Center of Excellence DMHA

Staff Information

Dennis McCoola Dennis V. McCoola
Medical Program Specialist

Dennis McCoola joined the Center for Excellence in October 2007 as part of the Medical Unit team. Dennis has extensive experience in medical operations and planning as a Medical Service Corps officer in the US Army Active and Reserve Components over a twenty seven year period. He played a key role in numerous exercises within the US Pacific Command area of responsibility in Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and Malaysia.

He arrived in Hawaii in 1978 to serve on active duty as an Infantry Battalion Medical Platoon Leader with the US Army’s 25^th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks. As a Reserve Officer he served as a medical detachment commander, brigade-level adjutant, medical operations officer, and a Command and General Staff College instructor. He retired from the Army Reserve in 2005 as a Lieutenant Colonel after commanding Detachment 2, 1984^th US Army Hospital, at Tripler Army Medical Center.

In addition to his military background, Dennis has over twenty five years of private industry experience in management and business-to-business sales. Early in his business career, he worked as a technical marketing advisor in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia for an international supplier of construction tools and fastening systems technology.

Dennis has an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Shippensburg University in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. Since 1997 he has held an adjunct faculty position at Hawaii Pacific University where he teaches an undergraduate management class in the College of Business Administration.