Our Team
Senior Leadership
Vik Bebarta, MD; Colonel, USAF
Founding Director; Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
Kathleen Flarity, DNP, PhD; Brigadier General, USAF
Co-Founder and Deputy Director; Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Anne Ritter, DrPH, MPH
Senior Director; Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Anne Libby, PhD
Director of Education & Engagement; Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Department of Emergency Medicine
Scientific Leads & COMBAT Center Faculty
Erin Anderson, RN
Clinical Research Scientific Lead;
Research Manager, ATLAS Research Program
Jonathan Boyd, PhD
Threat Exposure and Medical Countermeasures Lead; Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Jessica Cardenas, PhD
Trauma and Coagulation Lead; Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Tara Hendry-Hofer, MSN, RN
Preclinical Research Lead; Research Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Paco Herson, PhD
Neuroscience Scientific Lead; Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Sean Keenan, MD, COL, USA Retired
Assistant Director of Prehospital, Trauma, and Operational Strategy
Col (Ret) Stacy Shackelford, MD (USAF)
Adjoint Research Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Ian Stanley, PhD
Psychological Health Lead; Associate Professor, Research, Department of Emergency Medicine
Staff
Alyssa Maxfeldt, MBA
Business and Operations Manager
Karen Gronau
Research Program Manager
Jenn Green
Communications Program Manager
Sue Danielson
Business and Operations Specialist
Tori Flarity, MSIB
Communications & Project Coordinator
Jaime Jenkins
Post Award Specialist
