachelor of Science: Biotechnology Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts
1994 Doctor of Osteopathy University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, Des Moines, Iowa

Captain Petersen, an Infectious Disease specialist, is a native of Stony Brook, NY. He received his Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1990 and his medical degree from Des Moines University-College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1994. He did his internship in Internal Medicine at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia from 1994-5, followed by Undersea Medicine training at the Naval Undersea Medicine Institute in Groton, Connecticut in 1995. His first tour of duty was as an Undersea and Emergency Medicine physician at Naval Hospital Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico from 1996-8 where he served as Undersea Medicine officer for Naval Special Warfare Unit 4, Navy Explosive Ordinance Disposal Mobile Unit 2 and Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 Detachment Caribbean. He provided 24-hour emergency treatment for military and civilian divers in the island’s only hyperbaric treatment facility and also deployed with Seal Delivery Vehicle Team 2 becoming a certified submarine medical officer.

From 1998-2002 Petersen completed Internal Medicine Residency followed by Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the Naval Medical Center, San Diego, California. His research efforts during training included studying HIV medication adherence at NMCSD and traveler’s diarrhea during Operation Cobra Gold in Thailand. In 2002 he was assigned as Infectious Disease staff at National Naval Medical Center Bethesda, MD where his duties included Infection Control Chair, Head of travel medicine and Pharmacy and Therapeutics committee member. During his tour at NNMC he deployed on USNS Comfort (TAH-20) for the assault phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom and to Joint Task Force, Guantanamo Bay Cuba, and was twice recognized with teaching awards by the Internal Medicine house staff and medical students.

From 2007-11 he served at Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring Maryland as undersea medicine deputy department head and program manager of the Department of Defense’s wound infection program focusing on nosocomial infection of combat wounds. CAPT Petersen was selected for Senior Executive Medicine and became the first Executive Officer of U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 serving from 2011-2013. In 2013 he was selected for command and was Commanding Officer of U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6, Lima Peru from November 2013 to August 2015. He reported on board Uniformed Services University in 2015 as an associate professor of medicine and runs the 3rd year medicine clerkship at the DC VA hospital.

CAPT Petersen is a board certified specialist in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases and a Fellow of both the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Disease Society of America. He is an author of numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts and abstracts. His decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal with gold star, Joint Services Commendation Medal, Navy Commendation Medal with gold star and Navy Achievement Medal with gold star.

University of Kansas, Bachelors of Science 2009
University of Kansas School of Medicine, Doctorate of Medicine 2014

Training future military medical professionals is the most fulfilling job I could ever imagine.

2004 M.D. Uniformed Services University
2000 B.S. (cum laude) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Lieutenant Colonel Scott Williams is the Deputy Director for Medicine at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital.

LTC Williams was born in Bournemouth, England and was raised in Princeton, New Jersey. He graduated and was commissioned into the U.S. Army from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. LTC Williams received his medical doctorate from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 2004. He completed a dual residency in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 2009. He completed fellowship training in Sleep Disorders Medicine at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in 2012.

Upon graduation from fellowship, Dr. Williams assumed duties as Chief of Sleep Medicine at Womack Army Medical Center. While there he served on the AASM Education Committee and obtained an academic appointment as assistant professor of medicine at USUHS, later rising to the rank of associate professor of Medicine (primary) and Psychiatry (secondary). He increased his involvement with the AASM after returning to WRNMMC to take charge of the Sleep Disorders Center. He is now the chair of the Sleep Technologist and Respiratory Therapist Education Committee and is part of the gold standard panel for the Inter-Scorer Reliability program.

Dr. Williams continues to remain active in research, particularly in the area of overlap amongst OSA, PTSD, TBI and insomnia. He has published over 25 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 6 books chapters, and 19 abstracts. He is part of the U.S. Army Performance Triad working group, an organization tasked with implementing policies and procedures aimed at imparting common sense approaches to the struggles faced by Servicemembers in areas of nutrition, activity and sleep. Work-rest schedules, extended duty policy, circadian optimization and fatigue management are a few of the top priorities.

His military awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal; Meritorious Service Medal with two bronze oak leaf clusters; Joint Service Commendation Medal; Army Commendation Medal with one bronze oak leaf cluster; Army Achievement Medal with three bronze oak leaf clusters; National Defense Service Medal; Iraq Campaign medal with two bronze service stars; Global War on Terrorism Service Medal; Army Service Ribbon; and the Overseas Service Ribbon. He is authorized to wear the Order of Military Medical Merit medallion; Army Flight Surgeon Badge; Parachutist Badge; Air Assault Badge; Meritorious Unit Commendation; and the German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency.
His civilian awards include the Martin Fenton award for top IM/Psych graduating resident and the NCC Psychiatry Research award. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

BS; (Chemistry) University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (1981)
MD; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (1985)
Internal Medicine Internship and Residency, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC (1985-1988)
Nephrology Fellowship, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC (1988-1991)
Research Fellowship (Renal Physiology); Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD (1990-1991; Dr. M. B. Pamnani)

2000-2004 Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine; Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine,
Lake Erie, PA
1999-2000 Post-Baccalaureate; Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
1993-1997 Bachelor of Science/Biochemistry; University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

POST GRADUATE MEDICAL TRAINING
2009-2011 Fellowship, Endocrinology and Metabolism; National Capital Area Consortium; Bethesda, Maryland.
2004-2007 Residency: Internal Medicine, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.

