Alumni/ae Spotlight

James F. Meyers II
Colonel, U.S. Air Force,
Medical Service Corps, (MHA 91)
Executive Director, TRICARE Golden Gate Office,
Travis Air Force Base, CA.

Colonel (Dr.) Meyers assumed his duties as Executive Director, TRICARE Golden Gate Office during the summer of 2003. The TRICARE Golden Gate is responsible for ensuring the delivery of a integrated healthcare system that includes a robust $4 billion civilian network, four tri-service medical treatment facilities, three coast guard clinics, 190 geographically separated units in Northern California, and 270,000 beneficiaries. His duties include consultation activities in population health with the Department of Defense TRICARE Management Activity, the Army Medical Command, the USAF Population Health Office and the Navy Postgraduate School.

Colonel Meyers has excelled in numerous leadership positions since graduating from VCU, MCV-Campus in 1991. Fresh out of the program, he served as Clinic Administrator, Aero-medical Operations Officer and Squadron Section Commander during his tenure at Howard AFB, Panama from 1991-1994. From Panama, he relocated to San Francisco, CA where he was named Chief, Regional Planning, Health Facilities Regional Office from 1994-1998. Always willing and ready to keep the educational wheels turning he applied for and was awarded an Air Force scholarship to complete a Doctoral degree in 1998. Colonel Meyers was awarded a Doctorate in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001, graduated top in his class and was the first military officer to be awarded Berkeley’s Henrick Blum Award for Distinguished Social Action from the School of Public Health. His research on military community well-being has led to significant changes in the military’s approach to building resiliency in their communities. Post PhD award, he was assigned as Assistant Professor and Director, Population Health and Information Systems, Army Medical Command Center and School, U.S. Army-Baylor University Graduate Program in Health Administration from 2001-2003.

Colonel Meyers is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, a Fellow on the accrediting committee for programs in health administration (ACEHSA), and on the editorial boards for Frontiers Journal and the Journal of Health Administration Education. He has been awarded numerous Services Medals in his Air Force career and has over 145 hours of flying and aero-medical evacuation operational support hours in six aircraft. Currently, he is enjoying life in Berkeley, CA with his wife, Kate and his daughter, Jennifer.