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FACULTYUSU’s distinguished faculty includes world-renowned researchers and internationally accomplished clinicians,each of whom is dedicated to furthering medical research and practice, as well as sharing their knowledge,skills and experience for the benefit of USU students. The faculty is comprised of an outstanding group ofmilitary service members and civilians.The faculty is dedicated to the shared mission of ensuring our nation’s health and well being by helping tocreate tomorrow’s leaders in federal and military health care. This significant goal fosters a highly collaborativeatmosphere in which faculty often work on a multi-disciplinary level to advance both education and research.Neil GrunbergNeil Grunberg, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Medical and ClinicalPsychology. His specialty areas include tobacco and nicotine use, drug abuse andstress. He has published more than 140 scientific papers on these topics, with anemphasis on the effects of nicotine on body weight, food consumption, attention andstress. In addition to his research and teaching responsibilities, Dr. Grunberg mentorsgraduate students in medical and clinical psychology, as well as neuroscience.Dr. Grunberg has received multiple awards for his researchand teaching, including the prestigious Society of BehavioralMedicine Distinguished Scientist award. Most recently, hereceived the 2006 Building Partnerships for Better Health Awardfrom the USU Center for Health Disparities and the 2007 CarolJ. Johns Medal for outstanding contributions to the faculty andeducational programs at USU. Dr. Grunberg also received theU.S. Surgeon General’s Medal for his work as scientific editorfor the well-known Surgeon General’s report that showed thatnicotine is addictive, and the Surgeon General’s report on thehealth benefits of smoking cessation.Preparing Students for SuccessDeborah Bowen, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Socialand Behavioral Sciences at Boston University, is a 1986graduate of USU and former student of Dr. Grunberg. Shehas been recognized for her work in cancer and healthbehavior change, and served as principal investigator onseveral NIH-funded grants on health behavior topics includingbreast cancer risk communications and dietary change.Among her many professional honors, Dr. Bowen has beennamed Outstanding Health Psychologist by the AmericanPsychological Association.“My experiences at USU prepared me both intellectuallyand practically for an academic career in public health.Intellectually, I had the privilege of receiving training thatwas both challenging and rigorous. Practically, having theopportunity to apply health and medical psychology tothe settings of military medicine and health promotionled me to see how my field could be relevant in manycontexts, including urban and international settings.”USU fosters ahighly collaborativeatmosphere in whichfaculty often work ona multi-disciplinarylevel to advanceboth research andeducation.14
Bruce SchoneboomColonel Bruce Schoneboom, Ph.D.,a graduate of the USU School ofMedicine’s neuroscience programand an Associate Professor in theGraduate School of Nursing’sDepartment of Health Systems, Riskand Contingency Management,recently returned to USU from aone-year voluntary deployment toAfghanistan. As senior ranking officer, Dr. Schoneboom wasselected to serve as the commander of the 14th CombatSupport Hospital detachment at Forward Operating BaseSalerno. There, he put his military training and medicalexpertise to use leading a team of 38 surgeons, registerednurses and a variety of allied health technicians whoprovided care for U.S. military service members and othercoalition forces, and for Afghan civilians.“Throughout the military medicalsystem, in the clinical environment,the senior people are usually from orhave graduated from USU. Whetherexplicit or implicit, leadership is woventhroughout everything we do here. Weare educating the future leaders withinthe military health care system.”ExperienceAnthony BeutlerThe U.S. military is developing practices and trainingto help prevent orthopedic injuries. USU clinician/researcher Major Anthony Beutler, M.D., a facultymember in the Department of Family Medicine andhead of the new USU Injury Prevention Lab, is theprincipal military investigator on a National Institutesof Health-funded study on knee injury prevention.Knee injuries are some of the most common injuriesamong special operations personnel and recruitsundergoing basic training.“Through this collaboration with UNC, weare using their expertise in epidemiologyand biomechanics and are applying it to amilitary population. Not only do we hope tomaximize readiness and minimize time lostdue to injury within the military system, butwe believe our results can be broadly appliedin civilian settings.”Dr. Beutler is conducting the study in conjunction withthe University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill InjuryPrevention Research Center. In the initial phase of thestudy, he and his colleagues are assessing incomingstudents at the U.S. Military Academies. They willfollow these students throughout their tenures at theacademies and will analyze the data to establishprospective markers for injury risk. The goal is toeventually use this information to develop an injuryprevention program that will address the most commoninjuries in the U.S. military.15
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