Eyako Wurapa, MD, MTM&H, LTC, US Army Retired

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Gaithersburg, MD 20879

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Certifications and Licensure

Board Certified, Family Medicine (Diplomate) Active American Board of Family Medicine

Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC Medical Licenses Active Board Certified, Preventive Medicine (Diplomate) Inactive American Board of Preventive Medicine

North Carolina and Tennessee State Licenses Inactive Education

Residency, General Preventative Medicine June 2006 Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (Silver Spring, MD) Team Member, Epidemiological Consultation (EPICON) (2005) Latent Tuberculosis (Afghanistan)

Master of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene May 2005

Uniform Services University (Bethesda, MD)

Residency, Family Medicine October 2001

Martin Army Hospital (Fort Benning, GA)

Internship, Internal Medicine June 1996

Walter Reed Army Medical Center (Washington D.C.)

Doctor of Medicine May 1995

Penn State College of Medicine (Hershey, PA)

Bachelor of Science May 1990

Lebanon Valley College (Annville, PA)

Civilian Clinical Experience

Physician, Urgent Care February 2020 – Present

Patient First (Germantown, MD)

Physician, Emergency Medicine March 2017 – January 2020 Kaiser Permanente (Baltimore, MD)

Physician, Emergency Medicine April 2014 – March 2017 Med Star Prompt Care (Baltimore, MD)

Locums Physician, Urgent Care September 2014 – March 2015 Righttime Medical Center (Silver Spring, MD) via Barton Associates Locums Physician September 2010 – July 2013

Peace Corps (Nairobi, Kenya)

Provided backup coverage for the full-time physician stationed in Kenya Physician, Emergency Medicine June 2002 – July 2010 Cape Fear Valley Health Systems (Fayetteville, NC) Staff Physician, Family Medicine January 2002 – May 2004 Raeford Family Practice (Raeford, NC)

Served as contract physician between deployments with the U.S. Army Staff Physician, Urgent Care September 1997 – May 2002 Tennessee Urgent Care Associates, fka Baptist Urgent Care Center (Nashville, TN) Positions between 1997 – 2017 were held while also serving in the United States Army. Executive Experience

Franchise Owner and President June 2017 – Present

ComForCare (Gaithsburg, MD)

Manages financial and marketing operations of the franchise Founder and Team Leader, Military Tropical Medical Missions March 2017 – August 2019 Wurapa, PA. Medical Consultation Group (Ghana)

• Established Tropical Medicine Training facility in Ghana in 2007 while serving in the U.S. Military; established this company to fulfill federal contracts to continue the project after retiring in 2017

• Conducted 4 weeks of didactic training in the U.S. annually, with an average class size of 140 physicians

• Led physicians and medical students on mission trips to Ghana to continue tropical medicine training Academic Appointments

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine June 2010 – Present Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) (Bethesda, MD) Assistant Professor, Microbiology January 2002 – July 2004 Campbell University (Fort Bragg, NC)

Military Medical Experience

Tanzania Country Director, Translational Medicine July 2013 – April 2017 Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (Silver Spring, MD)

• Managed $22 million in government funds for the U.S. Army

• Approved budgets and expenses for all military operations within Tanzania and oversaw clinical drug trials Director, Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases July 2010 – July 2013 United States Army Medical Research Unit (Nairobi, Kenya)

• Managed $40 million in government funds for the U.S. Army and oversaw 400+ staff members responsible for o Monitoring respiratory infections and forwarding samples to the CDC for the development of the annual flu vaccine

o Surveilling cases of malaria, HIV and other infectious diseases to identify different strains and adjust medications for effective treatment of US military personnel Brigade Surgeon August 2006 – June 2010

95th Civil Affairs Brigade; Airborne (Fort Bragg, NC) Member, Civil Affairs Medic Curriculum Review Board (2007) Revamped course curriculum and training programs for army medics Battalion Surgeon October 2001 – July 2005

1/3 Special Forces Group; Airborne (Fort Bragg, NC & Afghanistan)

