Navy Medicine

A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Rear Adm. Terry Moulton graduated from Western Kentucky University in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science in Health Care Administration. He holds a master’s in business administration from Chaminade University. He is also a graduate of the Naval War College non-resident program. He received his commission as an ensign in 1983.

At sea Moulton served on USS Nimitz (CVN 68), completing a six-month deployment to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Desert Storm. Ashore, his assignments include Naval Hospital, Philadelphia; Naval Medical Clinic, Pearl Harbor; clinic director, Naval Air Station, Barbers Point; director for administration, U.S. Naval Hospital, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Naval Hospital Cherry Point. He also served as the executive officer, Naval Hospital Pensacola.

Moulton has served as commanding officer, Fleet Hospital Pensacola; U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa; and Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth. He also served as commander, Navy Medicine East and director, Enhanced Tidewater Multi-Service Market Office.

His staff assignments include Navy postgraduate administrative fellow at the American Hospital Association; analyst for coordinated care division, executive assistant to the assistant chief for plans, analysis and evaluation, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; executive assistant to the deputy chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; director, health affairs for the assistant secretary of the Navy, Manpower and Reserve Affairs; chief of health care operations and executive director for TRICARE Northwest Lead Agent and Puget Sound Multi-Service Market Office; head, medical officer distribution branch, Naval Personnel Command; deputy director, medical resources, plans and policy, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; executive assistant to Navy surgeon general, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; deputy chief, medical operations, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; and 17th director of the Medical Service Corps.

Moulton is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Moulton began serving as the Navy deputy surgeon general and deputy chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Dec. 17, 2015.

Moulton’s personal awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit (three awards), Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (six awards), Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (four awards), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal and various other service and units awards.

Rear Adm. Gayle Shaffer earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of South Alabama and a Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from the University of Alabama School of Dentistry. She earned a certificate in Comprehensive Dentistry from the Naval Postgraduate Dental School and holds a master’s in health sciences from George Washington University. She received her commission as an ensign in 1989.

At sea, Shaffer served onboard USS Puget Sound (AD-38), completing two Mediterranean deployments. Ashore, her assignments include Naval Hospital Great Lakes; Great Lakes Naval Dental Center; clinic director, 2nd Dental Battalion, Camp Lejeune and Branch Dental Clinic, Naval Air Facility, Atsugi, Japan. She served as director, General Practice Residency, department head, Hospital Dentistry Division, and director for Branch Health Clinics, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.

Shaffer served as executive officer, 1st Dental Battalion/Naval Dental Center, Camp Pendleton and U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa. She also served asac commanding officer, Naval Hospital Jacksonville, Florida.

As an Individual Augmentee, Shaffer deployed as officer-in-charge of the Expeditionary Medical Facility, Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti in support of Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa and Operation Enduring Freedom. She also deployed as commanding officer, NATO Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit, Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel and Resolute Support, Train, Advise, Assist Command-South.

Her staff assignments include assistant deputy chief, Medical Operations, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; executive assistant to Navy deputy surgeon general, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; liaison officer to the Defense Health Agency; director, Health Services, Headquarters Marine Corps and Medical Officer of the Marine Corps; deputy chief, Operations, Plans and Readiness, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; and 38th chief of the Navy Dental Corps.

Shaffer maintains board certification in the American Board of General Dentistry, and is a fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry and International College of Dentists.

Shaffer began serving as the Navy deputy surgeon general and deputy chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Feb. 28, 2020.

Shaffer’s awards are the result of being surrounded by incredible shipmates and they include the Legion of Merit (two awards), Meritorious Service Medal (four awards) and various unit and campaign awards.

Rear Adm. Tina Davidson is a native of St. Louis, Missouri. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Benedictine College and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from St. Louis University School of Nursing, she worked at St. Mary’s Health Center.

In 1986, she was commissioned as an ensign and reported to Naval Hospital San Diego, California, on the Postpartum, Complicated Obstetrics, and Intensive Care Units, and in 1989 she was assigned to US Naval Hospital Naples, Italy, on a Medical Surgical Ward.

She completed Instructor Training in 1992 then reported to Naval Hospital Corps School, Great Lakes, Illinois. In 1995, Davidson was assigned to the Aircraft Carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) as the ship’s nurse and earned her Surface Warfare Medical Department Officer (SWMDO) qualification.

In 1997 Davidson reported to U.S. Naval Hospital, Okinawa, Japan, as staff nurse then division officer of a Multiservice Ward, and then Special Care Unit.

