Leadership
COL Jamie B Grimes, MD, MC, USA
National Director, DVBIC
COL Grimes comes to DVBIC headquarters from San Antonio, TX where, since 2007, she had been the DVBIC Site Director at Wilford Hall Medical Center (WHMC) and Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC), now combined as the San Antonio Military Medical Center (SAMMC).
In her new role as National Director (effective 1 July 2010), COL Grimes is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the organization’s mission: to serve active-duty military and veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) through state-of-the-art medical care and care coordination, and innovative clinical research initiatives and educational programs.
With board certification in Vascular Neurology, Neurology, and Psychiatry, COL Grimes has the background to continue DVBIC’s leadership with integrated multidisciplinary approaches to care. COL Grimes has been a staff neurologist at BAMC since 2000 and has been serving as deputy chair of Neurology at SAMMC.
In 2004 COL Grimes served a nine month tour of duty as a member of 359th Neurosurgical Team in Baghdad, Iraq during the period of highest neurotrauma patients in the past 7 years including both major battles in Fallujah. There, she quickly became “one of the busiest members of the medical team” according to COL Rocco Armonda, Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery & Interventional Neuroradiology, National Capital Neurosurgery Consortium, Director Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD.
COL Grimes has held multiple appointments and academic posts including neurology consultant for the Army Office of The Surgeon General (OTSG) and the Great Plains Regional Medical Command, and assistant professor of Neurology at USUHS and at the University of Texas Health Sciences-San Antonio, TX.
COL Grimes received her MD, with honors, from USUHS in 1990 at which time she was commissioned as an Army Captain. Following two years as a general medical officer in Vilseck, Germany, COL Grimes continued her training at NNMC and at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) where she completed residencies in both Psychiatry and in Neurology.
COL Grimes is the fourth individual to serve as DVBIC National Director. She was preceded by Col Michael S Jaffee (2007-2010); Deborah L Warden, MD (2001-2007) and Andres M Salazar, MD (1991-2001).
A Tamara Crowder, PhD
Chief of Staff
Dr Crowder assumed her current position as Chief of Staff for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center March 2009. She is responsible for day to day management and execution of all DVBIC programs within the DVBIC network to include many US Army, Navy, Marine, and Air Force installations throughout the US and at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany as well as two civilian TBI treatment facilities.
Dr Crowder has held a variety of military scientific research and administration management positions throughout her career to include: Research Associate at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, the National Institutes of Health, and Science Department Chair at the Massanutten Military Academy. She has also served as a subject matter expert at military scientific peer and programmatic reviews.
Prior to her current assignment, Dr Crowder served as the Contracting Officer Representative for the Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury and Deployment Related Medical Research Programs at the Medical Research and Material Command, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program. A native of Virginia, Dr Crowder earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Maryland and a Masters Degree in Microbiology and a Doctoral Degree in Neuroscience from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Donald Marion, MD, MSc
Deputy Director, Clinical & Educational Affairs
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Dr Donald Marion is an academic neurosurgeon who has focused on the clinical pathophysiology and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) for more than 25 years. He was among the charter authors of the Brain Trauma Foundation’s Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. He published the first clinical report to show benefit of therapeutic moderate hypothermia for TBI in 1997 (
The New England Journal of Medicine). He is the editor of a book entitled Traumatic Brain Injury, and has authored or co-authored approximately 200 journal articles and book chapters, most related to TBI. Dr Marion’s previous positions have included Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, The Boston University School of Medicine; Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; and Director of the Brain Trauma Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh. He is past Chair of the Joint Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons; past President of the National Association of Injury Control and Research Centers; and past Chair of the Neurosurgery Subsection, the Committee on Trauma, American College of Surgeons. Dr Marion sits on the Editorial Boards of
Neurosurgery,
The Journal of Trauma, and
The Journal of Neurocritical Care. He has served as the Science Officer of the Children’s Neurobiological Solutions Foundation (CNS), Santa Barbara, CA, and managed the Foundation’s stem cell grant portfolio, designed and organized the semiannual young neuroscientists workshops, and contributed to the Foundation’s e-newsletter. He also serves as a regular ad hoc member of the Developmental Brain Disorders NIH Study Section.
Dr Marion completed undergraduate studies at St John’s University, Collegeville, MN in 1975. He then became a Leprosy Control Worker as a Peace Corps Volunteer in South Korea from 1976-1978. He earned his MD degree from the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine in 1982, and completed an internship in general surgery, residency in neurosurgery, and a Masters Degree in Neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1989. From 1989 to 1990 he spent a year at the Medical College of Virginia as a Jacob Javitz Neurotrauma Fellow where he was exposed to clinical and basic science models of neurotrauma research. Following his fellowship he joined the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine where he founded the Brain Trauma Research Center and was Chief of the Neurotrauma Service.
