Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Jonathan Woodson, MD, MSS, FACS

Dr. Woodson is president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He is responsible for the education and leadership development of more than 2,500 students enrolled throughout the university’s four schools and colleges. He also oversees the university’s vast military-relevant research portfolio, including its 20 research centers of excellence.

Dr. Woodson is the former US assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, and former Lars Anderson Professor in Management and professor of the practice at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Dr. Woodson spent more than 36 years as a member of the Army Reserve, having retired in 2022 as a Major General and as the commander of the US Army Reserve Medical Command.

Dr. Woodson is a graduate of the City College of New York and the New York University School of Medicine. He received his postgraduate medical education at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and completed residency training in internal medicine, as well as general and vascular surgery. He is board-certified in internal medicine, general surgery, vascular surgery, and critical care surgery. He also holds a master’s degree in strategic studies (concentration in strategic leadership) from the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. In 1992, he was awarded a research fellowship at the Association of American Medical Colleges Health Services Research Institute; in 2023, he was awarded the ACS Distinguished Lifetime Military Contribution Award.