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

Dr. Fragala served twenty-eight years in the United States Air Force and retired in 1995 with the rank of Colonel. During his military career, Dr. Fragala served as a Flight Surgeon throughout Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era, and as Deputy Commander of the USAF Hospital, Ching Chuan Kang Air Base, Republic of China. His military awards include The Legion of Merit.

Dr. Fragala graduated from the New Jersey College of Medicine in 1968, completed residency training in Psychiatry at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, and Psychoanalytic Training at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. He is Board Certified in both Psychiatry and in Psychoanalysis. Dr. Fragala was Chief, Division of Mental Health at the Air Force Medical Centers at Andrews and Lackland Air Force Bases. He was Medical Director of the USAF Hospital at Andrews Air Force Base during Operation Desert Storm, and had overall clinical responsibility for the care of the Air Force Persian Gulf Prisoners of War. Dr. Fragala had performed in the same clinical capacity for the Iran and Beirut Hostage Returnees and was responsible for the mental health component of Operation Egress-Recap that repatriated the Vietnam Prisoners of War. Dr. Fragala served three Air Force Surgeons General as their Chief Consultant for Psychiatry and Mental Health with overall responsibility for mental health policy, programs, and personnel.

In 1995, Dr. Fragala became the Clinical Director and in 2000 the CEO of Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, Maryland’s 250 bed Maximum Security Forensic Psychiatric Hospital. There he was responsible for all clinical, financial, and administrative operations for the facility. Dr. Fragala provided testimony to the Maryland Legislature on facility operations, budget, capital projects, and a variety of mental health and forensic issues. Circuit Court testimony on individual patient issues were also his responsibility. Dr. Fragala chaired the facility’s Governing Body, Medical Executive, Performance Improvement, and Clinical Forensic Review Committees, and co-chaired the facility’s Pharmacy & Therapeutics, Infection Control, Medical Records, Ethics, and Credentials Committees. He was also Associate Editor for North America of the International Journal of Offender therapy and Comparative Criminology.

Dr. Fragala is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and received the Association’s ninth Annual Nancy C.A. Roeske, M.D. Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Medial Student Education. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences School of Medicine and a Teaching Psychoanalyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr. Fragala has published over 20 articles in peer reviewed journals, and given presentations to clinical, executive, and forensic audiences on a wide variety of subjects. Since 2005, Dr. Fragala has worked for the US Government in caring for members of the intelligence community and in performing clinical intelligence analysis.