Mayo Clinic Military Anesthesia Statistics

There have been many past and present staff of the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine that have contributed to every branch of service of the United States Armed Forces. Here, we hope to honor those who are currently serving or have served. If you are a current or past member of the department and have served at any point in the United States Armed Forces, we are asking for information regarding your service and career within the department. We hope to create a database of information to showcase the effect our department has had on our Armed Forces.

Dr. Steve Rettke (Rettke.steven@mayo.edu) and Alec Thicke (Thicke.alec@mayo.edu) are currently working together to gather this information and present it on this webpage. Dr. Rettke is a distinguished U.S. Navy carrier fighter pilot and retired Navy captain, as well as long-time leader of our Methodist Hospital clinical practices. Alec Thicke is the department’s new archivist, who is a major contributor to the Centennial Celebration.

They are asking anyone who would like to contribute to this database to please email them both as much of the following information as you feel comfortable sharing.

  • Name: 
  • Service: 
  • Rank: 
  • MOS/Specialty:
  • Deployments/Assignments:
  • Awards:
  • Anesthesiology Department Association:
  • Photos of your time in the military, if any:

 

If you have provided your background information, but do not see it posted below, you do not need to do anything else. Information on this page will be continually updated as the webpage is expanded upon.

Mayo Clinic Military Anesthesia Statistics O-6 Rank or Higher

We would like to acknowledge and showcase individuals from the department that achieved the rank of O-6 or higher during their military service. You can read more about their service below this list. The list below is organized by rank and then by approximate age.

Lennon, Robert L. M.D.

Brigadier General, U.S. Army

Faulconer, Albert, Jr., M.D.

 

Colonel, U.S. Army

Didier, Edward Paul, M.D.

Colonel, U.S. Army

Rettke, Steven, M.D.

Captain, U.S. Navy

Murray, Michael James, M.D., Ph.D.

Colonel, U.S. Army

Villamaria, Frank J., M.D., M.P.H.

Captain, U.S. Navy

Bloomfield, Eric L. M.D.

 

Colonel, U.S. Air Force

McGlinch, Brian Patrick, M.D.

Colonel, U.S. Army

Whalen, Francis X., Jr, M.D.

Colonel, U.S. Army

Mongan, Paul D., M.D.

 

Colonel, U.S. Army

Riley, Benjamin W., APRN, CRNA, DNAP

Colonel, U.S. Army

Mayo Clinic Military Anesthesia Statistics Individual Bios

Click on each photograph to view full bios.