Faculty

M.D. Jinzhou Medical University, Liaoning, China
M.S. National Institute of Sports Medicine, Beijing, China
Ph.D. Kent State University

Yifan Chen received his medical training with nearly five-year experience in sports medicine in China. Subsequently he obtained his Ph.D. in Physiology at Kent State University. Before joining USU, he was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Rochester and research assistant professor at Georgetown University.

B.S., Medical Microbiology, Stanford University (1975)
M.A. (1977), M.Phil. (1979), and Ph.D. (1980) degrees in Physiological and Social Psychology, Columbia University
Doctoral training in Pharmacology, Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons under a National Research Service Award (1976-79).

Neil E. Grunberg, Ph.D., is Professor of Military & Emergency Medicine (MEM), Medical & Clinical Psychology (MPS), and Neuroscience (NES) in the Uniformed Services University (USU) School of Medicine (SOM); Professor in the Graduate School of Nursing (GSN); Director of Research and Development in the USU Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) program; and Director of Faculty Development for MEM. He is a medical and social psychologist who has been on faculty at USU since 1979. His role in LEAD is to ensure that the LEAD program and sessions are based upon sound evidence and scholarship and to oversee research relevant to leadership education and training (see www.usuhs.edu/usulead).

Dr. Grunberg earned baccalaureate degrees in Medical Microbiology and Psychology from Stanford University (1975); earned M.A. (1977), M.Phil. (1979), and Ph.D. (1980) degrees in Physiological and Social Psychology from Columbia University; and received doctoral training in Pharmacology at Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons under a National Research Service Award (NRSA, 1976-79). Dr. Grunberg helps train physicians, psychologists, and nurses to serve in the Armed Forces or Public Health Service, and scientists for research positions. He has published >180 papers addressing behavioral medicine, stress, and leadership. Dr. Grunberg has received awards from the U.S. Surgeon General, CDC, FDA, American Psychological Association, NIH, Society of Behavioral Medicine, and USU. He has served as President of the USU Faculty Senate and has chaired USU committees including: Strategic Planning; Manpower; Health, Safety, and Wellness; Appointment, Promotions, and Tenure. Outside USU, he has chaired Working Groups for the MacArthur Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 2015, Dr. Grunberg was selected as a Presidential Leadership Scholar (PLS).

Dr. Grunberg and his research group (see www.usuhs.edu/faculty/grunberg) study leadership, stress (psychological and physical, including mTBI and PTSD), and appetitive behaviors (including nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, and food consumption). His teaching includes topics in leadership, social psychology, psychobiology, behavioral neuroscience, and sports psychology.

Dr. Grunberg has supervised 35 doctoral dissertations in Medical Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Neuroscience, and has served on many master and doctoral degree committees. He currently is training a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student and a GSN Ph.D. student. In addition, he mentors faculty members in MEM in his role as MEM Director of Faculty Development.

Years Program/Degree Institution
2011-2012 Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Denver Health Medical Center
Denver, CO
2006-2009 Emergency Medicine Residency Naval Medical Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
2002-2003 Transitional Internship Naval Medical Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
1998-2002 Doctor of Medicine Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
1998-2002 Master of Public Health Northwestern University
Chicago, IL
1994-1998 Bachelor of Arts (Cum Laude) Northwestern University
Evanston, IL

