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Medicine at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, TX. I graduated from medical school in 1981 and completed an Internal Medicine residency, 1981-1985. I served my active-duty obligation at having attended a military indoctrination course at Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, TX. While at Langley, I was asked to pursue further training in Allergy Medicine at the Wilford Hall Facility at Lackland AFB, TX. I then performed the duties as 1985 and returned to the Wilmington Medical Center, 1985- 1987, to complete my Internal Medicine residency. My medical education continued with a Cardiology Fellowship at Temple, 1987-1989. My Interventional Cardiology was performed at Lankenau Hospital, 1989-1990. I am proud having served my country and have the greatest respect for all those who have.
Kevin Boyle
Robert L. O’Connor
Graduated from medical school in 1982, then entered active duty in the Air Force August 3, 1988, at Sheppard Air Force Base, TX. Completed a Primary Medicine Aerospace Course with Honors in 1989 and completed a Global Medicine Course in to Zaire; Niger; Dakar, Senegal; Thule, Greenland; Ascension Island; Bahrain; Sicily; Rota, Spain; Diego Garcia; Philippines; Guam and Hawaii. During Flight Surgeon Training, endured centrifuge to 9G gravity. Served in support of combined USAF/ Kingdom of Jordan exercises, 1990, in Amman, Jordan. Primary July 29, 1990 to August 10, 1990, served on aircrew C-141 to circumnavigate the world. Became a member of the Ferdinand Germany during Desert Shield/Storm, and performed missions to Saudi Arabia during this time. Also served in direct support to Desert Shield/Storm from August 1990 to August 1991. Separated from active duty August 2, 1991.
Bob O’Connor
William J. Dahms, Jr.
Prior to graduation from medical school, I was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant with the United States Air Force in 1996 as part of the military’s Health Professions Scholarship Program. I graduated from medical school in 2000. I did both my residency in Internal Medicine and my Nephrology fellowship with the Air Force in San Antonio, TX, based out of Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB. I was an attending nephrologist for the Air Force from 2005-2008, serving at Lackland AFB as well as Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS. From January to June of 2007, I was deployed as an ICU internist to the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq. Our unit played an integral role in caring for United States service members, Coalition Forces, as well as the Iraqi population in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. I separated
from the Air Force in June of 2008. I am extremely proud to have served my country as an Air Force Physician. Undoubtedly, the training I received and the experiences given to me through this opportunity were critical in becoming the doctor and person I am today.
Bill Dahms
Jan Lee
Army Reserve unit as a clerk typist, rank Private First Class (E-3) — one drill weekend a month, and several weeks in the summer. I read about ROTC scholarships in Soldiers magazine. years of college on an Air Force ROTC pre-med scholarship.
I was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant upon graduation.
A Uniformed Services Health Professions Scholarship covered medical school. My Family Practice residency was completed at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, TX. Subsequent active duty assignments were in Okinawa, Texas, Maryland, Delaware, and at the Pentagon (during 9/11/2001). These assignments ranged from single-specialty ambulatory practice settings to medical centers, and varied from full-time clinical practice, to academic medicine, to unit command. I was honorably discharged with the rank of Colonel after 31 years in uniform. I wouldn’t trade the experience Legion of Merit, the Air Force Commendation Medal, and the Meritorious Service Medal with three oak leaf clusters and the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with four oak leaf clusters.
Jan Lee
Photo provided by Dean L. Winslow, MD
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