Gregory Anderson, MD, has for the last eight years worked for the U. S. Army in the Department of Family Medicine at Joint Base Fort Lewis-McCord, WA. His job has been to provide primary medical care for soldiers deploying to and returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as their families. Now in his 40th year of medical practice, Dr. Anderson grew up in the Mid-West in the 50s during the Korean conflict and was educated during the Vietnam conflict. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1967 with a BA in Asian History. He attended the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, graduating in 1971. He interned in Pediatrics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Then the Vietnam conflict caught up with him. He was drafted as a Navy doctor and spent two years on a submarine tender in San Diego, Portland and Bremerton. He has lived in the Northwest since 1975, spending 20 years in solo family practice before he began working for the Department of Defense. He is married. He and his wife Beth have six children, three boys and three girls. He will be presenting a paper on the care of military personnel returning from Middle East wars with post traumatic stress syndrome and severe disabilities incurred in battle and roadside bombings. His paper will address how in turn those who treat the devastating mental and physical injuries suffer post traumatic stress syndrome.