• Deployed to Afghanistan from January 2004 – June 2004

• Deployed to Afghanistan from January 2003 – July 2003

• Deployed to Afghanistan from March 2002 – October 2002 Battalion Flight Surgeon, Air Assault July 1996 – June 1999 5th Battalion 101st Van Brigade (Fort Campbell, KY) Member, Aviation Mishap Investigation Team (1998)

Investigated cause of aircraft accidents

Noteworthy Military Courses

Defense Acquisition University COR, CLC106 Section 891 2010 Captain Career Course 2009

Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive Materials (CBRNE) 2006 Preventive Medicine Management Course 2006

Military Tropical Medicine Course 2001

Airborne Course 2001

Medical Management of Nerve Agent Casualties 1996

Medical Effects of Ionizing Radiation 1996

Combat Casualty Care Course 1996

Army Medical Department Officer Basic Course 1996

Army Flight Surgeon Course 1996

Professional Memberships/Affiliations

Member, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Member, American Medical Association

Fellow, American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) Honors and Awards

America’s Best Doctor, Family Medicine 2020

The Legion of Merit 2017

Awarded to members of the Armed Forces for exceptionally meritorious conduct and outstanding service The Bronze Star 2003

Awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service in a combat zone Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Blazes DL, Bondarenko JL, Burke RL, Vest KG, Fukuda MM, Perdue CL, Tsai AY, Thomas AC, Chandrasekera RM, Cockrill JA, Von Thun AM, Baliga P, Meyers M, Quintana M, Wurapa E, Mansour MM, Dueger E, Yasuda CY, Lanata CF, Gray GC, Saylors KE, Ndip LM, Lewis S, Blair PJ, Sjoberg PA, Thomas SJ, Lesho E, Grogl M, Myers T, Ellison D, Ellis KK, Brown ML, Schoepp RJ, Shanks GD, Macalino GE, Eick-Cost AA, Russell KL, Sanchez JL. “Contributions of the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System network to global health security in 2011.” US Army Med Dept. J, April-June 2013:7-18.

Bulimo, W, Majanja, J, Njoroge, R, Achilla, R, Wurapa, E, Wadegu, M, Mukunzi, S, Mwangi, J, Njiri, J, Gachara, G.

“Impact of the Influenza A(H1N1) pdm09 Virus on the Circulation Dynamics of the Seasonal Influenza Strains in Kenya” Am J Trop Med Hyg, May 2013; 88(5): 940-945.

Tsai, AY, Dueger, E, Macalino, GE, Montano, SM, Tilley, DH, Mbuchi, M, Wurapa, EK, Saylors, K, Duplessis, CC, Puplampu, N, Garges, EC, McClelland, RS, Sanchez, JL. “The U.S. military’s Neisseria gonorrhea (GC) resistance surveillance in selected populations of five countries.” MSMR 2013 February; 20(2):25-7 Bulimo, WD, Gachara, G, Opot, BH, Murage, MW, and Wurapa, EK. “Evidence in Kenya of Reassortment Between Seasonal Influenza A(H3N2) and Influenza A(H1N1) pdm09 to yield A(H3N2) Variants with the Matrix Gene Segment of A(H1N1) pdm09.” African Journal of Pharmacology and Theraputics 2012. 1(1):1-7. Blazes, DL, Bondarenko, JL, Burke, RL, Vest, KG, Fukuda, MM, Perdue, CL, Tsai, AY, Thomas, AC, Chandrasekera, RM, Cockrill, JA, Von Thun, AM, Baliga, P, Meyers, M, Quintana, M, Wurapa, E, Mansour, MM, Dueger, E, Yasuda, CY, Lanata, CF, Gray, GC, Saylors, KE, Ndip, LM, Lewis, S, Blair, PJ, Sjoberg, PJ, Thomas, SJ, Lesho, EP, Grogl, M, Myers, T, Ellison, D, Ellis, KK, Brown, ML, Randal Schoepp, G. Dennis Shanks, Grace E Macalino, Angelia A Eick- Cost, Kevin L Russell and Jose L Sanchez. “Contributions of the GEIS Network to Global Health Security in 2011.” MS 7055950767202985. 2011

Sanchez, JL, Agan, BK, Tsai, AY, Macalino, GE, Wurapa, E, Mbuchi, M, Dueger, E, Chisholm-Horton, K, Montano- Torres, SM, Tilley, DH, Saylors, KE, Puplampu, N, Duplessis, CC, Harrison, DJ, Putnam, SD, Garges, EC, Espinosa, BJ, Dejli, J, Meyers, M, Yingst, SL, Jerse, AE, Nsouli-Maktabi, HH, Burke, RL, Gaydos, JC, Jordan, NN, Hsu, K and Tramont, EM. “Sexually-Transmitted Infections in the United States Military: Non-HIV Surveillance Efforts and Need for Concerted Action.”

