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WARNER J ANDERSON Warner J Anderson is a physician, anthropologist, and former soldier. He is currently medical director of JICGlobal, LLC. Until his separation from US Government service, Anderson was the Defense Department's top expert on health development and health diplomacy. Anderson retired from the US Army Special Forces in 2007 as a medical officer and colonel. A Special Forces qualified physician and expert in special operations and military medicine, Anderson was decorated with a Bronze Star Medal with Valor device for actions under enemy fire, a Purple Heart Medal for two gunshot wounds, and two Bronze Stars awarded for distinguished service in a combat theater. He was awarded a Legion of Merit for career service, and numerous other medals. Anderson was central in the post-911 redesign and modernization of the US military's Special Operations Forces medic curriculum, teaching medics and corpmen from the Army's Special Forces, Rangers, Civil Affairs and Special Operations Aviation; navy SEALs and Marine Reconnaisance Corpsmen, and US Air Force Pararescue. Anderson introduced many new concepts, principles, and techniques in trauma care that ultimately saved many lives in combat and other trauma scenarios. Anderson served two combat tours in Iraq: in 2003 with Civil Affirs where he was chief of preventive medicine for the Coalition Provisional Authority; and in 2006 as senior medical officer for the Iraqi Special Forces (ISOF) and the Iraqi Counterterrorist Forces (ICTF). He subsequently made two other visits to Iraq as a civilian expert,and two to Afghanistan. He also provided two expert tours in Mongolia in emergency medical services, and one each in Thailand, and Honduras for Hurricane Mitch relief. He is a qualified flight surgeon and hyperbaric medical officer, and holds the Combat Action Badge as well as Parachutist Badge and Special Forces Tab. Anderson's civilian medical and anthropology career culminated as chief of emergency medicine at Gallup Indian Medical Center, the nation's largest health care facility dedicated to care of Native Americans. An expert in cross-cultural communications, Anderson helped establish GIMC as the premier culturally-competent health care organization in the Navajo area. In this role, Anderson saw the first case of Hantavirus in the Southwest and recognized it was an unusual presentation, helping to lead to the discovery of this catastrophic pathogen. Anderson also served as emergency medical services director for McKinley County and the City of Gallup, New mexico, and served on the State of New Mexico EMS Board.