CDR Hurst was born in Wausau, WI and accepted an ROTC scholarship to Northwestern University. She graduated in 1998 Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemistry. She went on to earn a Masters of Public Health degree and a Doctor of Medicine degree from Northwestern University in 2002.
After finishing a Transitional Internship at Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) in 2003, CDR Hurst worked as a General Medical Officer in the Emergency Department before starting flight school in Pensacola, FL. She earned her wings of gold and completed a 2-year flight surgery tour at Naval Support Activity Souda Bay, Crete, Greece.
From 2006-2009, CDR Hurst returned to NMCSD to complete her residency in Emergency Medicine. She served as Academic Chief Resident in her final year of training. Following a short period serving as core academic staff physician at NMCSD, she deployed with 1st Medical Battalion to Helmand Provence, Afghanistan in 2010 and worked as an Emergency Physician with a Shock Trauma Platoon.
Upon return, CDR Hurst continued to serve as core academic faculty for the Emergency Medicine Residency Training Program. She completed a 1-year full time out service Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship at Denver Health Medical Center in 2012. Afterwards, she returned to NMCSD as Director of Emergency Ultrasound and established a comprehensive point-of-care ultrasound training program for the Emergency Medicine Residency and Physician Assistant Training Programs. She also developed an annual regional point-of-care ultrasound course and created a deployment ultrasound training curriculum for General Medical Officers in the fleet and deploying personnel.
From 2013-2015, CDR Hurst served as Senior Medical Officer for the Director of Medical Services and developed a web-based Morbidity and Mortality database and worked with Department Heads to greatly improve departmental review and learning from such cases. In 2015, she became Associate Program Director for the emergency Medicine Residency. She has published numerous papers in peer reviewed journals and multiple book chapters and lectures regularly at the national and regional level.
CDR Hurst’s personal decorations include the Navy & Marine Corps Commendation Medal with gold star and the Navy & Marine Corps Achievement Medal with gold star. She is authorized to wear the Fleet Marine Force and Naval Flight Surgeon Warfare Devices. She is an Associate Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine at Uniformed Services University.

1985 M.P.H. University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington
1980 M.D. Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
1976 B.S. Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee

Arthur L Kellermann MD, MPH is Professor and Dean of “America’s Medical School,” the Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. Before joining USU, he held the Paul O’Neill-Alcoa Chair in Policy Analysis at the RAND Corporation. From 1993-2010, he was professor and founding chair of Emergency Medicine and directed the Emory Center for Injury Control. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly IOM). A graduate of Emory University (MD) and the University of Washington (MPH), he is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine.

1992, BS - USAFA
1999, MD - USUHS
2002, 2009 - Board Certified in Family Medicine (Travis AFB-UC Davis Residency)
2001 - Board Certified in Emergency Medicine (WPAFB-Wright State University Residency)

After graduating with Academic Distinction from the USAF Academy in 1992, Col Kim started his military career as a Distinguished Graduate of the Aerospace Physiologist course. During this assignment at Offutt AFB, NE, he became interested in medicine and earned his MD from USUHS, graduating as the top Family Medicine student. He completed his Family Medicine residency as Chief Resident at Travis AFB, CA. After serving in Family Medicince and Flight Surgeon assignments, he continued his medical training by completing an Emergency Medicine residency at WPAFB, OH. He has served in Operational billets as a Flight Surgeon to two different Fighter Squadrons, has been the medical examiner on multiple aircraft Safety Investigation Boards and Accident Investigation Boards, and has served on multiple humanitarian/disaster relief engagements to the Arctic, Central America, Africa, as well as Indonesia for the 2004 tsunami relief effort. His assignments include: Offutt AFB (Nebraska), Travis AFB (California), Osan AB (Korea), Elmendorf AFB (Alaska), WPAFB (Ohio), Landstuhl Medical Center (Germany).

Education: B.S. in Medical Technology (2000) from the University of Scranton; MT from Scranton Medical Technology Consortium (2000); M.S. in Biochemistry (2002) from the University of Scranton. PhD in Chemistry (2008) from the University of Florida. Post-doctoral fellow in Kinesiology (2008-2010) at the University of Connecticut.

B.S. in Zoology, North Carolina State University (2007)
M.S. in Biology, University of Nebraska-Kearney (2013)
Ph.D. in Animal Sciences, University of Maryland (2018)

B.S. University of Illinois, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Major: Physiology, Minor; Chemistry
B.S. University of Illinois, College of Engineering, Major: Engineering Physics
Ph.D. Cambridge University, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Paul Rapp attended the University of Illinois as a James Scholar. He received a Bachelors degree in Physiology (minor in Chemistry, Summa cum Laude) and a second Bachelors degree in Engineering Physics (Summa cum Laude) in 1972. He then attended Cambridge University as a Churchill Scholar and received his Ph.D. in 1975. His doctoral work, under the supervision of Professor Sir James Lighthill, was conducted in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Following graduation he was elected to a Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University. During this period he continued teaching in the Faculty of Mathematics and performed combined theoretical and experimental work in collaboration with Professor Sir Michael Berridge in the Invertebrate Chemistry and Physiology Unit at Cambridge. This work led to the publication of the calcium-cyclic nucleotide oscillator hypothesis. He joined the faculty of the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1979.