Dr Hoang’s early experiences in Vietnam and his health-related work throughout the years have cultivated virtues of compassion, commitment and understanding, which provide him with a strong foundation for a career in Internal Medicine.

He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and graduated with cum laude from the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his medical degree from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2004 and completed his internship and residency training at the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC), Bethesda, Maryland in 2007.

Dr Hoang had served as a staff internist at the U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan from 2007-2009 and received a Teacher of the Year award 2008- 2009. Dr Hoang completed his fellowship training at NNMC and is board certified in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism. He served as a staff endocrinologist at NNMC (2011-2012) and at NMC Portsmouth (2012-2013). He served as Head, Endocrinology and Metabolism Division and Diabetes Champion at the Naval Medical Center San Diego (2013-2016) and Associate Professor in medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Endocrinology. He has authored a variety of publications, including peer-reviewed articles, letter to the editor, and book chapters. He was recognized as “Associate Master Clinician Award” (2014) from NMCSD. He came back to WRNMMC, Bethesda in November 2016 to join the Endocrinology clinic here and to serve as the NCC Endocrinology Fellowship Program Director.

Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching, University of Texas - San Antonio (UTSA)
M.S., Secondary Mathematics Education, American University
B.S., Mathematics, Boston University

Dr. Holly Meyer is an Assistant Professor of Health Professions Education in the Department of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU). She has a PhD in Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching from the University of Texas, San Antonio with an emphasis on Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. Meyer has a strong background in leadership development, K-12 education and program evaluation. Dr. Meyer’s research interests include leadership, curriculum development, instructional methods, assessment design, program evaluation and educational theory.

Antioch College Yellow Springs, OH '60-'63 Biology
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL MS 1964 Microbiology
Yale University, New Haven, CT Ph.D. 1969 Immunology
*Left after 3 years w/o degree to begin grad work
Oxford University, England '70-'72

David W. Scott, Ph.D. is Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine at the Uniformed Services School of Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD. An alumnus of Antioch College, Dr. Scott received his M.S. degree from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. from Yale University in 1969. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at Oxford University, UK, he joined the faculty at Duke University in 1971, where he initiated his National Institute of Health-funded studies on immune tolerance mechanisms. In 1983, he was named Dean's Professor of Immunology at the University of Rochester, a post he held for 11 winters. Dr. Scott thereafter became Head of the newly formed Immunology Department at the Holland Lab of the American Red Cross, and moved to the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2004. He assumed his current position at USUHS in September 2010.
Dr. Scott has contributed to over 200 research papers on several subjects in immunology, focusing on immunologic tolerance, gene therapy, and most recently on engineering regulatory T cells for application in autoimmune diseases and hemophilia. He is the author of two textbooks, including a monograph entitled, The Nature of Immunologic Tolerance, and recipient of a number of awards, including the Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of Immunologists (AAI, 2004), a Boerhaave Professorship at Leiden University Medical School, The Netherlands (2006) and the 2009 Scientific Achievement Award from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.
Active in science education, Dr. Scott has been Chair of Education Committees at the American Society for Microbiology and AAI. He has also served on the editorial boards of major immunologic journals, and as a member of National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and NIH Study Sections.

Ronald M. Cervero is a professor and associate director for remote campus education in the Department of Medicine’s Graduate Programs in Health Professions Education. Prior to his recent move to USU, he held a variety of leadership roles at the University of Georgia (UGA). He served as Head of the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy and Associate Dean for Outreach and Engagement in the College of Education. Most recently, he was the Associate Vice President for Instruction with administrative responsibility for the University’s Science Learning Center, Office of Online Learning, Center for Teaching and Learning, Office of Academic Assessment, Extended Campuses, and Air Force and Army ROTC. He provided significant and sustained leadership for distance education since 2001 when he led the Department to offer UGA’s first online graduate degree. Since then, he has been responsible for the growth of online learning programs for the College of Education and served as interim director of the University’s Office of Online Learning.

