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Executive officer and clinical assistant professor who received her PhD from the University of Maryland in 2022 and her MSW through the Army-Fayetteville State University program in 2010.  LTC McNish has over 20 years of military service, including 3 combat deployments to Iraq. She enlisted into the Army in 1999 and later enrolled in ROTC at Rutgers University where she was commissioned as a distinguished military graduate in 2006. Her key duty assignments Medical Platoon leader, Executive Officer, and Acting Commander for the Headquarters Battery, 2-15 Field Artillery at Fort Drum, NY from 2006-2009; Behavioral Health Officer, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team at Camp Casey, Korea from 2013-2014; Chief of Family Advocacy Program, Fort Drum, NY from 2014-2016; Officer-in-Charge, Combat Operational Stress Detachment-Forward, Baghdad, Iraq in 2015; Deputy and Chief of Behavioral Health, Fort Belvoir Community Hospital 2016-2019. LTC McNish areas of interest include macro social work, military mental health; disparities in health and health service use; and the social determinants of behavioral health.