Dr. Rumm serves as the Director of Policy (HOME) where he oversees several complex national programs dealing with environmental issues and health concerns for Veterans that include those dealing with Agent Orange, Gulf War Illness, and improving the registry exam process. Dr. Rumm is a pediatrician and board-certified preventive medicine physician. He came to VA from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) where he held senior positions including as a Deputy Director of DSORD – the largest medical device review division and helped lead several patient safety and device approval process improvements. He has worked in 43 countries and lived in five. Dr. Rumm graduated from the Medical College of Georgia and received a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from the University of Washington. He is a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) and a member of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). He has served in leadership positions for ACPM, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP). Dr. Rumm has also attained Advanced Standing in the American College of Physician Executives. He also served for six years on the national Residency Review Committee for Preventive Medicine and has had three faculty appointments and currently teaches at the Uniformed Services University. He is a graduate of LVA 2017 and served as the chair for communications for its alumni association. Dr. Rumm was formerly the State of Wisconsin’s Chief Medical Officer and State Epidemiologist in the Division of Public Health. He later served as an Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Director, Center for Public Health Readiness and Communication, Drexel School of Public Health, Philadelphia. While at Drexel, Dr. Rumm served on the Board of Directors, of the Mercy Health Care System as the only physician member and led patient safety and health care information improvement efforts. He has served on other boards including as a CDC special employee on the National Advisory Committee on Children and Terrorism, the National Patient Safety Foundation, Rotary International (Chapter President), and led the environmental health section of the first DHS National Disaster Response Plan. Currently, he is on the board of directors of the Johns Hopkins affiliated Tropical Medicine Society of Baltimore and serves as a voting delegate in the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). Dr. Rumm’s former professional positions include: 1) Chief, Division of Epidemiology, US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine in Landstuhl, Germany; 2) Officer in Charge, Canal Zone Health Care Clinics, Panama (where he also provided medical oversight of Cuban Refugee Camps). He has also served as a part-time editor for the Office of the US Surgeon General at FDA and served on a detail at the Deputy Assistant Secretary Office for HHS leading a Congressional Report on Health Care Acquired Infections. Dr. Rumm’s awards have included: a Columbus State University lifetime alumni achievement award, an Order of Malta Award for military service from the government of Italy, a commendation for exemplary service from the Lithuanian government, and various US military awards. Dr. Rumm has several dozen professional publications and two book chapters. He is interested especially in research work involving Gulf War Illness and related topics and leads a large project to define this clinically for the first time. He has lectured extensively in domestic and international venues on many topics related to his public health work. Dr. Rumm in his off-duty hours, is also an accomplished IAABO certified basketball official working games up to the high school level.