Dr. Lollis was born in the winter of 1962 and grew up in Central
Oklahoma. He was educated at the
University of Oklahoma (Norman Campus) where he earned a B.S. in zoology in
1987. He received his medical school training
at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Oklahoma City and
Tulsa. He graduated in June 1991.
He then received his rotating internship training at Naval Hospital
Portsmouth, Virginia, and graduated from this in June 1992. After a three-year assignment with the US
Navy in Idaho Falls, Idaho as the senior medical officer of the Branch Naval
Clinic, Idaho Falls, he returned to the University of Oklahoma College of
Medicine, Tulsa, to complete his residency.
He completed his family medicine residency in June of 1997 and transferred
to the US Air Force.
While at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana, during
1997-2000 he was a staff family practice physician and deployed to the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia from fall 1998-winter of 1999.
Dr. Lollis practiced as a family practice physician with the Air Force
and Air National Guard until the summer of 2003. He then pursued flight surgeon training at
Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, graduating in the winter of
2003. His first assignment as a flight
surgeon was at Fairchild AFB, WA where he was a flight surgeon with the 92d
Aerial Refueling Wing beginning in the winter of 2003.
During that three year assignment he deployed once to Al Udeid Air
Base, Qatar and twice to Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan.
Dr. Lollis then earned a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree at the
University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston in the summer of 2007. He was then sent to the United States Air
Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks City-Base in San Antonio, Texas
where he trained in two additional residency programs:
aerospace and occupational medicine, graduating in June 2009.
Dr. Lollis then served as a Squadron Commander of aerospace medicine
squadrons, first at the 48th Fighter Wing at Royal Air Force Base Lakenheath,
England, from 2009-2011 and then at the 2d Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force
Base, Louisiana, from 2011-2013.
Dr. Lollis’s last assignment was as the leader of the Initial Flying
Class/Medical Flight Screening Branch at the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine
from July 2013-June 2016. He deployed a
last time in the spring of 2014 to Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan. He retired effective 30 June 2016 as a
Colonel, USAF, and Senior Flight Surgeon.
During his career he was awarded the Air Medal, five Meritorious Service
Medals and flew, as and Air Force flight crew member (flight surgeon), a total
of 597 flight hours(152 combat). He is
the author of seven scientific papers.
After his retirement from the military in June 2016, he accepted a
position as the consultant in occupational and environmental medicine clinic at
Virginia Mason Memorial Hospital in Yakima, Washington. He is board certified in family, aerospace,
and occupational medicine. He is a life
member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He
shares his life with his wife, Lori, and his four children.
