Dr. James Roudebush named to Eagle Systems Board of Advisors

Dr. James Roudebush named to Eagle Systems Board of Advisors

Dr. Roudebush has recently joined Eagle Systems and Services, Inc. as the company’s newest Advisory Board Member. His background encompasses 34 years of active duty military service, to include his last duty assignment serving as the Surgeon General of the Air Force in Washington, D.C. In this role, he provided vision and direction to more than 42,800 people assigned to 75 medical facilities worldwide; he advised the Secretary of the Air Force and Air Force Chief of Staff, as well as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs on matters pertaining to the medical aspects of the air expeditionary force and the health of Air Force people.

Dr. Roudebush brings substantial leadership experience in joint operations, having served as the Command Surgeon for U.S. Transportation Command where he exercised dual responsibility to oversee TRANSCOM’s global patient movement, and guided Air Mobility Command medical operations at ten U.S. bases. He also served as Command Surgeon for U.S. Central Command, responsible for all US military medical support operations in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East and southwest Asia.

Dr. Roudebush entered the Air Force in 1975 after receiving a Bachelor of Medicine degree from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Nebraska, College of Medicine. He completed residency training in family practice at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Medical Center, Ohio, in 1978, and aerospace medicine at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, in 1984. He also holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the University of Texas. Dr. Roudebush served as the senior medical officer for all U.S. Air Force medical operations in the Pacific; commanded a wing clinic and wing hospital before becoming Deputy Commander of the Air Force Materiel Command Human Systems Center. Prior to his selection as the 19th Surgeon General, Dr. Roudebush served as the Deputy Surgeon General of the U.S. Air Force.

Dr. Roudebush currently serves as a Senior Partner at Martin, Blanck & Associates in Falls Church, Virginia.