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Robert W. Enzenauer, MD, MPH, MBA, MSS, is chief of the Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology at Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado, and he plans to stay put. But Enzenauer is reluctantly stepping down from another post. He is retiring as a brigadier general with the Army, bringing to an end an illustrious 40-year military career.<\/p>\n

A retirement ceremony to honor Enzenauer\u2019s military\u00a0service was held in November at the Colorado National Guard\u2019s Joint Force Headquarters in Centennial.<\/p>\n

He is not leaving by choice. \u201cI have to retire,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can normally serve up to 30 years as sergeant major or colonel, but because there aren\u2019t enough physicians who want to serve, I was given a waiver to serve beyond 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Robert W. Enzenauer, chief of the Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology at Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado, is retiring from an impressive 40-year military career, but has no plans to retire from Children\u2019s Colorado.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2010, Dr. Enzenauer was promoted to one-star brigadier general, which carries a mandatory retirement age of 62. He was nominated and approved last August to serve as a two-star general, which would have pushed his retirement age to 64. However, he was unable to find a slot in which to serve.<\/p>\n

Quite a ride<\/strong><\/p>\n

Looking for challenges and keeping exceptionally busy with academic and military interests seems to be a theme throughout Enzenauer\u2019s career — and life.<\/p>\n

His 40 years of service began at the U.S. Military Academy and included stints in Missouri, Hawaii, Kentucky and, eventually, at the old Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, as well Honduras, the Philippines and Panama. Enzenauer completed two residencies, one in pediatrics and another in ophthalmology, and then a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology. He also earned a master\u2019s in public health in epidemiology as well as a master\u2019s in strategic studies and a master\u2019s of business administration.<\/p>\n

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Enzenauer as Major Enzenauer, chief flight surgeon, 101st Aviation Group, Fort Campbell, Ky., boarding Huey UH1 helicopter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a chronic adult learner. I enjoy those kinds of challenges,\u201d Enzenauer said, explaining his zest for earning college degrees.<\/p>\n

He also belongs to dozens of community and professional groups and serves on numerous committees. He\u2019s been awarded 16 major military awards and decorations and dozens of academic honors. He\u2019s published more than 100 articles in various medical journals and makes presentations at medical conferences several times a year.<\/p>\n

In his spare time he\u2019s contributed chapters to five books and lead-authored one of his own, \u201cFunctional Ophthalmologic Disorders.\u201d<\/p>\n

But with all these awards, papers, and service commitments, the thing he\u2019s most passionate about is, simply, being a good doctor and teacher.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no question the teaching awards I\u2019ve won are the most meaningful to me,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m really passionate about teaching residents and fellows.\u201d<\/p>\n

His newly found free time, he said, will be devoted to writing more papers and books on his two main interests: medical history and military history. He plans to finish two book projects he\u2019s been working on. One is called \u201cCombat Ophthalmology,\u201d and the other is \u201cThe Eye in Pediatric Systematic Disease.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t play golf. The National Guard was my main hobby. Writing papers and books is what I do for fun,\u201d Enzenauer explained.<\/p>\n

And of course he\u2019ll continue to practice medicine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like what I do, and I think you can be a pretty good ophthalmologist up to 70 years old, or more, so I think I have about 10 more years. But I don\u2019t have a deadline [for retirement],\u201d said Enzenauer.<\/p>\n

Long road<\/strong><\/p>\n

Enzenauer first joined the military as a way to help pay for college. \u201cMy father was a house painter and had no money to help with college,\u201d he said. \u201cVietnam was going great guns at the time, and there was still the draft. My draft number was 25. [West Point] was a way to go to college and a way to not go into the infantry. I\u2019m glad there are people who did that; I just was not ready at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

After West Point he went to the University of Missouri School of Medicine, where he met his wife, Jill Montrey, who was a medical school classmate. They have two adult children, Kate, an artist, and Will, a Spanish interpreter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tell everyone that she married the Army and I married her student loans,\u201d joked Enzenauer.<\/p>\n

Fortunately Montrey was able to do her surgical training in Hawaii at Tripler Army Medical Center while Enzenauer was doing his pediatric residency and then\u00a0practice at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital in Kentucky while he was a flight surgeon at Fort Campbell. Montrey then worked in the private sector for a few years in Colorado, first at Aurora Presbyterian Hospital and then at Rose Medical Center, when Enzenauer served at Fitzsimons. She retired in 1998 but now helps Enzenauer with his writing.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a surgeon by training, but she writes better than I do. She took my draft and made it read better,\u201d said Enzenauer of his wife of 36 years.<\/p>\n

When he began his assignment at Fitzsimons as the chief of Ophthalmology and medical center flight surgeon back in 1990, he planned to stay there indefinitely, and make Colorado his home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was in the old Building 500, and Building 404, which doesn\u2019t exist now, and was never planning to leave Colorado,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Commitment to service<\/strong><\/p>\n

But when Fitzsimons showed up on the Base Realignment and Closure list in 1994, Enzenauer decided to leave active duty. He pursued a medical academic opportunity in Illinois and then moved to Tennessee before returning to Colorado in 2009 as professor and chief of Pediatric Ophthalmology at Children\u2019s Hospital, now Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado.<\/p>\n

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Enzenauer getting ready to operate at the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Note shoulder holster pistol on OR nurse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was hard to leave military service entirely, Enzenauer found, so he joined the National Guard in 1995 in Illinois and then transferred to the Colorado Army National Guard (COARNG) in 1996. With COARNG, he did a tour in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2003 and a four-month stint in Iraq at the end of 2003 as a flight surgeon assigned to take care of pilots and Special Forces. But because of his training, he performed eye surgery as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was there after all the main combat stuff was over and it was just consolidating operations. But it was pretty interesting to be over there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Enzenauer was a long way from home during his two Middle East tours, but he found friendly faces from his past. One of the ophthalmologists assigned in Iraq was one of his former interns at Fitzsimons. Enzenauer ended up performing surgery alongside him. The chief of the hospital in Afghanistan where he served was a surgery resident he met during his time at Fitzsimons.<\/p>\n

Working on the Anschutz Medical Campus is like being back home at Fitzsimons, Enzenauer said, adding he has no plans to retire from medicine anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Naresh Mandava, MD<\/a>, chair of the University of Colorado School of Medicine\u2019s Department of Ophthalmology, who recruited Enzenauer, is pleased to hear that.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s one of the rare individuals that has really contributed to the academic literature, made significant contributions to research and, on top of that, he\u2019s an exceptional clinician and his leadership skills are known to all of us,\u201d Mandava said. Enzenauer always \u201cwalks the walk\u201d and does much more than he would expect others to do, Mandava added.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is always doing two or three things at any given time, in real time, and he\u2019s able to do all those things effectively. I\u2019m expecting him to do that for years to come,\u201d Mandava said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert W. Enzenauer, MD, MPH, MBA, MSS, is chief of the Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology at Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado, and he plans to stay put. But Enzenauer is reluctantly stepping down from another post. He is retiring as a brigadier general with the Army, bringing to an end an illustrious 40-year military career. 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