WILL CHU MD

Education

1999 Bachelor of Arts with honors in The Humanities Program, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
2000 Commissioned Officer Training Course, Distinguished Graduate, Gunter Annex, Alabama.
2003 Doctor of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health and Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas
2006 Pediatric Residency, Wright-State University School of Medicine, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB), Dayton, Ohio
2012 Aerospace Medicine Primary Course, USAF School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM), WPAFB, Ohio
2012 Expeditionary Medical Support (EMEDS), Air Education and Training Command (AETC), Camp Bullis, Texas
2013 Intermediate Executive Skills (IES), Joint Medical Executive Program/Institute (JMESP/I), San Antonio, Texas
2014 Aeromedical Evacuation and Patient Staging Courses (AEPSC), AETC, Camp Bullis, Texas
2015 Chief of Aeromedical Services – Advanced Flight Surgeon Symposium, USAFSAM, WPAFB, Dayton, Ohio
2015 Medical Personnel Reliability Program (PRP), USAFSAM, WPAFB, Dayton, Ohio
2015 Global Medicine Symposium, USAFSAM, WPAFB, Dayton, Ohio
2016 Fundamentals of Global Health Engagement (GHE), Center for GHE, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), JBPHH, Hawaii
2016 Health Emergencies in Large Population (H.E.L.P.), Center for Excellence – Disaster Management, Comite International Genève, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
2016 Air Advisor Academy, U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center, Joint Base McGuire –Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.
2017 Advanced Security Cooperation Fellowship – Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS), Honolulu, Hawaii.
2018 Humanitarian Assistance Response Training Course (HART) - Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), Hawaii.
2021 Air War College by correspondence – Air University, Maxwell AFB, Montgomery. Alabama.
2022 Joint Medical Operations Course (Basic) – Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute, Fort Gillem, Georgia.

Biography

Lt Col William Chu is an International Health Specialist (IHS), Air Advisor, Flight Surgeon and an assistant professor assigned to the Uniformed Services University (USU) in Bethesda, Maryland. He currently serves as the IHS Academics Director.

Dr. Chu considers Texas as home. He was commissioned through the Health Professional Scholarship Program and graduated from Officer Training School with distinction. He completed a joint civilian-military pediatric residency in Dayton, Ohio. In 2012, he obtained his wings to become a flight surgeon. He is also a graduated fellow of Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies.

He has previously served as a Flight Commander, Chief of Aerospace Medicine (SGP) and Public Health Emergency Officer (PHEO) advisor to the Defense Intelligence Agency during the Ebola outbreak while stationed in DC. At the Pacific Air Forces, he was the Joint Task Force (JTF) Surgeon for Operation DEEP FREEZE and the Branch Chief of Global Health Engagements. He was also an air liaison officer to Defense Support of Civil Authorities executing Indo-Pacific Command’s humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) operations, activities and investments. Most recently, Dr. Chu completed a short tour in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) as the functioning Command Surgeon and the PHEO to the Senior Defense Official and the US Ambassador during the COVID-19 pandemic while directing Health Affairs operations for the United States Military Training Mission (USMTM), the largest Security Assistance Organization.

Dr. Chu is a chief physician and a rated aircrew in the USAF with regional security cooperation experiences in China, Northeast Asia, South East Asia, South Asia and the Middle East. He is passionate in adding value to others, creating future leaders, and furthering research in medical readiness and integrative medicine – understanding how religions, beliefs, customs and cultures can shape health outcomes and influence global security.

Career Highlights: Positions, Projects, Deployements, Awards and Additional Publications

2018 Mission Commander/Subject Matter Expert (SME ) for PACAF-Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) – Advancing Care in Aviation Medicine SMEE, Thailand.

2018 Scientific Committee Co-Chair /Plenary and Session Moderator / presenter for Asia Pacific Military Health Exchange 2018, Xi’an, China

2019 Mission Commander/SME for Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) – PACAF Aero-physiology and Aviation Safety SMEE, Malaysia

2019 Hospital Emergency Operation Center advisor during Pacific Resilience Disaster Response Exercise & Exchange (DREE), Nepal

2019 Air Component Liaison for Defense Support to Civil Authorities (DSCA) to Northern Marianas Islands, INDOPACOM, Hawaii.

2019 Lead planner for Disaster Management SME Exchange (SMEE) with Sri Lanka Air Force, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

2019 Mission Commander/SME for joint combined CASEVAC SMEE with MARFORPAC and Indonesia militaries, Jakarta, Indonesia.

2019 SME and mission planner for HADR SMEE and field exercise with III Marine Expeditionary Force, ex. TIGER TRIUMPH, India.

2020 Lead medical planner for PACIFIC ANGEL 20-1 Indonesia w/ Air Transportable Clinic (ATC) deployment, Lombok, Indonesia.

2020-2021 Primary US Military Medical Representative / Health Security Advisor to US Embassy Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Representative Bibliography

Chu, W. (1999). Brazilian Spritism – More Than Just Scalpels and Drugs. Undergraduate Thesis. University of Texas at Austin, Texas

Chu, W et al. (2006). Phorbol ester-stimulation induces different angiogenic gene expression profiles in papillary, follicular and anaplastic thyroid cancers cell lines suggesting their growth might depend on different pathways. Uniform Services Pediatric Seminar; Norfolk, Va. and Pediatric Academic Society (PAS); San Francisco, Calif

Chu, W. (2008). Does being on ADHD medications decrease the chance of getting Asthma? PAS; Honolulu, Hawaii

Chu, W. (2018). Building Relationships and Trust One Needle at a Time: A Recipe for Success for the International Health Specialist (IHS). Military Medicine, Volume 183, Issue 1-2, 1 January 2018, Pages 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usx009

Chu, W et al. (2018). Epidemiological Analysis of Air Medical Evacuations Conducted by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) in Antarctica 2011- 2016. International Congress of Aviation and Space Medicine (ICASM 2018) in Bangkok, Thailand.

Chu, W. (2019). US, Indonesian National Armed Forces medical experts conduct inaugural subject matter exchange. https://www.pacaf.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1923584/us-indonesian-national-armed-forces-medical-experts-conduct-inauguralsubject- m/

Chu, W. (2019). Joint, bilateral exchange conducted as part of exercise Tiger Triumph. https://www.pacaf.af.mil/News/Article- Display/Article/2045675/joint-bilateral-exchange-conducted-as-part-of-exercise-tiger-triumph/

Chu, W. (2021). Health Attaché – A Military Requirement. eSchool of Graduate PME, Air University, Maxwell AFB, Ala.

Chu, W. (2022). On Protection of U.S. Forces from Global Health Threats: The Role of Health Security Advisors. Military Medicine, 30 March 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usac085