Leadership

COL Jamie B Grimes, MD, MC, USA
National Director, DVBIC

COL Grimes comes to DVBIC headquarters from San Antonio, TX where, since 2007, she has been the DVBIC Site Director at Wilford Hall Medical Center (WHMC) and Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC), now combined as the San Antonio Military Medical Center (SAMMC).

In her new role as National Director (effective 1 July 2010), COL Grimes will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of the organization’s mission: to serve active-duty military and veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) through state-of-the-art medical care and care coordination, and innovative clinical research initiatives and educational programs.
With board certification in Vascular Neurology, Neurology, and Psychiatry, COL Grimes has the background to continue DVBIC’s leadership with integrated multidisciplinary approaches to care. COL Grimes has been a staff neurologist at BAMC since 2000 and has been serving as deputy chair of Neurology at SAMMC.

In 2004 COL Grimes served a nine month tour of duty as a member of 359th Neurosurgical Team in Baghdad, Iraq during the period of highest neurotrauma patients in the past 7 years including both major battles in Fallujah. There, she quickly became “one of the busiest members of the medical team” according to COL Rocco Armonda, Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery & Interventional Neuroradiology, National Capital Neurosurgery Consortium, Director Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD.

COL Grimes has held multiple appointments and academic posts including neurology consultant for the Army Office of the Surgeon General (OTSG) and the Great Plains Regional Medical Command, and assistant professor of Neurology at USUHS and at the University of Texas Health Sciences-San Antonio, TX.

COL Grimes received her MD, with honors, from USUHS in 1990 at which time she was commissioned as an Army Captain. Following two years as a general medical officer in Vilseck, Germany, COL Grimes continued her training at NNMC and at Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) where she completed residencies in both Psychiatry and in Neurology.

COL Grimes is the fourth individual to serve as DVBIC National Director. She was preceded by Col Michael S Jaffee (2007-2010); Deborah L Warden, MD (2001-2007) and Andres M Salazar, MD (1991-2001).

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