Please join us at the next SCAPA General Membership Meeting on Thurs. March 27, 2014 at 7:00 PM at the Hiller Museum.
We are very pleased to announce that Col. Dean Winslow, M.D., will give a presentation on “To Bagram Airfield and Baghdad and back again.” In this talk he will review the history of America’s global war on terrorism, combat action in Afghanistan and Iraq, and how the military medical system provides care for our troops. In addition to being a flight surgeon in the Air National Guard, Dr. Winslow is a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Stanford University. He holds an Airline Transport Pilot license and type ratings in the Boeing 737 and Douglas DC-3.
The Airports Manager and the San Carlos Tower Air Traffic Manager will update us on issues at the airport and we will deal with several business items including election of Board members.
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Dr. Winslow’s biography follows.
Dean Winslow, MD is a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford University. He has been a member of the Stanford faculty since 1998 and served from 2003-2008 as Co-Director of Stanford University’s Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program. He grew up in Dover, Delaware, attended Penn State as an undergraduate (where he ran varsity track and cross-country) and Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.
Dr. Winslow completed his internal medicine training at Medical Center of Delaware and infectious disease fellowship training at Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans. He was in private practice in Wilmington, Delaware where he started the state’s first multidisciplinary clinic for HIV patients in 1985. In 1988 he joined the DuPont Pharmaceutical Company where he worked both as a bench scientist on HIV drug resistance then later designed the clinical trials eventually leading to the FDA approval of Sustiva (efavirenz).
In 1996 Dr. Winslow joined Agouron Pharmaceuticals where he helped direct clinical trials of Viracept (nelfinavir) and formed the Medical Affairs group responsible for post-marketing studies, medical information, and drug safety. In 1999 he became Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Clinical Research at Visible Genetics Inc. His group was responsible for the FDA clearance of the first pharmacogenomics diagnostic device, the TRUGENE HIV-1 drug resistance test in 2001. Dean joined the staff at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in November 2003, where he served as Chief of the Division of AIDS Medicine from 2003-2012 and finally as Chair of the Department of Medicine from 2011-2013, the largest academic and clinical department at VMC with 185 faculty members and 75 interns and residents.
Dean is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America. He is the author of 62 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and 92 presentations at national and international meetings. He currently serves on the Standards and Practice Guidelines Committee of the IDSA and is on the editorial board of the journal AIDS.
His professional interests at present are focused on patient care and clinical teaching and serving as a mentor for residents and infectious disease fellows who are interested in pursuing careers as academic clinician/educators. He is a flight surgeon in the Air National Guard and was deployed to the Middle East six times from 2003-2011 as a flight surgeon supporting combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In September 2005 Dean coordinated military public health and force protection in Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In 2006 Dean served as an ER physician at the United States Air Force 447th EMEDS (combat hospital) in Baghdad and in 2008 served as hospital commander of the same unit during the surge. In 2009 Dean was selected to serve as a physician for several weeks in Antarctica supporting the National Science Foundation.
Colonel Winslow’s military decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, 3 Air Medals, 4 Aerial Achievement Medals, Air Force Combat Action Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal with 3 oak leaf clusters, Southwest Asia Service Medal with bronze star, Afghanistan Campaign Medal with 2 bronze stars, Iraq Campaign Medal with 4 bronze stars, and small arms expert ribbon (M-16 rifle and M-9 pistol).
Since 2006 Dr.Winslow has arranged medical care, transportation and housing in the U.S. for 20 Iraqi children and adults who have complicated medical conditions for which surgical care is not currently available in Iraq.
Dean has three children (one still at home). Personal interests include running, hiking, road biking, and flying. He holds an Airline Transport Pilot license and type ratings in the Boeing 737 and Douglas DC-3.
