CDR Witzard Seide is an active-duty officer within the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and currently serves as the branch chief of graduate medical education within the Bureau of Health Workforce at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Within this role, she manages the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) and the Teaching Health Centers Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) Programs that support medical and dental training programs with the goal of decreasing health workforce shortages. CDR Seide is also a board-certified pediatrician who received her Doctor of Medicine degree from SUNY-Buffalo School of Medicine. After completing a military-based pediatric residency, she served as an Army pediatrician for almost nine years. In 2017, she subsequently transferred to the US Public Health Service and served as the assistant commandant and US Public Health Service company commander, providing military leadership and guidance to over 600 military medical students, graduate students, and enlisted students enrolled at the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine (USU). CDR Seide continues to hold an adjunct faculty appointment at USU as a clinical associate professor of pediatrics, where she assists in training future military physician and health care leaders at the graduate and undergraduate medical education levels.

Prior to transitioning to HRSA, CDR Seide worked at Commissioned Corps Headquarters, Office of the Surgeon General serving as the first chief medical officer for deployment health of the Corps.

CDR Seide is passionate about the work she does within medical education and remains enthusiastic about seeking ways to improve workforce development in underserved communities.