Episode 18 Program Management 8X in Army Medicine Guest Microbiologist 71A MAJ Amanda Roth

An insightful discussion on Program Management 8X within Army Medicine. Join us as our distinguished guest, Microbiologist 71A MAJ Amanda Roth, delves into the intricacies of her role and shares her unparalleled expertise in the field. MAJ Amanda L. Roth was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in the suburbs outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned her Associates of Applied Science degree in Medical Laboratory Technology through the Community College of the Air Force as an enlisted airman and a Bachelor of Science degree in Clinical Laboratory Science on the Montgomery GI Bill as a civilian in 2007. MAJ Roth graduated from Creighton University in 2012 where she studied multidrug-resistant bacteria and received a PhD in Medical Microbiology and Immunology in the laboratory of Dr. Nancy Hanson.
Following her commission into the U.S. Army in 2013, MAJ Roth served in multiple positions under the Bacterial Diseases Branch at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. In 2017, she was the first scientist accepted into the Army Medical Department’s Program Management Acquisitions Internship Program at the US Army Medical Materiel Development Activity at Fort Detrick, Maryland. After completing this internship, she deployed for 11 months to U.S. Central Command as the Theater Microbiologist under 1st Medical Brigade in support of Operations Spartan Shield, Inherent Resolve, and Freedom’s Sentinel. From 2019-2021, MAJ Roth was the Director of the Infectious Disease Program at the US Army Medical Research Directorate—Africa, based in Kisumu, Kenya, where she oversaw the execution of over $25M of research, development, and surveillance activities of infectious diseases of military relevance alongside Eastern African. In addition to her graduate degree, MAJ Roth is a certified Medical Laboratory Scientist (American Society of Clinical Pathologists). She also holds Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act Practitioner certifications in Program Management and Engineering and Technology Management and is a member of the Army Acquisition Corps. MAJ Roth volunteers extensively in both the 71A and 8X Medical Acquisition communities and is currently the Graduate Education Manager for the former and the Deputy 8X Consultant for ETM to the Office of the Surgeon General for the latter. Currently MAJ Roth is the Assistant Product Manager for MC4, the Army’s Program Management Office for Operational Health Information Technology (OHIT) solutions. She is currently responsible for the orderly and deliberate closure of MC4 as well as the development of the new acquisition programming for OHIT modernization, Operational Medicine Information Systems – Army (OMIS-A).

Army Force Management 101: https://youtu.be/4mUg4YvZaoQ?si=YdHA5usg8Qojz5t_

Defense Acquisition University credentials: https://icatalog.dau.edu/onlinecatalog/CareerLvl.aspx

AMEDD Lessons learned: https://medcoe.army.mil/lessons-learned 

Amanda's research : https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/180/5/591/4161841

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