Published Abstracts

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Oral Presentations at Professional Meetings

Sanchez, JL, Chandrasekera, RM, Macalino, GE, Sebeny, PJ, Montano, SM, Mbuchi, M, Agan, BK, Chisholm, KV, Gregory, MJ, Wurapa, EK, Blazes, DL, and Russell, KL, for the DoD’s GC Resistance Surveillance Network. U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) N. gonorrhea (GC) Global Resistance Surveillance Network. Oral presentation at the 12th International Union against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI) World Congress, New Delhi, India, 3 November 2011 (Abstract No. O14)

Chandrasekera, R, Blazes, D, Agan, B, Macalino, G, Montano, S, Mbuchi, M, Schnabel, D, Wurapa, K, Gaydos, J, Sanchez, JL. “Gonorrhea Resistance Patterns Worldwide”. Oral presentation at the 1st Armed Forces Public Health Conference, Hampton Roads, VA, 22 March 2011.

Poster and/or CD Presentations at Professional Meetings Obonyo, M, Ofula, V, Fidhow, A, Arvelo, W, Omolo, J, Abade, A, Fields, B, Oundo, J, Wurapa, K, Njenga, K, Montgomery, J. “Outbreak of Dengue fever-North Eastern Kenya, 2011.” Saylors, KE, Ortiz, N, Papworth, EM, Tamoufe, U, Djoko, CF, Schneider, BS, Wurapa, EK, Sanchez, JL, Fair, JN, Wolfe, ND. “Human influenza surveillance in Cameroon: Differences in symptoms and seasonality by subtype.” Global Viral Forecasting, San Francisco, CA

Ochieng, C, Ofula1, V, Limbaso, S, Makio, A, Koskei, E, Musila, L, Khamadi, S, Wurapa, EK, Sang, R. “Co- Circulation of Multiple Serotypes of Dengue Virus In Somalia, 2011:” United States Army Medical Research Unit – Kenya; 2KEMRI/United States Army Medical Research Unit – Kenya Ofula, V, Ochieng, C, Limbaso, S, Obonyo, M, Fidhow, A, Bii, E, Koskei, E, Omolo, J, Oundo, J, Arvelo, W, Abade, A, Wurapa, E, Sang, R. “Laboratory Confirmed Dengue-3 Virus Outbreak In Mandera, Northern Kenya, 2011” Wadegu, M, Bulimo, WD, Achilla, RA, Majanja, J, Mukunzi, S, Osuna, F, Njiri, J, Opot, B, Schnabel, DC, Wurapa, EK.

“Molecular Antiviral Susceptibility Testing of Seasonal Influenza A Virus Isolates obtained in Kenya in the year 2008- 2009.” Affiliations: Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya with secondment to the U.S. Army Medical Research Unit – Kenya; U.S. Army Medical Research Unit – Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya. Nzunza, R, Achilla, R, Schnabel, D, Majanja, J, Wadegu, M, Mukunzi, S, Osuna, F, Njiri, J, Opot, B, Wurapa, E, and Bulimo, W. “Viral Etiologies of Influenza-Like-Illnesses in Kenya; January 2007 to December 2010.” Wurapa, K, Oluoch, D, Kambi, J, Abdirizak, M, Bartonjo, G, Lumbaso, S. “An Acute Febrile Illness Outbreak Investigation In Malindi, Kenya, December, 2010.”

Mukunzi, S, Achilla, R, Schnabel, D, Majanja, J, Mwangi, J, Wadegu, M, Osuna, F, Njir, J, Opot, B, Wurapa, E and Bulimo, W. “Detection and Distribution of human Enteroviruses in Kenya (July 2006- July 2011)” Kiptinness, JK, Wamunyokoli, F, Wurapa, E, Bulimo, W. “Molecular characterization of HPIV1 in infants attending Mbagathi District Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.”

