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Shirley Quearles, EdD, RN, COL, AN, USAR, Deborah Mitchell, MSN, RN, LTC, AN, USAR, Kathrine Ponder, MSN, RN, LTC, AN, USAR, Michael Silverman, MD, COL(Ret), MC, USAR, and Jonathan Fruendt, MD, ACP, COL, MC, USA

COL Quarles serves in the U.S. Army Reserve (USAR) Nurse Corps as a nurse consultant for Medical Readiness Training Command, Fort Gordon, GA and holds two national federal appointments: chair of the VA Advisory Committee on Women Veterans and member of the Advisory Council for Tri-Service (U.S. Army/Air Force/Navy) Nursing Research Program. In addition, she is an associate professor at the Medical College of Georgia School of Nursing, Augusta and an adjunct faculty member at Emory University School of Nursing, Atlanta, GA. LTC Mitchell serves in the USAR Nurse Corps as a consequence management medical support officer for the USAR-Consequence Management Unit in Abingdon, MD. She is also the nurse manager of the operating room and postanesthesia care unit at the Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL. LTC Ponder, who serves full time in the Active Guard Reserve as the assistant chief nurse of the 48th Combat Support Hospital (CSH), Fort Meade, MD, is currently deployed to Afghanistan. COL(Ret) Silverman previously served as commander of the 324th CSH, Puerto Rico and assistant to the surgeon, USAR Command. Currently, he is a physician and medical director of The Miami Jewish Home and Hospital and a professor of medicine at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, both in Miami, FL. COL Fruendt is an active duty U.S. Army Medical Corps officer currently serving as the command surgeon for U.S. Army Central. He previously served as the command surgeon for USAR Command.

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COL Quarles serves in the U.S. Army Reserve (USAR) Nurse Corps as a nurse consultant for Medical Readiness Training Command, Fort Gordon, GA and holds two national federal appointments: chair of the VA Advisory Committee on Women Veterans and member of the Advisory Council for Tri-Service (U.S. Army/Air Force/Navy) Nursing Research Program. In addition, she is an associate professor at the Medical College of Georgia School of Nursing, Augusta and an adjunct faculty member at Emory University School of Nursing, Atlanta, GA. LTC Mitchell serves in the USAR Nurse Corps as a consequence management medical support officer for the USAR-Consequence Management Unit in Abingdon, MD. She is also the nurse manager of the operating room and postanesthesia care unit at the Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL. LTC Ponder, who serves full time in the Active Guard Reserve as the assistant chief nurse of the 48th Combat Support Hospital (CSH), Fort Meade, MD, is currently deployed to Afghanistan. COL(Ret) Silverman previously served as commander of the 324th CSH, Puerto Rico and assistant to the surgeon, USAR Command. Currently, he is a physician and medical director of The Miami Jewish Home and Hospital and a professor of medicine at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, both in Miami, FL. COL Fruendt is an active duty U.S. Army Medical Corps officer currently serving as the command surgeon for U.S. Army Central. He previously served as the command surgeon for USAR Command.

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Shirley Quearles, EdD, RN, COL, AN, USAR, Deborah Mitchell, MSN, RN, LTC, AN, USAR, Kathrine Ponder, MSN, RN, LTC, AN, USAR, Michael Silverman, MD, COL(Ret), MC, USAR, and Jonathan Fruendt, MD, ACP, COL, MC, USA

COL Quarles serves in the U.S. Army Reserve (USAR) Nurse Corps as a nurse consultant for Medical Readiness Training Command, Fort Gordon, GA and holds two national federal appointments: chair of the VA Advisory Committee on Women Veterans and member of the Advisory Council for Tri-Service (U.S. Army/Air Force/Navy) Nursing Research Program. In addition, she is an associate professor at the Medical College of Georgia School of Nursing, Augusta and an adjunct faculty member at Emory University School of Nursing, Atlanta, GA. LTC Mitchell serves in the USAR Nurse Corps as a consequence management medical support officer for the USAR-Consequence Management Unit in Abingdon, MD. She is also the nurse manager of the operating room and postanesthesia care unit at the Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL. LTC Ponder, who serves full time in the Active Guard Reserve as the assistant chief nurse of the 48th Combat Support Hospital (CSH), Fort Meade, MD, is currently deployed to Afghanistan. COL(Ret) Silverman previously served as commander of the 324th CSH, Puerto Rico and assistant to the surgeon, USAR Command. Currently, he is a physician and medical director of The Miami Jewish Home and Hospital and a professor of medicine at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, both in Miami, FL. COL Fruendt is an active duty U.S. Army Medical Corps officer currently serving as the command surgeon for U.S. Army Central. He previously served as the command surgeon for USAR Command.

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Ensuring Medical Readiness of Reserve Soldiers
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force health, protection, readiness, predeployment, deployment, nondeployable, unfit, Federal Strategic Health Alliance, FEDS_HEAL, FEDS_HEAL Program Office, FHPO, Army Reserve, USAR, Operation Enduring Freedom, OEF, Operation Iraqi Freedom, OIF, profiles, screening, examinations, testing, immunizations, DoD, Department of Defenseforce health, protection, readiness, predeployment, deployment, nondeployable, unfit, Federal Strategic Health Alliance, FEDS_HEAL, FEDS_HEAL Program Office, FHPO, Army Reserve, USAR, Operation Enduring Freedom, OEF, Operation Iraqi Freedom, OIF, profiles, screening, examinations, testing, immunizations, DoD, Department of Defense
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force health, protection, readiness, predeployment, deployment, nondeployable, unfit, Federal Strategic Health Alliance, FEDS_HEAL, FEDS_HEAL Program Office, FHPO, Army Reserve, USAR, Operation Enduring Freedom, OEF, Operation Iraqi Freedom, OIF, profiles, screening, examinations, testing, immunizations, DoD, Department of Defenseforce health, protection, readiness, predeployment, deployment, nondeployable, unfit, Federal Strategic Health Alliance, FEDS_HEAL, FEDS_HEAL Program Office, FHPO, Army Reserve, USAR, Operation Enduring Freedom, OEF, Operation Iraqi Freedom, OIF, profiles, screening, examinations, testing, immunizations, DoD, Department of Defense
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