Colonel Brian M. Rees, MD, Command Surgeon, 63rd Regional Support Command has 34 years of commissioned military service. Dr. Rees received his medical degree and masters degree in public health from Tulane University. He is the former commander of the 349th

Combat Support Hospital in CA. In 2004, Dr. Rees was called to active duty and deployed to Landstuhl Medical Center, Germany. In 2005, he served in Afghanistan as Brigade Surgeon for Task Force Guardian and as Chief Medical Officer for the Bagram Theater Internment Facility (home of Taliban and al-Qaeda detainees). In 2006, he headed outpatient medicine for the detainees at Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq. In 2007, Col. Rees was Battalion Surgeon for the 310th Military Police Battalion at Camp Bucca, Iraq. In 2010 he was again deployed to Afghanistan.

David Bolton is founder and clinical director of Triad Behavioral Resources in Greensboro, a referral resource for the National Guard in Greensboro.  He specializes in working with depression and mood disorders, traumatic stress, and addictions, and is principal investigator for Operation Warrior Wellness research in Greensboro, NC.

Veita Bland is the founder of the Bland Clinic in Greensboro. She is a specialist in clinical hypertension. Dr. Bland is also the host of a medical magazine radio show and writes a weekly newspaper column. She received her MD from Temple University School of Medicine.

Sarina Grosswald is a researcher for the NIH-funded Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention, and studies the effects of the TM^® practice on post-traumatic stress (PTS). She has a doctorate from George Washington University in adult learning, and co-directed a study on the TM program and PTS published in Military Medicine in June 2011.

Diane Callan is the founder of Wellness for Warriors (http://www.meetup.com/Wellness-for-Warriors-Triangle), which coordinates workshops and resources for military family support groups. Ongoing cooperative efforts include Yellow Ribbon Reintegration events, NCNG Family Readiness programming, Military and Veterans Resource Council, Red Cross, Defense Centers of Excellence, Duke Behavioral Health, and USO-NC.

Leopold Campbell is a hospitalist in Greensboro, caring for seriously ill, hospitalized patients. He graduated from the UWI Medical School, in Jamaica, and completed an Internal Medicine residency at Howard University Hospital, Washington D.C.  Dr. Campbell has written extensively on stress, and healthy lifestyles.