Gregory S. Witkop M.D.

Dr. Witkop began his career in public service as an Army Health Professional Scholarship winner in 1986. After graduating from medical school, he completed a General Surgery internship with honors and served as an Army Flight Surgeon where he learned the principles of Biological Warfare and Biodefense. He then completed his ophthalmology residency, won the Tri-Service Biannual Walter Reed Research competition, and developed his fascination with the interface between philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness studies.

Following 9/11, the Army Medical Corp Motto: “To conserve the fighting strength” played a pivotal role in his decision to leave private practice as a Board Certified ophthalmologist to join the FBI’s National Security Branch. He has conducted a broad range of investigations throughout his career and won the Director of National Intelligence Counterintelligence Investigation Award in 2015. He currently serves as a Crisis Negotiator and polygraph examiner. He holds an Affiliate Scientist position at the University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, where he has conducted IED detection research and recently published a paper in Clinical Neurophysiology with the UW School of Medicine on the “Effects of Non-Pharmacologic Pain Treatments on Brain States”. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society.

Dr. Witkop lives in Seattle with his wife Maria, who is a FBI Crisis Negotiator, Behavioral Analyst, and Counterespionage Agent. They are proud parents of a fourteen year old soccer playing equestrian daughter and an eighteen year old mountaineering West Point Cadet son. The entire family is trained by two Christian Sufi Buddhist Stoic teachers, cleverly disguised as a ten year old Golden Retriever and a four year old Old English Mastiff.