Major Erika Page entered the Arizona National Guard as a direct commission in September 2021 with the rank of Captain. Her first assignment was with the Arizona Medical Detachment. During this time, she completed her Direct Commission Course in April 2022. She volunteered for training with the 1-158 Infantry Regiment, supporting them through an xCTC rotation in July 2022 before official reassignment as its Battalion Surgeon in January 2023. While in the 1-158 Infantry Regiment, she completed Basic Officer Leader Course and Captains Career Course, before mobilizing to JRTC in July 2023. She was promoted to Major during this time.

From October 2023 to July 2024, Major Page was mobilized to Operation Spartan Shield in the CENTCOM area of operations with Task Force Sentinel. The Infantry Task Force was led by 1-158 Infantry Regiment Headquarters and Headquarters Company and commanded a task force of nearly 900 Soldiers from Arizona, Alaska and Guam.

Major Page functioned as the Task Force Surgeon and Medical Operations Officer throughout the deployment, overseeing the development of three Arizona Physician Assistants and the continuous operation of three Role 1s. In January 2024, she was the lead medical officer at Tower 22, Jordan when a one-way drone attack resulted in three killed in action and over 70 wounded.

Her most recent position was in the CJ-35 at the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa in December 2024 to October 2025. Major Page was an East Africa Crisis Response Team Lead in the CJ-35 Crisis Response and Future Operations. 

She is married and lives in Tuba City, Arizona with her husband and their two dogs. She works full-time as a Board-Certified Emergency Medicine physician for Tuba City Regional Healthcare Corporation.

She received her doctorate from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson and completed Emergency Medicine Residency at MedStar Georgetown/Washington Hospital center. After completion of her Chief Resident year, she completed a fellowship in Point-of-Care Ultrasound.

Her decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal (Oak Leaf Cluster), Joint Service Achievement Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Air and Space Achievement Medal with C device and the Combat Medic Badge.

Chief Hospital Corpsman Robert Christopher Murphy enlisted in the United States Navy on May 12, 2012. He attended Recruit Training in Great Lakes, Illinois from May to August 2012. After recruit training, he attended Hospital Corpsman “A” School. Upon graduation he transferred to the Navy Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City, Florida where he completed Second Class Diving and Dive Medicine for Military Personnel. Following Graduation in April of 2014, he was stationed at Seal Delivery Vehicle (SDV) Team 1 in Pearl City, Hawaii where he completed two Presidential National Taskings aboard the USS Ohio from 2014 to 2017. During his tour there he was promoted twice from Hospitalman to Second Class Petty Officer (HM2) and received his Expeditionary Warfare Qualification (EXW).

In April of 2017, HM2 (EXW) Murphy reported to Undersea Rescue Command (URC) in San Diego, California and was the Leading Petty Officer of the Medical Department. Not long after reporting, in November 2017 he lead URC in the deployment of Submarine Rescue Diving and Recompression System (SRDRS)—via military aircraft to Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina, to assist in the international, multi-country effort of rescuing the trapped submariners of the ARA San Juan of the Argentine Navy. He worked alongside Argentine forces and international teams as part of a massive 13-country, 27-ship effort. He was Maritoriously Promoted to Petty Officer First Class (HM1) and he was qualified Diving Warfare Specialist (DWS) during his tour.

Following his tour at URC, HM1 (EXW/DWS) Murphy reported to Naval Deep Sea Diving Independent Duty Corpsman School at Navy Medicine Operational Training Command in San Diego, California in April of 2021 and graduated July of 2022. He returned to Undersea Rescue Command as the Senior Medical Department Representative (SMDR). He led his team on numerous international operations as well as many joint NATO operations in the United Kingdom, Norway, and Turkey. His success as the command SMDR led to his selection of Chief Petty Officer in September of 2025. For follow-on orders in January 2026, HMC(EXW/DWS) Murphy reported to Naval Special Warfare Advanced Training Command in Coronado, California where he serves as the sole medical representative in the detachment.

HMC (EXW/DWS) Robert Murphy is authorized to wear the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (Six awards), Meritorious Unit Citation and various other unit awards. Chief Murphy graduated from The Chicago School of Psychology with a Masters Degree in Industrial/ Organizational Psychology in 2010. He is currently married to his wife, Lauren Murphy.

Lt Col Eric Meyer is the Chief Medical Officer (SGH), 52d Medical Group, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. He is responsible for the delivery of $26M in annual healthcare and directs a team of 18 personnel in the areas of safety, quality credentialing, patient advocacy, case management, and healthcare integration. He oversees services for 7,000 patients across 56,000 annual encounters with a staff of 385. In addition to these duties, he has supported the United States Air Forces in Europe’s global health mission in Africa as a senior curriculum developer and team lead and has presented at NATO on medical readiness for future conflicts.

Lt Col Meyer entered the Air Force in September 2006 as a medical student at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland. He graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha honors in 2010 and began his Psychiatry residency in San Antonio, where he was recognized as a Laughlin Fellow, an honor given to one of the top twelve psychiatry residents in North America. In 2014, he was assigned as the Medical Director for the 51st Mental Health Squadron at Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, where he also served as the Disaster Mental Health Team Chief and was named CGO of the Quarter.