Dr. Cervero has provided intellectual and organizational leadership for the field of health professions education over the span of his career. He has published extensively in health professions education, with special emphasis on continuing professional development and has recently given invited speeches or keynotes for the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education, the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, Harvard Medical School, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Marine Corps University, HHS’s Bureau of Health Professions, the American Occupational Therapy Association, and the Medical Association of Georgia. He serves on the Advisory Board on Interprofessional Continuing Education for the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education and as a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions. He was extensively involved in health professions education at the University of Georgia where he founded and served as co-director of the Institute for Evidence-Based Health Professions Education, was the co-PI for Georgia’s Public Health Training Center, and served for seven years as the educational consultant for the Augusta University-UGA Medical Partnership to strengthen the medical school’s teaching, curriculum development, and educational research projects. He recently led the Provost’s initiative on interprofessional education that led to the creation of a campus-wide effort to build and sustain an IPE program linking all health professions units.

Dr. Cervero received the Aderhold Distinguished Professor Award in 2008 for excellence in research, teaching, and outreach from the University of Georgia’s College of Education.

Dr. Durning is a professor of medicine and pathology at the Uniformed Services University (USU) and is the Director of Graduate Programs in Health Professions Education. He received his MD degree from the University of Pittsburgh and he practices general internal medicine. He received his PhD from Maastricht University, which addressed the influence of contextual factors on clinical reasoning. As an educator, mentors graduate students and faculty, teaches in the HPE program and also directs a second year medical school course on clinical reasoning. Dr. Durning holds appointments in the departments of medicine and pathology.

Master's Experimental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1987
PhD Psychophysiology, The Pennsylvania State University, 1991

1976 BA Liberal Arts, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
1984 BS Mathematical Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1992 PhD Biophysical Chemistry, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Kathleen Pratt received her PhD in Biophysical Chemistry from Cornell University, in the laboratory of Harold A. Scheraga. As a postdoctoral fellow and staff scientist she determined crystal structures of blood coagulation proteins, including the C2 domain of factor VIII (FVIII), which binds to activated platelet surfaces. Her laboratory has utilized mutagenesis plus surface plasmon resonance to comprehensively map the B-cell epitopes on this important region of the FVIII protein. Over the past decade, they have also mapped immunodominant T-cell epitopes in FVIII and characterized human CD4 T-cell responses using blood samples from hemophilia A patients who develop neutralizing anti-drug antibodies to therapeutically administered FVIII. Her laboratory is currently pursuing studies of protein immunogenicity, immune tolerance, protein engineering, and novel approaches to avoid or reverse the effects of clinically important anti-drug antibodies.

1987 - 1989 Fellow, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC

1980 - 1983 Intern and Resident, Department of Internal Medicine
USAF Medical Center Keesler, Keesler AFB, Mississippi

1980 Doctor of Medicine
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1978 Bachelor of Science
The Pennsylvania State University
State College, Pennsylvania

Dr. McManigle is a native of Emporium, Pennsylvania and graduated from Cameron County High School, The Pennsylvania State University, and Jefferson Medical College prior to entering the United States Air Force Medical Corps in 1980. Dr. McManigle completed Internal Medicine training at USAF Medical Center Keesler, Keesler AFB, Mississippi and was selected to serve as Chief of Residents. Following his year as Chief of Residents, Dr. McManigle was assigned to RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom as a Staff Internist. While at Lakenheath, Dr. McManigle also served as Director, Cardiopulmonary Services; Chief, Allergy Immunization Clinic; and Primary Member of the Air Transportable Hospital. Dr. McManigle then pursued further specialty training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr. McManigle later served as Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, Malcolm Grow Medical Center, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.

While at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as a Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellow, Dr. McManigle’s association with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences began. Dr. McManigle has served a variety of roles at USU, to include faculty member, course director, Assistant Dean of Clinical Sciences, Deputy Dean, and Acting Dean. In addition, he has served on numerous high level committees including Admissions, Executive Curriculum, Student Promotion, Graduate Education, Middle States, and LCME Executive Committees. Currently, Dr. McManigle, partnering with colleagues Dr. Eric Schoomaker and Dr. Neil Grunberg, is focused on developing the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Program.

In January 2007, the Air Force designated Dr. McManigle a Clinical / Academic Grand Master in recognition for his outstanding career accomplishments in academic and clinical medicine. The USU SOM Class of 2007 named Dr. McManigle as recipient of the William P. Clements Award for Excellence in Education. In addition, in 2009 the American College of Physicians named Dr. McManigle a Laureate of the American College of Physicians.

1994 Certification for Clinical Laboratory Immunology Training Program Development
1980-82 Allergy-Immunology Fellowship, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC {Conjoint, Medicine & Pediatrics)
1978-80 Internal Medicine Residency, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
1976 Internship, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
1975 MD Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
1971 BS in Biology and Humanities, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

PhD, George Mason University

Alexis Battista is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Programs for Health Professions Education in the Department of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Educational Psychology and Research Methods in 2015 from the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. In addition, she has 15 years’ experience designing, managing, and implementing simulation-based learning activities in the undergraduate and post-graduate health professions education setting, including extensive experience with simulation-based interprofessional education and patient safety efforts. She teaches courses on simulation-based learning and qualitative and mixed method research design. Her research and program evaluations focus on understanding how simulation-based learning supports learning and the development of clinical reasoning, simulation-based instructional practices, and simulation-based research and evaluation methods.

