John Blue Star, Ph.D.
Maj John A. Blue Star is a Clinical Health Psychology Fellow for the 59th Medical Operations Squadron at Joint Base San Antonio, Lackland. His duties include conducting biopsychosocial evaluations for active duty and their families and retirees with health conditions, coordinating community-level population health program initiatives, providing behavioral treatment to individuals and groups with focus on quality of life improvement, and supervising clinical activities and conducting didactics for psychology interns. Maj Blue Star has specialty focus in implementing interdisciplinary care for Active Duty service members with chronic pain and associated functional impairments, with emphasis on improving military readiness and decreasing risks involving opioid medication. Maj Blue Star serves as the President Elect for the Association of Contextual Behavioral Sciences ACT for Military SIG and has been accepted as a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). Maj Blue Star completed his doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2015 from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He joined the Air Force as a Health Professions Scholarship Program recipient in 2012 and commissioned in July 2014. Prior to his current position, he served as the ADAPT Program Manager, Suicide Prevention Program Manager, and Disaster Mental Health Team Chief at MacDill AFB in Tampa, Florida.
