Stephen Delellis

LTC (Ret) Steve DeLellis is a Physician Assistant with more than 36 years of experience in Army Special Operations and more than 16 combat deployments in six conflicts. Steve previously served as the Deputy Surgeon for the XVIII Airborne Corps, Chief of Medical Training for the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC), with oversight of the Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center (JSOMTC), and as the Deputy Command Surgeon for the United States Army Special Operations Command. He has managed the longest continually running TBI surveillance project in the Special Operations community and has co-authored more than a dozen articles on mild traumatic brain injury in Special Operations Forces. Steve is an Army Medical Department Iron Major, a member of the Order of Military Medical Merit, and the 2019 United States Army recipient of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation Hero of Military Medicine award. Steve is the principal advisor and founder at Defense Medical Strategies and currently serves as the Executive Director of the Fort Bragg Research Institute.