A Spotlight on Uniformed Services University Alumni
USU alumni are serving in hot spots around the world and also serving their respective communities as medical professionals. Some notable contributions are described below:
Brig. Gen. C. William Fox, '81, is currently the commander of Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Brig. Gen. William Germann, '82, is the commander of Malcolm Grow U.S. Air Force Medical Center, Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
Col. Bradley Harper, '83, recently relocated from Puerto Rico to San Antonio, Texas, with the Army's Southern Command. Harper is the unit's command surgeon and is headquartered at Fort Sam Houston.
Col. Terry Walters, '84, is the brigade commander for the 1st Medical Brigade at Fort Hood, Texas.
Jill Antoine, M.D., '85, is a faculty member at The Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and is also a Harvard Instructor in Anesthesia.
Col. Rhonda Cornum, '86, is the commander of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Cornum, a urologist, was a prisoner-of-war during the first Persian Gulf war.
Col. John Powell, '87, is now the deputy command surgeon for the U.S. Northern Command at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. The former commander of the 10th Combat Support Hospital at Fort Carson, Colo., he replaced USU class of 1988 alumnus, Col. Robert Gum, in the Northern Command position. Gum is a graduate of the Master of Public Health degree program.
Col Mark Bagg, '85, Lt. Col. Roman Hayda, '88, Maj. John Friedland, '93, Lt. Col. James Ficke, '87, and Lt. Col. John Kragh, '89, are all Army orthopedic surgeons assigned to Brooke Army Medical Center who spend the majority of their time repairing the lives and limbs of soldiers seriously wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
LTC Alfonso Alarcon, MC, a physician, was assigned first to the
212th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and then later to the 160th Forward Surgical Team.