Dr. Mike Dinneen currently serves as Director, Office of Strategy Management for the Military Health System, a position he assumed after retiring 
from the USN in January 2005.
Following his medical training he served as a staff psychiatrist and then transferred to the National Naval Medical Center where he was first a residency training director, then Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and finally Director of Medical Services.
In the context of a Congressional threat to outsource all military mental health care in the National Capital Area he developed and implemented a strategic plan to reduce psychiatric hospital beds from 200 to 60 while actually increasing the military’s share of the mental health market. Changes resulted in an integrated training and service delivery program with expanded child and adolescent services. Overall operating expenses were reduced by over 30%.
While at Bethesda he served as special psychiatric consultant to the Secret Service, the State Department, the Attending Physician to Congress, the National Organization for Victim Assistance, and the Office of the White House Physician.
He developed special expertise in psychological trauma and military psychiatry while leading Navy Special Psychiatric Rapid Intervention Teams for over ten years, directing Mental Health Services aboard the Hospital Ship USNS Comfort during Desert Shield/Desert Storm, and treating service members and their families. He has lectured internationally on traumatic stress, developed curricula in trauma psychiatry, and trained personnel for specialized wartime assignments. His publications on psychological trauma include original research on the effects of exposure to deployment stress during Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
In 2002, Dr. Dinneen became Director of Healthcare Planning and Tricare Operations at the Navy Bureau of Medicine. He implemented a standard business planning process for the Navy’s 38 Medical Treatment Facilities and was responsible for the orderly transition to the new generation of Tricare Contracts.
A diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Dr. Dinneen graduated from Harvard University (cum laude) and then received both an MD and PhD (Neurochemistry) from the Medical College of Virginia.
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