COL Edward Eitzen
Commander
Colonel Edward M. Eitzen, Jr., is a native of
Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from Auburn University in 1975 as an ROTC Distinguished
Military Graduate and with honors from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in
Birmingham in 1979. He completed residency training in Pediatrics at Fitzsimons Army
Medical Center from 1979 through 1982. His first assignment after training was as Chief of
Pediatrics at the 121st Evacuation Hospital in Seoul, Korea, from 1982 to 1983. Since that time, Colonel Eitzen has taught Pediatric and Emergency
Medicine residents at Brooke Army Medical Center and Madigan Army Medical Center,
completed a Master of Public Health degree at the University of Washington in Seattle, and
completed a Preventive Medicine residency at Madigan Army Medical Center. He served in
Operation Desert Storm as the DCCS and Surgeon of the 62nd Medical Group, 18th Airborne
Corps before coming to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
(USAMRIID). Most recently, Colonel Eitzen served as Chief of Operational Medicine, a
division he established at USAMRIID in 1991.
Colonel Eitzen is board-certified in Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, and Preventive
Medicine, and is subspecialty board-certified in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and in
Tropical Medicine and Traveler's Health. Colonel Eitzen holds the Bronze Star Medal for
his service in the Gulf War, the Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters,
the Army Commendation Medal, and the Army Achievement Medal. He is a member of the Order
of Military Medical Merit and a recipient of the Army's "A" Proficiency
Designator in Pediatrics.
Colonel Eitzen has served on several national committees, working groups, and task forces
for both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Emergency
Physicians. He has appeared as a speaker and consultant at numerous medical, professional
and government conferences, and has published extensively on the medical effects of
biological agents and the management of biological casualties. He also maintains clinical
appointments in Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine and Preventive Medicine at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center. Colonel Eitzen holds a dual appointment as Adjunct Associate Clinical
Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of
Health Sciences. In 1998 he was selected as one of ten finalists for the Frank Brown Berry
Prize in Federal Medicine awarded by U.S. Medicine.
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The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious
Diseases (USAMRIID) conducts research to develop strategies, products, information,
procedures, and training programs for medical defense against biological warfare threats
and naturally occurring infectious diseases that require special containment. USAMRIID, an
organization of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), is the lead
medical research laboratory for the U.S. Biological Defense Research Program. The
Institute plays a key role in national defense and in infectious disease research as the
largest biocontainment laboratory in the Department of Defense (DOD) for the study of
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The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of
Infectious Diseases is located at Ft. Detrick, in the foothills of western Maryland's
Catoctin Mountains. Frederick, the community that surrounds Fort Detrick, has proudly
preserved its German immigrant heritage along with many landmarks of the American
Revolution and the Civil War. The valley, immortalized by poet John Greenleaf Whittier
when he wrote of "the clustered spires of Frederick,... green-walled by the hills of
Maryland," is still quiet and semirural. Residents can choose lifestyles combining
countryside tranquility with the culture and educational opportunities of nearby
Washington and Baltimore.
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