Dr. Wayne Justice, a native of Mobile, Alabama, is a family medicine physician with a thriving practice in the Niceville, Florida area. He received his medical degree from the University of Alabama in Birmingham and completed his residency at Eglin AFB. Dr. Justice went on to serve in medical clinics at both Eglin and Hurlburt Field. While practicing medicine in the civilian sector for the past 17 years, he has twice served as the Chief of Staff for Twin Cities Hospital. As a doctor and humanitarian, he has maintained involvement in community and global outreach through serving on the Board of Directors for both the Ronda Coon Women’s Home in Fort Walton Beach and Bundle of Hope Ministries in Jacksonville, Florida, in addition to traveling on mission trips to Nicaragua, Honduras, and Uganda. Wayne and his wife Wendy live in the Twin Cities area along with their two children.
Mark Denney is president of AREIS (Advanced Research and Engineering Integrated Solutions) and has over 40 years of experience in the design, development, and integration of software and hardware systems. Mr. Denney, a pioneer in unmanned systems, has developed hardware and software systems for the military dating back to 1995, including the 2006 launch of the first micro-UAV for US Army and US Air Force deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. Denney has maintained a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles, which have supported test DoD missions since 2009 in support of weapon and sensor testing, emergency response, and search and rescue operations. He has also programmed software for flight navigation systems, graphical user interface applications, embedded systems, and instrumentation systems (RADAR, Optical Trackers, and Command Centers). He currently directs a tenured technical staff whose main responsibility is developing mission-critical solutions using unique types of unmanned aerial systems. Mark and his wife Pamela reside on the Emerald Coast where they have raised four children and currently enjoy five grandchildren.
Kit David Kuss, MD, is currently one of three physicians at Twin Cities Family Practice in Niceville, Florida. After graduating from Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans, Dr. Kuss began his 22-year active-duty military career as a family practice resident at Eglin AFB, and he went on to teach in several residency programs both as an USAF officer and civilian. During his military career, he was involved on several levels in the Uniformed Services Academy of Family Physicians, even serving as president of the organization. In addition to being given the distinguished honor of USAFP Family Physician of the Year, Dr. Kuss has held faculty appointments at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, and Florida State University Medical College. His volunteer service includes board directorship for the Speech and Hearing Center (FWB), USAFP, Volunteers in Medical Missions for the Speech and Hearing Center (FWB), USAFP, Volunteers in Medical Missions (SC), Family Life Ministries (FWB), and currently Crossroads Medical Clinic (Valparaiso) and Evangelistic Ministries International, as well as medical mission trips to Haiti (5), Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Ukraine. Kit is married to Dr. Charlotte Kuss, EdD, Director of Nursing at Northwest Florida State College and has two children and two grandchildren.