EMERALD HONORS WINNERS
from third-year students of the Uniformed Services University at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii, the 2002 James W. Bass Teaching Award for Outstanding Faculty Educator, the 2005 Army Superior Unit Award for Outstanding Fellow in Adoles- cent Medicine, and recently a 2009 Navy Medicine Award as the No. 2 Pediatrician. His talks at the National Medical Associa- tion conferences and at the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine aid in the recruitment and retention of trained, skilled and certified minority professionals in military medicine, which is faced with an increasing incidence of multiple deployments, PTSD, traumatic brain injury, as well as other mental and behav- ioral health disorders. Hutchinson’s leadership has set in motion research and development efforts that will forever change how healthcare providers in federal and civilian healthcare systems are educated and trained to interact and deliver patient care to those whose health has been disproportionately impacted by war and service. He has sought to better serve this population through a bilingual survey of parents and patients in San Antonio, Texas, and by engaging the Centers for Disease Control to update their annual survey on mental and behavioral health disorders to incor- porate questions about military service. During the base realign- ment and consolidation (BRAC), Hutchinson led the consolida- tion of services to more than 70,000 teens in a unique group that deals with multiple deployment/frequent moves and changing peer groups. The new Adolescent Medicine Service integrates services at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Naval Medical Center. Hutchinson graduated form West Point in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science degree and earned his M.D. from the University of California at San Francisco in 1993. He completed both his internship and residency at the Tripler Army Medical Center in 1994 and 1996 and was an Adolescent Medicine Fellow at Brooke Army Medical center in San Antonio, Texas, between 2002 and 2005. He was certified by the Adolescent Medicine Board in 2008. Hutchinson was made a second lieutenant in 1989, a captain in 1993, a major in 1999, a lieutenant colonel in 2005 and a colonel in 2011. He is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Society of Adolescent Medicine, and the National Medical Association.
Most Promising Scientist
Alejandro R. Diaz Colonel, United States Army System Engineer 4, Commercial Crew Development Program
The Boeing Company
is constantly looking out for challenges as the world moves into a space age when humans will settle on the Moon and Mars. Diaz is as passionate about advancing human space ventures
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he sky isn’t the limit for Peruvian-born Alejandro Diaz. He
and the technologies that enable it as he is about promoting the technology development and inspiring a diverse generation of technical leaders. Diaz started at Boeing as an intern in the sum- mer of 1997 while completing his bachelor’s degree in Aero- space Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, which he earned in 1998. Within the first four years at Boeing, he earned a master’s in aerospace engineering at the University of Southern California in 2001, producing some creative and thought-provoking ideas regarding space suit design and space- walk activity for lunar and Mars exploration. In 2002, Diaz was selected as a Boeing participant in the Graduate Space Studies program at the International Space University (ISU) Summer Session Program, which immersed more than 100 young profes- sionals from all over the world in nine weeks of intensive training in all aspects of space flight. While at ISU, Diaz played a key role in an associated research for health improvements through space technologies and resources. Diaz has further explored the health application for malaria prevention in Peru, his native country. In 2004, Diaz earned a Master of Arts Degree in Latin American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, with an emphasis in Space Technology Utilization in South America. The same year, he was selected as the Boeing member of the Mars Desert Research Station, where he commanded a six-member team in a 15-day simulation of a human mission of Martian sur- face, including operations from a silo-shaped habitat in the Utah desert. Diaz was selected again in 2007 by NASA to take part in the Spaceward Bound Program, which enables crew members to take part in two-week long immersion full-scale simulation of living and working on Mars. Between 2004-2006, he led efforts to integrate space suits, as well as spacewalk and survival crew equipment design into Boeing’s pursuit of the Crew Exploration Vehicle Request for Proposal effort issued by NASA. Diaz has continued his involvement in research on human interplanetary missions and was a member of the Crew Explo- ration Vehicle team working on major hardware development for the President’s Space Exploration Initiative. In recent years, Diaz also successfully supported the Global Positioning System. In the years following, he earned his Master of Space Studies degree at the University of Dakota in 2009 and joined Advanced Constellation and Technologies supporting the Commercial Crew Development Program. The CCDev project is extremely important to the advancement of commercial space and enabling a new era of human exploration of space. In this capacity, Diaz leads the systems engineering effort for the Landing System. His efforts during Phase 1 helped to increase landing system levels and deliver products to NASA. In April 2011, NASA selected Boeing for CCDev Phase 2 for the continued development of the CST-100 spacecraft and Diaz supports both Landing Sys- tem flight development and demonstration. He is also currently working on a Ph.D. in Astronautical Engineering at the Univer- sity of Southern California to continue his involvement in future human space research and planning. Diaz’s innovative research is into the difficult problem of accessing the intravenous lines of an astronaut while he/she is in a spacesuit. Diaz will graduate in Spring 2012. Once approved, his project will test his medical spacesuit prototype device on human subjects. For more than 12 years, his interest and energies have been focused on learning
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