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Curriculum vitae for Frank K. Butler, Jr. M.D.
FRANK K. BUTLER, JR.
Captain, Medical Corps, U. S. Navy (Retired)
Curriculum Vitae
July 2012
Current Positions
Chairman – DoD Committee on Tactical
Combat Casualty Care
2007 – Present
Head – Prehospital Care Branch – DoD
Joint Trauma System
Defense Health
Board Trauma and Injury Subcommittee 2007
- Present
Co-Chairman – Undersea and Hyperbaric
Medical Society Committee on
Treatment of Decompression
Sickness and Arterial Gas Embolism
2008 - Present
President – DSO Medical Consultants,
LLC 2006
- Present
President – TimeCuffs, LLC 2008
- Present
Editor – Prehospital Trauma Life
Support Manual – Seventh Edition
(Military Version)
Ophthalmology Consultant - Diver’s
Alert Network 1995
- present
Staff
Ophthalmologist – Naval Hospital Pensacola
1989 - Present
Previous Positions:
Medical Consultant
– Navy Medical Lessons Learned Center 2006-2008
Command Surgeon –
United States Special Operations Command
2004-2006
Editor – Journal of Special Operations
Medicine 2004-2006
Chairman – USSOCOM Biomedical
Initiatives Steering Committee
2004-2006 and 1996-1998
Joint Task Force Five Surgeon –
Afghanistan January–April 2003
Biomedical Research Director - Naval
Special Warfare Command
1990-2004
Chief of
Ophthalmology, Naval Hospital Pensacola
1989-1994
Navy Experimental Diving Unit - Diving
Medical Research Officer
1981-1986
SEAL Team One - Platoon Commander;
Nuclear Weapons Safety Officer
1974-75
Underwater Demolition Team Twelve -
Platoon Commander
1972-73
Basic Underwater
Demolition/SEAL Training
1971-72
Awards and Honors
The
U.S. Special Operations Command Medal – presented by Admiral
William
McRaven, USSOCOM Commander on 23 May 2012 for
outstanding and
enduring achievements on behalf of the Special
Operations
community
Academy
of Underwater Arts and Sciences - NOGI Award for Distinguished
Service to Diving
– 2011
Paul S. Auerbach
Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in
Wilderness
Medicine - 2010
Dr.
Norman McSwain Award for Leadership in Prehospital Trauma Life
Support - 2009
Special Operations
Medical Association Saber for Outstanding
Contributions
to Special Operations Medicine - 2008
First
recipient of the TCCC Award for Outstanding contributions to
Tactical
Combat Casualty
Care in 2006 – Now named the “CAPT Frank K.
Butler” award and
presented
annually by the Committee on Tactical
Combat Casualty
Care
Special
Award for Outstanding Contributions to Special Operations
Medicine -
Presented by the Special Operations Medical Association
- 1998
Defense
Superior Service Medal – 2006
Bronze
Star – 2005
Scott
Frame Award - Prehospital Trauma Life Support - 2005
Special
Award for Innovations in Tactical Combat Casualty Care -
U.S. Army Medical
Research & Materiel
Command - 2004
Afghanistan
Expeditionary Medal - 2005
Prehospital
Trauma Life Support Teaching Award - 2004
Global
War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal - 2004
Army
Achievement Medal - 2004
Defense
Meritorious Service Medal - 1998
Legion
of Merit - 1997
Joint
Service Commendation Medal - 1997
Letter
of Commendation for Establishing USSOCOM Biomedical R+D
Program;
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Special Operations Command
-
1996
Meritorious
Service Medal – 1994
Navy
Commendation Medal - 1986
Navy
Achievement Medal - 1984
Patents
Special Timer-Activated Restraint and
Release System - 2011
Education
Ophthalmology Residency
National
Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland: 1986-1989
Chief Resident 1988-1989
Undersea Medical Officer Training
Navy
Undersea
Medical Institute, Groton, CT: 1981
Internship (Family Practice)
Navy
Regional Medical Center, Jacksonville, FL:
1980-1981
Medical College of
Georgia
M.D.