Davidson attended The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and then reported to Navy Personnel Command, Millington, Tennessee, as an assignment officer in 2001. In 2004 she reported to Branch Health Clinic (BHC), Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia, as the senior nurse executive, and then deployed to Kuwait as director of Nursing Services for Expeditionary Medical Facility (EMF) Portsmouth. Returning in 2005, Davidson reported to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia, as the division officer of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and then associate service line leader for the Pediatric Department. In 2006 she was assigned as officer in charge, Boone BHC, Little Creek; Northwest Branch Medical Clinic; and TRICARE Prime Clinic Chesapeake.

In 2007 Davidson reported to US Fleet Forces Command as the Navy’s first Fleet Nurse. In 2010 she reported as executive officer, Naval Health Clinic (NHC) Annapolis, Maryland, and in 2012, she served in command of NHC New England, Newport, Rhode Island. In 2014 she reported as deputy director, Medical Resources, Plans and Policy (N0931), Chief of Naval Operations at the Pentagon, Washington, DC, prior to fleeting up as director in 2016. In May 2017 Davidson was appointed as the 25th director of the Navy Nurse Corps. Davidson currently serves as commander, Navy Medicine Education, Training and Logistics Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

Davidson’s other degrees include Master of Science in Nursing from The Catholic University of America; Master of Arts in Health Services Management, Webster University; and a Doctor of Nursing Practice, Rush University. In addition, Davidson is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, a board-certified Advanced Nurse Executive (NEA-BC), and she is certified as a Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ), as an Executive Nurse Practice (CENP), and as a Master Training Specialist (MTS). Personal awards include the Legion of Merit (two awards), Meritorious Service Medal (three awards), Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (six awards), and the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (one award).

Mr. David Oliveria, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Oceanography at the United States Naval Academy and was commissioned in the naval service in 1975.

Mr. Oliveria was designated a Naval Aviator and completed operational tours as a Patrol Plane Commander, Mission Commander, and Instructor Pilot with Patrol Squadron FORTY-SIX, Moffett Field, California, and Patrol Squadron SEVENTEEN, Barbers Point Hawaii. During these assignments he completed deployments to Misawa, Japan; Keflavik, Iceland; Adak, Alaska; and Cubi Point, Republic of the Philippines. As an instructor pilot while assigned to Patrol Squadron THIRTY, Jacksonville, Florida, he served as the Atlantic Fleet Personnel Qualifications Standards Evaluator and Maintenance Material Control Officer, overseeing the maintenance associated with thirty-one P-3 Orions. He also served as the Communications Officer aboard USS MIDWAY then forward deployed to Yokosuka, Japan. During this tour, he qualified as In-port and Underway Command Duty Officer and Replenishment Conning Officer.

While assigned to the Staff of the Secretary of the Navy, Office of Legislative Affairs, he represented the Department of the Navy's Operations and Maintenance budget request on Capitol Hill. In 1990, he reported to Patrol Squadron SIXTEEN, Jacksonville, Florida, as Executive Officer and assumed command in 1991, while deployed to Keflavik, Iceland. During his tenure, the squadron attained 185,000 accident free flight hours and participated in CNO Special Interest Operations in South America.

Mr. Oliveria received his Master of Arts Degree in National Security and International Affairs from the Naval War College in March 1993 and was selected to serve as a political-military affairs officer at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency where he dealt with issues related to export controls and the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons. He was a member of the United States Delegation to the Australia Group and served on various U.S. overseas delegations for export controls. For his efforts, he was awarded the Secretary of State Meritorious Honor Award, the only uniformed officer of the Arms Control Agency to ever receive this award.

In 1995, he again joined the staff of the Secretary of the Navy where he served as the Legislative Analyst to the Secretary, Naval Aide and Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations & Environment), and later, Naval Aide and Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary of the Navy. He was honorably discharged from active service in February 2001.

In November 2000, Mr. Oliveria was appointed as Clerk of Court, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Middle District of Florida, then the third largest bankruptcy court in the Nation. During his tenure as clerk, he managed the successful transition to paperless files and record keeping for three divisional courts in north and central Florida that included nine judges and a staff of over 250 personnel. In 2001, He received the Director’s Award for Excellence in Court Operations.

Mr. Oliveria returned to the Washington D.C. area and joined CACI International in January of 2006 where he served as a business systems analyst at Commander Navy Installations Command (CNIC) in support of the Navy’s Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) program. His portfolio included the BRAC actions related to the closure and realignment of the Navy’s medical facilities. In 2007, he joined the staff of Navy Medicine National Capital Area (NAVMED NCA) as the BRAC program manager and successfully led the realignment of the National Naval Medical Center and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He also served as the Regional Facilities Director for NAVMED NCA.

Mr. Oliveria joined the staff of the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in March of 2012 as the Assistant Deputy Chief, Fleet Support and Logistics (M4) and serves as the Deputy Chief for Business Operations.

