Staff Family Physician

• Oct 2022 - Present

Department Head, Preventive Medicine

• Aug 2020 - Oct 2022

• Engineered immediate response to critical COVID-19 vaccination response, pioneering foundational protocols, delivering over 100K doses to essential personnel, deploying units, at-risk beneficiaries, and a multi-generational population. • Physician Champion for groundbreaking transition to new electronic health record, streamlines workflow processes, improving compliance with clinical preventive measures and cross-communication of medical teams. • Engineered immediate response to critical COVID-19 vaccination response, pioneering foundational protocols, delivering over 100K doses to essential personnel, deploying units, at-risk beneficiaries, and a multi-generational population. • Physician Champion for groundbreaking transition to new electronic health record, streamlines workflow processes, improving compliance with clinical preventive measures and cross-communication of medical teams.

Public Health Emergency Officer

• Aug 2020 - Oct 2022

• Public health expert leading COVID-19 military installation response efforts ensuring Force Health Protection and readiness to 180K DOD beneficiaries delivering critical response guidance. • Developed multiple targeted educational sessions and authored public health materials for over 200 clinicians on COVID-19 response and recovery measures, resulting in less than 1% morbidity of troops. • Public health expert leading COVID-19 military installation response efforts ensuring Force Health Protection and readiness to 180K DOD beneficiaries delivering critical response guidance. • Developed multiple targeted educational sessions and authored public health materials for over 200 clinicians on COVID-19 response and recovery measures, resulting in less than 1% morbidity of troops.

Board-Certified Preventive Medicine Physician

• Jul 2017 - Oct 2022

• Provides evaluation, diagnosis, treatment and provision of consultation to patients and populations of all ages with communicable and/or preventable diseases and injuries. • Performs comprehensive epidemiologic and clinical investigation, assessment of disease and injury risk for individuals and population groups, direct health education, control measures for preventable diseases and injuries, determine adequacy of living and work environments, control communicable and preventable diseases and provide advice on nutrition, sanitation, immunizations, and health education. • Provides medical consultation for unit and individual travel, including assessment of geographically unique disease risks and ordering of appropriate countermeasures interventions. • Provides basic occupational medicine services to meet regulatory and force health protection requirements and supervision of worksite evaluations and job-related medical surveillance. Show less

Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician

• Feb 2007 - Oct 2022

• Provides diagnosis, management, and integration of care of patients of all ages in various outpatient settings, including recognition and management of common mental illness and behavioral issues, emergency medical problems, problems arising from or coexisting with pregnancy, and those requiring basic pre-operative care or acute surgical intervention.• Assesses community, environmental, and family influences on the health of patients, coordinating patient care across the health care continuum, and working in interprofessional teams to enhance patient safety and improve patient care quality.• Systematically analyzes practice and evaluates care of patients using quality improvement methods, assimilating scientific evidence of evolving biomedical, clinical, epidemiological and social-behavioral sciences, and implementing changes with the goal of practice improvement. Show less

Medical Corps Officer

• Jul 2002 - Oct 2022

Chief Medical Officer

• May 2018 - Aug 2020

• Chief Public Health Officer for I Marine Expeditionary Force providing guidance on medical readiness and clinical preventive services to 80 primary care providers • Quality Assurance Lead for ensuring compliance with evidence-based clinical guidelines, decreasing practice variation, improving transparency in performance improvement metrics, and promoting the coordination of patient care across the full spectrum of care

Preventive Medicine Officer

• Aug 2017 - Aug 2020

• Clinical and preventive health lead for major command resilience and force preservation team providing analysis of risks to force, early attrition, and medical readiness trends• Staff Family Physician providing primary care to Commanding General & 400 staff members

Preventive Medicine Resident

• Jul 2015 - Jun 2017

• Awarded “CAPT Hooper Award for Excellence in Public Health Research” for MPH Research project Are There Social and Clinical Determinants of Pregnancy in Young Active Duty Women? • Presented CDC 6/18 Initiative “Preventing Unwanted Pregnancy” at Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Annual Conference, 2010 • Completed Master of Public Health in conjunction with Preventive Medicine Graduate Medical Education with core courses in epidemiology, biostatistics, infectious diseases, and health systems administration with additional elective courses in health policy and law, research and healthcare ethics, quality improvement, medical anthropology, and healthcare context and culture Show less

