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Dr. Parkinson formerly was associate director of medical programs and resources for the U.S. Air Force where he was responsible for policy and planning for the Medical Service with over 2 million beneficiaries, 70 facilities and a $4 billion budget. A retired colonel, he also served as deputy director of Air Force Medical Operations and chief of preventive medicine. While assigned to the U.S. Public Health Service, Dr. Parkinson provided oversight of federal programs in public health, geriatrics and preventive medicine training. He served on the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Purchasing Institute and as vice chair of the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He is President-Elect of the American College of Preventive Medicine and a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee reviewing NASA prevention programs, the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board. He is on the Editorial Boards of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and the American Journal of Medical Quality. Dr. Parkinson is a recipient of the Air Force Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Service Award of the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the Distinguished Recent Graduate Award from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He received his A.B. from Cornell University, M.D. from George Washington University, family practice training at the UCLA and his M.P.H., preventive medicine residency and chief residency at the Johns Hopkins University. In June 2005, Lumenos became a wholly owned operating division of WellPoint, Inc., the nation’s largest publicly traded commercial health benefits company.