Lee Mandel, author of Moryak: A Novel of the Russian Revolution
Lee Mandel, MD, MPH, FACP, is a Captain in the United States Navy, currently assigned as Command Flight Surgeon at the Naval Safety Center. He recently completed a three-year tour as Senior Medical Officer aboard the USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH (CVN 77). He is board certified in internal medicine and aviation medicine.

During his naval career, he has been on the staff of four navy hospitals and served twice as a staff internist at the Office of the Attending Physician, United States Congress. In addition, he served as Senior Medical Officer on three US Navy aircraft carriers.

An avid historian, Mandel has served as Ship's Historian on three ships and has been an invited lecturer at Old Dominion University, Stonybrook Medical Center and Eastern Virginia Medical School. In addition to several medical journal articles, he has also published in history journals. He has a special interest in presidential history and has written and lectured on the health history of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He has recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on the health history of John F. Kennedy, based on his review of Kennedy's White House medical records. Moryak is his first effort at fiction and is inspired by the writing style of Herman Wouk.