About CHE
Purpose
The purpose of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences' (USUHS) continuing education program is to provide innovative, quality health professional continuing education (CE) for health care professionals within the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and other allied federal agencies that facilitates professional development, life-long learning, and improved patient care. As befitting USU's motto, "Learning to Care for Those in Harm's Way," activities offered by USUHS are unique in that the overriding mission is to maintain an enhanced manpower readiness of the Uniformed Services' medical departments. The education provided is based on identified gaps in knowledge, competence, performance or patient outcomes.
What is CE?
Continuing education is that part of a professional?s lifelong learning which begins at the conclusion of their formal education and continues throughout their professional life.
Continuing education may be required for continued re-licensure in many states and maintenance of continued status in professional subspecialty organizations.
Who are our customers?
- University Departments
- National Capital Consortium Graduate Medical Education
- Tricare Management Activity/Health Affairs
Personnel
- CAPT Karen Biggs, Senior Executive Director
- Sylvia Scherr, Director
- 1LT Erick Vines, Deputy Director
- Pat Kenney, Supervisory Nurse Educator
- MSgt Mark Jenkins, Activity Manager Supervisor
- Betty Fowler, Activity Manager
- Andrea Wiley, Activity Manager
- Joe Ann Robinson, Activity Manager
- 2LT Brian Rimm, Activity Manager
- Deana Rundel, Nurse Educator
- Gwen Morris, Administrative Officer
- Anne Hufman, Program Analyst
- Kemi Omotoymbo, System Automation Assistant
- Johnnie Brown, Instructional Systems Specialist
Education Committee
- Galen Barbour - MD, (FACHE, FACP)
- COL (Ret) Charles Beadling - MD, FAAFP, IDHA, DMCC
- CAPT Karen Biggs - RN
- William Campbell - MD
- Janis Carlton - MD, PhD
- CAPT Gerald Denton - MD, MPH, FACP
- LT Jeffrey Goodie - PhD
- William Haffner - MDr
- Lt Col Paul Hoerner - BSC, PharmD
- Elyse Kaplan - Psy.D
- Heidi B. King - MS
- Athanassios Kosmopoulos - LICSW
- COL John Kugler - MD
- Rebecca Luria - MD
- CDR David Markell - CRNA
- Eric S. Marks - MD
- COL Catherine Nace - MD
- John Newby - PhD in SW
- Louis Pangaro - MD
- Merrily Poth - MDh
- Lorraine Shapeero - MD
- COL Cynthia Shields - MD
- Donna M. Waechter - PhD
- David Welling - MD
- LTC Jeffrey S. Yarvis - Ph.D
- Col Christopher Zahn - MD
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Contact Information
4301 Jones Bridge Road,
Bldg E, CHE
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
Second Floor, Room 2017
Voice: Comm (301) 295-0962
DSN 295-0962
Toll Free: 1-800-772-1728
continuingeducation@usuhs.mil

