Maj. Gen. Jeffrey B. Clark, M.D., MPH, MSS, FAAP, USA (Ret), was born in LaGrange, N.C., and attended Davidson College and East Carolina University School of Medicine. During his 35 years of service, he served as a family medicine physician with teams in both garrison and operational assignments and as commander at the clinic, hospital, academic medical center, and geographic regional levels. He also served as COO and CMO at the enterprise level.

During the last decade of his military career, he served as commander, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center; commander, Europe Regional Medical Command; director, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center; director, National Capitol Region Multi-Service Market; J3, director of Health Care Operations, CMO, and MHS GENESIS Functional Champion, Defense Health Agency; and deputy commanding general for Operations and Chief of the Medical Corps, Army Medical Command.

He currently serves in semi-retirement as a Defense Health Agency senior mentor advisor, Army Medicine executive consultant, and as medical director, Semper Fi & America’s Fund; as well as on the nonprofit boards of WarDocs: The Military Medicine Podcast, the American College of Nurse Midwives, and the Uniformed Services Academy of Family Physicians Foundation.