Dick Ginn         

Colonel Richard V.N. Ginn is a retired Army Medical Service Corps officer whose career spanned a wide variety of assignments, beginning with the 3d Battalion (Airborne), 508^th Infantry in Panama and the 173d Airborne Brigade in Vietnam. Subsequent tours included duty in the Pentagon on the Army Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Senior positions included Deputy Commander for Administration, 196^th Station Hospital in Belgium/SHAPE Medical Center at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe; Inspector General, 7^th Medical Command, Germany; Chief of Staff, US Army Medical Research and Development Command; and Chief, Health Services Division, US Army Personnel Command. When he retired from active duty in 1995 he joined Capital Health Services, Inc. as its director of operations, and was later appointed president and CEO.  He resigned in 2000 to pursue family interests and business in Florida, Virginia and Panama, and later that year joined Gray and Associates, L.C. as an historian supporting the Army Surgeon General’s Office of Medical History, and in 2010 the Office of the Medical Historian, Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. 

He has a BA from Stetson University, master of health administration from Baylor University, and an MA in English literature from Duke University. He was the Distinguished Honor Graduate of the Army-Baylor University Program in Health Care Administration, an honor graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College, a graduate of the Jungle Warfare School and the Army War College. His decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Combat Medical Badge, and the Senior Parachutist Badge. He is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, national leadership honor society; Pi Kappa Phi, national social fraternity; and Sigma Tau Delta, international English honor society. He is a founding member of the Silver Caduceus Association, and is its newsletter editor. He is a fellow of the American College of Health Care Executives, a member of the Federal Healthcare Executives Institute Alumni Association, and a Distinguished Member of the Army Medical Department Regiment. Other recognition includes the Order of Military Medical Merit, the Sir Henry Wellcome Medal and Prize, Young Federal Healthcare Administrator, Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World.

Colonel Ginn has published numerous articles, and is the author of The History of the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps, published by the Army Surgeon General and the Center of Military History in 1997. He wrote the book during assignments in Washington, Belgium, Germany, Maryland and Virginia. In Their Own Words: The 498^th Medical Company (Air Ambulance) in Iraq, 2003, a collection of interviews with members of the company, was published by the Army Surgeon General in 2009. “Research for the Soldier: The Story of an Army Research Psychologist” was published in 2010 by the National Defense University as a chapter in The 71F Advantage: Applying Army Research Psychology for Health and Performance Gains.  He has served as a reviewer for The Society for Military History and the University Press of Kentucky.

Colonel Ginn and his wife, Angélica, reside in Springfield, Virginia, where he is president of the Daventry Community Association, which was named the Washington metropolitan Community of the Year for 2009 in the large community category. Their daughter, Angie Ann, resides in Branson, Missouri with her husband, Dr. Richard Makuch, and six children. Their son, Rick, an Army chief warrant officer, his wife, Kristin, and their son and daughter are stationed in Hawaii where he is a Black Hawk pilot assigned to the Combat Aviation Brigade of the 25^th Infantry Division, and recently returned from Iraq.