Colonel Renée Matos, MD, MPH, FAAP is Chair of Pediatrics at Brooke Army Medical Center where she oversees state of the art pediatric primary and subspecialty care for over 50,000 beneficiaries. She is a pediatric intensivist, the Pediatric Critical Care Consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General, Co-Chair of the DHA Critical Care and Trauma Clinical Community, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University. She has served on multiple national committees and was a previous chair of the AAP Section on Pediatric Trainees and spent 5 years as the SAUSHEC Assistant Dean of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety. Her interests include resuscitation, quality improvement, patient safety, critical care air transport, and GME. She has 27 peer-reviewed publications, 3 book chapters, multiple national presentations, and been the course director for 4 courses. During the pandemic, she was the lead editor for all 8 editions of the DoD COVID-19 Practice Management Guide, which was had over 200 contributors and was used globally to guide bedside clinicians and commanders across all military services.

Dr. Matos was commissioned through ROTC at Princeton University where she graduated with Honors with a BSE in Civil and Environmental Engineering. She received her MD at University of California-San Francisco, completed residency in Pediatrics at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, and fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh during which she completed her Masters in Public Health. She recently completed her Masters in Health Professions Education at the Uniformed Services University and is now enrolled in the PhD program.