Northeast High School

Currently Director, International Health Division, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs).

Am detailed from Indian Health Service to DoD for this position.

HTTP://fhp.osd.mil/intlhealth

Army Reservist, was in Mongolia with Special Forces on 9/11, and mobilized a month later. 5-1/2 years on active duty as SF medical officer.

Iraq, 2003 - Chief, National Public Health Team, (Civil Affairs colonel)

Iraq, 2006 - Surgeon and Special Forces medic, Iraq Counterterrorist Force

Purple Heart, 2 bullet holes + shrapnel, 3 Bronze Star Medals (one Valor device), Legion of Merit

Deputy Commanding Officer, Special Warfare Medical Group (2005 - 2007)

Civilian career with National Health Service Corps and Indian Health Service.

Chief of Emergency Medicine, Gallup Indian Medical Center, 1992 - 2001

EMS Medical Director - City of Gallup, and McKinley County, NM, and Tohatchi Region, Navajo Nation.

Also provided medical care in Honduras (Hurricane Mitch), Thailand (border war w/ Burma), Mongolia X2 (SF medic training, EMS). Health systems consultations in Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Afghanistan,
Puerto Rico, others.

Established St. Petersburg Free Clinic in 1970 and Clearwater Free Clinic in 1971.

School Story:

BA, BS, AA, AS (long story)
Physician Assistant (UF, SFCC)
Grad student, medical sciences, UF and FSU
Medical student and PhD candidate, anthropology, UF
Residency, internal medicine, Univ of New Mexico
Associate Dean, Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center
Fellowship, American College of Physicians
Etc, etc, etc.

Military Service:

Army Special Forces and Civil Affairs

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