Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
F.Edward Hebert School of Medicine
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Jocelyn A. Kilgore, Maj, USAF, MC, FS, is a psychiatrist and Assistant Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Dr. Kilgore graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in 1993. Subsequently, she spent a year researching health issues in rural Virginia and contemplating a career in medicine. In 1994, she joined the United States Air Force and entered USUHS as a first-year medical student. After graduating from USUHS in May 1998, she moved to San Antonio, TX where she spent the next four years completing internship and residency in the combined program at Wilford Hall Medical Center and the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio. During her last year, she was Co-Chief Resident for over fifty residents before completing Psychiatry Residency in June 2002. Her first staff assignment led her to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, where she spent the next three years. While there, she supported Landstuhl Regional Medical Center during the early part of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. In the spring of 2005, she graduated from the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine's primary course, where she learned fundamentals in providing care to aircrew and gained her wings. This was followed by a return to her home state and the National Capitol Area with an assignment to Andrews AFB, MD. There she was chief of the Life Skills Support Center (now the Mental Health Clinic) until deploying to Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan. While deployed, she served as the US detachment chief of Kandahar's Combat Stress Control Team in a multinational hospital during a time of US-NATO transition. She returned to Andrews and became the Chief of both the Addiction Services Element and the Consultation-Liaison Service for the 79th Medical Group. During this time she was invited to move to USUHS and become part of the department faculty and a Scientist with the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress. Here since June 2007, she engages in all four years of medical school education, to include Introduction to Clinical Medicine, Human Behavior, Third-Year Clerkships, and FTX Bushmaster, in addition to pursuing interests in traumatic stress research and education.

Dr. Kilgore is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is licensed in the state of Virginia. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the Association of Academic Psychiatry, and the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry. She has also completed Squadron Officer School (2003) and Air Command Staff College (2004) by correspondence.

Past recognitions include the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training-Ginsberg Fellowship Award for Outstanding Teaching (2002), Company Grade Officer (CGO) of the Year for the 435th Medical Group (2003), CGO Physician of the Year for the United States Air Force in Europe (2003), and the Meritorious Service Medal (2005).