BS, 2006, Michigan State University
MD, 2012, Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine

UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES (USUHS), Bethesda, MD May 2007, M.D.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park, MD June 2003, B.S., Biological Sciences
National Capital Region (NCR) Consortium, Bethesda, MD; Fellowship - Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism July 2012 - July 2014
PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER, Portsmouth, VA; Residency - Internal Medicine June 2007 - July 2010

2014: DO, New York Institute of Technology - College of Osteopathic Medicine
2010: MS, Drexel University
2008: BA, Binghamton University

Internal Medicine Residency; Pulmonary, Critical Care Fellowships - Walter Reed Medical Center
MD - Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
BS, Biology - Tufts University College of Arts and Sciences, Medford, MA

Dr. Kelly is an Professor and Clerkship Director, Department of Medicine, and a Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Physician at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. He has held many national leadership positions including Chair of Education for the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST). He has over 50 peer-reviewed published manuscripts, chapters, or abstracts, more than 150 presentations including national and international meetings and workshops, and over 30 teaching, research, and military awards. Dr. Kelly's original live and computer-based learning activities using game-informed learning (GIL) have reached over 15,000 physicians in North America, Spain, India and China.

M.D. Boston University, 2013
M.A. Boston University, 2008
B.S. Stevenson University 2003

BS, Chemistry, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, 1997
MD, Sidney Kimmel Medical College (formerly Jefferson Medical College), Philadelphia, PA, 2001
Internship, Internal Medicine, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, 2002
Residency, Internal Medicine, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, 2004
Fellowship, Allergy & Clinical Immunology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, 2006

2002 MD Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL
1998 BA University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

Dr. Damiano first joined the U.S. Navy Reserves through the Health Professions Scholarship Program in 1998 while attending the University of Notre Dame as an undergraduate. Upon graduation from medical school in 2002, he was promoted to active duty Lieutenant and went on to complete his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. He served four years as a staff internist at the Great Lakes Naval Health Clinic and then went on to complete a highly competitive three year fellowship in Gastroenterology at the National Capital Consortium in Washington, DC. As a staff gastroenterologist, he served at the new Fort Belvoir Community Hospital for three years. After 13 years of service in the U.S. Navy, Dr. Damiano separated from active duty and took a civilian contractor position as a staff gastroenterologist at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD, where he continues to work, train fellows, and pursue his main interest in colorectal cancer screening.

Bachelor of Science, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Doctor of Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE
Master of Public Health, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD

Internal Medicine Internship, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
Internal Medicine Residency, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
General Internal Medicine Fellowship, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD

Dr. Mary Andrews attended the University of Notre Dame and Creighton University School of Medicine. She then completed internal medicine residency and a chief resident year at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, followed by a two year general internal medicine fellowship which included a MPH from the Uniformed Services University and dedicated time for teaching, patient care, and scholarship. Following GIM fellowship, she served four years as Associate Clerkship Director for Medicine at USU and then was appointed Program Director for the General Internal Medicine Fellowship. She has written and spoken extensively on using self-regulated learning to identify and remediate struggling test-takers. Her scholarly interests include remediation, self-regulated learning, and meta-analysis research methods.

2000 – 2001 Uniformed Services University of Health Care Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland; M.P.H.
1992 – 1996 George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC; M.D.
1988 – 1992 University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA; B.S., Biochemistry

Princeton University, A.B 1988 (Physics)
Dartmouth Medical School, M.D. 1994
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Residency - Internal Medicine
National Capital Consortium, Fellowship - Cardiovascular Disease
Georgetown University, Fellowship - Nuclear Cardiology

Undergraduate: Princeton University, 1984
Medical School: Medical College of Virginia, 1988
Internship: Medical College of Virginia, 1989
Residency: Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 1992-1994
Fellowship, Infectious Diseases: Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 1995-1998

COL (Ret) Wortmann attended Princeton University on a ROTC scholarship, and was granted an educational delay to attend medical school at the Medical College of Virginia. He completed internship in Internal Medicine at MCV, but was then called onto active-duty and was assigned to the 536th General Dispensary in Ansbach, Germany where he served as a General Medical Officer from 1989-1992. He then completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, following which he was assigned as an internist at Ft Eustis, VA. He then returned to WRAMC to complete a fellowship in Infectious Diseases. He remained at WRAMC following graduation, serving in a variety of positions to include Fellowship Program Director, Section Director and acting-Chief of Medicine. Following the closure of WRAMC in 2011, he served as the Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center until his retirement in 2012, when he moved to the MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC as the Section Director for Infectious Diseases and Program Director for the Infectious Diseases Fellowship. He stepped down as Program Director in 2017, and now splits his time as Section Director at MWHC and Medical Director for Infection Prevention at MedStar corporate.

