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MICHAEL E. KILPATRICK, MD Deputy Director, Deployment Health Support
A San Francisco native, Dr. Kilpatrick was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, in 1965. He received his Medical Degree in 1969 from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and completed his Internal Medicine residency in 1972 and Infectious Disease fellowship in 1974 at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Kilpatrick served in the U. S. Navy from 1974 to 1999. He was a staff physician in the Infectious Disease division at the Naval Regional Medical Center, San Diego, California, and then had five tours with the Naval Medical Research and Development Command. He was a research physician at Naval Medical Research Unit Three in Cairo, Egypt, and at the Naval Health Research Center, San Diego. Dr. Kilpatrick was the first Officer in Charge of the Navy’s first medical facility in South America, Naval Medical Research Institute Detachment Lima, Peru. He then was the Research Area Manager for Infectious Disease at Naval Medical Research and Development Command, Bethesda, Maryland, and in 1998 returned to Naval Medical Research Unit Three as Commanding Officer. The Navy Forward Laboratory was deployed from Naval Medical Research Unit Three in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. It provided high technology laboratory diagnostic capability for medical treatment facilities and for medical environmental surveillance, including monitoring for evidence of biological warfare agents. After Cairo, he served as Executive Officer at Naval Hospital, Orlando, Florida, and as Commanding Officer of the Naval Hospital Millington, Tennessee. Dr. Kilpatrick completed his Navy career as the senior medical advisor to the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses and then served as an independent consultant involved in the medical aspects of all investigations and research related to Gulf War illnesses. He was selected as a member of the Senior Executive Service in December 2000 and served as the Chief of Staff for the Office of the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses, Medical Readiness and Military Deployments. Dr. Kilpatrick is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and a member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the Association of Military Surgeons in the United States and the American College of Physician Executives. His military awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, two Legion of Merit awards, three Meritorious Service medals, the Navy Unit Commendation, the Meritorious Unit Commendation, two National Defense medals, the Southwest Asia Service medal, nine Navy and Marine Corps Overseas Service ribbons, and the Peruvian Navy Cross. He has co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications on tropical medicine and infectious diseases. |
Michael
E. Kilpatrick, M.D., is the Deputy Director of Deployment Health Support
in the TRICARE Management Activity and the Office of the Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Health Affairs. The directorate supports the Special Assistant
for Gulf War Illnesses, Medical Readiness and Military Deployments. Dr.
Kilpatrick is responsible for continuing the mission of providing assistance
to Gulf War veterans, facilitating Force Health Protection initiatives,
and coordinating health-related deployment issues between the Office of
the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and the Military
Departments.