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ACGME Accreditation Field Representative
John D. Roscelli, MD

John D. Roscelli, MD, earned a BA in Physics from the University of the Pacific in his home town of Stockton, California. He earned his MD at the University of Washington, during which time he was also enrolled in the US Army Senior Medical Program. After graduation, he served his pediatric internship and residency at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. He completed his pediatric nephrology fellowship at the Los Angeles Children’s Hospital and UCLA Medical School.


Dr. Roscelli has had a variety of military assignments including staff pediatrician at the 2nd General Hospital (US Army) at Landstuhl, Germany, and Chief of Pediatrics at US Army Hospital, Augsburg, Germany. Recently he served as Chief and Pediatric Program Director at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) at Ft Sam Houston, TX from 1991 to 2002, and as a Consultant in Pediatrics to the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army from 1999 to 2003. Dr. Roscelli was Dean of Graduate Medical Education (DIO) and Chief Operating Officer of San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium from 2001 to 2005, where he served as Designated Institutional Official. He held the title of Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio.


Dr. Roscelli is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrology. He has served in a number of professional societies, including the International Pediatric Nephrology Association, the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology, the Association of Pediatric Program Directors, the American Academy of Pediatrics Executive Committee. He has also held various hospital committee and consultative positions. His military awards include the National Defense Service Medal 1972, 1982, 1992, the Order of Military Medical Merit 1989, the Meritorious Service Medal in 1986, 1991 and 1994, and the Legion of Merit Medal in 2003 and 2005. He has conducted extensive research, has published extensively and given numerous presentations in pediatrics.


Dr. Roscelli retired from the Army after 34 years of service in October of 2005 and joined the Accreditation Field Staff of the ACGME in December of 2005. He resides in Redmond, Oregon.