Johns Hopkins University

       2002 Clinical Geriatrics Fellowship                                                         

National Naval Medical Center

       1996 Internal Medicine Internship and Residency

Uniformed Services University

       1993 Doctor of Medicine                                                   

United States Naval Academy

       1987 Bachelor of Science, English

Board-certified internist and geriatrician, career Navy.  Direct care and clinical management experience in Navy healthcare facilities in Maryland, Virginia, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Japan, and aboard USNS Comfort. Command and executive leadership including Navy biomedical research direction in Egypt, West Africa, and Southeast Asia/Oceania for strategic partnership-building and national security; pre-clinical drug development for ionizing radiation countermeasures and nuclear detonation medical readiness; COVID force health protection and vaccine implementation across a geographically distributed deployed force overseas.