At present, Rapp is a Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University and Director of the Traumatic Injury Research Program. He also holds a secondary appointment as a Professor of Medical and Clinical Psychology. Previously he was a Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology at Drexel University College of Medicine (the successor organization to the Medical College of Pennsylvania) and Director of Research at the Clinical Research Center at Norristown State Psychiatric Hospital.

Professor Rapp was a Candidate at the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis and has practiced as a psychotherapist/psychoanalyst at the Philadelphia Consultation Center.

He is a past editor of Physica, and has served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Chaos and Complexity Letters, and Cognitive Neurodynamics. Past honors include a Certificate of Commendation from the Central Intelligence Agency for “significant contributions to the mission of the Office of Research and Development.”

1984 Bachelor of Biology, Department of Animal Science, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui, China
1987 Master of biology, Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
1999 Ph.D of physiology and biochemistry, Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
2001 Postdoctoral fellow, Molecular Physiology, Research Institute for the Biology of Animals, Dummerstorf, Germany
2003 Postdoctoral fellow, Molecular Oncology, the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Mingqiang Ren, Ph.D. is currently a Research Scientist in Department of Military and Emergency Medicine (MEM) at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). Previously, he is a research scientist in the Roswell Park Cancer Institute at Buffalo, NY, and a research assistant professor of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Medical College of Georgia.

Dr. Ren has many years of experience and expertise in genomics sciences, bioinformatics, and mouse models. He is a translational scientist and his research mainly focused on blood diseases, including blood cancer and sick cell trait related disorders. He has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, such as Blood, Leukemia, and Cancer Research.

Dr. Ren has made a great contribution in molecular pathogenesis and targeted therapies of acute myeloid leukemia induced by FGFR1 translocations. He received the Translational Research Awards from Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, and RNA-seq Award from Illumina. Dr. Ren has been served for several committees in his previous university, such as in Flow Cytometry Core Facility and Integrated Genomics Core. He has been mentor of many PhD/Master students and medical students over last 15 years.

Mingqiang obtained his Ph. D degree of physiology and biochemistry from China, and his post-doctoral fellowship training in both the Research Institute for the Biology of Animals in Germany and the Cancer Center at the Johns Hopkins University.

ACADEMIC EDUCATION

1984 Bachelor of Biology, Department of Animal Science, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui, China
1987 Master of Biology, Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
1999 Ph.D of Physiology and Biochemistry, Animal Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
2001 Postdoctoral fellow, Molecular Physiology, Research Institute for the Biology of Animals, Dummerstorf, Germany
2003 Postdoctoral fellow, Molecular Oncology, the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

PREVIOUS ASSIGNMENTS

1987-1992 Instructor, Department of Physical Education, Huaibei Normal University, China.
1992-1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Huaibei Normal University, China.
2003-2009 Research Scientist, Department of Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY.
2009-2012 Research Scientist, Cancer Center, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
2012-2015 Assistant Professor of Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Member of Cancer Center, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
2016-date Research Scientist, Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed University of the Health Sciences. 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD

OTHER AWARDS

2013 RNA-seq Award. Illumina
2013 Translational Research Awards, Medical College of Georgia.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS

Active member, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Active member, the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

PUBLICATIONS (Selected from over 50 peer-reviewed publications, * corresponding author)