Drexel University MD 1982
Internal Medicine residency
Allergy-Immunology fellowship

Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of Connecticut
M.S., Instructional Systems, Florida State University
M.S., Physiology, Colorado State University
B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Anthony R. Artino, Jr. is Professor of Medicine and Deputy Director for Graduate Programs in Health Professions Education (HPE). He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics. A graduate of the University of Connecticut with a Ph.D. in educational psychology, Dr. Artino has accrued over 20 years of experience as a Naval Officer and, more recently, as a leader in the field of medical and health professions education. As an educator, Dr. Artino mentors and teaches graduate students in the HPE degree programs, as well as the Master of Health Administration and Policy (MHAP) and Master of Public Health (MPH) programs. As a researcher, he is the Principal Investigator (or Associate Investigator) on several funded research projects totaling more than $7.9 million, and he formerly co-Directed the School of Medicine's Long-Term Career Outcome Study (LTCOS). In these research roles, Dr. Artino collaborates with teams of scientists trained in a variety of academic disciplines, including psychology, epidemiology, physiology, medicine, and English. These interdisciplinary teams study various aspects of human motivation, learning, and performance across the medical education continuum and into clinical practice.

Dr. Artino is a Deputy Editor for the Journal of Graduate Medical Education and an Assistant Editor for Academic Medicine. He is also on the editorial boards of several other peer-reviewed journals, including Military Medicine, Military Psychology, and The Internet and Higher Education. Dr. Artino publishes his work in a variety of national and international outlets, such as Academic Medicine, Medical Education, Advances in Health Sciences Education, Medical Teacher, and Military Medicine, among others. He has published more than 150 scientific articles and book chapters, and he presents regularly at national and international conferences, including annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and the Association for Medical Education in Europe. In 2015, Dr. Artino was the chair of the Research in Medical Education (RIME) program planning committee for the AAMC’s 2015 Medical Education Meeting.

Dr. Artino has been honored for his professional contributions with several international awards, including the Arthur Melton Early Career Award from Division 19 (Military Psychology) of the American Psychological Association and the Established Investigator Award from Division I (Education in the Professions) of the American Educational Research Association.

Dr. Artino’s program of research focuses on two interrelated goals: scientific understanding of teaching, learning, and assessment processes, and the development of practical applications to improve medical education. Thus, his research is guided by the principle that theory and research should work in synergy with educational practice, with each informing and improving the other. To this end, his research team employs social-cognitive views of motivation, emotion, and behavior to better understand how medical students learn across the educational continuum. Such an understanding is critical to the development of individualized instruction and feedback for trainees. In his most recent work, he led a multidisciplinary team of researchers through a series of studies designed to assess students’ motivational beliefs, achievement emotions, and use of learning strategies in medical school. This work confirmed several hypotheses, including the notion that medical students’ perceptions of the learning environment are related, in predictable ways, to their use of self-regulated learning behaviors and achievement, and that these perceptions change considerably from matriculation to graduation. These findings have implications for instructional best practices that support and scaffold adaptive learning behaviors. Dr. Artino’s team is currently designing future intervention studies to test the efficacy of such practices.

A secondary focus of Dr. Artino’s research has been the study of long-term outcomes. From 2009 to 2016, he co-directed the University’s LTCOS with Dr. Steven Durning. The purpose of the LTCOS is to collect and analyze a variety of quantitative and qualitative data before, during, and after medical school so that USU can more effectively evaluate the success of its graduates and educational programs. In just six years, the LTCOS team of more than a dozen multidisciplinary scholars presented 21 research abstracts at scientific conferences and published 65 peer-reviewed journal articles. More importantly, the work of the LTCOS has energized USU’s programmatic evaluation and student assessment efforts, transforming the institution into a leader in longitudinal evaluation and assessment that span the medical education continuum.

Postdoctoral fellow 1992-1996: National Cancer Institute/ NIH Bethesda, MD
Ph.D. 1992 -summa cum laude- (Distribution of T-cells, B-cells and ED-1 positive macrophages in spleen and autotransplanted splenic tissue after intravenous immunization: a comparison of the effect of soluble and cellular antigen from Escherichia coli). Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Salzburg

M.S. 1990: (Regeneration of autotransplanted splenic tissue in the course of time),Institute for Biology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry
University of Salzburg/Austria

Undergraduate: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Psychology
Medical School: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Graduation Date: 20 MAY 2000
Professional Training and Experience:
PGY1: Internal Medicine at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD from July 2000 to 2001.
Residency: Internal Medicine at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD from July 2001 to June 2003.
Fellowship: National Capital Consortium, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Bethesda, MD from July 2003 to June 2006.
Fellowship in Interventional Pulmonology, Chest Diagnostic Center / Lung Cancer Center, Harbor Hospital, Baltimore, MD with Dr. Ko Pen Wang. 12 months dedicated training from July 2004 to July 2006.

