Profession: U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander, physician, U.S. Navy diver and media personality currently serving as a family medicine resident at the Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton
Claim to Fame: U.S. Navy Lieutenant, Ironman, humanitarian, author, and former Bachelor on ABC’s hit television show The Bachelor: An Officer and a Gentleman
Birthplace: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Birthday: February 5, 1977
Height: 6 ft. 0 in.
my After is: Chocolate milk and yoga
Fun Fact:
Short Bio:
Baldwin swam as a varsity athlete throughout his undergraduate career at Duke University and graduated with honors as a student-athlete in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and was commissioned into the United States Navy. Baldwin pursued medical school at the University of California - San Francisco School of Medicine. After graduating in 2003, Baldwin completed a year internship in General Surgery at Naval Medical Center San Diego, and went on to serve his operational duty in the Navy as an Undersea Medical Officer.
Upon moving to San Diego, Baldwin took up cycling, and with his past running and swimming prowess was able to put them all together in a sport new to him - triathlon. He completed his first triathlon in 2001 finishing atop the podium. One year later, in 2002 Baldwin qualified for the Ironman Triathlon World Championships in Hawaii. Baldwin has since been named to the All-Navy Triathlon Team five times, been a three time U.S.A. Triathlon All-American, and competed internationally in numerous Half-Ironman and Ironman events. He is an eight-time Ironman finisher, and believes firmly in the motto "Anything is Possible!"
Among his numerous acknowledgements, Dr. Baldwin has been honored on the Washington D.C. Most Influential People under 40 list in 2009, and Outside Magazine's Top 100 Influential People of the World list in 2006 for the humanitarian work he did in Laos on a military mission where he treated over 600 Laotians in remote villages.
Doing Good:
Baldwin has assisted the U.S. Surgeon General with a program called Healthy Youth for a Healthy Future, currently serves as an advocate for the Let's Move Campaign headed by First Lady Michelle Obama, and serves as the Ambassador for the ING Run for Something Better program. These programs target childhood obesity. Baldwin also deployed to the Philippines, Thailand, Laos, Singapore, Cambodia, and the Republic of Palau on various diving, recovery and humanitarian missions.