George J Smolinski
Doctor of Medicine, Creighton University School of Medicine, 2004
Colonel, Army
Department of Primary Appointment:
School of Medicine
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Title
Medical Director, TBI Program, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
Location:
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
Research Interests:
Global Health Engagement
Education
UNDERGRADUATE:Creighton University
Omaha, NE
B.A., Summa Cum Laude, 2000
MEDICAL:
Creighton University School of Medicine
Omaha, NE
Doctor of Medicine, 2004
MILITARY:
U.S. Army Airborne School Ft. Benning, Georgia 1998
AMEDD Officer Basic Course San Antonio, Texas 2001
Combat Casualty Course San Antonio, Texas 2004
AMEDD Officer’s Advanced Course San Antonio, Texas 2010
Tactical Combat Medical Course San Antonio, Texas 2011
Command and General Staff Officers' College, Grafenwoehr, Germany, 2015
POSTGRADUATE
MEDICAL EDUCATION TRANSITIONAL INTERNSHIP:
Walter Reed Army Medical Center Washington, D.C. 2004-2005
PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION RESIDENCY:
Walter Reed Army Medical Center Washington, D.C. 2005-2008
Biography
Dr. Smolinski is the Medical Director of the Traumatic Brain Injury Program at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany. He is a graduate of Creighton University for both undergraduate and medical school studies, and is board certified in both PM&R and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. He has served in a variety of leadership positions in MEDCOM and FORSCOM, including Human Performance Physician, Special Operations Command Africa, Chief, Department of Neurorehabilitation, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, and Chief, Global Health Engagement, Office of the Command Surgeon, United States Army Europe.Dr. Smolinski has served as a subject matter expert and project leader for multiple rehabilitation-based Global Health Engagements for over a decade, including work in Georgia, Estonia, Ukraine, and Morocco. He led the Congressionally-informed Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation & Team Management rehabilitation capability building project in Ukraine from 2017-2019 and was invited to edit the Ukrainian version of the Americans With Disabilities Act, now signed into law by the Ukrainian Rada.
Representative Bibliography
Smolinski, G., Goff, B., Pasquina, P. The effects of the CoreControl device on subjective and objective measurements during post-exercise cooling in a population of upper and lower extremity amputees: a pilot study. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 85(3):252, 2006.
-Wagers, K., Maxfield-Panker, S., Smolinski, G. Pediatric education efforts: Enhancing pediatric concussion recovery with a step-wise information sheet. Current Pediatric Research 2019; 23(2): 97-100.
- Smolinski, G., The Future of Medical Security Cooperation: Medical Interoperability Will Save Lives And Strengthen Our Alliance. Center For European Policy Analysis “Europe’s Edge”, 4 Feb 2020.