Wadegu, M, Bulimo, W, Achilla, R, Majanja, J, Mukunzi, S, Osuna, F, Njiri, J, Opot, B, Schnabel, D, Wurapa, E.

“Molecular antiviral susceptibility testing of Influenza A virus isolates obtained in Kenya in the year 2008-2009.” Opot, B, Osuna, F, Wadegu, M, Achilla, R, Wurapa, E and Bulimo, W. “Molecular and phylogenetic analysis of the hemagglutinin gene of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 Virus in Kenya.” Majanja, J, Bulimo, W, Achilla, R, Wadegu, M, Mukunzi, S, Mwangi, J, Njiri, J, and Wurapa, E. “What influence did the H1N1 pandemic have on the temporal and seasonal distribution of other types circulating in Kenya?” Wangui, J, Nokes, J, Wurapa, E, and Bulimo, W. “Prevalence of acute respiratory infections caused by influenza, RSV and Adeno viruses in Kenya in 2007-2008.”

Nzunza, R, Wurapa, E, and Bulimo, W. “Molecular Detection of Human Metapneumoviruses circulation in Kenya in the year 2008.”

Achilla, R, Bulimo, W, and Wurapa, E. “Adenoviruses- A Kenyan perspective.” Majanja, J, Bulimo, W, Achilla, R, Wadegu, M, Mukunzi, S, Mwangi, J, Wangui, J, Osuna, F, Nyambura, J, Benjamin Opot and Eyako K. Wurapa “Molecular Characterization of Human Influenza B Viruses circulating in Kenya during the Period 2008 – 2009.”

Mitei, K, Bulimo, W, Achilla, R, Majanja, J, Wadegu, M, Mukunzi, S, Mwangi, J, Wangui, J, Opot, B, Osuna, F, Njiri, J and Wurapa, E. “Human Parainfluenza Viruses Infections in Children, Kenya (2007 – 2011).” Opot, B, Osuna, F, Wadegu, M, Achilla, R, Majanja, J, Wurapa, E. and Wallace Bulimo “Divergent Evolution of Genes in Recent Influenza A (H3N2) Viruses Isolated in Kenya.” Omariba, DM, Akala, HM, Owira, V, Ndung’u, FK, Koech, M, Eyase, FL, Andagalu, B, Wanja, E, Bulimo, WD, Waitumbi, JN, Muthigani, L, Wurapa, E. “Five - Year DEID Surveillance of Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases in Kenya.” a United States Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya, Walter Reed Project, MRU 64109, APO, AE 09831-4109, USA

Saylors, KE, Ortiz, N, Papworth, EM, Tamoufe, U, Djoko, CF, Schneider, BS, Wurapa, EK, Sanchez, JL, Fair, JN, Wolfe, ND. “Human influenza surveillance in Cameroon: Differences in symptoms and seasonality by subtype.” Poster presentation at the American Public Health Association’s 139th Annual Mtg, Washington, DC, 1 November 2011

(Abstract No. 238313).

Saylors, KE, Ortiz, N, Papworth, EM, Tamoufe, U, Djoko, CF, Schneider, BS, Wurapa, EK, Sanchez, JL, Fair, JN, Wolfe, ND. “Human influenza surveillance in Cameroon: Differences in symptoms and seasonality by subtype.” Poster presentation at the 3rd African Network for Influenza Surveillance & Epidemiology (ANISE), Nairobi, Kenya, 1-3 February 2012 (Poster No. 33).

