Background
Wigle, Richard Lee was born on March 6, 1947 in Niagara Falls, New York, United States.
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Richard Lee Wigle
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Bachelor of Science in Life Science, United States Air Force Academy, 1969; Medical degree, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1973.
Career
Second in command Lieutenant, United States Air Force, 1969;
advance through grades to medical officer, 1974;
ltc., 1990;
intern, United States Air Force Medical Center Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Mississippi, 1973-1974;
resident in general surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, 1977-1979;
resident in general surgery, Akron City Hospital, Akron, Ohio., 1979-1981;
general medical officer, United States Air Force Clinic Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa, 1974-1977;
emergency room physician, Emergency Medical Systems, Inc., San Francisco, 1977;
physician, Kron Medical Corporation, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1981-1982;
general surgeon, United States Air Force Hospital, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, 1982-1984;
fellow in trauma and burns, Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University, Atlanta, 1984-1985;
attending surgeon, Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University, Atlanta, 1984-1986;
director surgical emergency services, Grady Memorial Hospital and Emory University, Atlanta, 1985-1986;
attending surgeon trauma service, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, 1986-1988;
attending physician emergency department, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, 1988-1989;
director trauma service, Spartanburg (South Carolina.) Regional Medical Center, 1991-1993. Assistant professor Emory University, Atlanta, 1985-1986, University of Southern California, Charleston, 1991-1993;instructor Brown U., Providence, 1986-1988. Contract emergency physician Spectrum Emergency Care, St. Louis, since 1988.
Attending surgeon United States Air Force Med.Ctr., Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, 1990, 31st TAC Hospital, Homestead, Air Force Base, Florida, 1990-1991, David Grant Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base, California, 1991. Medical dir.UCLA Rainpeg Project, Peten Guatemala, 1989, 90, 91-.
Achievements
Membership
With United States Air Force Reserve, 1984-1993, United States Army Reserve, since 1993. Fellow American College of Surgeons. Member American Burn Association, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Society American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, Atlantic Medical History Society, International Society in Toxinology, American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
