CDR Matthew D. Tadlock is currently assigned to 1st Medical Battalion, 1st Marine Logistics Group, and is the Vice-Chair of the Medical Executive Committee at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton where he practices General and Acute Care Surgery and Critical Care. His research interests include post-injury pulmonary embolism and primary pulmonary thrombosis, acute care surgery and humanitarian surgery. He recently completed the Association for Surgical Education (ASE) Surgical Education Research Fellowship with the project, “Practical Bioethics for the Humanitarian Surgeon: Consensus & Controversy.” After a tour as a Naval Flight Surgeon, CDR Tadlock completed his general surgery residency at Naval Medical Center San Diego in 2011 and completed fellowship training in trauma and surgical critical care at Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center from 2012-2014.