1980
Alpha
Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society (President)
Georgia Institute
of Technology 1967-1971
B.S. Industrial Management 1971 (Magna Cum
Laude)
Intercollegiate Basketball
Phi
Eta Sigma Academic Honorary Society (Vice President)
Phi
Kappa Phi Academic Honorary Society
Omicron Delta Kappa Senior Honorary Society
Academic Affiliations
Adjunct Associate Professor of
Military and Emergency Medicine
F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine
Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences
2003-Present
Scientific Reviewer
Journal of Special Operations Medicine
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine
Survey of Ophthalmology
Wilderness and Environmental Medicine
Medicine and Science in Sports and
Exercise
Journal of Trauma
Professional Affiliations
Fellow of the American Academy of
Ophthalmology
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical
Society
Special Operations Medical Association
Association of Military Surgeons of
the United States
Wilderness Medical Society
Committees and Boards
Member – DoD Hemostatics and
Resuscitation Research Steering
Committee
2010- Present
Member - Committee on Tactical Combat
Casualty Care
2002-Present
Board of Directors – Undersea and
Hyperbaric Medical Society
2007-2010
Advisory Board –
VetConnect America
2006 - 2008
NOAA Diving
Medical Review Board
2007 – 2009
Wilderness Medical
Society Board of Directors
2002 - 2005
Program Planning Committee – 10th
Underwater and Hyperbaric
Physiology
Symposium – La Jolla, CA
July 2002
Member - Chief of Naval Operations
(N-873) Deep Submergence
Biomedical
Research Program Technical Advisory Board
2000 - 2003
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical
Society Committee for
Adjunctive Therapy
in the Treatment of Decompression Illness
1998 - Present
Program Committee - Annual meeting of
the Wilderness Medical Society;
Lake Placid,
NY July 1998
Naval Special
Warfare Command Representative - U.S. Special
Operations Command
Biomedical Initiatives Steering
Committee 1994
- 2004
Special Operations Medical Association
Board of Directors 1994 -1996
Publications
(See Attached Sheet)
Community Activities
Naval Special Warfare Endowment
Society
SEAL Legacy
Foundation
Eucharistic Minister - Saint Paul
Catholic Church 1997
- 2004
Pensacola Catholic High School
Development Council
1995 - 1998
Coach, St. Paul's Junior Girl's
Basketball Team 1993
St. Paul's
Catholic School Sports Association 1990
-1992
Social Affiliations
UDT/SEAL Association Lifetime Member
Hibernian Society of Savannah, GA.
Medical Licensure
Florida 1982
- Present
Publications
1. Butler FK and
Thalmann ED. Report of An Isolated Mid-Frequency Hearing Loss
Following Inner
Ear Barotrauma. Undersea
Biomedical
Research 10(2):131-134; June, 1983
2. Butler FK and
Thalmann ED. Central Nervous System Oxygen Toxicity in Closed-Circuit
SCUBA Divers. Proceedings
of the Eighth International
Symposium on Underwater Physiology; Bachrach AJ and
Matzen MM Ed.;
15-30; 1981
3. Thalmann ED and
Butler FK. A
Procedure for Doing
Multiple Level Dives
on Air Using
Repetitive Groups. Navy Experimental Diving Unit Report
13-83; December,
1983
4. Thalmann ED,
Zumrick JL, Schwartz HJC, and Butler FK.
Accommodation to
Decompression Sickness in He02 Divers.
Program
and Abstracts of
The Undersea Medical Society Annual Scientific
Meeting, Undersea
Biomedical Research 11 (1), Supplement, March
1984
5. Butler FK and
Thalmann ED. Purge
Prodecures For the
Draeger LAR
V Closed Circuit
UBA. Navy
Experimental Diving Unit Report
5-84;
March, 1984
6. Butler FK and
Thalmann ED. Establishment
of New
Exposure Limits
For U.S. Navy
Closed-Circuit Oxygen SCUBA Divers.
Programs and
Abstracts of the
Undersea Medical Society Annual Scientific Meeting,
Undersea
Biomedical Research 12(1), Supplement, March 1985
7. Butler FK. Closed-Circuit
Oxygen Diving. Navy
Experimental Diving
Unit Report 7-85;
May, 1985
8. Butler FK and
Knafelc ME. Screening
for Oxygen
Intolerance in
U.S. Navy
Divers. Undersea
Biomedical Research
13(1); 91-98; March,
1986
9. Butler FK and
Thalmann ED. Central
Nervous System
Oxygen
Toxicity in
Closed-Circuit SCUBA Divers II.
