Lori Lyn Trego is a Certified Nurse Midwife and Professor of Research at the University of Colorado Anschutz College of Nursing, where she teaches in the Veteran and Military Healthcare graduate program. Dr. Trego retired from the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in 2015 after 25 years of Active Duty Service. She is a subject matter expert on military women's health and sex- and gender-specific health needs, and has built a program of research that is dedicated to improving the health of military women across the life course. Dr. Trego is the director of the Veteran and Military Health Area of Excellence, an interprofessional, cross-campus collaborative to improve health care and education for those providing care to Veterans.