Royce Moser, Jr., BA '57, MD '61, MPH '65

Dr. Moser is a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health.  He spent 23 years in the United States Air Force, working in aerospace, occupational, and environmental medicine programs.  His assignments included commander of medical facilities in peacetime and in combat environments, Medical Officer Special Weapons Defense for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), and director of all aeromedical education programs in the Air Force.  His final assignment was Commander, USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, at the time an organization of over 900 members with over 80% of its $30 million budget in research and development activities.  As a flight surgeon, he accumulated over 2,000 hours of flight time, including 144 combat hours, in over 30 different types of aircraft. 

He is currently a Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, and is the immediate past Director of the Department's Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, one of 16 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Education and Research Centers.  He has been in charge of major National Institutes of Health and Air Force epidemiologic research programs and has directed manufacturing facility occupational medical programs.  Dr. Moser has had a strong interest in education and served as Director of the USAF Aerospace Medicine Primary Course and aeromedical continuing education courses as well as director of residency programs in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, and general preventive medicine.  His current major teaching emphasis is on management of health and safety programs, and he teaches graduate and continuing education courses on the topic. He also has published a number of papers and one textbook, currently in its third edition, on this subject. 

Dr. Moser additionally has interests in disaster and terrorism response planning, and he published the article, “Preparing for Expected Bioterrorism Attacks,” in May 2001, a few months before the anthrax events in the fall of that year.  In 2002, he developed the online education program, “Bioterrorism Responses by Health Care Professionals,” prepared under auspices of the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.  He has published additional disaster response articles, using his experience in simulated and actual mass casualty incidents to stress the importance of the “4 Cs + 1” of Command and Control, Communication, Coordination, and Contingencies in response planning.  He was the lead author of the Utah Medical Surge Capacity Plan and recently developed a proposal for a Regional Homeland Defense Medical Center that would involve the State of Utah, the Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Medicals Center, the University of Utah, and Intermountain Health Care. 

Dr. Moser is a past trustee of the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) and a past member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s Preventive Medicine Residency Review Committee.  He is past president of the Aerospace Medical Association, and is certified by the ABPM in Aerospace Medicine and in Occupational Medicine.