DHB Members, Liaisons, and Staff

 DHB Organization Chart

Designated Federal Official
Mrs. Ellen Embrey Performing the Duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
Executive Secretary
CDR Edmond Feeks, MC, USN  

Ex-Officio Members

Service Liaison Officers and Consultants

Core Board Members
Robert G. Certain, PhD Rector at St. Peter & St. Paul Episcopal Church in Marietta, Georgia
John David Clements, PhD. Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Director, Program in Molecular Pathogenesis and Immunity
Tulane University School of Medicine
GEN (Ret) Richard A. Cody LS Communications
Nancy W. Dickey, MD President, Texas A&M University Health Science Center
Francis A. Ennis, MD Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Director, Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Research
University of Massachusetts Medical School
William E. Halperin, MD, MPH Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine
New Jersey Medical School
Acting Associate Dean
New Jersey School of Public Health
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Chair: Military Occupational & Environmental Health and Medical Surveillance Subcommittee
CSM (Ret.) Lawerence W. Holland President, LWH, Inc.M
Retired Command Sergeant Major
Previous Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs
Edward L. Kaplan, M.D Professor, Department of Pediatrics
University of Minnesota Medical School
Wayne M. Lednar, M.D., Ph.D Global Chief Medical Officer and Director, Integrated Health Services DuPont
Defense Health Board Vice President
James E. Lockey, MD, MS Professor and Director
Department of Enviromental Health
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Consultant on Employee Health
Children's Hospital Medical Center
Russell V. Luepker, M.D. Mayo Professor of Public Health
Director of Graduate Studies
Clinical Research Master's Program
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health University of Minnesota
Thomas J. Mason, Ph.D. Director, Global Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Action
University of South Florida
General (Ret.) Richard Myers RMyers & Associates LLC
15th Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Dennis O'Leary, MD President Emeritus
The Joint Commission
Michael N. Oxman, MD Professor of Medicine and Pathology
University of California, San Diego
Staff Physician, Infectious Diseases Section Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center San Diego, CA
Michael D. Parkinson, MD, MPH President American College of Preventive Medicine
Chief Health and Medical Officer
Lumenos
Joseph E. Parisi, M.D. Division of Anatomic Pathology
Mayo Clinic
Chair: Scientific Advisory Board for Pathology & Laboratory Sevices
Gregory A. Poland, MD Fellow of the American College of Physicians
Diplomate, ABIM

Director, Mayo Vaccine Research Group
Translational Immunovirology and Biodefense
Mary Lowell Leary Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic and Foundation
Chair: Infectious Disease Subcommittee Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Subpanel
Defense Health Board Vice President
Charles A. Sanders, MD Chair, Project HOPE
Adil E. Shamoo, PhD Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Maryland School of Maryland
Chair: Medical Ethics Subcommittee
Joseph Silva, Jr., MD Dean, Emeritus
UC Davis School of Medicine
David H. Walker, M.D. Professor and Chair
Carmage and Martha Walls Distinguished Chair, Tropical Diseases
Department of Pathology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Hon. Togo West Chair
TLI Leadership Group
Former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Former United States Secretary of the Army
Gail Wilensky, PhD Senior Fellow
Project HOPE
Defense Health Board President
Chair: Health Care Delivery Subcommittee

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