Faculty Biographies

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The following served as faculty presenting at the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) Preconference on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC): Transitioning Battlefield Lessons Learned to Other Austere Environments, July 30–31 2016, Telluride, CO. CAPT (Ret) Brad L. Bennett, PhD, EMT-P USN—Was the 2016 Tactical Combat Casualty Care Preconference Chairman. He is a physiologist and a prehospital emergency medicine and tactical medicine specialist. From 1980 to 1994, he conducted biomedical research for numerous United States Navy and Marine Corps operational communities. He is a former faculty member and vice chair of the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine, Uniformed Services University. He served as a commanding officer for the Field Medical Service School in Camp Pendleton, CA, and a commanding officer at the Naval School of the Health Sciences in Portsmouth, VA. He has served on the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) since 2003. He served as the president of the Wilderness Medical Society from July 2014 to July 2016. COL Booker King, MD—Is the director of the United States Army Burn Center, Institute of Surgical Research in Fort Sam Houston, TX. He is a trauma and burn consultant for the CoTCCC. CAPT (Ret) Frank K. Butler Jr., MD, USN—Was a Navy SEAL platoon commander before becoming a physician. He is an ophthalmologist and a Navy Undersea Medical Officer with more than 20 years of experience providing medical support to Special Operations forces. Dr Butler served as the command surgeon for the United States Special Operations Command. He currently is the chairman of the Department of Defense’s CoTCCC and the chief of prehospital trauma care at the Joint Trauma System. David Callaway, MD—Is a board-certified emergency medicine physician who works at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. Dr Callaway performed a basic surgery internship at the Naval Hospital in San Diego and served for 3 years as an expeditionary physician supporting the United States Marine Corps before completing training in emergency medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr Callaway was a longtime member of the CoTCCC and helped found the Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care. He is the director of operational and disaster medicine at Carolinas and the co-chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians High Threat Emergency Casualty Care Task Force. COL (Ret) Warren Dorlac, MD, USAF—Is a former United States Air Force trauma surgeon and Trauma Consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General. In addition, he served as the Trauma Medical Director at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center from 2004 to 2007, the receiving hospital for casualties from operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He currently serves as a trauma advisor for the CoTCCC and is the Trauma Medical Director for Medical Center of the Rockies, University of Colorado Health. CAPT (Ret) Stephen Giebner, MD, USN—Is a developmental editor for the CoTCCC; a former chairman for the CoTCCC; and a former force medical officer for the Naval Special Warfare Command. COL (Ret) John Holcomb, MD—Is a trauma surgeon who deployed with Special Operations Forces for a decade, is a former commander of the United States Army Institute of Surgical Research, and was the Army Surgeon General’s trauma consultant for 6 years while on active duty. He is now the director of the Center for Translational Injury Research at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He currently is a member of the Department of Defense’s CoTCCC. COL (Ret) Russ Kotwal, MD, MPH—Is a family medicine and aerospace medicine physician. He served 11 years with Special Operations forces as a former battalion and regimental surgeon for the 75th Ranger Regiment and as a former deputy command surgeon for the United States Army Special Operations Command. Before his retirement from the military, he served as the director of trauma care delivery at the Joint Trauma System, and he has continued to serve there as the director for strategic projects. COL (Ret) John Kragh Jr., MD—Is a hemorrhage control researcher and orthopedic surgeon at the United States Army Institute of Surgical Research in Fort Sam Houston, TX. He served as a ranger battalion surgeon from 1990 to 1993. CDR Lanny Littlejohn, MD, USN—Is the department head of emergency medicine at the Navy Medical Center Camp Lejeune and assistant professor of military and emergency medicine at the Uniformed Services University. Dr Littlejohn has a long history of service as a medical officer with operational forces and has served on multiple combat tours with the US Marine Corps and US Special Operations Command. COL (Ret) Craig Llewellyn, MD, MPH—Is emeritus professor of military and emergency medicine, preventive medicine and biometrics, and surgery at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences School of Medicine where he served as the chair of the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine from 1982 to 2001. Dr Llewellyn earned his bachelor of arts and doctor of medicine degrees from Yale University in 1959 and 1963, respectively. He also holds a master of public health and a master of science in tropical medicine and hygiene degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and completed his residency in preventive medicine-international health at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He served as the group surgeon for the Special Forces Training Group in Fort Bragg, group surgeon for the Fifth Special Forces Group (Airborne) in Vietnam, flight surgeon for the Six Special Forces Group (Airborne), and is the past president of the Special Operations Medical Association. COL Robert Mabry, MD—Has recently served as the director of Trauma Care Delivery, Joint Trauma System, United States Army Institute of Surgical Research. Dr Mabry is an emergency physician and emergency medical services (EMS) specialist whose work during the past decade has been dedicated to improving the care of battlefield casualties. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1984. Before attending medical school, he served for 11 years as a US Army Ranger and Special Forces medical sergeant. He also served as the program director of the Military Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Medicine Fellowship, the largest EMS fellowship in the nation. Dr Mabry is the immediate past president of the Special Operations Medical Association and a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in Washington, DC. COL Clinton K. Murray, MD—Is an infectious disease physician who has worked extensively on combat-related injury infections. He currently is the Corps Specific Branch proponent officer and deputy corps chief for the US Army Medical Corps and the infectious disease consultant to the US Army Surgeon General. He previously served as chief of the ID Service at Brooke Army Medical Center and was the program director in San Antonio for the combined Army and Air Force ID Fellowship. CAPT (Ret) Edward (Mel) Otten, MD, USN—Is a professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics and director of the Toxicology Division at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He served on the WMS Board of Directors from 1989 to 2002 and was president of the WMS from 1997 to 1999. He currently sits on the CoTCCC and is Hamilton Countyʼs SWAT team physician. LTC Will Smith, MD, Paramedic—Is an emergency medicine physician in Jackson Hole, WY, and is clinical WWAMI faculty for the University of Washington School of Medicine, as well as the medical director for the United States National Park Service. Locally, he serves as the co-medical director for Grand Teton National Park, Teton County Search & Rescue, Bridger Teton National Forest, and Jackson Hole Fire/EMS. Dr Smith also serves as a Lt. Colonel in the United States Army Reserve Medical Corps as the Branch Chief of Disaster Medicine for United States Army Medical Command Headquarters (G34). COL Ian S. Wedmore, MD—Is the program director of Austere and Wilderness Medicine Fellowship, Madigan Army Medical Center; an adjunct assistant professor at USUHS; a clinical adjunct professor at the Medical College of Georgia; and a clinical instructor at the University of Washington School of Medicine.