1. Cowell JK, Qin H, Hu T, Wu Q, Bhole A, Ren M*. Mutation in the FGFR1 tyrosine kinase domain or inactivation of PTEN is associated with acquired resistance to FGFR inhibitors in FGFR1-driven leukemia/lymphomas. Int J Cancer. 2017 Nov 1;141(9):1822-1829
2. Hu T, Chong Y, Qin H, Kitamura E, Chang CS, Silva J, Ren M, and Cowell JK. The miR-17/92 cluster is involved in the molecular etiology of the SCLL syndrome driven by the BCR-FGFR1 chimeric kinase. 2017, Oncogene (accepted).
3. Sha S, Zhai Y, Lin C, Wang H, Chang Q, Song S, Ren M, Liu G. A combination of valproic acid sodium salt, CHIR99021, E-616452, tranylcypromine, and 3-Deazaneplanocin A causes stem cell-like characteristics in cancer cells. Oncotarget. 2017; 8(32):53302-53312
4. Hong M, Ren M, Silva J, Paul A, Wilson WD, etc. YM155 inhibits topoisomerase function. Anticancer Drugs. 2017, 28(2):142-152.
5. Rossetti S, Ren M, Visconti N, Corlazzoli F, Gagliostro V, Somenzi G, Yao J, Sun Y, Sacchi N. Tracing anti-cancer and cancer-promoting actions of all-trans retinoic acid in breast cancer to a RARα epigenetic mechanism of mammary epithelial cell fate. Oncotarget. 2016, 7(52):87064-87080.
6. Cowell JK, Qin H, Chang C-S, Kitamura, E. and Ren M*. A model of BCR-FGFR1 driven human AML in immunocompromised mice. British Journal of Haematology, 2016, 175(3):542-545.
7. Qin H, Sami Malek, Cowell JK, and Ren M*. Transformation of human CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells with DEK-NUP214 induces AML in an immunocompromized mouse model. Oncogene, 2016, 27;35(43):5686-5691.
8. Qin H, Wu Q, Cowell JK, and Ren M*. FGFR1OP2-FGFR1 induced myeloid leukemia and T-cell lymphoma in a mouse model. Haematologica, 2016, 101(3).
9. Wu Q, Bhole A, Qin H, Karp J, Malek S, Cowell1 JK, and Ren M*. Targeting FGFR1 to suppress leukemogenesis in syndromic and de novo AML in murine models. Onotarget, 2016 2016 Aug 2;7(31):49733-49742.
10. Ren M*, Qin H, Wu Q, Savage NM, George TI, and Cowell JK. Development of ZMYM2-FGFR1 driven AML in human CD34+ cells in immunocompromised mice. Int J Cancer, 2016, 2016 Aug 15;139(4):836-40.
11. Zhou HM, Fang YY, Weinberger PM, Ding LL, Cowell JK, Hudson FZ, Ren M, Lee JR, Chen QK, Su H, Dynan WS, Lin Y. Transgelin increases metastatic potential of colorectal cancer cells in vivo and alters expression of genes involved in cell motility. BMC Cancer. 2016
12. Hong M, Ren M, Silva J, Kennedy T, Choi J, Cowell JK and Hao Z. Sepantronium is a DNA damaging agent that synergizes with PLK1 inhibitor volasertib. Am J Cancer Res 2014;4(2)
13. Ren M*, Qin H, Ren R, Cowell JK. Ponatinib suppresses the development ofmyeloid and lymphoid malignancies associated with FGFR1 abnormalities. Leukemia. 27(1):32-40, 2013.
14. Ren M*, Qin H, Kitamura E, Cowell JK. Disregulation of multiple signaling pathways in the development of myeloid and lymphoid malignancies associated with the CNTRL-FGFR1 fusion kinase in human and mouse models. Blood; 122(6):1007-16, 2013.
15. Ren M, Hong M, Liu G, Wang H, Patel V, Biddinger P, Silva J, Cowell JK and Hao Z.
Novel FGFR Inhibitor Ponatinib Suppresses Growth of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells Overexpressing FGFR1. Oncology Reports. 29(6):2181-90, 2013. (Top Ten most cited articles published in Oncology Reports in 2013).
16. Wang X, Choi JH, Ding J, Yang L, Ngoka LC, Lee EJ, Zha Y, Mao L, Jin B, Ren M, Cowell J, Huang S, Shi H, Cui H, Ding HF. HOXC9 directly regulates distinct sets of genes to coordinate diverse cellular processes during neuronal differentiation. BMC Genomics. 2013 Nov 25;14:830
