• Born to parents who did not have the chance to go beyond high school in Browns Valley Minnesota a town of less than 1000, worked on Farm growing up hauling bales, working on a corn shelling machine and ringing pigs
• Eventually earned a scholarship to a Baltimore private school for basketball and academics and was recruited in the Division I level across the East Coast and into the Midwest
• Chose Princeton University where he majored in aerospace engineering
• Following graduation worked full time for the New Jersey division of correction and parole as a guard and then a counselor while attending the master’s program in counseling psychology at the University of Pennsylvania graduate school of education for about 2 years and then:
• Attended medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and did his residency training at JFK Hospital system
• Dr. Lenz holds both board certification in family medicine and emergency medicine
• Has been involved in teaching training resident physicians and medical students and the practice of medicine, mostly emergency medicine for nearly 40 years
• Has been the Dean of a medical school for nearly 20 years in California, Tennessee and now Dothan, Alabama
• The last two medical schools in Tennessee Dean Lenz has had the unique opportunity to be a founding Dean to start two medical schools in a decade
• In accreditation for higher institutions, Dr. Lenz has served on the accrediting teams for numerous osteopathic medical schools and many universities and colleges in the South such as Texas A&M, Tulane University, East Tennessee State University and others
• He has served on the Gov.’s task force for healthcare in Alabama and was recently appointed to the Alabama Medical Association task force on health care in rural Alabama and the governor’s Medicaid Commissioners task force on health care in rural Alabama