About Us: Staff Bios

Ken Koyle joined the staff of the National Library of Medicine as the Deputy Chief of the History of Medicine Division in August of 2012. He previously held a similar position in the US Army Medical Department (AMEDD) Center of History and Heritage, an organization he helped to establish in 2010 and in which he was responsible with the chief of the Center for supervision of an 18-person staff of history, archives, and museum personnel and administration of a $2.1M annual budget, as well as historical research in support of AMEDD and the Office of the Surgeon General.

Prior to his tenure at AMEDD, Ken was a Medical History Fellow at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, where he received his master's degree in history. Ken also holds a master's degree in adult education from Pennsylvania State University.

Ken also served with distinction as Director of the Medical Evacuation Doctrine Course at the US Army School of Aviation Medicine, where he conducted analysis of the doctrine and training requirements of the military’s medical evacuation systems.

Ken is a retired Army officer with more than 25 years of uniformed service.

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Images of America: US National Library of Medicine, co-edited with Jeffrey S. Reznick, and in cooperation with staff of the National Library of Medicine, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2017.

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“Expanding the Legacy: The National Library of Medicine Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine” with Jeffrey S Reznick, in Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal, 18(5), 2022 (PMCID: PMC9733148).

“The Promise of Pathways in Public Service” with Jeffrey S. Reznick in Experience Magazine, May 12, 2022.

“History with Heart—and Impact: The National Library of Medicine Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine” with Jeffrey S. Reznick, in Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal, 17(5), 2021 (PMCID: PMC8679981).

“History matters: in the past, present & future of the NLM” with Jeffrey S. Reznick, in Journal of the Medical Library Association, 109(2), 2021 (PMCID: PMC8270379).

“Wartime and Postwar Medical Communication: The Role of the U.S. Army Medical Library” with Jeffrey S. Reznick, in John Griffiths (ed.) Communication and the Great War, 1914-2014, New York: Routledge, 2020.

“Combat and the Medical Mindset—The Enduring Effect of Civil War Medical Innovation” with Jeffrey S. Reznick, in The New England Journal of Medicine, 372 (25) 2015. (PMID: 26083204).

Builders of Trust: Biographical Profiles from the Medical Corps Coin. Contributing author. Fort Detrick: Borden Institute; 2011 [PDF].

History of the AMEDD Civilian Corps. Army Medical Department; 2011.

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John M. Kinder, Paying with Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015, in  Marine Corps History 3 (2) 2017. [PDF]

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“NLM Collection Demonstrates Breadth, Depth,” with Laura Hartman, Jiwon Kim, Christie Moffatt, Jeffrey S. Reznick, and Krista Stracka, in The NIH Record.

“The Ambulances of Antietam,” Circulating Now, the History of Medicine blog of the National Library of Medicine, September 15, 2022.

“A NewFrontier: The Impact of a 1959 Board Meeting,” NLM Musings from the Mezzanine: Innovations in Health Information from the Director of the U.S. National Library of Medicine June 8, 2022.

“A Pocket Full of Soup,” Circulating Now, the History of Medicine blog of the National Library of Medicine, January 27, 2022.

“A New History of NLM: Origins and Early Years,” Circulating Now, the History of Medicine blog of the National Library of Medicine, July 13, 2017.

““Fire-workes” for the 17th Century,” Circulating Now, the History of Medicine blog of the National Library of Medicine, July 3, 2017.

“Art on the Edge,” with Ginny Roth and Krista Stracka, Circulating Now, the History of Medicine blog of the National Library of Medicine, March 22, 2017.

“A Piece of Pi: Historical Perspectives from NLM,” with Jeffrey S. Reznick, Circulating Now, the History of Medicine blog of the National Library of Medicine, March 14, 2017.

“$150 for Medical Books 180 Years Later,” Circulating Now, the History of Medicine blog of the National Library of Medicine, November 9, 2016.

“The Spirit of Memorial Day,” Circulating Now, the History of Medicine blog of the National Library of Medicine, May 26, 2014.

“John F. Kennedy and the National Library of Medicine,” with Jeffrey S. Reznick, Circulating Now, the History of Medicine blog of the National Library of Medicine, November 18, 2013.

“The Eleventh Hour,” Circulating Now, the History of Medicine blog of the National Library of Medicine, November 11, 2013.

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