Prior academic positions include Professor of Surgery at Yale University and a military appointment as
Professor of Surgery (USUHS) in the Army Medical Corps assigned to General Surgery at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center. Government positions included Program Manager of Advanced Biomedical Technology at the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for 12 years and Senior Science Advisor at the US Army
Medical Research and Materiel Command in Ft. Detrick, Maryland, and Director of the NASA Commercial Space
Center for Medical Informatics and Technology Applications at Yale University. Upon completion of military career
and government service he had continued clinical medicine at Yale University and University of Washington.
He has served on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Committee on Health,
Food and Safety and was also awarded the prestigious Department of Defense Legion of Merit and Department of
Defense Exceptional Service medals as well as awarded the Smithsonian Laureate in Healthcare.
