About the Speakers

Trauma/Combat Casualty Care Panel

COL Chester “Trip” Buckenmaier, III, M.D.

COL Trip Buckenmaier, III, M.D., is the current Chief of Anesthesia & Operative Services; Chief of Regional Anesthesia; and Program Director for the Army Regional Anesthesia and Pain Management Initiative (ARAPMI) at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In addition, he is President of the Tri-Service Military Advanced Regional Anesthesia and Analgesia initiative (MARAA) anesthesia consultant group. He is an assistant professor at the Uniformed Services University and a diplomat with the American Board of Anesthesiology.

In September 2003, Dr. Buckenmaier deployed to the 21^st Combat Support Hospital in Balad, Iraq, and demonstrated that the use of advanced regional anesthesia can be accomplished on the battlefield. He performed the first successful application of a continuous peripheral nerve block for pain management in theater.

LTC(P) Paul F. Pasquina, M.D.

LTC(P) Paul F. Pasquina, M.D., is chief of the Integrated Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center. He also is the Medical Director of the Amputee Program and recently assumed responsibilities as the co-director of the TBI Program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Dr. Pasquina has authored multiple book chapters, journal articles and policy papers. He has served as the PM&R Residency Program Director and Medical Advisor to the North Atlantic Regional Medical Command for quality healthcare, and continues to serve as a consultant to the FDA’s Orphan Drug Program.

MAJ Jayson Aydelotte, M.D.

MAJ Jayson Aydelotte, M.D. is Director of Trauma and a teaching clinical staff member at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He recently returned from deployment to Baghdad, Iraq where he was a trauma surgeon at the 28^th Combat Support Hospital in the International Zone.

Dr. Aydelotte has conducted research and published on topics including general surgery, critical care and trauma surgery. His research interests include posttraumatic pain control, non-traditional pain control adjuncts, venothromboembolic disease and resuscitation.

CDR James R. Dunne, M.D.

CDR James Dunne, M.D., is a trauma surgeon in the Navy’s Medical Corps. He is currently assigned to the National Naval Medical Center. He serves as Chief of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care and serves as the surgical director of the intensive care unit, where he is in charge of caring for all wounded marines, sailors and soldiers returning from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. His responsibilities include coordinating all aspects of medical care for every wounded service member.

Dr. Dunne has been instrumental in developing and chairing the National Naval Medical Center’s multi-disciplinary trauma team and has served as the chief trauma consultant aboard the USNS Comfort during the assault phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In addition to his vast clinical experience, he also has been active in surgical and combat trauma research.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder/TBI Panel

Robert J. Ursano, M.D.

Robert J. Ursano, M.D., is a professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University and founding director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS). Dr. Ursano is widely published in the areas of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and public health planning for the psychological effects of terrorism, bioterrorism, traumatic events and disasters, including war.

Dr. Ursano has more than 300 publications, is the co-author or editor of eight books, is editor of the journal Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes and senior editor of the first Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry (Cambridge University Press). Dr. Ursano was the first chairman of the American Psychiatric Association’s Committee on Psychiatric Dimensions of Disaster. He has received the Department of Defense Humanitarian Service Award and the highest award of the International Traumatic Stress Society—The Lifetime Achievement Award—for “outstanding and fundamental contributions to understanding traumatic stress.”

COL Rocco Armonda, M.D.

COL Rocco A. Armonda, M.D., is Director for Cerebrovascular Surgery, Interventional Neuoradiology and Neurocritical Care for the National Capital Neurosurgery Consortium, serving at both Walter Reed Army Medical Center and National Naval Medical Center. He has established advanced neurovascular and neurotrauma care for military patients and their dependents at both facilities. During March03–Feb04, he commanded the 207^th Neurosurgery Team in Iraq, caring for patients in the far-forward theater. Since his return from Iraq, he has standardized the neurocritical and neurovascular care of Wartime Neurotrauma patients.

Dr. Armonda has cared for more than 400 combat neurotrauma casualties, performed more than 1,200 procedures for these patients and assisted in their recovery with advanced rehabilitation through both VA and civilian centers of excellence. He has characterized the patterns of cerebrovascular injury from blast-induced wartime injuries including delayed cerebral vasospasm, traumatic psuedoaneurysms and large vessel dissections or occlusions. Additionally, he has participated in advanced multi-modal monitoring in protecting these patients in the acute phase, detecting secondary insult and preventing subsequent injury.

COL(S) Michael Jaffee, M.D.

COL(S) Michael S. Jaffee, M.D., serves as national director of the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, headquartered at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Dr. Jaffee comes to DVBIC after serving as the neurology program director/OIC, Neuropsychiatry at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center at Lackland AFB, TX.

Dr. Jaffee has served as an aerospace neurology consultant at the Aerospace Consultation Service/USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, as an assistant clinical professor of Neurology and an associate clinical professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio, TX. He also holds the positions of assistant professor of Neurology and WMHC Neurology clerkship coordinator at the Uniformed Services University.

Infectious Diseases Panel

COL Nelson Michael, M.D., Ph.D.

Nelson L. Michael, M.D., Ph.D. is currently Director of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (USMHRP) and the Division of Retrovirology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. USMHRP is a multi-disciplinary HIV vaccine research program that successfully integrates HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment. He serves on the Vaccine Research Center Scientific Advisory Working Group (NIAID, NIH), Office of AIDS Research Advisory Committee (NIH), AIDS Research Advisory Committee (NIAID, NIH), AIDS Vaccine Research Working Group (DAIDS, NIAID, and NIH), Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology Scientific Advisory Board, Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator Scientific Steering Committee.