Dr. Robert Browning began his career in the Navy in 1988 when he was commissioned as a Navy officer after completing 4 years as an NROTC midshipman and graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C. with a degree in psychology. He graduated Navy flight school in 1989 and served as a Naval Aviator until 1996. He transitioned to military medicine in 1996 at the Uniformed Services University, Bethesda MD where he graduated with a degree in medicine in 2000. After graduation, he trained in the disciplines of Internal medicine and Pulmonary/Critical Care medicine in the National Capital Region, which included the National Naval Medical Center and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He pursued further additional and specialized training in Interventional Pulmonology with one of the most well known international experts in the discipline, Dr. Ko Pen Wang, Interventional Pulmonology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore MD as well as specific training in rigid bronchoscopy and jet ventilation with Dr. Heinrich Becker at the Thorax Clinic in Heidelberg, Germany. In 2006, Dr. Browning created the first DOD medical interventional pulmonology program serving the National Naval Medical Center and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr. Browning served as the Chief of Pulmonary Medicine, Chief of Critical Care Medicine and Assistant Chief of Medicine. He currently serves as the Chief of Interventional Pulmonology at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Dr. Browning is an active lung cancer researcher with several funded research protocols at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

2006 MD Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
2001 BS, BA University of Washington, Seattle, WA

United States Naval Academy, 2005 - 2009
Georgetown University School of Medicine, 2009 - 2013
Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine, 2013-2016
Fellowship in Gastroenterology, 2017 - present

2005 MPH Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
1997 Internal Medicine Residency, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC
1995 Internal Medicine Internship, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
1994 MD University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
1990 BA University of Chicago, The College, Chicago, IL

1996-2000, B.A. (Biological Sciences), Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2000-04, M.D., Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
2004-07, Internal Medicine Internship and Residency, Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH
2008-09, USSONAR Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Training and Testing Program Certificate
2007-09, Rheumatology Fellowship, San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC), San Antonio, TX

Lt Col Angelique Collamer received her military commission through the ROTC program, Detachment #365, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She completed medical school at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Collamer completed an Internal Medicine Internship and Residency at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH and Rheumatology Fellowship at Brooke Army Medical Center. Upon fellowship graduation, she was selected as an American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Distinguished Fellow in 2009. While at Brooke Army Medical Center, she authored two landmark papers on the topic of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antagonist induced psoriasis and served as the Director of Research for the Rheumatology Department. Dr. Collamer was subsequently assigned to U.S. Air Force Hospital Langley in Virginia. During this tour served as Medical Director of the Internal Medicine and Medical Subspecialty Clinics as well as the Commander for 8 clinical areas and a 110 member staff. Additionally, she was the Air Force member to the VA/DoD Non-Surgical Management of Hip & Knee Osteoarthritis Clinical Practice Guideline Working Group. Dr. Collamer was next assigned as the Air Force Company Commander and Assistant Commandant at the Uniformed Services University and also served as a staff rheumatologist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC). In 2017 she was selected as the Rheumatology Clinic Service Chief at WRNMMC where she can be found happily busy in patient care, clinical research and the teaching and mentoring of medical students, residents and fellows.

PhD, University of Florida, 1992.

Undergraduate: BS, Biology, University of Puerto Rico, June/2003
Medical School: MD, University of Puerto Rico, June/2007
Internship: Internal Medicine, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA, Aug/2008
Residency: Internal Medicine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, Jul/2012
Fellowship: Nephrology, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, Jul/2014

Bachelor of Arts, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Doctor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Internal Medicine Residency, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD

Dr. Adam Barelski grew up in upstate NY before attending Boston College for undergraduate studies. At BC, he studied political science and pre-med, before attending Tufts University School of Medicine as part of the Army Health Professions Scholarship Program. He completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center before serving as a chief resident. Dr. Barelski remained on staff as a general internist at WRNMMC, serving as a member of the core faculty and clinical competency committee chair for the residency program. He is an active educator within the residency program with interests in clinical decision making, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice. He is currently serving as an Associate Program Director for the Medicine Residency and clinical competency committee chair. Dr. Barelski is board certified in internal medicine and is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. He has training in combat casualty care, medical management of biological and chemical casualties, and completed the Stanford Faculty Development Program. He has served as a battalion surgeon with the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division out of Ft. Stewart, GA in support of two NTC rotations and an operational rotation in South Korea.

