Author: Dale C. Smith

Stephen C. Craig, FRCP, DO, has, during his twenty-six year military career, served as a flight surgeon with deployed conventional and special operations forces, as chief of preventive medicine at Fort Bragg and West Point, as an epidemiologist at the United States Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (USACHPPM), and as Deputy Chief of Staff for Clinical Operations, 30th Medical Brigade, Heidelberg, Germany. He then served for ten years on the History Faculty of the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland, and authored two books on military medical history. He is currently pursuing research on John Pringle in Scotland.Dale C. Smith, PhD, is Professor of Military Medicine and History in the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine at F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), Bethesda, Maryland. From 2006 until 2013, he served as the Senior Vice President of the USU. His professional interests include the history of medical education, the history of infectious diseases, the history of surgery, and the problems of patient evacuation in military operations.