Michael's Bio
Colonel (ret.) Michael Davis, MD, FACS joined Cornerstone in July 2020 as a senior consultant focusing on clients in the defense health space. Michael is recently retired, after 26 years of military service and has accumulated an extensive, rare knowledge base involving the clinical, scientific, operational and governmental programmatic domains. He has garnered numerous military and medical publications and awards, serves as a reviewer for professional journals and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.For the past seven years, Michael served in escalating Department of Defense programmatic roles as Deputy Commander, US Army Institute of Surgical Research and culminating over the past three years as Director, US Combat Casualty Care Research Program- the Department’s largest medical R&D program.
Previously, while deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom from 2009-2010, Michael served as Chief of Reconstructive Surgery. Additionally, he founded and directed the RESTOR (Restorative Endeavor for Servicemembers through Optimization of Reconstruction) Research Program in San Antonio for advanced reconstructive surgery research for injured warfighters. Michael began his career with a residency in General Surgery/Trauma at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX. During his General Surgery residency, Michael completed a research fellowship in vascular surgery at Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, TX. Michael followed on with an additional residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Michael is a California native and went to undergraduate school at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1998, he received his Medical Doctorate from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. He is also currently CEO of MD3 Multidimensional Medical Consulting.