1993-1997 BA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1998-2002 MD, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY
2002-2005 Internal Medicine Residency, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
2005-2007 Allergy Immunology Fellowship, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
2007-2009 Transplant Immunology, Histocompatibility Fellowship, Georgetown University Hospital

Dr. Chang is a board certified Allergist-Immunologist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Biology, Honors and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. She received her medical degree from University of Rochester School of Medicine in 2002. She completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine, followed by a Fellowship in Allergy/Immunology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC from 2002-2007. She completed additional training in Transplant Immunology at Georgetown University Hospital from 2007-2009 and was recognized as the Department of Defense's subject matter expert in Histocompatibility and its only ASHI certified Histocompatibility Director. As the Director of the Transplant Lab at Walter Reed from 2009-2015, she modernized the laboratory and built DNA testing capabilities from scratch. In April 2015, she left the United States Army and transferred into the United States Public Health Service to pursue a career with the Food and Drug Administration to provide Allergy/Immunology expertise and guidance on the review and approval of Allergy/Immunology product development, analyzing clinical trial designs and data to determine safety, effectiveness and adequacy of labeling for marketed vaccine and allergenic products. She has been a staff clinical provider in the Allergy/Immunology clinic at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center since 2007 and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and Pediatrics at Uniformed Services University.

2013 Fellowship, Sleep Medicine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
2012 Fellowship, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
2009 Residency, Internal Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC
2003 Internship, General Surgery, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX
2002 MD, Uniformed Services University
1998 BS, Biology, University of California, Riverside

Tulane University School of Medicine

MPH, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
MD, University of the Philippines

2003-07 - Bachelor of Science in Pre-medicine from Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC
2007-11 - Doctor of Medicine from University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
2011-14 - Internship and residency in Internal Medicine, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI
2014-17 - Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
2016-17 - Master of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD

Sc.B., Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1984
M.D., Brown University School of Medicine, 1988
Internal Medicine Internship, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, 1989
Internal Medicine Residency, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, 1991
General Internal Medicine Fellowship, Walter Reed Army Medical Center & Uniformed Services University, 1993
MPH with specialization in Health Services Administration, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, 1993

Dr. Roy is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Military Internal Medicine at Uniformed Services University, and Principal Investigator of the Recruitment Core for the Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine. He is a graduate of Brown University and Brown University School of Medicine. Dr. Roy completed his residency in internal medicine and his general medicine fellowship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and retired as a Colonel after 24 years in the Army. He has twice served as president of the Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Dr. Roy is the principal investigator on multiple studies on war-related health, often using new brain imaging techniques and other cutting edge technologies such as virtual reality and smart phone applications. He has authored well over 100 publications including the books Physician’s Guide to Terrorist Attack and Novel Approaches to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin Ph.D (2009), Cognition and adult learning
Johns Hopkins University MPH (2002), Epidemiology
University of Rome, La Sapienza, MD (1990)

BS Biology: King's College Wilkes-Barre, PA
Medical Degree (MD): Georgetown University School of Medicine Washington, D.C.
Internal Medicine Residency: The George Washington University Medical Center Washington, D.C.
Infectious Diseases Fellowship: The George Washington University Medical Center Washington, D.C.

Dr. Dong completed her PhD in educational psychology in 2009 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), with a focus on cognitive science of teaching and learning. She also specializes in quantitative methodologies for education, holding a Master’s degree in applied statistics (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

MD -- University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 1995
MPH -- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 2013

Williams College, BA (Chemistry), 1987
University of Rochester School of Medicine, MD, 1991
Uniformed Services University, MPH, 1998
Walter Reed Army Medical Center -- Internship, Residency, Fellowship (Internal Medicine)

Dr. O’Malley serves as a Professor of Medicine, Division Director of General Internal Medicine, Co-Director of the Foundation in Medicine Module, and Course Director for the Medical Interviewing and Physical Exam courses. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry from Williams College, Medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and a Master of Public Health degree from USU. He completed a residency and fellowship in Internal Medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. An active clinician, he sees patients at Walter Reed and attends in the Internal Medicine Residency Continuity Clinic.

Over the course of his 30 year military career, COL O’Malley has served military families as a staff internist at Fort Belvoir, as Chief of General Internal Medicine at Walter Reed, and as a primary care provider and hospitalist throughout his career. He is currently the Councilor of the USU Gamma Chapter of AOA, Co-Chair of the VA/DoD Dyslipidemia Guideline, and Associate Program Director of the General Internal Medicine Fellowship.

Over the course of his career, he has published over 150 peer reviewed publications, book chapters, and editorials, including publications in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, Archives/JAMA Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and Military Medicine, among others. He was a Senior Deputy Editor for JAMA Internal Medicine from 2004-2019, and serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Co-morbidity. His research is focused on clinical epidemiology, unexplained symptoms, technology assessment of diagnostic tests, patient-physician interaction, and meta-analysis. His teaching has been focused on clinical skills acquisition and clinical reasoning. He is a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine, Association of Chiefs and Leaders of General Internal Medicine (as a Founding Member), and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

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BS, 2001, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland
MD, 2005, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland

1996 MS Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Lodz University of Technology
2001 PhD, Chemical Engineering, Lodz University of Technology
2007, Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH, National Cancer Institute Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory, Frederick, MD

Dr. Pazgier graduated from Lodz University of Technology in technical sciences and did her postdoctoral training at the Molecular Crystallography Laboratory in National Cancer Institute-Frederick in structural biology by X-ray crystallography. In 2007 she became a faculty member of the Institute of Human Virology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of University of Maryland School of Medicine where she established her independent research program in structural biology of infectious disease. Dr. Pazgier joined the Department of Medicine of USUHS in 2018 in the Infectious Disease Division.
Dr. Pazgier's research focuses on understanding, at the molecular level, of mechanisms involved in innate and adaptive responses to infectious disease with the long term goal to generate knowledge required to develop new vaccines and antibody therapeutics. Her research is highly interdisciplinary, involving structural biology, contemporary biophysical and protein engineering techniques, and structure-function analyses.

