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Colonel (Retired) Stuart Tyner, Ph.D., is a scientist and leader in the field of infectious diseases research and military medicine. Throughout his 22-year military career, Dr. Tyner served in various leadership positions, including Director of the Defense Health Agency Infectious Diseases Portfolio and Director of the Military Infectious Diseases Research Program. He also served as Chief Science Officer at the US Army Institute of Surgical Research and the Chief of Staff at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. In culmination of his service, Dr. Tyner was appointed as the lead policy advisor to the U.S. Army Surgeon General in microbiology.

Dr. Tyner previously served as the Dept. of Defense’s Ex Officio Member of the NIAID Steering Committee and led the Infectious Diseases Portfolio for the Dept. of Defense’s Biomedical Community of Interest. Dr. Tyner holds an active faculty appointment at USUHS. Dr. Tyner has two undergraduate degrees from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from Baylor College of Medicine. He was a National Cancer Institute Fellow at the National Institutes of Health and completed a Master’s in Strategic Studies at the US Army Senior Service College (Army War College).