Dr. Michael served previously as chief of the Department of Molecular Diagnostics and Pathogenesis for eight years at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He is an associate professor of medicine at the Uniformed Services University and is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He serves as a peer reviewer of many scientific journals and is an author or coauthor of more than 92 scientific publications and eight textbooks. His honors include two Army Commendation Medals, the Army Achievement Medal, the Army Meritorious Service Medal and the Order of Military Medical Merit.

CAPT Gregory J. Martin, M.D.

CAPT Gregory J. Martin, M.D., is the director of the Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program (IDCRP) at the Uniformed Services University (USU). Previously, he served as Assistant Dean for Special Programs at USU, focused on the development of graduate courses and training in weapons of mass destruction. He also was the Infectious Disease Program Director at the National Naval Medical Center and Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

IDCRP was established through a collaborative agreement among the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USU and HJF. The program provides the DoD with a clinical consortium capable of rapidly developing and executing multicentered clinical infectious diseases research important to the military community. IDCRP recently established the IDCRP Network Infectious Diseases Institutional Review Board (ID-IRB) marking IDCRP as the first large clinical group that can conduct both U.S. and international studies under a single U.S. IRB (international studies will still require host nation IRB). This will allow DoD and NIAID to shift emphasis to multi-center studies.

CAPT Stephen Savarino, M.D.

CAPT Stephen Savarino, M.D., is the director of the Enteric Diseases Department at the Naval Medical Research Center. He also serves as chair of the Diarrheal Diseases Prevention Research Program Area for the U.S. Military Infectious Diseases Research Program at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. Dr. Savarino has worked in the fields of bacterial diarrhea pathogenesis and prevention for twenty years, including a tour as Director of Field Research at the Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, Cairo, Egypt where he led a five-year project assessing the safety and efficacy of a killed, oral enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) vaccine in Egyptian children.

Dr. Savarino is currently the principal investigator on Army, NIAID and Congressionally funded grants to develop new-generation vaccines against travelersí diarrhea by understanding and foiling the molecular events that occur upon initial contact between host and pathogen. He holds joint appointments as Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Uniformed Services University.

Tracy S. DuVernoy, D.V.M.

Tracy S. DuVernoy, D.V.M., is Chief of the Communications Center at the U.S. Department of Defense, Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DoD-GEIS). She plans and directs activities related to the surveillance of human and animal influenza, and develops and maintains lines of communication and coordination with other organizations and agencies that also deal with influenza. Her responsibilities also include monitoring trends related to the incidence and prevalence of influenza, in addition to other emerging infectious diseases of military importance; of which, many are communicable from animals to humans.

Dr. DuVernoy has worked primarily in the field of public health as an epidemiologist, outbreak investigator and as the Maryland State Public Health Veterinarian. She also worked in regulatory veterinary medicine at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, focusing on foreign animal diseases.

Cancer Panel

COL George Peoples, M.D.

COL George Peoples, M.D., served as Chief of Surgical Oncology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from 1998—2006, and now serves in that role at Brooke Army Medical Center. In addition, Dr. Peoples is the director and principal investigator of the Cancer Vaccine Development Program affiliated with the Uniformed Services University.

Dr. Peoples also serves as the deputy director of the United States Military Cancer Institute and directs the Clinical Trials Section, where he oversees twelve cancer vaccine clinical trials being conducted at ten sites.

COL Craig Shriver, M.D.

COL Craig D. Shriver, M.D., is program director of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) General Surgery residency; director, co-founder and principal investigator of the Clinical Breast Care Project (CBCP); and Chief of General Surgery at WRAMC. He was a lead author on the seminal article on sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

As Chief of General Surgery at the nation’s largest military hospital, Dr. Shriver has led his surgeons in the treatment of over 5,500 patients from Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He recently returned from his third combat frontlines tour, serving in Afghanistan along the Pakistan border with the 1-91 Cavalry, 173^rd Airborne, winning the “Order of the Spur” for gallant and intrepid service under fire on the front lines of combat in Afghanistan.

LTC(P) Alexander Stojadinovic, M.D.

LTC(P) Alexander Stojadinovic, M.D., is an attending surgeon at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He is vice chairman and principal investigator for the Department Surgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, as well as the program leader for the Gastrointestinal Cancer Program, United States Military Cancer Institute.

Dr. Stojadinovic is an associate professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University. He also deployed to Iraq as a Forward Surgeon in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom with the 2^nd Armored Cavalry Regiment FST.

COL (Ret) David G. McLeod, M.D., J.D.

COL David G. McLeod, M.D., J.D., is the director of the Center for Prostate Disease Research, former Program Director in Urology and Chief of Urologic Oncology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C. He is a professor of Surgery at USU, as well as a clinical professor in the Department of Surgery (Urology) at Georgetown University Medical Center.

Dr. McLeod has received numerous military commendations, including the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit award with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal with five oak leaf clusters, Air Medal and the Combat Medical Badge for service in Vietnam. A principal investigator in numerous collaborative studies, COL McLeod’s work has appeared in major medical journals, including Urology, the Journal of Urology, the Journal of Urologic Oncology and Cancer. He has also co-authored multiple chapters and publications on urologic oncology.