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Dr. James C. Fleming, received his medical degree from the University of Tennessee Center for theHealth Sciences in June, 1974. He continued his medical training at the University of Tennessee in ophthalmologyand pursued fellowship training in ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Universityof Arizona. Returning to Memphis in 1980, he has served as Chief of Oculoplastics at the levelI trauma center for over twenty years. He joined the UT Department of Ophthalmology as a full-timephysician in January 1997 to head the Oculoplastic Service, and currently is honored to hold the PhilipM. Lewis Professor of Ophthalmology Chair. His service in the field of ophthalmology has been recognizedon a national level by the presentation of the Senior Achievement Award from the AmericanAcademy of Ophthalmology in 2005. He has held the office of president for the Tennessee Medical Association, andcontinues to serve as the chairman of the Tennessee Medical Association Delegation to the American Medical Association.Also, he was honored to serve as president of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and ReconstructiveSurgery, his subspecialty organization.COL Gregory Risk is an Emergency Physician/Flight Surgeon currently assigned to USASOC. He completed SFQC asan 18D in 1982 and was assigned to 7th SFG. He graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1993and completed emergency medicine residency at Methodist Hospital in 1996. COL Risk was previously assigned as AsstDean, Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center.Aaron Noble Waite graduated from Brigham Young University with a BS in Zoology in 2001. He completedhis medical degree from the University of Utah School of Medicine in 2006 and an internal medicineinternship at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas Nevada in 2007. He is currently engagedin his final year of ophthalmology residency training at the University of Tennessee in Memphis.32Journal of Special Operations Medicine Volume 9, Edition 3 / Summer 09