Undersea
Biomedical
Research 13(12);
193-224; June 1986
10. Pivinski SE,
Mitchell RA, Goforth GA, Schwartz HJC and
Butler FK. A Blitz of Bends: Decompression
Sickness in Four Students
after Hypobaric
Chamber Training. Aviation,
Space and
Environmental
Medicine 57;
600-602; June 1986
11. Butler
FK. Central
Nervous System Oxygen
Toxicity in Closed-Circuit
SCUBA Divers
III. NEDU Report
5-86, May 1986
12. Butler
FK. Underwater
Purging Procedures for
the Draeger LAR V
Closed-Circuit
UBA. NEDU Report
6-86, May 1986
13. Butler FK and
Pinto C. Progressive Ulnar Palsy as a Late Complication
of Decompression
Sickness. Annals of Emergency Medicine 15(6);
738-741; June 1986
14. Curley MD and
Butler FK. Visual Reaction Time Performance Preceding
CNS Oxygen
Toxicity. Undersea Biomedical Research 14(4); 301-310;
July, 1987
15. Butler FK.
Ocular Manifestations of Decompression Sickness. The
Eye in Systemic
Disease; Gold T. and Weinstein G. ed; J.B. Lippincott,
Philadelphia, PA;
469-471; 1990
16. Butler FK.
Decompression Sickness Presenting as Optic Neuropathy.
Aviation, Space,
and Environmental Medicine 62; 346-350; April, 1991
17. Butler FK,
Harris DJ, and Reynolds RA. Altitude Retinopathy on
Mount Everest
1989. Ophthalomology 99(5); 739-746; May 1992
18. Butler FK.
Patient Encounter Skills Development. Navy Medicine
84(6); 14-16;
November-December 1993
19. Butler FK.
Diving and Hyperbaric Ophthalmology. Survey of
Ophthalmology
39(5); 347-366; March-April 1995
20. Schallhorn SC,
Blanton CL, Kaupp SE, Sutphin J, Gordon M, Goforth H,
Butler FK.
Preliminary Results of Photorefractive Keratectomy in
Active-Duty United
States Navy Personnel. Ophthalmology 103 (1);
5-21. January 1996
21. Butler FK,
Hagmann J, and Butler EG. Tactical Combat Casualty Care in
Special Operations.
Milit Med 161; Supplement; August 1996
22. Butler FK,
Smith DJ. United States Navy Diving Techniques and Equipment.
In: Diving
Medicine, Bove AA, ed. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders; Third
Edition, 1997;
372-387
23. Butler FK,
Smith DJ, eds. Tactical Management of Diving Casualties in
Special
Operations. Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Workshop
Proceedings.
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society; Bethesda, Maryland;
1998
24. Butler FK, Zafren K, eds. Tactical Management of
Wilderness
Casualties in
Special
Operations. Wilderness and Environmental Medicine 9 (2);
62 -117; 1998
25. Butler FK,
White E, Twa M. Hyperoxic Myopia in a Closed-Circuit Mixed-Gas
SCUBA Diver. Undersea and
Hyperbaric Medicine 26 (1);
41-45; 1999
26. Butler FK. The
Eye at Altitude. International Ophthalmology Clinics 39(2);
Spring 1999; 59-78
27. Butler FK,
Bove AA. Infraorbital hypesthesia from maxillary sinus
barotrauma. Undersea
Hyper Med 1999; 26: 257-259
28. Walters K,
Gould M, Bacharach E, Butler F. Screening for Oxygen Tolerance
in U.S. Navy
Combat Swimmers. Undersea Hyper Med 2000; 27: 21-26
29. Butler FK,
Hagmann J, eds. Tactical Management of Urban Warfare
Casualties in
Special Operations. Milit Med 2000; 165: 1-48
30. Butler FK. The
Eye in the Wilderness. Wilderness Medicine; Auerbach PS, ed:
St Louis, Mosby;
Fourth Edition, 2001; 531-551
31. Butler FK:
Tactical Medicine Training for SEAL Mission Commanders.
Milit Med 2001;
166: 625-631
32. Butler FK:
Orbital Hemorrhage Following Facemask Barotrauma. Undersea
Hyper Med 2001;
28: 31-34
33. Butler FK,
Southerland DG: The U.S. Navy Decompression Computer.
Undersea Hyper Med
2001; 28: 213-228
34. Butler FK.
Medical Support of Special Operations. In, Textbook of
Military
Medicine: Harsh
Environments Volume Two; Pandolph KB, Burr RE, eds.
Falls Church VA;
Office of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army. 2002
35. Lowe R, Butler
FK, Knafelc ME, Temerlin S, Waters T, Brawley J, Didarria M,
Lambertsen CJ:
Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS) Medical
Emergency
Procedures. NEDU Technical Report 02-09; August 2002
36. O’Connor K,
Butler FK: Antibiotics in Tactical Combat Casualty Care 2002.
Milit Med 2003;
168: 911
37.
Steigleman
A, Butler F, Choeu A, O’Malley T, Bower E, Giebner S: Optic
neuropathy following an altitude exposure, Aviat Space Environ
Med 74: 985,
2003
38. Butler FK:
Tactical Combat Casualty Care: Combining Good Medicine with
Good Tactics. J
Trauma 2003; 54: S2-S3
39. Butler FK: Adjunctive
Treatment
Standards for Decompression Sickness and Gas
Embolism:
The Special
Operations Perspective. Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical
Society Workshop 57.
