Provides executive leadership for admissions strategy and enrollment management at one of the nation’s fastest-growing colleges of osteopathic medicine. Oversees student recruitment, holistic admissions processes, and enrollment planning while helping shape the next generation of physicians through mission-driven leadership.

Educates future physicians and healthcare leaders in leadership, medical ethics, clinical reasoning, physician personhood, and communication. Recognized nationally for excellence in teaching while contributing to institutional leadership, curriculum development, and professional formation.

Completed a distinguished 34-year career culminating in executive leadership of some of the nation’s largest and most complex military healthcare organizations.

Key executive assignments included:

• Commander, Navy Medicine East (formerly Navy Medical Forces Atlantic), overseeing a $1.6 billion healthcare enterprise.
• Commander, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, one of Navy Medicine’s premier academic medical centers.
• Inaugural Commandant, Medical Education & Training Campus, integrating enlisted medical education across all U.S. military services.
• Chief Medical Officer for Navy Medicine.
• Surgeon, United States Pacific Fleet.
• Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Hospital Guam.
• Family Medicine Specialty Leader, directing professional development for more than 500 Navy physicians.
• Director of Residency Training for the Navy’s largest Family Medicine residency program.
• Commander of the U.S. Navy medical response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami humanitarian relief operation.