Gale Pollock

Before retiring from the U.S. Army in 2008, Maj. Gen. Gale Pollock served as Commander, US Army Medical Command, and Acting Surgeon General of the Army. In the latter role, she was the first woman or non-physician to hold this role in any of the military services, and managed a $9.7B annual budget. Maj. Gen. Pollock is an adjunct clinical professor of Yonsei University Graduate School of Nursing, owner of Pollock Associates, an LLC doing healthcare consulting, and serves on several scientific advisory boards. Maj. Gen. Pollock was the founding Executive Director of the Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration in Pittsburgh, PA, served as an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and School of Nursing, and was an Advanced Leadership Fellow in Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative.