Lieutenant Commander, USN, Ret.; Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the MIT, 1981; Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the MIT, 1989; Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1989; M.D. from the University of Miami School of Medicine, 1998; Master of Public Health from the Harvard University School of Public Health, 2000; semi finalist in NASA group 14 selection; currently Biomechanics and Injury Causation Consultant at Bloomberg Consulting, Inc. - Pensacola, Florida.