Donald C. Arthur, M.D., J.D., served a 33-year career in the U.S. Navy which culminated in appointment as Vice Admiral and 35th Surgeon General of the Navy. Dr. Arthur is a board-certified preventive medicine physician, also residency trained and board certified in emergency medicine. During his military career, he was a Navy saturation diver, jumpmaster parachutist, and flight surgeon. He is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Massachusetts School of Law, where he is now an adjunct professor. He is licensed in Massachusetts to practice both medicine and law.