Kevin Riley is the Deputy Director for the Center for Disaster & Humanitarian Assistance Medicine (CDHAM), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is responsible for developing, managing, and coordinating monitoring and evaluation efforts for a variety of projects within select Regional Combatant Commands in the areas of disaster preparedness/response, public and environmental health, and civil-military operations. He also supervises the oversight of student education programs that includes medical student electives, MPH Practicum programs, and Resident electives in disaster preparedness and complex humanitarian emergencies. He is co-director for the University’s graduate Weapons of Mass Destruction course and manages a congressional online WMD response program for federal medical personnel.
Kevin retired from the U.S. Air Force after 26 years with experience in health service, humanitarian assistance, and contingency operations planning. He has held leadership positions in the field, in academia, and at the strategic level culminating with an assignment as the Chief of Special Operation Forces medical education for U.S. Special Operations Command. He has traveled extensively throughout the United States and to over 45 nations worldwide, He has coordinated and executed over 75 humanitarian assistance missions and served in major contingency operations in Panama, Haiti, Kosovo and Iraq. His last assignment was as the Command Surgeon for the Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Kevin is a graduate of Fordham University, New York and the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He also received graduate degrees from Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri in International Relations and Management. He has also received specialized post-graduate education and training in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) methods and practices, and is a member in good standing with the American Evaluation Association. He is board certified in emergency management from the International Association of Emergency Managers.
Kevin is on the faculty of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, as an Assistant Professor of Military Medicine and is an editorial consultant for the peer reviewed Journal of Special Operations Medicine. He has received extensive training and experience in the areas of contingency operations, force employment; humanitarian assistance; disaster preparedness/response; management practices; and leadership and is a proud recipient of the U.S. Army Order of Military Medical Merit for his contributions to those fields.
