Dr. Jenkins is an associate professor of surgery and director of trauma in the Division of Trauma, Critical Care and General Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He is also assistant professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD. He retired in September of 2008 from the U.S. Air Force, having served as the trauma medical director at Lackland AFB, TX. He was responsible for all trauma medical care and administration of the USAF’s only American College of Surgeons Verified Level 1 Trauma Center at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in San Antonio, TX over the last decade. He was also the flight commander and chairman of general surgery for 59MDW. Dr. Jenkins received his BS in 1984 with a Biochemistry major at the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania; earned his MD in 1988 at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland; and performed his General Surgery Residency at Wilford Hall and Lackland AFB in 1988 and again from 1991-1996. He was a trauma/critical care fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in 1998, and in 1999 received the Diploma Medical Care of Catastrophes from the Society of Apothecaries of London. Dr. Jenkins is the current president of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST).