Patrick Hickey - Colonel (Ret), US Army - is a Pediatric Infectious Disease Physician and Chair, Department of Pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University (USU). Previous assignments include leadership positions at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research - Military HIV Research Program, serving as the Department of Defense Deputy Principle for the US Army portfolio within the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and Chief of International HIV Prevention and Treatment, the single largest Global Health Engagement program within the Department of Defense. Prior to that assignment, he served as Deputy Director of the Division of Tropical Public Health and Director of the Tropical Medicine and Traveler's Health curriculum in the Department of Preventive Medicine at USU from 2008 to 2016. International work experience includes technical oversight and management of more than $100M PEPFAR portfolio in Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania; serving as the Medical Director for the DOD Ebola Treatment Training Team in Liberia during the 2014 outbreak; a long term partnership with clinical education programs in Honduras; and numerous short term assignments in South and South East Asia. He remains active in teaching, research, and clinical supervision of medical students, Pediatric residents and Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellows. His research focus is on deployment and travelers health among military service members and their families. He is Board Certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Disease, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America, and holds a Certificate of Knowledge in Tropical Medicine and Travel Health by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the Certificate of Traveler's Health from the International Society of Travel Medicine.