Myrna Callison is a Colonel is the United States Army and is board certified occupational therapist.  She currently serves as the manager of the Ergonomics Program working out of the U.S. Army Public Health Command.   She has more than 20 years of service to the Department of Defense.  She has worked on special projects for the Pentagon, Veterans Administration, Defense Safety Oversight Council and she has provided health hazard analysis on systems used by soldiers in the field. 

She earned a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, a BS in Occupational Therapy from Loma Linda University and a Masters of Arts degree in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix.  Her combination of occupational therapy experience and engineering training provides her with a unique perspective on injury prevention and product design.  She has applied this experience by teaching multiple training classes and has traveled worldwide performing a variety of ergonomic assessments. 

Current projects include research on injuries suffered as a result of patient handling, designing a web-enabled ergonomic data collection tool that can quickly assess hazards by novice evaluators, and assisting in the development of health hazard assessment tools to assess musculoskeletal injury risk to soldiers interacting with Army systems.

Myrna currently serves as the Chair of the Department of Defense Ergonomics Working Group and she has collaborated with multiple DoD agencies including the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Defense Logistics Agency.

Myrna was born and raised in Hawaii.  She is married to Robert Callison and they have one daughter, Jessica, who is 19 years old and is attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.