1976 – 1977 Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
1977 – 1979 University of Chicago, The College; A.B. with High Honors, Tutorial Studies major, Phi Beta Kappa, Senior Honors Paper.
1978 – 1980 University of Chicago; A.M., Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences.
1980 – 1987 University of Chicago; Ph.D., Psychology: Cognition and Communication.
1984 – 1988 University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine; M.D., Medicine.

Harvard College A.B. summa cum laude 1961
Harvard Medical School M.D. magna cum laude 1965
Internal Medicine Residency at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, Bronx NY 1965-1967

Dr. Goldstein has engaged in cardiovascular medicine and cardiovascular research since he was a medical student. He continues a long career of patient care and teaching at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. His ongoing focus as a teacher has been enhanced physician performance during bedside or clinic patient evaluation, particularly the physical examination. His research interests have included the pathophysiology and management of coronary artery disease and, more recently, congestive heart failure and arrhythmias. Actively maintaining a long-standing collaboration with the Heart Research Follow-up Program at the University of Rochester, he now serves as Chair of Data and Safety Monitoring Boards for 3 current studies of management for cardiac patients. He also performs collaborative research utilizing extensive databases at the University of Rochester. Since he stepped down as Chair of the USU Department of Medicine, he has collaborated with members of the Cardiology Division to investigate how drugs and clinical conditions influence the electrical activity of cardiac myocytes to sustain stable cardiac rhythm. Dr. Goldstein has exercised leadership roles in the community--President of the Maryland Affiliate of the American Heart Association, Governor (USPHS) for the American College of Cardiology, and currently member of a VA Study Section. At USU, he has been faculty leader of the Alpha Omega Alpha Chapter and member of the Faculty Senate. He has received many distinctive awards in cardiology and medicine, including national recognition as a Guggenheim Fellow and as a Master of the American College of Physicians.

University of Georgia, B.S. Genetics
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, MD

Christin B DeStefano, MD, practices hematology and oncology at David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California. She received her medical degree from the Uniformed Services University and completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Keesler Medical Center in Biloxi, MS, and fellowship in hematology and oncology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital-Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. Her research interests include leukemia, lymphoma, and cancer epidemiology as it relates to military members and veterans. Dr. DeStefano has authored several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, spoken at national conferences, serves as a peer-reviewer for research articles and congressionally directed medical research program grants, and serves on multiple national committees including the ABIM Item Writing Task Force for Hematology. She has mentored multiple medical students, residents and fellows and received the Outstanding Key Clinical Faculty Award at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. She is a member of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), American College of Physicians (ACP) Air Force chapter, and Association of Northern California Oncologists (ANCO).

United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 1987
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 1993

John Gilstad, MD graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1987 with a BS in English and earned his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 1993. He completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland in 1996, and fellowship in Geriatrics at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore in 2002.

Dr. Gilstad served in clinical roles at Naval facilities in Puerto Rico and Japan, and in leadership roles at Naval research stations in Singapore and Egypt, and at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Gilstad practices geriatrics and supports research in the graduate medical education programs of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and is the principal investigator on a study of hand hygiene in rural hospitals in Liberia.

08/06-08/11 Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC- Ph.D.- Physiology and Pharmacology
08/01-05/05 College of Charleston Honors Program, Charleston, SC- BS- Biology / Pre-Pharmacy, 2005

As an independent research physiologist, my early professional career has involved studies that examine the body’s natural response to trauma, in an attempt to understand and recapitulate successful healing responses. My primary scientific interests are translational in nature, and include the role of fluid resuscitation in organ (dys)function and inflammation, burn wound healing and diagnosis, and the role of the microbiome on physiological homeostasis. My doctoral studies were performed at the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine and examined successful, age-dependent, regeneration of the urinary bladder after surgical trauma. My interest in military medicine began at the US Army Institute for Surgical Research where I completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship examining burn trauma and wound healing strategies. There, I became interested in critical care, and the use of resuscitative fluids to treat different types of trauma, which was supported by an award through the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program. With infectious complications at the crux of outcomes in burn and other forms of trauma, I have interest in the exciting world of the microbiome on skin and within the gut. In short, my career thus far has revolved around translational research by studying natural (patho)physiologic consequences, and therapies to recapitulate beneficial responses, and circumvent aberrant ones.