Kenneth C. Curley, MD
Kenneth C. Curley, M.D. received his Bachelor of Science in Biology (Molecular Biology/PreMed) Cum Laud from John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio. He was concurrently commissioned Second Lieutenant, USA, after a four-year ROTC scholarship. He received his M.D. from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD in 1993. Dr. Curley's post-graduate training began in 1993 as a surgical intern at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He then completed a Pediatric internship in 1994 and began the Academic Adult and Child Neurology residency pathway at WRAMC with a two-year assignment as a Medical Research Fellow and Principal Investigator, Dept. of Neuropharmacology and Molecular Neurobiology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. In 1997, he returned to WRAMC for the clinical neurology portion of his training. During this period, Dr. Curley sustained a spinal cord compression injury. While he underwent treatment, he served as a medical informaticist, clinical research associate, and continuing medical education coordinator for the Departments of Neurosurgery at National Naval Medical Center and WRAMC. He received command appointments to medical information technology and quality assurance committees at NNMC and DoD. He assisted in the development of the DoD's first image-based diagnostics and computer-assisted surgical planning lab at NNMC. He developed knowledge, skills and experience in image-guided surgery technologies, advanced medical imaging processes including 3-D volumetric imaging, image fusion, and virtual endoscopy. Dr. Curley then served as a research associate and resident in the Department of Radiology, WRAMC. He reported to TATRC in November, 2000 as a Clinical Consultant and Technology Analyst for imaging, minimally invasive/image-guided surgery, medical modeling and simulation, tissue engineering, systems biology and biomedical/imaging informatics. He was medically retired from the Army in October 2002 and returned to TATRC in May 2003 as an IPA with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, and was appointed Chief Scientist in April, 2004. Dr. Curley is also an Assistant Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, and serves as a medical consultant to the Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine at USUHS.