Retired Col. Jeffrey S. Yarvis, PhD, is a 35-year veteran leader in student/soldier affairs and executive medicine; a clinician; a lifelong educator; and a well-published social work and military scholar in the field of psychological trauma. Yarvis completed two master’s degrees in executive leadership and strategic studies. His awards include NASW Pioneer in Social Work, DiversityMBA.org’s Top 50 Executives Under 50, Uniformed Social Worker of the Year, U.S.

Dr. Samir Anadkat graduated from Baroda Medical College, Maharaja Sayajirao University, in 1994. After completing a one-year internship, he joined the same medical school as a junior lecturer in anatomy. While teaching first-year medical students, he completed his postgraduate training and also earned a Master of Surgery. At Medical University of the Americas (West Indies) Anadkat has taught courses on gross anatomy, histology, embryology and neuroscience as well as foundations of clinical medicine, research literature review and analysis, and various systems and diseases courses.

Jun-yuan Ji received a BSc in cell biology in 1994 from Lanzhou University and an MSc in developmental biology from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1997. He obtained a PhD in zoology from the University of Washington in 2003, studying the role of CDK1-Cyclin B in regulating the early embryonic cycles in Drosophila. From 2004 to 2009, Ji was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, where he studied mechanisms that control the G1 to S-phase cell-cycle transition.