Background
III, Richard Albert Henderson was born on June 25, 1943 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Richard Albert and Mildred Yarbrough (Johnson) H.
III, Richard Albert Henderson was born on June 25, 1943 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States. Son of Richard Albert and Mildred Yarbrough (Johnson) H.
Bachelor, California State University, Sacramento, 1965; Doctor of Medicine, Duke U., 1969; Master in Public Health, University of California, 1973.
Commissioned First lieutenant, United States Air Force, 1971; advanced through grades to colonel, United States Air Force colonel, flight surgeon, United States Air Force, since 1971; intern, Memorial Hospital, Long Beach, California, 1969-1970; resident in surgery, Memorial Hospital, Long Beach, 1970-1971; resident aerospace medicine, United States Air Force School Aerospace Medicine, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, 1973-1975; hospital commander, 432 United States Air Force Hospital, Udorn, Thailand, 1975-1976; chief aerospace medicine, United States Air Force Clinic, Kadena, Okinawa, 1976-1977; clinic commander, United States Air Force Clinic, Aviano, Italy, 1977-1979; chief aerospace medicine, Systems Command Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland., 1979-1982; member of staff, acting chief hyperbaric medicine school of aerospace medicine, United States Air Force, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, 1982-1985; chief aerospace physiology research, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, 1985-1987; director aerospace medicine, United States Air Force Medical Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio., 1987-1988; chairman occupational medical department, United States Air Force Medical Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio., 1988-1990; chief medical operations hyperbaric medicine department, United States Air Force Medical Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio., since 1991; theatre air evacuation system flight surgeon, Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, 1990-1991. Associate clinical professor Wright State University School Medicine department community (aerospace) medicine, since 1988.
Fellow American College Preventive Medicine, Aerospace Medical Association (associate). Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Medical Association, Oxygen Society of International Society for Free Radical Research, American College Sports Medicine, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Space Branch Aerospace Medical assosiation, New York Academy Science, Booster Club, Pi Mu Epsilon, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Rebecca Ann Baldwin, August 26, 1978. Children: Christopher Alan, Kevin Kyle, Carter Blair, Erika Lana.