17. Ren M, Tidwell J, Sharma S, and Cowell JK. Acute progression of BCR-FGFR1 induced murine B-lympho/myeloproliferative disorder suggests involvement of lineages at the pro-B cell stage. PLoS One. 7(6): e38265, 2012.
18. Mao L, Ding J, Perdue A, Yang L, Zha Y, Ren M, Huang S, Cui H, and Ding H-F. Cyclin E1 is a common target of BMI1 and MYCN and a prognostic marker for neuroblastoma progression. Oncogene, 2012 16;31(33):3785-95
19. McCarthy BA, Yang L, Ding J, Ren M, King W, Elsalanty M, Zakhary I, Sharawy M, Cui H, Ding HF. NF-kappaB2 mutation targets survival, proliferation and differentiation pathways in the pathogenesis of plasma cell tumors. BMC Cancer.12(1):203, 2012
20. Ren M*. Cowell JK. Constitutive Notch pathway activation in murine ZMYM2-FGFR1-induced T-cell lymphomas associated with atypical myeloproliferative disease. Blood. 117(25):6837-47. 2011.
21. Ren M*, Qin H, Ren R, Tidwell J, Cowell JK. Src activation plays an important role in lymphomagenesis induced by FGFR1-fusion kinases. Cancer Res. 71(23):7312-22, 2011
22. Rath P, Miller DC, Litofsky NS, Anthony DC, Feng Q, Franklin C, Pei L, Free A, Liu J, Ren M, Kirk MD, Shi H. Isolation and characterization of a population of stem-like progenitor cells from an atypical meningioma. Exp Mol Pathol. 90 (2): 179-188, 2011
23. Teng Y, Ren M, Cheney R, Sharma S, Cowell JK. Inactivation of the WASF3 gene in prostate cancer cells leads to suppression of tumorigenicity and metastases. Br J Cancer. 103(7):1066-75, 2010
24. Ren M., Li X., Cowell JK. Genetic fingerprinting of the development and progression of T-cell lymphoma in a murine model of atypical myeloproliferative disorder initiated by the ZNF198-FGFR1 chimeric tyrosine kinase. Blood. 114(8):1576-84. 2009.
25. Corlazzoli F., Rossetti S., Bistulfi G., Ren M. and SacchiN. Derangement of a factor upstream of RARα triggers the repression of a pleiotropic epigenetic network. PLoS ONE. 4(1):e4305, 2009
26. Safina A., Ren M, VanDette, E. and Bakin AV. TAK1 is required for TGFbeta-mediated regulation of matrix metalloproteinase-9 and metastasis. Oncogene. 27(9):1198-207, 2008
27. Bistulfi G., Pozzi, S., Ren, M, Rossetti S. and Sacchi N. A repressive epigenetic domino effect confers susceptibility to breast epithelial cell transformation: implications for predicting breast cancer risk. Cancer Res. 66(21):10308-14, 2006.
28. Ren, M, Pozzi, S., Bistulfi G., Somenzi G., Rossetti S. and Sacchi N. Impaired RA-signal Leads to RAR2 Epigenetic Silencing and RA-resistance. Mol. Cell. Biol. 25(23):10591-10603. 2005.
29. Wang X, Qian DZ, Ren M., Kato Y., Wei Y., Zhang L., Fansler Z., Clark D., Nakanishi O., Pili, R. Epigenetic Modulation of Retinoic Acid Receptor 2 by the Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor MS-275 in Human Renal Cell Carcinoma. Clin Cancer Res. 11(9):3535-42. 2005
30. Qian DZ, Ren M., Wei Y, Wang X, van de Geijn F, Rasmussen C, Nakanishi O, Sacchi N, Pili R. In vivo imaging of retinoic acid receptor beta2 transcriptional activation by the histone deacetylase inhibitor MS-275 in retinoid-resistant prostate cancer cells. Prostate. (64): 20-8. 2005
31. Ren M*, Reilly RT, Sacchi N. Sasa health exerts a protective effect on Her2/NeuN mammary tumorigenesis. Anticancer Res. 24(5A):2879-84. 2004.
32. Sirchia SM, Ren M. (co-first author), Pili R, Sironi E, Somenzi G, Ghidoni R, Toma S, Nicolo G, Sacchi N. Endogenous reactivation of the RARbeta2 tumor suppressor gene epigenetically silenced in breast cancer. Cancer Res. 62(9):2455-61. 2002.

