Lisa Zacher
Colonel Lisa L . Zacher is an active duty Army pulmonary/critical care physician with more than 18 years of military service. She holds board certification in internal medicine, pulmonary and critical care medicine.
As the chief of the department of medicine at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, Col. Zacher’s oversees 11 clinical services, five residency/fellowship training programs and more than 500 employees.
Recently deployed with the 28th and 86th Combat Support Hospital to Baghdad, Iraq, she is the recipient of the prestigious “A” Proficiency Designator, a member of the Order of Military Medical Merit, a graduate of Command and General Graduate School and the recipient of numerous teaching awards. Col. Zacher has published numerous articles and presented at national and international meetings in both pulmonary/critical care and academic medicine. In addition to her Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment she has served as the MEDCAP physician for two Joint Task Force MIA missions to Laos and humanitarian/disaster training missions to Maldives, Christmas Island and Johnston Atoll.
Col. Zacher graduated from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota, with a B.S. degree in chemistry and then attended medical school at the University of South Dakota.