Liz Plewes is the wife of Lieutenant General Tom Plewes, Chief of the Army Reserve. She is the senior advisor to the Family Program Advisory Council. Liz began her educational career as an elementary school teacher in Virginia after she graduated from college. She left teaching to work for ACTION, where she was in charge of selecting and placing volunteers for the Peace Corps and its domestic counterpart, VISTA. During the eleventh and final year with ACTION, she served in the position of Executive Assistant to the Director, working with prison and other innovative volunteer programs. For ten years, Liz worked with the Fairfax County schools, where she taught children with learning and behavioral problems. Liz left teaching three years ago to spend more time with Army programs and activities. Liz is the mother of Jeffrey, age 24, and Melissa, age 18. The Plewes family lives in Annandale, Virginia.

Barbara Schultz is the wife of Lieutenant General Roger Schultz, Chief of the Army National Guard. She was born at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas where her father was an ROTC instructor. Barbara began her career in corporate accounting at Fort Carson, Colorado where she met her husband. They served at various posts throughout the Midwest and Barbara routinely spent hours at armories helping with IG inspections and Family Readiness Programs. During Operation Desert Storm, Barbara supported the Family Assistance Office and deploying soldiers and their families. The Shultzs live in Arlington, Virginia near the Army National Guard Readiness Center.

Dr. Patrick D. Sculley, Major General (Retired) is Executive Director of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, a 75,000-member honor society for scientists and engineers with more than 500 chapters at academic institutions, government laboratories and industry research centers. Dr. Sculley is responsible for overall management of the Society's activities and operations and the administrative offices located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

      Announcement of Dr. Sculley's appointment was made on February 19, 2002. "Dr. Sculley has all of the characteristics that the search committee was looking for," said Arthur M. Geller, chair of the Sigma Xi search committee. He is both an outstanding leader and a strong strategic planner, and in addition, he has excellent communication skills, as well as strengths in financial management, fund-raising, marketing, and in leading scientists and scientific organizations. We are pleased to announce his appointment as executive director of Sigma Xi."

      Prior to his current position, Dr. Sculley had a distinguished career in the U.S. Army, serving in a number of senior positions. He retired from the Army in May 2002 with the rank of major general after 29 years of service, culminating as deputy surgeon general of the Army, chief of the Army's Dental Corps, and chief of staff of the U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM).

      He received a B.A. in biology at Washington and Jefferson College in 1969 and went on to earn a degree in dental surgery at the State University of New York at Buffalo and a master's in health services management at Webster University. He served residencies at Fort Meade and Fort Knox and is a graduate of the Army's Command and General Staff College and the Army War College. Dr. Sculley is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral Medicine, American Board of General Dentistry, the Federal Services Board of General Dentistry and the American College of Healthcare Executives. He has also been awarded the "A" Prefix, the Army Medical Department's highest award for professional excellence.

      He has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit with three Oak Leaf clusters, and the Gold Cross of Honor of the German Bundeswehr. He was the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS) 2001 Federal Health Care Administrator of the Year.

      Dr. Sculley and his wife, Peggy, reside in Raleigh, North Carolina, and have four children and four grandchildren, all of whom live in Texas. He is a student of history and a popular public speaker on leadership, management and strategic planning.


EDITORIAL BOARD

Lieutenant Colonel Don Donahue is the Medical Operations Officer for the Office of the Chief, Army Reserve (OCAR). In this capacity, he is responsible for program development, resourcing, and oversight of medical programs throughout the Army Reserve. Lt. Col. Donahue's previous assignments include Personnel Systems Staff Officer and Medical Policy Officer for OCAR Personnel Division; Medical Operations Officer, Headquarters U.S. Army Europe; Patient Administration Officer, Army Reserve Personnel Center; and Chief of Administrative Services, Brook Army Medical Center. His civilian experience includes work as a senior marketing manager for a major behavioral managed care company; administrator for two inner city emergency departments (Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, Brooklyn and Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, Bronx), and a senior consultant for emergency and ambulatory care for the New York City hospital system. Lt. Col. Donahue holds an MBA in Business Policy and Administration from Baruch College in New York. His awards include a Meritorious Service Medal, a Joint Services Commendation Medal, and seven Army Commendation Medals. One of Lt. Col. Donahue's programs, the Federal Strategic Health Alliance, was awarded Vice President Al Gore's Hammer Award for reinventing government and the VA's Achievement in Contracting Excellence (ACE) Award, both in late 2000.

