Captain Zven is a graduating pediatric resident who is preparing to begin neonatology fellowship at WRNMMC. Captain Zven graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Civil Engineering and spent 6 years working as a Civil Engineer in primarily in Colorado, where he met his wife. He pursued medical school after his engineering career, attending USUHS where he had 3 children, and is currently completing pediatric residency at WRNMMC. During his time in residency, Captain Zven gained interest in health inequity, specifically the impact of food insecurity in the prenatal and neonatal populations. Captain Zven has spent the last 18 months working on an assortment of research projects, community outreach, and family advocacy efforts to better understand food insecurity in the military as well as to advocate for the protocoled screening of military families for WIC benefits. He and the USUHS Pediatrics team have won multiple grants and presented their food insecurity and WIC enrollment findings at multiple national/international conferences in partnership with multiple family advocacy networks and WIC offices. His goal is to maximize military enrollment in existing state and national food supplementation programs to quickly eliminate military food insecurity.

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