In 2015, Lt Col Meyer returned to USUHS as a faculty member. A dedicated researcher, he has published two books, eight book chapters, and over forty peer-reviewed manuscripts. His research on military cultural competence culminated in his publication of a military cultural formulation interview that was subsequently added to the DSM-5-TR. An accomplished educator, he served as the Psychiatry Clerkship Director and Neuroscience Module Director, receiving several national and international teaching awards in addition to USUHS’s highest recognition, the Clements Award. During this time, he also completed a PhD in Health Professions Education and earned the rank of professor in three departments: Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Military & Emergency Medicine.

Prior to his current assignment, Lt Col Meyer served as the Psychiatry Consultant to the U.S. Air Force Surgeon General and the Deputy Director of Air Force Psychological Health at the Defense Health Headquarters. In these roles, he expanded psychiatric training, improved manning for his specialty to 100%, overhauled Department of the Air Force mental health standards, and re-imagined contingency mental health operations. As the Chief of Mental Health research for the Air Force Medical Agency, he managed a $5.5M annual budget, pioneering research into AI-driven mental health care and enhanced suicide prevalence monitoring. He also authored legislation in the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act to aid the retention of mental health providers. For these efforts, he was inducted into the Army’s Order of Military Medical Merit and recognized as the Defense Health Agency’s Air Force Hero of Military Medicine in 2026.

Dr. Meyer has served as President of the military branch of the American Psychiatric Association, where he established the Annual Military Psychiatry Conference. He is also the course director and lead author for the Defense Institute for Medical Operation’s “Military Mental Health” and “Disaster Mental Health” courses, which he has delivered to coalition forces across the globe.

CAPT Joseph Perez serves as the Acting Chief of the United States Coast Guard’s (USCG) Operational Medicine Division, Acting USCG Atlantic Area Surgeon and the Chief Medical Officer of the USCG Health, Safety, Work Life Service Center. He also serves as the Senior Medical Executive (SME) and Chief Medical Officer of the USCG District 1 and the Senior Medical Officer (SMO) of the USCG’s clinic in Sector New York. He is a native of New York City, a board-certified Family Medicine physician, a certified Physician Executive, a Flight Surgeon and has served with the US Public Health Service, the US Coast Guard and the US Navy.

CAPT Perez previously served as the SME of USCG’s District 5 and SMO of the USCG’s Base Portsmouth clinic, Operational Medicine Division Chief for the USCG Health, Safety Work Life Service Center, the USCG’s Atlantic Area Surgeon, the Medical Director for the Homeland Security Task Force Southeast, the Director for the USCG’s Regional Practice New London, the USCG Academy SMO, the SMO for Guantanamo Bay Cuba’s Camp Delta Clinic; Staff Medical Officer at the Naval Ambulatory care Center in Newport, RI; Attending Physician and Inpatient Supervisor Newport Hospital, and SMO at Naval Weapons Station Earle Branch Clinic. CAPT Perez has deployed and led several deployments to the southwest border in support of customs and border patrol to care for family units and unaccompanied migrants. CAPT Perez has also led deployments in support of Ebola screening at airports during the 2014 enhanced Ebola screening. In 2010 he deployed as the Cutter Tasking Unit Surgeon to the Windward Passage during the Haiti earthquake response. Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana in 2005. CAPT Perez responded as team leader and clinic Director for a forwardly deployed Public Health Service Clinic caring for hurricane victims. Finally, CAPT Perez was sent to help stand up the Camp Delta Clinic and cared for detainees at Guantanamo Bay Cuba in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

CAPT Perez is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and a Fellow of the National Hispanic Medical Association. He has been appointed to the AAFP's Commission on Health of the Public and Science and served on the board of the Uniformed Academy of Family Physicians as Secretary and Treasurer. CAPT Perez is a board-certified Physician Executive (CPE) and an active member of the American College of Physician Leaders. CAPT Perez is an Associate Clinical Professor at Eastern Virginia Medical Schools and has been appointed to the Medical School’s Committee on Student Affairs. He is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Board Eligible in Disaster Medicine and has practiced Family Medicine for twenty-four years maintaining active outpatient and inpatient privileges at area hospitals, working primarily in the areas of family medicine, military medicine, sports medicine, obesity medicine, emergency medicine and hospital medicine.

CAPT Perez graduated from Brown University with a degree in Biology and completed medical school at Cornell University Medical College. He trained in Family Medicine at the Beth Israel Medical Center and attained his Master's in Business Administration at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. CAPT Perez's military decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Services Commendation Medal, US Coast Guard Commendation Medal, US Navy and marine Corps Commendation Medal, US Coast Guard Achievement Medal, US Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Humanitarian Services Medal, USPHS Presidential Unit Citation, USCG Presidential Unit Citation, NOAA Corps Director’s Ribbon, Sea/Service Deployment Medal, Crisis Response Medal, Joint Services Unit Commendation, USCG Unit Commendation, USCG Team Commendation and the USPHS Special Assignment Ribbon.

CAPT Perez is married to Rosa Jimenez, MD/PhD, a medical scientist and Army reservist and has three children, Claudia 26, Javier 22 and Julian 17.