COL Maryann T. Steinmetz, Headquarters, DA, OTSGArmy Nurse Corps Nurse Staff Officer, Health Policy & Services

Judith Harris is a health educator in the Population Health Resources Program, Directorate of Health Promotion and Wellness at the Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (USACHPPM). She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from the University of Rochester (NY) and a Master's degree in Community Health Promotion Education from Trinity College (DC). She is a 1999 graduate of the Army Management Staff College's Sustaining Base Leadership and Management (SBLM) program. Ms. Harris is a retired Captain in the Naval Reserve with over 30 years of combined active and reserve service. Ms. Harris is the Project Leader for USACHPPM's Personal Responsibility project, which is developing a curriculum to help soldiers prevent unintended pregnancy and paternity.

Colonel Christine H. Inouye is an Army Nurse Corps officer who is the Reserve Component Force Protection Integrator for the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (USACHPPM). She is an Active Guard Reserve soldier who also has over thirteen years of active duty. Her various positions include Clinical Head Nurse, Chief, Nursing Administration, Quality Improvement Coordinator, and Nurse Staff Officer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of California, Los Angeles, a BSN degree in Nursing from Cornell University in New York City, New York, as well as a Master's degree in Management from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri. With over 26 years of service, she has been decorated with many service metals and badges including a Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster and two Kuwait Liberation Medals from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Government of Kuwait. Colonel Inouye's Military education is extensive and includes Command and General Staff College, which she completed in 1991, Unit Mobilization Planners Course, which she completed in 1997 and Personnel Management for Executives I, which she completed in 2001.

John McGowen is a retired Lieutenant Colonel with 27 years commissioned service as an active component, traditional Army National Guard, and AGR officer. He is currently the contracted Health Promotion Coordination officer in the ARNG Surgeon's Office.

Philip H. Perkins (US Army Ret) has over 30 years of highly successful leadership, management, and health sciences experience, including domestic preparedness response planning for biological terrorism. He serves as Battelle's lead manager for the DoD Chemical and Biological Weapons Improved Response Programs, the Washington DC Council of Governments' project to develop a health system response to a bioterrorist attack, and directs a diverse group of professionals. He currently serves as Director of Military Public Health and Emergency Preparedness, Battelle Memorial Institute, Edgewood Operations, Bel Air, Maryland. Mr. Perkins' group provides technical and scientific services to various government clients in the areas of WMD response planning, public health risk assessment, industrial hygiene, epidemiology and environmental health sciences. Prior to joining Battelle four years ago, Mr. Perkins served in various senior positions with the US Army focusing on military public health. Mr. Perkins was the Deputy Commander/Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (CHPPM) and the Commander/Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Army European Medical Laboratory where he created a quick response capability for responding to nuclear, biological and chemical incidents resulting from natural, enemy, or terrorist activities. He also served as the Army Surgeon General's Consultant for Industrial Hygiene and Medical Safety, and as Consultant to the Chief Surgeon, US Army Europe, for Environmental Health Engineering. He retired from the Army with the rank of Colonel.

LTC Leana Fox-Johnson, Headquarters, DA G-1, Health Promotion Policy

Lieutenant Colonel Mary Sherman, Office of the Chief, Army Reserve

Colonel (P) Wheeling graduated from the U. S. Army War College in July 2001 receiving a Master's Degree in Strategic Studies. She completed Command and General Staff College in 1989. She has 26 years of commissioned service. Her awards and decorations include: Meritorious Service Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, Army Commendation Medal with One Oak Leaf Cluster, Army Good Conduct Medal, Army Reserve Achievement Medal (6th Award), National Defense Service Medal (one Bronze Service Star), Humanitarian Service Medal and the Armed Forces Reserve Medal. Colonel Wheeling is married to Dr. (COL, Ret.) James R. Wheeling of Oneonta, New York. They have two children, Sarah-14, Catherine-12.

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Following the April 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, she designed and developed a domestic preparedness awareness program, "Are You Prepared?" for civilian emergency responders. Ms. Stark served for ten years as a Program Development Officer at the National Research Council's (NRC's) National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC participating in program management, technical production, and editorial management of 28 published technical books and reports. Ms. Stark managed and coordinated a 128-member expert committee for the largest study ever conducted by the NRC, Strategic Technologies for the Army of the Twenty-First Century (STAR 21), sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army, Assistant Secretary of Research, Development and Acquisition.

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