Interim Director

Deployment Health Clinical Center

Dr. Kate McGraw is the interim director of the Deployment Health Clinical Center, one of three centers of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE).

McGraw was previously DHCC’s associate director of psychological health clinical care where she led a team of subject matter experts to review evidence-based psychological health literature, identify gaps in policy, research and treatment, and use evidence to resolve scientific, clinical and operational psychological health problems in the Military Health System.

McGraw was the DoD co-lead for the VA/DoD Integrated Mental Health Strategy, Strategic Action 28 Task Group, which focused on the mental health needs of female service members and veterans, and sexual assault and harassment victims of both genders.  She is also the lead for the DoD Sexual Assault Advisory Group to the Psychological Health Council. 

McGraw’s military experience included serving as one of the first female U.S. Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile launch officers. She served as aerospace psychologist for the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program and flight commander of mental health, and was chief of the deployed team that provided operational mental health support for the Department of Defense Port Mortuary during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. 

Highlights of McGraw’s experience in the civilian sector include adjunct professor at Washington College, management consultant at a large psychiatric hospital, director of integrated behavioral health services at a primary care clinic for an underserved Latino population, and co-developer of Delaware’s first suicide prevention plan. 

McGraw received her bachelor’s degree in piano from the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford; her master’s degree in human services from the University of Great Falls; and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Texas Southwestern (UTSW) Medical Center at Dallas.

Chief of Staff

Deployment Health Clinical Center

Daniel J. Bullis serves as the chief of staff for the Deployment Health Clinical Center, a component center of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury.

Bullis served for more than 31 years in the U.S. Army Medical Department culminating with selection as the first senior enlisted advisor to the Army surgeon general and the first Army Medical Department regimental sergeant major. Throughout his military career, Bullis served in a variety of health care administrative and operational leadership positions, to include commandant of the 30th Medical Group leadership course in Ludwigsburg, Germany, Army Reserve and National Guard medical advisor in Ft. Buchanan, Puerto Rico, and operations and training manager for the 30th Medical Group. As a combat medic, Bullis served in the 24th Evacuation Hospital in Long Binh, Vietnam, where he managed the operation of three hospital wards and helped activate a drug detoxification center in Cam Rahn Bay.

Upon retirement, Bullis was the chief operating officer of an international marketing group focusing on delivering environmentally healthy products to companies in the Pacific Rim. In 1996, Bullis was invited to return to the Army Medical Department to establish a program for Gulf War veterans at the Gulf War Health Center. The Gulf War Health Center transitioned to the Deployment Health Clinical Center in 1999 and Bullis was instrumental in numerous contributions to improve the health, well-being and post-deployment recovery of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.

Bullis has a bachelor’s degree in management/human resources from Park University in Parkville, Missouri. His military education includes the Army Medical Department Basic Officers Course, Basic and Advanced Health Risk Communication Training, Army Training Management System Course, Medical Non-Commissioned Officer Advanced Course, First Sergeants Course, Army Sergeants Major Academy, Army Practical Nurse Course and Chemical Biological and Radiological Course. Bullis received numerous military awards and decorations, to include the Legion of Merit, Army Medical Department Regimental Award of Excellence in Allied Health Care, Order of Military Medical Merit, Department of the Army Staff Identification Badge, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, Republic of Vietnam Civil Action Medal Unit Citation, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation with Palm and the Army Medical Department 30 Year Medallion. 

Bullis was recognized as volunteer of the year by the Washington D.C. Chapter of the Citizen Ability Network. He is currently the chairman of the Montgomery County Commission on Veterans Affairs, the commander of the American Legion Post in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the vice president for warrior and family relations for the Walter Reed Society in Washington, D.C.  He is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans.