Richard Welton

Captain (Ret.) Richard Welton, MD, MHA, PhD, is senior director of Military Medical Programs at the Samueli Institute. With more than 30 years of military service in the United States Army and Navy, in both the Reserve and active duty, he was a United States Navy physician of internal medicine and rheumatology, as well as an experienced medical doctor and senior health-care administrator in both civilian and military health-care systems.

Richard Welton has been actively involved in planning, directing, coordinating, supervising, managing, and improving the delivery of diverse and complex health-care services programs for specific clinical departments, product lines, and entire facilities and systems worldwide.