Dr. Christian Macedonia, MD FACOG is a US Army surgeon currently
serving as the Chief of Research Operations at the Telemedicine and
Advanced Technologies Research Center located on the campus of Fort
Detrick, Maryland. Dr Macedonia graduated with a chemistry degree
from Bucknell University in 1985 and then served as an ambulance
platoon leader in Goeppingen Germany for three years with the First
Infantry Division. Upon returning to the US Dr Macedonia attended
medical school at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda
Maryland graduating in 1992. Dr Macedonia completed ob/gyn residency
in 1996 and followed this training with a three year fellowship at
Georgetown University and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in
the advanced subspecialty of maternal-fetal medicine. It was through
his training in telemedicine at the NIH Center for Information
Technology that Dr Macedonia was introduced to a number of advanced
technology projects dealing with medical care in remote and hostile
environments. He became the medical primary investigator on Project
MUSTPAC; a portable 3D ultrasound system that worked over satellite
networks. This DARPA funded program became the functional model for
networked 3D ultrasound systems used worldwide today. For this work
he and his engineering partner were presented with the Discover
Magazine Award for Science and Technology. Dr Macedonia continued
with telemedicine research far beyond 3D ultrasound. He served as a
climb doctor and scientist on the NASA sponsored Everest Extreme
Expeditions 1998 and 1999. As a fellow of the Explorer's Club
Lieutenant Colonel Macedonia has traveled the globe on a diverse
series of research and educational missions including diving in a
Mir submersible 12,800 ft to the ocean floor to the wreck of the RMS
Titanic. Dr Macedonia is an internationally recognized expert of
fetal behavioral ultrasound pioneering the use of functional
ultrasonic imaging for this purpose. Dr Macedonia served as the
Medical Director for Women's and Children's Health at the National
Naval Medical Center in Bethesda before deploying to Iraq in late
2004. LTC Macedonia served for a year as the deputy commander (and
Chief of the Clinical Staff) of the 115th Combat Support Hospital in
Iraq's Anbar province where he was awarded the Bronze Star. Recently
Dr Macedonia was made a recipient of the Heroes of TRICARE award
given to the Department of Defense's most outstanding health
professionals. Dr Macedonia is an Associate Professor at Uniformed
Services University where he remains active in ob/gyn, military and
emergency medicine, and medical ethics instruction.
