| Name | Jon B Christensen |
| Pronouns | He/Him |
| Home Base | United States |
| Region | Washington |
| Medical Qualifications | DMSc, PA-C, CCP-C, TP-C, FAWM, FEWM, DiMM |
| Practice Level | PA |
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| Faculties | Austere Medicine |
| Bio | Dr. Jon B. Christensen is an adjunct Professor at the University of Lynchburg and a 2022 graduate of their DMSc program, receiving the inaugural Emergency Management Global Health Leadership award. He earned his Master of Physician Assistant Studies (MPAS) from the University of Nebraska, graduated from the Interservice Physician Assistant Program in 2001, and recent alumnus of the University of Oxford Executive Leadership Programme (Saïd Business School). He retired from the military after serving 32 years, where he was an early pioneer of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) and Prolonged Field Care (PFC) training. He has earned numerous awards, including the Legion of Merit, inducted into the Order of Military Medical Merit, and was named the European Physician Assistant of the Year ‘16. Dr. Christensen is the former Program Director of the NATO Special Operations Combat Medic course and the Ukrainian Paramedic Transition Program. He served more than 20 years in the U.S. Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) as both an operator and a physician assistant while holding additional duties as an Aeromedical PA (Flight Surgeon) and Hyperbaric Medical Officer (HMO). He has served on multitudinous ARSOF - counterinsurgency, foreign internal defense, humanitarian, disaster, and combat missions, earning both the Combat & Expert Field Medical and Infantryman Badges. He has taught global health and wilderness medicine on five continents. His most recent role includes working as a remote medical provider for the indigenous population in the Aleutian Islands and continuously working overseas in high-threat and remote areas. Dr. Christensen is a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM -Matterhorn Award), serves on the FAWM committee for the Wilderness Medical Society, is a Fellow of Extreme and Wilderness Medicine (FEWM), and earned the Diploma in Mountain Medicine (DiMM). He has been awarded the Certificate of Added Qualifications in Emergency Medicine (CAQ-EM), certified as a Critical Care Paramedic (CCP-C), Tactical Paramedic (TP-C), and S.E.R.E. – Level C instructor. He is also an affiliated facility for the College of Remote and Offshore Medicine (CoROM), the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (TCCC/PHTLS), and the University College Cork, Ireland. |
