BISCO BBQ 2026 Featuring Dr. Jess Edison

Name: BISCO BBQ 2026 Featuring Dr. Jess Edison
Start: 2026-03-17T11:30:00-05:00
Location: Lake Area Tech

Schedule

Tue, 17 Mar, 2026 at 11:30 am

UTC-05:00

Location

Lake Area Tech | Watertown, SD

Business Industry School Coalition (BISCO) works to build a strong and mutually beneficial foundation between business, industry and the Watertown School District. Benefits from BISCO BBQ support our initiatives, such as, 1-1-1 mentoring program, Awesome Arrow Awards, and attendance initiatives.
𝑩𝑩𝑸 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 $𝟐𝟓.
𝑻𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆. 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝟔𝟎𝟓.𝟖𝟖𝟐.𝟔𝟑𝟗𝟖.
BISCO sponsors recognize that by combining
the experiences and talents of the business and industrial community with the school, the entire community will benefit.

𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫: 𝐃𝐫. 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧.
A 1990 graduate of Watertown High School, Dr. Jess Edison has spent the last three decades serving at the intersection of military leadership and cutting-edge medicine. After leaving South Dakota to pursue his education at Creighton University, Jess began a distinguished 26-year active duty career in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, where he rose to become a national leader in rheumatology.
His journey has taken him from the halls of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to a combat support hospital in Baghdad during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Dr. Edison’s career is defined by leading from the front, whether presiding over the Rheumatology Fellowship at Walter Reed or serving as a medical consultant for Congressional leaders and the White House Medical Unit.
Throughout his service, he has held pivotal senior leadership roles, including Deputy Commander for Clinical Services and Consultant to the Army Surgeon General from 2017 to 2021. In this latter role, his strategic leadership was instrumental in redefining the role of military rheumatology for the modern era.
Currently a Professor of Medicine and the Rheumatology Division Director at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD, Dr. Edison oversees the training of the next generation of military physicians and leads critical research into autoimmune diseases affecting U.S. service members. A dedicated educator and researcher, he has an extensive portfolio of peer-reviewed publications and research abstracts and has led national efforts to develop clinical practice guidelines for osteoarthritis. Despite his global travels and numerous military honors, including the Defense Superior Service Medal, he remains a proud Watertown native who credits his South Dakota upbringing for the foundation of his service-driven career. His ties to the community remain strong, as his parents, David and Corolyn Edison, and his daughter, Lindsay Stangl and her husband Brandon, all call Watertown home.