CAPT Abby Shannon is the Senior Dental Executive at U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Training Center Cape May in Cape May, NJ where she is responsible for the dental health and readiness of U.S. Coast Guard boot camp recruits and active duty and for the management of the dental program at the Coast Guard’s largest clinic. CAPT Shannon accepted her call to active duty with the U.S. Public Health Service at Indian Health Service (IHS) in Sisseton, SD. After realizing her desire to serve and improve the health and safety of the nation, she was able to walk out on Friday as a civilian and in on Monday as a Commissioned Officer. At IHS, she provided comprehensive dental care to Native American and Alaska Native patients of all ages among a population of 12,000. While there she established and managed an externship program and became an Adjunct Professor at University of Iowa College of Dentistry. In 2014, CAPT Shannon transferred to the USCG Training Center Cape May, where she provided dental care to USCG Active Duty members and recruits to prepare them for worldwide deployment. During her time at IHS and the USCG, CAPT Shannon completed her MPH from Des Moines University at a distance while working full time. Due to her superior performance at Cape May, CAPT Shannon was selected as an O-5 for an O-6 billet as the Senior Dental Executive (SDE) of the National Capital Region (BNCR). In this position, she provided and coordinated comprehensive dental care to over 2,500 USCG active duty and reserve members for 22 units, 23 detached units, 17 individual Directorates and 14 US Embassies while also supervising care at the USCG Baltimore Yard dental clinic.

CAPT Shannon went back to school after she was selected for a two-year highly competitive USCG sponsored endodontics residency at Lackland Air Force Base. Upon successful completion of the residency program and achievement of an Endodontic Certificate and Master of Oral biology, she was selected for her current position, back at the USCG’s boot camp, Training Center Cape May. She became a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics in 2024.

CAPT Shannon’s honors and awards include USPHS Commendation Medal, Achievement Medal, PHS Citation, Presidential Unit Citations, Outstanding Unit Citation, Unit Commendations, Special Assignment Awards, Hazardous Duty Award, Covid-19 Campaign Medal, Isolated Hardship Award; USCG Commendation medals, DHS Outstanding Unit Award, Unit Commendation Medal, Meritorious Team Commendations, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal; USPHS Dental Professional Advisory Committee (DePAC) Ruth Lashley Dental Award, American Association of Endodontists Leadership Development Program member, Des Moines University Alpha Eta Honor Society, USPHS DePAC Ernest Eugene Buell Dental Award.

CAPT Shannon is married to her high school sweetheart, Richard, and is the proud mother of 4 children (Alexander, Gabriella, John, and Ryder) and grandmother to one grandson (Hayes).

A native of Henrietta, New York, Dr. Quinn received his Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and his medical degree from Columbia University under the Air Force Health Professions Scholarship Program. Entering active duty in 1988, Dr. Quinn completed his Internal Medicine residency and served as Chief Resident at Keesler AFB. He subsequently pursued advanced subspecialty training at Wilford Hall Medical Center, completing fellowships in both Allergy & Immunology and Clinical Laboratory Immunology. His Air Force career included an overseas tour at RAF Lakenheath and a 2004 deployment to Balad, Iraq. As Chief of the Medical Staff for the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group, he provided leadership and oversight for 55 providers in the care of 1,600 inpatient admissions and 6,000 outpatient encounters.

The final 11 years of Dr. Quinn’s 21-year military career were at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC). Before retiring in 2009 at the rank of Colonel, he served in several leadership roles including Department Chair and Program Director of the Allergy/Immunology Fellowship. His military decorations include the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal (with three oak leaf clusters), the Air Force Achievement Medal, and the Air Force Expeditionary Service Ribbon with Combat Device.

Since 2009, Dr. Quinn has continued in his civilian role as Associate Program Director of Allergy/Immunology Fellowship at SAUSHEC, one of the largest and most respected Allergy/Immunology programs in the country. He has trained over 80 Allergy & Immunology Fellows who have maintained the Program’s 100% Board Pass rate since 1995. A Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, he has received board certification in Internal Medicine, Allergy/Immunology, and Clinical Laboratory Immunology.

His leadership roles have included President of the Association of Military Allergists, President of the Society of Air Force Physicians, and Vice Chair of the Program Directors Committee for the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. His academic contributions include over 50 peer-reviewed publications and over 100 invited international, national, and regional lectures.

His 37-year career in military medicine reflects a lifetime of distinguished service. He has earned several awards for teaching, academic, and clinical distinction that include the Major General Archie B. Hoffman Award for outstanding young Air Force Internist; Air Education and Training Command Field Grade Officer Medical Clinical Excellence Award; Col. John D. Roscelli Outstanding Program Director Award; Air Force Clinical and Academic Grand Master designation; American College of Physicians (ACP) Master designation; Air Force Chapter ACP Laureate Award; and the Distinguished Service Award of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. He is also an inductee of the Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society.

Dr. Quinn and his wife, Jackie, are the proud parents of four adult children — McKenzie, Caitlin (Ashwin), Jeffrey, and Catherine, and the doting grandparents of Kiran.