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CAPT Kotora, DO, USN is an emergency physician with board certi-
CAPT Butler, USN (Ret), was a Navy SEAL platoon commander fication in both emergency medicine and prehospital medicine/EMS.
before becoming a physician. He is an ophthalmologist and a Navy He currently serves as the Director of Medical Services onboard Naval
undersea medical officer with 25 years of experience pro viding medi- Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia. He is a prior Division Surgeon
cal support to Special Operations Forces. Dr Butler has served as the with the II Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and has
Command Surgeon at the US Special Operations Com mand and was deployed to CENTCOM, AFRICOM, and EUCOM with various mil-
the chairman of the Joint Trauma System’s Commit tee on TCCC for itary units. He is a founding member of the Trauma Center onboard
11 years. He currently serves as a TCCC consultant to the JTS and Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune.
the CoTCCC.
CAPT Lenart, MD, USN, FASA, a prior submarine officer, is the
HMCM Burkholder, USN, is currently serving as a Senior Enlisted Branch Head and Specialty Leader for Surface Medicine at BUMED.
Leader at Naval Medical Regional Treatment Center Camp Pendle- He is also a practicing anesthesiologist. His prior tours include time as
ton. Over his 21 year career he has deployed in support of Operation a Diving Medical Officer and as the Surface Forces Atlantic Surgeon.
Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Inherent His deployments include Kandahar, Afghanistan, treating battlefield
Resolve. His deployed units include EODMU8, JTF SOCOM, Fleet combat trauma patients at the Role III MMU, and humanitarian relief
Surgical Team Three, USS TARAWA LHA-1, USS PREBLE DDG-88 efforts in Puerto Rico immediately following Hurricane Maria.
and the USS MAKIN ISLAND LHD-8.
LCDR Long, DO, USN, is currently deployed with the 11 Marine
th
HMC Chernenko, NAC/AW, is a Search and Rescue Medical Techni- Expeditionary Unit as a Shock Trauma Platoon Emergency Physician
cian and is the Leading Chief Petty Officer for Aviation Medicine at and Force Surgeon. She is also a member of the BUMED Maritime
HSC-23 at North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado, California. Blood Strategy Working Group and previously served as a flight sur-
CAPT (Ret) Chimiak, is an anesthesiologist and a Navy Undersea geon for COMHSMWINGPAC and HSM-49.
Medical Officer. He is also a Surface Warfare Qualified former Navy HMC Papalski, USN, is a Search and Rescue Medical Technician and
line officer and has served with USMC medical units. He is currently Flight Paramedic, currently serving as the NSW Group Two Medical
the Chief Medical Officer for the Divers Alert Network. and Trauma Training Program Manager. He presently serves as the
CDR Chung, D.O., is a Navy Family Medicine physician and Un- Navy Liaison Officer to the Joint Trauma System and a member of the
dersea Medical Officer. He is currently the Officer In Charge of Fleet Committee on Enroute Combat Casualty Care. He has eight deploy-
Surgical Team NINE and the Surgeon for Expeditionary Strike Group ments across Iraq, Afghanistan, and CENTCOM AOR.
THREE. CMSgt (Ret) Rich, USAF, is a combat-experienced pararescueman with
CAPT Cubano, MD, USN, is currently the COMUSNAVCENT deployments to Operations Desert Storm, Provide Comfort, Enduring
Force Surgeon. He is the Senior Editor of the 4th and 5th Revision Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom. He has served in numerous pararescue
of the Emergency War Surgery book. He has six deployments across positions in the Air Force and Special Operations Command for over
Asia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Central and South America in support of the 25 years. He was a member of the CoTCCC from 2004 to 2018. He is
USMC and Surface NAVY. currently the program manager for the Committee on En Route Com-
bat Casualty Care (CoERCCC) at the Joint Trauma System.
CAPT Drew, DO, USN, is the Chair of the Joint Trauma System’s
Com mittee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care. He currently serves CAPT Tripp, MC, USN, is a Pulmonary/Critical Care Physician and
as the I Marine Expeditionary Force Surgeon and recently served as Navy Undersea Medical Officer. He is currently the Branch Head
the Navy Emergency Medicine Specialty Leader. He has eight deploy- for Undersea Medicine and Radiation Health at the Navy Bureau of
ments across Asia, Af ghanistan, Iraq, and Africa and 11 ships in sup- Medicine and Surgery (BUMED M35). He has served with EOD and
port of both USMC and SOCOM units. salvage units and has deployed in support of OEF and humanitarian
missions.
COL Gurney, MD, USA, is a trauma/critical care surgeon assigned to
the Institute of Surgical Research and the Joint Trauma System, San Col Shackelford, MC, USAF is a trauma surgeon and the Chief of
Antonio, TX. She has been deployed multiple times to the CENTCOM the Joint Trauma System. She has deployed five times to CENTCOM.
AOR and served as the principal medical advisor to Gen Austin Miller, During her last three deployments, Col Shackelford served as the for-
the Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, on her last deployment. ward Joint Theater Trauma System director for Operation Enduring
Freedom, managing a team of 24 personnel and coordinating trauma
Lt Col Hall, USAF, is a member of the JTS Committee on Surgical care delivery for three Role 3 and 22 Role 2 surgical facilities through-
Combat Casualty Care. He currently serves as a general surgeon and out Afghanistan.
works within the USCENTCOM Office of the Command Surgeon. He
has been deployed to the CENTCOM and AFRICOM AORs. CAPT Tadlock, MD, USN, currently serves as the Chair of the
BUMED Trauma Advisory Board and as the Navy Trauma Surgery
COL (Ret) Holcomb, MD, USA, is a trauma/critical care surgeon Specialty Leader. He has 5 deployments providing Health Service Sup-
who established and directed the Joint Trauma Training Center. He port to USN, USMC and NATO units in the Indo-Pacific, Central and
has deployed all over the world providing surgical support for Spe- Western Asia, on both land and sea; including two CVN’s, one DDG
cial Operations forces. COL Holcomb was the Commander of the US and as the Chief of Trauma at the Kandahar NATO Role 3.
Army Institute of Surgical Research and the Trauma Consultant for
the Army Surgeon General. CAPT Timby, MD, USN, is a Pulmonary/Critical Care physician. He
has served as the Command Surgeon at the Naval Special Warfare
Development Group, Commanding Officer of Naval Medical Center
Camp Lejeune, Deputy Medical Officer of the Marine Corps, and is
currently the US Central Command Surgeon.

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