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Kensington, MD; 2003
40. Butler FK:
Closed-Circuit Oxygen Diving in the U.S. Navy: 1948 – 2002
Proceedings of the
Oxygen 2002 Symposium. Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine 2004
41. Butler F:
Ocular Trauma. NATO Emergency War Surgery Handbook. 2004
42. Butler FK,
Smith DJ. United States Navy Diving Techniques and Equipment.
In: Diving
Medicine, Bove AA, ed. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders; Fourth
Edition, 2004;
372-387
43. Butler F,
Holcomb J: The Tactical Combat Casualty Care Transition
Initiative. Army
Medical Department Journal; April, 2005
44. Enzenhauer RW,
Vavra DE, Butler FK: Combat Ophthalmology When There Isn’t an
Assigned
Ophthalmologist. Journal of Special Operations Medicine. 6:
34-41; 2006
45.
Butler F,
Greydanus D, Holcomb J: Combat Evaluation of TCCC Techniques
and Equipment:
2005. USAISR Report 2006-01; November 2006
46. Butler FK:
Breath-Hold Diving: A Proposed 60-second limit. In, Lindholm
P, Pollack N,
Lundgren CEG, eds: Breath-Hold Diving. Undersea and Hyperbaric
Medical Society
/ Diver’s Alert Network Workshop. Durham; Diver’s Alert
Network; 2006
47. Holcomb JB,
McMullen NR, Pearse L, Caruso J, Wade CE, Oetjen-Gerdes L,
Champion HR, Lawnick
M, Farr W, Rodriguez S, Butler FK: Causes of Death in Special
Operations Forces
in the Global War on Terror. Annals of Surgery
2007;245:986-991
48. Butler FK. The
Eye in the Wilderness. Wilderness Medicine; Auerbach PS, ed:
St Louis, Mosby;
Fifth Edition, 2007
49.
Butler
FK, Holcomb JB, Giebner SG, McSwain NE, Bagian J: Tactical
Combat
Casualty Care 2007: Evolving Concepts and Battlefield
Experience. Milit Med
2007; 172(S):1-19
50. Butler FK,
Hagan CE: Ocular Considerations in Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.
In, The
Physiology and Medicine of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Neuman
TE, Thom S, eds;
Saunders/Elsevier; Philadelphia; 2008
51.
Butler
FK, Hagan C, Murphy-Lavoie H: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and
the Eye.
Undersea Hyperb Med 2008;35:333-387
52.
Boehnke IA, Butler
FK, Yoshihashi A, Catanese A, Williams
G, Smith JT, Marsh T, Gray V, Lowe S: Lessons Learned in
Developing a Military
Lessons Learned Center. Milit Med 2008;173:x-xv.
53. Murphy-Lavoie
H, Butler FK, Hagan CE: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the
Management of Central
Retinal Artery Occlusion. In, Gesell L, ed; Hyperbaric Oxygen
Therapy Committee
Report 2009; Durham; Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society;
2009
54.
Butler
FK, Murphy-Lavoie H, Jain KK: HBO Therapy and Ophthalmology.
In, Jain KK,
ed: Textbook of Hyperbaric Medicine; Hogrefe Publishing,
Cambridge MA; Fifth
Edition; 2009; 414-435
55.
Moon
R, Butler FK: Treatment of Cerebral Air Gas Embolism. (ltr)
Military
Medicine 2009;174:xii
56.
Butler
FK; Tactical Combat Casualty Care: Update 2009; J Trauma
2010;69:S10-S13
57.
Blackbourne
LH, Czarnik J, Mabry R, Eastridge B, Baer D, Butler F, Pruitt
B:
Decreasing Killed in Action and Died of Wound Rates in Combat
Wounded. J Trauma
2010;69:S1-S4
58.
Butler FK, Giebner SD, McSwain N, Salomone J, Pons P,
eds: Prehospital Trauma Life Support Manual; Seventh Edition –
Military
Version. November 2010
59. Eastridge BJ,
Butler FK, Wade CE, Holcomb JB, Salinas J, Champion HC,
Blackbourne LH: Field
triage score (FTS) in battlefield casualties: validation of a
novel triage
technique in a combat environment. Am J Surgery
2010;200:724-727
60. Bennett PB, Michaelson R, Moon R, Butler FK, eds:
Best Practice
Guidelines for Prevention and Effective Treatment of
Decompression Illness. DCS
- AGE Workshop Proceedings; Part 1; 2010
61. Nesbitt M,
Allen P, Beekley A, Butler F, Eastridge B, Blackbourne L:
Current practice of
thermoregulation during the transport of the combat wounded. J
Trauma
2010;69:S162-S167
62. Vann R, Moon
R, Butler F, Mitchell S: Decompression Illness. Lancet 2011;
377:153-164
63. Butler FK: Fluid
resuscitation in Tactical Combat Casualty Care: brief history
and current
status. J Trauma 2011;70:S11-S12
64.
