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Margaret Chamberlain Wilmoth, PhD, MSS, RN, FAAN Major General, US Army (retired) Dr. Wilmoth is a professor at the School of Nursing, UNC Chapel Hill, and a retired Major General in the US Army. Her current work is focused on health equity for military-affiliated individuals and educational equity for the military child. A special focus is on Reserve-connected children in civilian-centric schools and ensuring adequate and quality programs address their needs. She joined the faculty of the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in August 2017 as the inaugural Executive Vice Dean and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. She served as Interim Dean from January to August in 2022. She was the inaugural dean of the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions from 2012-2014. She was an early leader in examining the impact of cancer and other chronic illnesses on intimacy and sexuality. Her more recent work has examined the well-being of reserve-connected military children, psychiatric evacuation from the theater of war and deployment-related health policy. She was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in 2008 and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow 2009-2010. She is the 2023-2024 AAN/ANA/ANF Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence at the National Academy of Medicine. General Wilmoth had a concurrent career in the US Army Reserve, where she commanded units of various size and complexity, including serving as the first nurse and female commanding general of a medical brigade with responsibility for wartime readiness of all the US Army Reserve medical assets in the Southeastern United States, including Puerto Rico. In her final assignment, she was promoted to Major General and assigned to the Office of the Surgeon General, US Army, where she served as the Deputy Surgeon General for the Army Reserve. Her prior assignment was in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Health Affairs. She was appointed by the Secretary of the Army to serve two terms on the Army Reserve Forces Policy Committee. General Wilmoth is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters and earned the Expert Field Medical Badge. She is a member of the Order of Military Medical Merit.

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