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during 1984–1988. In 1988, he was recruited to Washington and Director of Rocky Vista University’s Military Medicine
University in St. Louis, Missouri, and remained there for 20 Honors Program. He has authored 175 peer-reviewed articles
years, eventually becoming a professor in the Departments of and presentations on surgery, immunology, military medicine,
Ophthalmology and of Genetics. He has been in his current and simulation. He originally trained in surgery at the Medical
position since recruitment to Colorado in 2008. College of Wisconsin and the University of Oxford, England.
An avid skier, he was the first American to run the Olympic
MAJ Calvano is an oculoplastic surgeon and currently serves torch for the 2010 Vancouver games.
as the US Army Reserve Ophthalmology Consultant to the
Surgeon General. His training includes a dual PhD in Phar- BG (Ret) Enzenauer is a retired M-day Guardsman who
macology/Toxicology and an MD followed by an internship in served most recently as the assistant adjutant general for space
general surgery, residency in ophthalmic surgery, and fellow- and missile defense, Colorado Army National Guard, 2010–
ship training in ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery. 2015. In his terminal assignment, he provided leadership,
A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and also the current operations oversight, and emerging mission capabili-
American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive ties and technologies advocacy in the critical mission area of
Surgery (ASOPRS), Dr Calvano has been deployed as a flight space, with a specific focus on midcourse missile defense,
surgeon with combat aviation to Afghanistan and recently in Army space support teams, and space support elements. In the
an ADOS position as medical liaison officer in the USASOC civilian sector, Dr Enzenauer is currently professor of ophthal-
G9 Science & Technology division. mology and pediatrics and the chief of ophthalmology at the
E-mail: christopher.calvano@soc.mil. Children’s Hospital of Colorado in Aurora. Dr Enzenauer is
board certified in ophthalmology, preventive medicine (aero-
Col (Ret) LaPorta retired from the US Army as a Colonel space medicine), and pediatrics. Dr Enzenauer has over four
after over 26 years of service. He has served in every aspect decades of uniformed service on active duty and in the Army
of medical education and is currently the Professor of Surgery National Guard.

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