Eric B. Schoomaker MD, PhD, FACP

Dr. Eric B. Schoomaker, MD, PhD, FACP, Lieutenant General, US Army (Ret), currently serves as a professor and vice-chair for Centers and Programs in the Department of Military & Emergency Medicine at the nation’s only federal health university, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Prior to his retirement in 2012 after 32 years of active service, Lieutenant General (Retired) Schoomaker served as the 42nd U.S. Army Surgeon General and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Command. His principal interests are in both complementary and integrative health and medicine, in the shift from a disease-management focused health care system to one more centered on the improvement and sustainment of health and wellbeing leading to optimal human performance, and in leadership education. Dr. Schoomaker is the recipient of numerous military awards, including those from France and Germany, the 2012 Dr. Nathan Davis Award from the American Medical Association for outstanding government service, an Honorary Doctor of Science from Wake Forest University, and the Philipp M. Lippe, MD Award from the American Academy of Pain Medicine for outstanding contributions to the social and political aspect of pain medicine.