Elizabeth K. Powell, MD
Assistant Professor
Emergency Medicine and Surgery

Colonel Bruce Andrew Lynch, MD
Director, C-STARS Baltimore

Col Bruce Lynch is the Director of the Air Force Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills-Baltimore, US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, 711 Human Performance Wing, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He directs the largest Military-Civilian medical partnership in the Air Force.  He and his staff of 35 active-duty members and civilians are responsible for the pre-deployment medical training of over 500 airmen annually.

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Jody Cantu, PhD
AFRL ERC PAL

Samuel M. Galvagno Jr., D.O., Ph.D., M.S., M.B.A., F.C.C.M.
Professor, Interim Chair of Anesthesia
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Dr. Galvagno's research goal is to coordinate, develop, and lead efforts to advance the science of critical care, combining regional applications with a global perspective, through the cultivation of a versatile and robust research methodology. He has secondary interests in patient monitoring, resuscitation, safety & quality improvement in the intensive care unit, and medical education. He has authored over 120 peer-reviewed papers and has authored several textbooks and textbook chapters. He has received funding from the NIH and DoD.

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Vincent DeMario, MHS
Baltimore Medical Research Site Lead
En Route Care Section
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

Mr. DeMario serves as the Medical Research Site Lead at the University of Maryland at Baltimore (UMB) for the En Route Care Section of the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and supports various efforts across UMB. His research interests focus on blood product utilization, trauma resuscitation and operations, and patient-centered outcomes research. Prior to joining AFRL, Mr. DeMario has held research roles with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; the University of Maryland at Baltimore; and, most recently, Brigham & Women’s Hospital (Boston, MA), where he worked as a Senior Project Manager. Mr. DeMario earned a Master of Health Science (MHS) in Health Economics & Outcomes Research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2019) and has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed papers and abstract presentations.

Piersson Hoenisch
Laboratory Manager

Piersson Hoenisch serves as the laboratory manager in the ARC3 Lab. Prior to joining ARC3, Mr. Hoenisch conducted research at both Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., and UT Southwestern Medical Center. His research interests include using animal models to address life-threatening cardiac and endocrinology cases, as well as pediatric neuro-oncology. His work focused on utilizing novel murine models with varied Nf1 knockout backgrounds to investigate treatments for rare pediatric cancers affecting the central and peripheral nervous systems. Mr. Hoenisch has presented his findings at several conferences, including the Society of Chinese Bioscientists of America. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physiology and Neurobiology from the University of Maryland, College Park (2023).