Chair of the Medical Staff

• Oct 2011 - Jun 2014

• Chair of the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff providing command representation and medical staff oversight of 180 providers.• Close coordination, inspection, and review of all medical staff elements for joint commission inspection to include credentialing, clinical practice, ongoing professional practice evaluations, and provision of care • Revision of command medical staff policies and procedures to better align with Navy Medicine bylaws and increase joint commission adherence in areas of informed consent, conflict of interest, ongoing professional evaluation, disclosures, disruptive staff, and medical staff representation Show less

Senior Medical Officer (Medical Director), Naval Branch Health Clinic MCRD Parris Island

• Nov 2011 - May 2014

● Clinical supervision of 25 licensed providers and 9 Independent Duty providers in 15 clinical divisions within the Directorate of Branch Clinics.● Liaison with preventive medicine to develop coordinated effort to manage infectious disease outbreaks for recruits, oversight and management of heat cases, and patient care management of hepatitis and latent tuberculosis● Realigned Periodic Health Assessment department preventive medicine review and counseling with current US Preventive Services Task Force clinical guidelines● Revision of clinic provider manual including clinical practice guidelines for 9 clinical areas and development of guidelines for operational screenings● Provision of clinical urgent care to acutely ill patient population as well as primary care, occupational suitability, and preventive medicine services to a diverse adult population. Show less

Regimental Surgeon (Senior Medical Officer)

• Aug 2009 - Aug 2011

● Principal advisor on healthcare and medical readiness while providing direct primary care to 500 Marines ● Senior Medical Officer for 2 island clinics providing clinical oversight of 16 providers ● Chairperson of Naval Hospital Okinawa Controlled Substance Utilization Board providing utilization review of DEA-controlled medications for 20,000 beneficiaries implementing new medical staff policies for management of chronic pain ● Implemented regimental multi-disciplinary mental health surveillance program addressing psychological care of at-risk Marines Show less

Staff Family Medicine Physician

• Feb 2007 - Mar 2009

● Provided comprehensive outpatient family-centered primary care and military occupational medicine services to a panel of 1200 military members and beneficiaries. ● Served as Senior Medical Officer and interim Department Head for health clinic directing broad review of clinic assets and logistics to fulfill multidisciplinary project for new clinic construction exceeding $1,000,000 ● Served as base Medical Authority for Personnel Reliability Program to ensure individual medical and psychological reliability for access to high value weapons programs. Served as Co-Chair for Family Advocacy Case Review Committee to review multidimensional cases of potential family neglect and violence. Show less

Staff Family Medicine Physician

• Mar 2007 - Aug 2007

● Provided primary care services to USNH Okinawa Emergency Medicine Department to alleviate access to care disparities ● Provided primary care services to USNH Okinawa Emergency Medicine Department to alleviate access to care disparities

Family Medicine Resident

• Sep 2004 - Feb 2007

• Provided comprehensive continuity care to over 500 military beneficiaries in family medicine clinic with training in the evaluation and management of patients both acutely and chronically ill with an emphasis on health promotion and wellness in obstetrical care, neonate and pediatrics care, adolescent and young adult, active military service members, and geriatrics populations. • Resident member to Tissue and Transfusion Committee, streamlining blood type screening in Labor & Delivery service and educating residents regarding blood banking and transfusion practices • Resident member of Controlled Substance Inventory Board ensuring accountability of controlled pharmaceuticals within medical facility • Member of Joint Commission Healthcare Failure, Mode, Effect, and Analysis Research Committee for Quality Improvement in Obstetrics Show less

Battalion Surgeon (General Medical Officer)

• Jul 2002 - Sep 2004

● General Medical Officer for Marine Corps Signals Intelligence Battalion providing primary care to 550 Active Duty Marines, along with coordination of preventive medical evaluations, occupational suitability assessments, deployment health assessments, and medical supply acquisition ● Deployed as II Marine Expeditionary Brigade Headquarters Group Surgeon in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom coordinating health care needs of augmented battalions, monitoring evacuated casualties, and advising senior commanders Show less

Transitional Intern

• Jun 2001 - Jun 2002

• Successful completion of clinical internship with broad outpatient and inpatient clinical management in the fields of obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, emergency medicine, general surgery, internal medicine, intensive care, medical subspecialties, and radiology • Successful completion of clinical internship with broad outpatient and inpatient clinical management in the fields of obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, emergency medicine, general surgery, internal medicine, intensive care, medical subspecialties, and radiology