McSwain N,
Champion HR, Fabian TC, Hoyt DB, Wade CE, Eastridge BJ,
Rasmussen TE, Roussel
RR, Butler FK, Holcomb JB, Schreiber MA, Shackford SR,
Blackbourne LH: State of
the Art fluid resuscitation 2010: Prehospital and Immediate
Transition to the Emergency
Department. J Trauma 2011;70:S2-S10
65.
Kotwal RS, Montgomery HR, Mabry RL, Butler FK,
Cain JS, Kotwal BM, Mechler KK, Blackbourne LH, Champion HR,
Holcomb JB: Eliminating
Preventable Death on the Battlefield. Archives of Surgery
2011; published
online 15 August 2011
66.
Murray
CK, Hospenthal DR, Kotwal RS, Butler FK: Efficacy of
point-of-injury
combat antimicrobials. Journal of Trauma 2011;71:S307-S313
67.
Stuke
LE, Pons PT, Guys JS, Chapleau WP, Butler FK, McSwain NE:
Prehospital
spinal immobilization for penetrating trauma – review and
recommendations from
the Prehospital Trauma Life Support Executive Committee. J
Trauma 2011
68.
Butler
FK, Blackbourne LH: How the British military deals with
trauma. ;
Invited response to a Letter to the Editor of Journal of
Trauma; J Trauma
2011;71:1096-1096
69.
Telander
DG, Hielweil G, Schwartz SD, Butler FK: Central retinal artery
occlusion from arterial gas embolism: diagnostic and
therapeutic challenges.
Retina 2011;31:1726-1731
70.
70. Butler FK. The
Eye in the Wilderness. Wilderness Medicine; Auerbach PS, ed:
St Louis, Mosby;
Sixth Edition; 2012
71. Butler FK,
Carmona R: Tactical Combat Casualty Care: From the
Battlefields of Afghanistan
and Iraq to the Streets of America. The Tactical Edge. Winter
2012
72.
Blackbourne, LH,
Baer DG, Eastridge
BJ, Renz
EM, Chung KK, DuBose
JK,
Bagley
SA,
Kheirabadi
B, Wenke
JC,
Hale
RG, Kragh
JF,
Butler
FK,
Cap
AP, Biever
KA,
Mabry
RL, Bailey
JA,
Dubick
MA, Kotwal
RS,
Maani
CV,
Brosch
LR,
Bebarta V,
Rasmussen
TE,
Fang
R,
Morrison JJ,
Midwinter
MJ,
Cestero
RF, Ficke
JR,
Jenkins
D,Knudson
P,
Holcomb JB: Military Medical
Revolution – 2001-2011. In
press
73.
Eastridge
BJ, Mabry R, Seguin P, Cantrell J, Tops T, Uribe P, Mallett O,
Zubko
T,
Oetjen-Gerdes
L, Rasmussen T,
Butler FK, Kotwal R,
Holcomb J, Wade C, Champion H, Moores L, Blackbourne LH:
Pre-hospital Death on
the Battlefield: Implications
for the
Future
of Combat Casualty Care. Accepted
for Journal of Trauma
74.
Blackbourne
LB, Baer D, Eastridge B, Renz E, Dubose J, Bagley S, Wenke J,
Hale
R, Butler F, Rasmussen T: A Military Medical Revolution: on
the Tipping Point. Accepted for
Journal of Trauma
75.
Blackbourne
LH, Butler FK: Preoperative care of the vascular surgery
patient.
Invited chapter – Rich’s Vascular Surgery. In press
76.
Hexdall
E, Butler FK: An episode of transient blindness at depth in a
SCUBA
diver.
In
progress.
Accepted for Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine
77.
Butler
FK, Blackbourne LH: Battlefield Trauma Care Then and Now: A
Decade of
Tactical Combat Casualty Care. Accepted
for Journal of Trauma
78.
Murphy-Lavoie
H, Butler F, Hagan
C:
Central retinal artery occlusion treated with oxygen: A
Literature Review and
Treatment Algorithm. Accepted for Undersea and Hyperbaric
Medicine