Major Courtney J. Hayes, MD, MPH

Chair: Dr Courtney Hayes

• Professional qualifications: ABPM certified in Aerospace, Occupational, and Preventive Medicine; U.S. Army Senior Flight Surgeon; Diplomate in Mountaineering Medicine 
• Associate Fellow for one year
• Past activities/offices held in AsMA or the AFG: Member, History and Archives Committee (2016-2018) 
Brief Biography:
Courtney Hayes is a 23-year veteran of the United States Army. He currently serves as the Command Flight Surgeon of the 4th Infantry Division’s Combat Aviation Brigade and is the senior Aerospace Medicine Specialist for Fort Carson, Colorado. Since 2013, MAJ Hayes has been an Assistant Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine with the national faculty of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He also serves as an instructor with the Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute. MAJ Hayes is an active member of other professional organizations such as the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the Wilderness Medicine Society. He served as the Vice President for Membership for a chapter of the Army Aviation Association of America, and was recognized as the Top Super-Chapter Recruiter and second overall membership recruiter for 2016. In conjunction with his official duties, MAJ Hayes invests time in the professional development and career management of up-and-coming medical professionals. When not working, he likes to spend time tending plants and animals at a local Colorado farm, and riding horses with his beloved wife Juli. 

Personal Statement 
I have been a Life Member of AsMA since 2013, and a proud member of the Associate Fellows Group since 2018. I aspire to eventually advance to full Fellow status, but in the meantime I look to make full use of the opportunities afforded by the AFG. The more robust that the AFG is, the greater the benefit to each individual Associate Fellow. I would be honored to be part of bringing new Associate Fellows into the AFG, and helping current fellows ascend to full Fellow status.

Deputy Chair: Dr Susan Fondy

Dr Susan Fondy

COL Susan Fondy, MC, USA, is president of the newly reorganized Society of U.S. Army Flight Surgeons, which merged with the Army Aviation Medical Association this year and became the U.S. Army’s constituent organization in AsMA.

She has just recently been promoted to become the Chief Surgeon of the U.S. Army National Guard, National Guard Bureau, Arlington, VA. She is also a Member-at-Large on the Council of AsMA, the chair of the Education and Training Committee, and a member of several other committees within AsMA. 
   COL Fondy received her Bachelor of Science in 1989 from the State University of New York, Binghamton. She earned her M.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine in 1994. She then did her Pediatric residency in 1997 at the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond. She received her Master of Public Health in 2011 from UTMB, Galveston, TX. She did her Aerospace Medicine Residency at the Naval Aeromedical Institute, Naval Air Station Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
   COL Fondy served three tours in Afghanistan, including Brigade Surgeon, 10th Sustainment BDE, 10th MTN DIV (LI), Fort Drum, NY, and Bagram, Afghanistan, 2004–2007; Battalion Flight Surgeon, 1-101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (AASLT), Fort Campbell, KY, and FOB Salerno Afghanistan, 2007–2009; and Brigade Surgeon, Task Force Observe, Detect, Identify, Neutralize, Bagram, Afghanistan, 2013–2014. She also served one tour in Iraq as Chief of Primary Care, 21st Combat Support Hospital, 1st Medical Brigade, Tikrit, Iraq, 2009–2010. She was Chief, Flight Physical Review and Disposition, U.S. Army Aeromedical Activity, Fort Rucker, AL, 2014–2015, and Command Surgeon, 3rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command, Fort Bragg, NC, 2015–2017.
   An Associate Fellow of AsMA, COL Fondy is a member of the Army Aviation Association of America, the Association of Aerospace Medicine Specialists, and the Space Medicine Association. Her honors and awards include the Bronze Star Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, five Meritorious Service Medals, the Theodore Lyster Flight Surgeon of the Year for 2014 and the Army Aviation Association of America Medicine Award (Flight Surgeon of the Year, 2008), two Air Medals, and the Army  Commendation Medal.