Jonathan Scott, PhD, RD, CSSD, LD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine and part of the Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP). He earned a B.S. in Nutrition from Bradley University (2006), completed a Dietetic Internship and a M.S. in Clinical Nutrition from The Ohio State University (2008), and a Ph.D. in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences from The Ohio State University (2012). He has advanced training in sports nutrition and holds the distinction of being a board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics. He conducts research and produces educational materials on a variety of topics related to performance nutrition and dietary supplements. Prior to his position at the Uniformed Services University, he was a sports dietitian at The Ohio State University for four years. While at OSU, he provided one-on-one counseling to athletes and served as the team dietitian for 10 varsity sports teams. He has worked with the military since 2012.

BS in Biology, Magna cum laude, Stonehill College, Easton MA
MD, cum laude, Albany Medical College, Albany NY
Emergency Medicine Residency, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh PA

Kevin Semelrath, MD, FACEP, Maj, USAF, MC is an Assistant Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine. He is a residency trained and board certified Emergency Physician. In his current role, he teaches several courses in USU’s military unique curriculum. He is the Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director, advising and guiding students through their fourth year Emergency Medicine Clerkship; and he is the Course Director for Operation Bushmaster, the fourth year capstone event in the students’ military curriculum. This exercise pushes the students to apply all of their medical knowledge and leadership abilities in a simulated deployed environment.

Maj Semelrath is a native of New York. He received a BS in Biology, magna cum laude, at Stonehill College in Massachusetts in 2004. He then went on to Albany Medical College, earning his MD degree, cum laude in 2008. During medical school he accessioned to the US Air Force through the HPSP program. He completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 2011. He started his active duty career at San Antonio Military Medical Center. He was core faculty for the Emergency Medicine residency there, eventually serving as the acting Associate Program Director during his last year. During his time in Texas, Maj Semelrath had the privilege of deploying twice in support of Operation Enduring Freedom- once to Bagram Air Field and then to Ramstein Air Base as a CCATT physician. His current academic interests are LGBTQ+ population health and increasing medical provider knowledge and comfort in treating the LGBTQ+ population.

Duke University, BA, 1973
University Of Minnesota, PhD, 1979

Utah State University BA, Liberal Arts (Magna Cum Laude) 1997
Utah State University MBA, 1999
Squadron Officers School (correspondence) March 2002
University of Colorado at Denver MS, Healthcare Administration, 2004
University of Colorado at Denver MS, Management of Information Systems, 2004
Squadron Officer School (in residence) Maxwell AFB, AL, Class 04-C (Top Third Graduate) 2004
Air Command and Staff College (seminar) May 2007
Air War College (correspondence) Dec 2012

Biography –
Lt Col Michael J. Stone
Assistant Professor, Military and Emergency Medicine Dept, USUHS
Director, Administration and Finance, MEM
United States Air Force, Medical Service Corps, MBA, MHA, MIS, FACMPE, CISSP, Security +

Lt Col Stone is the Director, Administration and Finance for the Military and Emergency Medicine (MEM) Department. He is also an Assistant Professor in MEM. He has a Master of Business Administration, Master of Science in Healthcare Administration and a Master of Science in Information Systems. He has served over 17 years as a Healthcare Administrator in the Air Force in the roles of Resource Management Officer, Medical Logistics Officer, Group Practice Manager, Chief Information Officer, TRICARE Operations and Patient Administration Director, Chief of the Cyber Security Division of the Defense Health Agency, Inspector General and Medical Wing Administrator. Lt Col Stone deployed to Afghanistan as a Medical Planner for the NATO forces and Advisor to the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police Surgeons General. He also served as the deputy Medical Adviser to the Commander Resolute Support in Afghanistan. He is a Fellow with the American College of Medical Practice Executives and holds Security + and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certifications.
Lt Col Stone has worked tirelessly to optimize patient care by leveraging technology and fostering an environment of patient centered care in the Air Force Medical Service and Joint Service medicine. He was instrumental in breaking down barriers to accrediting new medical technology for all Services by establishing the Defense Health Agency Cyber Security Division. Lt Col Stone also taught and embodied the Principle Centered Leadership model as defined by Stephen Covey both in a civilian retail setting and throughout his military career. He is also engaged as a facilitator for group discussions on professional military ethics for healthcare providers and authored a chapter on Healthcare Information Systems in a unique Military Medicine textbook.
Lt Col Stone is married to the former Mylinda Redd of Farmington, Utah. They have twelve children: Brittany, Allison, Michael, Aunnika, Catherine, Hans, Daniel, Lucy, Gideon, Joseph, Isaac and Faith.