Team
Strong Angel demonstrations are designed and performed by a globally distributed team of experts led by Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP, a former US Navy Commander. Members of the Strong Angel team include medical, military, humanitarian, and technology experts. These team members are drawn from many walks of life: public and private sectors, civilian and military, domestic and international, including engineers, UN staff, humanitarian NGO workers, academic researchers, journalists, policy makers, and active duty military officers. In addition to individually having direct operational responsibilities in Bosnia, Turkey, Rwanda, Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur, Indonesia, and the post-Katrina Gulf Coast, the team has performed two specific technology demonstrations: Strong Angel I (2000), II (2004), and III (2006).
Team Director: Until retiring from the Navy in 2007 Dr. Rasmussen served as the Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Director of the Hospitalist and Critical Care Program within Naval Medical Center Bremerton. He was also appointed Special Advisor in Humanitarian Informatics for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, as a Principal Investigator for both DARPA and the National Science Foundation, and as an Adjunct Full Professor within the College of Sciences and the School of Public Health at San Diego State University. After retiring from the Navy Dr. Rasmussen became the CEO of InSTEDD, a non-profit organization specializing in humanitarian free and open source software development, and technical capacity building in the developing world.
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