Dr. Todd Bialowas
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Medical Director
Dr. Bialowas has a unique background of almost 30 years of medical experience, and had positions in multiple areas of medicine, including pre-hospital and hospital-based work, surgical and non-surgical experience, and military and civilian work. He also has the rare background of time spent as both a Physician and a Physician Assistant. He graduated from Miami University in 1988 with a B.S. in Business-Economics from the School of Business and immediately went into military service as a Navy Hospital Corpsman. He completed boot camp and his basic medical training at Great Lakes, IL, and then followed on for advanced training in the specialty of Otolaryngology at Balboa Naval Hospital in San Diego, CA. Dr. Bialowas was the Distinguished Honor Graduate of his ENT Technician class. While later being stationed at Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Virginia, he became interested in pre-hospital emergency medical care and became certified as an Emergency Medical Technician-Basic (EMT-B). He spent years volunteering with the Rescue Squads of Virginia Beach while finishing his Naval service, and also served as the Training Officer with Plaza Rescue Squad Station 16 in Virginia Beach. After an honorable discharge from the Navy, Dr. Bialowas continued his EMT training and became a Nationally Registered EMT-Paramedic and was then hired as a professional firefighter/ paramedic for a suburban Cleveland area fire department. During this same time, Dr. Bialowas applied to and was accepted into the Surgical Physician Assistant program at Cuyahoga Community College in Parma, Ohio. He graduated magna cum laude from that program in 1999. After working as both a FireMedic and Physician Assistant in Emergency Medicine for several years, Dr. Bialowas applied to and was accepted into medical school. He graduated from the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University in 2008. As a recipient of one of the U.S. Army’s health professions scholarships (HPSP), he did his residency in Emergency Medicine in San Antonio, TX at Brooke Army Medical Center. He was then selected by the Army for a Fellowship in Primary Care Sports Medicine in Kettering, Ohio. Dr. Bialowas held several positions in the Army, with his last being Chief of Emergency Medicine at Fort Cambell, KY. Dr. Bialowas is a decorated military veteran, having served with multiple Army and Joint Services Special Operations and Airborne units. He completed multiple overseas and combat deployments and has been a qualified Flight Surgeon for Special Operations units. He currently works part time at the Dayton VA Medical Center in Emergency Medicine and is also the Chief Tactical Medicine Physician for the Kettering Regional SWAT Team with which he has participated for almost 20 years. Dr. Bialowas has taught at medical conferences all over the world, including being lead faculty at courses in Iraq, Jordan, and Turkmenistan. He has also presented lectures at the Special Operations Medical Association (SOMA) Scientific Assembly. Always one to enjoy both playing and watching a good sporting event, Dr. Bialowas also does various sporting event coverage for Miami University as one of the Sports Medicine and Wellness Team Physician staff for football and hockey.
Education
- Army Primary Flight Surgeon, 2015, US Army School of Aerospace Medicine, Fort Rucker, Alabama
- Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship, 2012, Kettering Sports Medicine, Kettering, Ohio Allopathic
- Medical Doctor (M.D.), 2008, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
- Master of Physician Assistant Studies (MPAS), 2002, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
- Associates of Applied Science (AAS), Surgical Physician Assistant, 1999, Cuyahoga Community College, Parma, Ohio
- BS in Business-Economics, 1988, School of Business, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio