Professor Dan Rhon retired after 20 years of active federal service as a medical officer in the US Army. Beginning in the enlisted ranks as an infantryman in the Marine Corps, he then transitioned to the Army, where he served as a Physical Therapist. He spent a year deployed to Iraq as a physical therapist in support of the 4th Infantry Brigade. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is also the Director of the Musculoskeletal Research in Primary Care Program at Brooke Army Medical Center. He received his Master’s and Doctor of Science in Physical Therapy from Baylor University, his entry-level physical therapy doctorate from Temple University, and his PhD from the University of Newcastle. He completed a clinical fellowship at Brooke Army Medical Center and a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Utah. He has authored 200 publications and received over $30 million in competitive federal grant funding, with a primary focus on military medicine. His research interests focus on injury mitigation and the identification and implementation of optimal care pathways for musculoskeletal disorders.