A Spotlight on Uniformed Services University Alumni
Capt. Tina Kinsley, '01, is a flight surgeon assigned to the 51st Medical Group, Osan Air Base, Korea. Kinsley will be transferring to Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, this summer to begin a dermatology residency.
Lt. Miguel Gutierrez, '02, is assigned as a diving medical officer with the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit-4 in Bahrain.
Steven Berkowitz, Ph.D., '99, graduate of the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology's clinical psychology program, recently moved from the Veterans' Administration Cooperative Studies Program to become director of the division of operations and committee support, coverage and analysis group, Center for Medical and Medicaid Services, at their headquarters in Baltimore, Md. Berkowitz will be involved in the scientific evaluation of the evidence base for Medicare's National Coverage Decisions.
Arlene Casten, '00, a graduate of the adult nurse practitioner program, works at the Veterans' Administration Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisc. Casten serves as a nurse practitioner and also as the registry coordinator for Gulf War patients and Agent Orange.
CPT Colleen Daniels, USA, '03, a graduate of the Master of Public Health degree program, was recently awarded the Myra McDaniel Writers Award for her paper on an ergonomics-based approach to preventing musculoskeletal disorders in the Army. This competitive award is given to the entry judged best on the basis of its pertinence to occupational therapy practice, education, research or administration, originality, style and clarity of communication and scholarship. The winner is selected by the chief of the occupational therapist section, Office of the Army Surgeon General. Daniels was the first graduate of the Occupational Ergonomics track in the MPH program and currently is at the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine.
CAPT Bruce Baker, MC, USN -an anesthesiologist, saw duty at Camp Rhino, Afghanistan, followed approximately seven months later by a deployment to Iraq during the start of the war with a Forward Resuscitative Surgery System (FRSS) as one of the famed "Devil Docs," followed by a return to Iraq several months ago, again as a member of an FRSS.
COL. James Bruckart, MC, USA -a physician, was first assigned as commander of the 21st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, and later appointed as the 3rd Corps Surgeon attached to Combined Joint Task Force-7, Iraq.
MAJ Jack Davis, AN, USA -a family nurse practitioner, he was deployed to Iraq with the 17th Field Artillery Brigade out of Ft. Sill, Okla. MAJ Davis served as the brigade commander for the unit, which was based at Camp Anaconda near Balad, Iraq. He is likely to be the first family nurse practitioner to ever serve as a brigade commander.