Presentations

The economic cost of the Malaria Outbreak in US Marines deployed to Liberia in 2003 August 2010 MTM (Kintampo, Ghana)

How to Develop a Clinical Tropical Medicine Program: Lessons from Kintampo, Ghana December 2009 Special Operations Medical Association Meeting (Tampa, FL) Malaria, combating an old age epidemic while looking at a new epidemic October 2007 Tropical Medicine Society of Washington DC: George Washington University What the CA Medic should know about Gastroenteritis February 2007 BDE Lecture Series (Fort Bragg, NC)

What the CA Medic should know about Leishmaniasis December 2006 BDE Lecture Series (Fort Bragg, NC)

What the CA Medic should know about Malaria November 2006 BDE Lecture Series (Fort Bragg, NC)

Practicing Medicine in Africa September 2006

Tropical Medicine Society of Washington DC: George Washington University Investigation of a Potential Outbreak of Latent Tuberculosis May 2006 Infection in Soldiers Deployed to Afghanistan

Uniformed Services University Research Day (Bethesda, MD) Authors: Keep LW, Yacovone M, Mott PJ, Tobler SK, White DW, Wurapa EK Research Grants and Clinical Trials

INVOLVEMENT IN ONGOING PROJECTS

Retrospective, 10-year Epidemiologic Assessment of the Association October 2013 – Present of Bacterial Vaginosis with Chlamydia Trachomatis and Neisseira Gonorrhoea infections and subsequent Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Risk among U.S. Army Active Duty Military Personnel (2003-2012) Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center - Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (AFHSC-WRAIR) Funding received for FY14 for ~$17,000 annually

• Principal Activities/Objectives

o To determine associations between bacterial Vaginosis and other common military STIs such as CT/NG infections

o To estimate incidence and risk factors for repeat CT/NG infections o To assess potential deployment-associated increased risk for CT/NG infections o To estimate incidence and timing of PID post CT/NG infections Capacity Building and Outbreak Response Pillar October 2013 – September 2014 Local and Central Coordination of Capacity Building Efforts in Support of the DoD Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center - Global Emerging Infection Surveillance (AFHSC-GEIS) Funding received in the amount of $6.3 million for FY14

• Served as lead for GEIS-directed capacity building and outbreak response activities in the U.S. military for the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Coordinated ~40 projects in support of US military medical authorities as well as host country medical authorities by assisting in efforts to

o Implement surveillance systems

o Develop training programs for infectious diseases o Set up local laboratory and human resource capacity o Support outbreak response activities by collaborating with laboratories and civilian partners from ~70 countries worldwide

Sexually-Transmitted Illnesses Pillar Program October 2010 – September 2014 Local and Central Coordination of STI Surveillance Efforts in Support of the DoD Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center - Global Emerging Infection Surveillance (AFHSC-GEIS) Funding received for FY11-FY14 between $350,000 - $1.8 million annually

• Oversaw multi-partner network and coordinated sexually-transmitted infections (STI) surveillance efforts in the US military at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center – Global Emergency Infection Surveillance

(AFHSC-GEIS)

• Principal Activities/Objectives

o Provided AFHSC/GEIS-directed program with focused efforts on gonorrhea, chlamydia, human papilloma virus and other non-HIV STI pathogens

o Coordinated 15 projects involving clinical, microbiologic, antibiotic resistance and vaccine-related assessments of the impact of STIS among US military, foreign military and civilian high-risk groups in 6 regions of the world (United States, South America, Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and the Far East)

INVOLVEMENT IN COMPLETED PROJECTS

Influenza & Respiratory Illnesses Pillar Program October 2006 – September 2011 Local and Central Coordination of Influenza Surveillance & Preparedness Efforts in Support of the DoD Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center - Global Emerging Infection Surveillance (AFHSC-GEIS) Funding received for FY06-FY11 between $20.5 - $23.4 million annually

• Oversaw multi-partner network and coordinated respiratory surveillance efforts in the US military at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)

• Effectively managed $20-$23 million annual budget between FY06-11 to ensure the provision of central core capability and dedicated personnel in respiratory diseases

• Principal Activities/Objectives

o Established Respiratory Diseases Department under the Division of GEIS Operations to support effective communication and coordination strategies between DoD partners and civilian agencies o Used available resources as rapidly and as effectively as possible to improve routine influenza, as well as other respiratory pathogen surveillance and response-related initiatives by DoD globally o Conducted and coordinated human-based, syndromic-based and laboratory-based surveillance activities for acute respiratory illnesses and/or influenza-like syndromes, especially among US military and other DoD health care populations

o Performed other respiratory disease research, training, response, and surveillance efforts

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