Jay Mansfield, MAS
Director, Division of Informatics
Mr Mansfield comes to the DVBIC HQ after twenty five years of decorated service to the health and well-being of soldiers, sailors and airmen of the United States military. Throughout his career, he significantly advanced military medical surveillance and research by creating and developing innovative information systems which are now in service throughout the world.
Most notably, under the direction of COL Patrick W Kelley, as the Director of Strategic Information Systems for the DoD Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response Systems, Mr Mansfield coined the term “syndromic surveillance” with COL Michael Lewis while developing a pilot surveillance system in the National Capital Area to detect outbreaks of disease.
On September 11th, 2001, at the request of the Surgeon General of the United States Army, Mr Mansfield scaled up COL Lewis’ project by widening the scope to include every US military medical hospital in the world. This system soon became the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) under the direction of COL Julie Pavlin. The system is now deployed throughout the US Military and also in various iterations in health departments for cities, counties, states, territories and countries all over the world including the US Centers for Disease Control.
Prior to his work with ESSENCE, Mr Mansfield directed the research data management department for the US Military HIV Research Program. Under his management, while handling the research data for dozens of clinical and behavioral research protocols and thousands of patient-years of medical data, Mr Mansfield’s group delivered a documented 99.997% data accuracy.
Mr Mansfield earned his Masters Degree in Management and Information Systems from the Johns Hopkins University in 1990 and his Bachelors Degree in Human Physiology from the Southern Illinois University in 1979. He served five years in the US Army at the Institute of Dental Research followed by twenty years of service with the Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine.
Russell Storms, PhD
National Program Manager
Dr Storms has numerous years experience as a proven Army Aviator Warfighter, Uniformed Army Scientist, and Department of Defense (DoD) Acquisition Program Manager. Being both program manager and scientist, Dr Storms maximizes depth and breadth of materials, engineering, and technology development by successfully coordinating the multifaceted integration of research and development from academia, industry, DoD research labs, and DoD acquisition programs.
From 2001 to 2005, as Acting Director and Military Deputy Director of the US Army Low Observable Technology and Applications Office, Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, MD, Dr Storms spearheaded and continuously defended the technical, security and acquisition challenges regarding emerging low observable technology development and systems integration. He has conducted extensive research and development of high-risk, high-payoff advanced visual, radio frequency, infrared and acoustic signature management technologies for military ground systems, aviation manned and unmanned systems, and individual soldier systems.
From 1998 to 2000, Dr Storms served as a uniformed Army Scientist with the Software Technology Branch, Army Research Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. In this capacity, he performed research, development, and analysis work to advance the state-of-the-art in the implementation of near real-time battlefield simulations, and provided invaluable military expertise and sound modeling, simulation, and virtual environment technical advice to the Advanced Displays Architectures Consortium of the Army Research Laboratory’s Federated Laboratory. He also managed and successfully completed the internet website upgrade to the National Science Center making it a standout among educational websites.
In 1998, Dr Storms received a PhD in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA where he had previously earned his master’s degree in 1995. After graduating from the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY with a BS in Computer Science in 1986, he was subsequently commission a Second Lieutenant in the US Army and entered the Army’s Aviation Branch, and completed helicopter flight school at Fort Rucker, AL and was rated in the TH-55, UH-1, UH-60, and OH-58A/C Army Helicopters. Since his retirement from the Army, Dr Storms has been a consultant with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and an associate with Booz Allen Hamilton, and is now a contractor with Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine.
Col Michael S Jaffee, MD, MC, USAF, FS
Past National Director, (2007-2010)
Col Jaffee came to DVBIC HQ after serving as the Neurology Program Director at Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base, TX and as the DVBIC San Antonio Site Director. He currently serves as the USAF Surgeon General Neurology Consultant. He is board-certified in both Neurology and Psychiatry. He also serves as the Department of Defense (DoD) liaison to two White House appointed panels of the Defense Health Board.
Col Jaffee has served as an Aerospace Neurology Consultant at the Aerospace Consultation Service/United States Air Force (USAF) School of Aerospace Medicine and has served as the USAF Psychiatry Consultant on security clearance issues. He has academic appointments as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio, TX as well as holding the position of Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD.
Col Jaffee holds an MD degree from University of Virginia School of Medicine and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania as well as BS in Economics from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. He completed residency training at Wilford Hall Medical Center where he was selected as chief resident for both the departments of Neurology and Psychiatry.
During his deployment in Balad AB, Iraq, Col Jaffee was the Chief of Medical Staff (SGH) at the Air Force Theater Hospital with the 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group.
He has been the recipient of several honors and awards including the only DoD physician selected as a William Webb fellow by the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine for excellence in advancing the understanding of the mind-body interface. He has been involved in extensive research in the area of Traumatic Brain Injury and is the author of many articles and papers. He serves on many selected federal panels and review boards. He has been an invited speaker of many national and international conferences as well as to the Institute of Medicine. He has received citations from the US Surgeon General and the Iraqi Surgeon General. He has received commendations from four cabinet level departments as well as the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force. He was selected as the active-duty US delegate to NATO for international coordination of TBI initiatives.