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Thank you very much –
I’m honored to have been selected to join the long line of psychiatrist-scholars who have delivered the Porter lecture at previous annual AMSUS meetings. I would like to mention some of these individuals now because they have contributed to my intellectual and military development. Most are among my colleagues at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda – Bob Ursano, my mentor and department chairman, Army COL Ann Norwood and Air Force Col Molly Hall, my friends and
colleagues at USUHS, and perhaps the world’s best schizophrenia researcher, E. Fuller Torrey. Retired Army COL Bob Hales, a longtime friend and mentor who first fueled my scholarly interests when I was a psychiatry resident at Letterman Army Medical Center in the late 1980s, delivered the lecture as a member of the USUHS faculty, and he is now the chairman of the psychiatry department at University of California at Davis.
I’m grateful to have the chance to contribute to Army and military medicine from my faculty position at the Uniformed Services University. I believe the University is a unique and under-rated national treasure, and I have been proud to be a part of the USUHS family for the past several years. Finally, I am honored to have the privilege of caring for soldiers, sailors, airmen, & marines in my capacity as director of the Deployment Health Clinical Center at Walter Reed, a DoD activity with the tri-service mission of improving post-deployment health care. Ever since serving as the First Cavalry Division psychiatrist in the 1991 Gulf War, I have always felt driven to make health care better for those who have served the national interest under a wide variety of extremely hazardous circumstances, circumstances fraught with military and medical uncertainty.
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