Interim Associate Dean for Regional Education
Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Brooke Army Medical Center
Lt Col (Dr) David Lindholm is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Interim Associate Dean for Regional Education, San Antonio Region, at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS).
He graduated from Cedarville University with a Bachelor of Science and commissioned into the US Air Force through the Reserve Officer Training Corps in 2007. In 2011, he earned his Doctor of Medicine from USUHS, where he was the valedictorian and elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He completed both his residency in internal medicine (2014) and fellowship in infectious disease (2016) at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC). After serving as an attending physician for two years at Wright-Patterson Medical Center in Dayton, OH, he returned to San Antonio in 2018 as the site director for the USUHS internal medicine clerkship at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC). From 2021-2023, he was also the medical director of BAMC’s antimicrobial stewardship program, an IDSA Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence. He was appointed to the Dean’s Staff in 2023.
Additionally, he serves as core faculty for the SAUSHEC Infectious Disease Fellowship and Internal Medicine Residency. He conducts faculty development across the Military Health System, has been a recurring lecturer for several military infectious disease courses, and has received multiple teaching awards. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the IDSA and a member of the IDSA’s Medical Education Community of Practice. He was previously the president of the Armed Forces Infectious Diseases Society.
Dr Lindholm has served as an investigator on several COVID-19 protocols, including the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial. He has over 35 publications, and his research interests include COVID-19, emerging infectious diseases, travel/tropical medicine, and medical education.