In November 2020, Mr. Oliveria became the Director of the Civilian Corps.

Rear Admiral Donald Sze is a native of Los Angeles, California. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern California in 1982. In 1986, he was elected to the Omicron Kappa Upsilon Dental Honor Society and earned his Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, New Jersey. He completed his Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery certification in 1990 at Seton Hall University Jersey City Medical Center, Jersey City, New Jersey, and was named Valedictorian for the House Staff Graduation. He received his commission through Naval Aviation School Command, Pensacola, Florida in 1999.

He served as Executive Officer for Naval Dental Center Southwest at San Diego, California; Senior Dental Executive, Director for Administration, and Executive Officer for Operational Health Support Unit Camp Pendleton; Executive Officer for Operational Health Support Unit San Diego; Acting Deputy Commander, Naval Medical Center San Diego; Deputy Commander for Navy Personnel, Landstuhl Regional Army Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany; Chief of Staff, Navy Reserve Expeditionary Medicine, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, for Expeditionary Medical Facilities (EMF) Dallas, Great lakes, Camp Pendleton, and Bethesda; Reserve Fleet Surgeon, COMTHIRDFLT; and as Chief Staff Officer for Defense Support of Civil Authorities and N35 Lead for Navy Reserve C3F Headquarters.

His Command tours include Naval Dental Center Camp Pendleton; 4th Dental Company, 4th Dental Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group; Operational Health Support Unit San Diego; and Navy Expeditionary Medical Unit 15, Landstuhl, Germany.

Sze was mobilized in 2003 for Operations Noble Eagle and Enduring Freedom and assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego, California, as an attending in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery residency program, followed by Department Head, Branch Dental Clinic San Onofre, Camp Pendleton, with the 1st Dental Battalion and Naval Dental Center Camp Pendleton. His second mobilization was in 2014 supporting Operation Enduring Freedom as the Deputy Director for Navy Personnel and Commanding Officer of Navy Expeditionary Medical Unit 15 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany.

Rear Admiral Sze was the recipient of the 2005 Rear Admiral Vaughn Memorial Award for Outstanding Reserve Dental Officer of the Year. Sze’s awards include the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, and various other personal, service, and unit awards.

Rear Adm. Peterson is a native of West Fargo, North Dakota. He enlisted in the Army in 1988 attending basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. After attending Advanced Individual Training, he served as a combat medic in the 815th Medical Clearing Company, North Dakota Army National Guard. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Nursing from Concordia College, Moorhead Minnesota and was commissioned in the United States Navy Nurse Corps in 1993 through the Nurse Candidate Program. He obtained a Master of Science in Nursing with a specialty of Family Nurse Practitioner from Concordia University Wisconsin in 2013. He is Board Certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner working actively in the urgent care, holding certifications in emergency nursing and pediatric emergency nursing.

Peterson’s shore assignments include Naval Medical Center San Diego as a staff nurse in the Emergency Department and Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton as a charge nurse in the Emergency Department. Affiliating with the Navy Reserve, his assignments included casualty receiving nurse, Fleet Hospital Minneapolis; casualty receiving nurse, assistant officer-in- charge, and headquarters award officer, Operational Health Support Unit Great Lakes; officer-in-charge, Expeditionary Medical Facility Great Lakes One Detachment November; and executive officer, Expeditionary Medical Facility Great Lakes One.

Command assignments include Expeditionary Medical Unit Camp Pendleton and deputy chief of Staff, Navy Reserve Expeditionary Medicine.

Peterson assumed the duties of deputy commander, Navy Medical Forces Command, Atlantic and deputy director Navy Nurse Corps on 1 Oct 2020.

Peterson’s IA/Mobilization/Deployment assignments include Emergency Department team leader, Naval Medical Center, San Diego (2006); department head, Trauma, NATO Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit Kandahar Airfield (2010); Trauma Team senior nurse and director, Nursing Services, NATO Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit Kandahar (2014), both in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Peterson's awards include: Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal (two awards), Navy Commendation Medal (six awards), Navy Achievement Medal (three awards), and various other campaign and unit awards.

Rear Adm. Bruce L. Gillingham is a native of San Diego. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology (with high honors) from the University of California, San Diego and a Doctor of Medicine from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is an inductee in the medical honor society of Alpha Omega Alpha.

Gillingham completed a surgical internship and an orthopedic residency at Naval Medical Center San Diego. He also completed subspecialty training as a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada in 1995. He qualified as an undersea and diving medical officer.

He has served in various positions throughout Navy Medicine to include director of Pediatric Orthopedic and Scoliosis Surgery; Associate Orthopedic Residency Program director; and director of Surgical Services. While assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego, he was instrumental in establishing the Comprehensive Combat and Complex Casualty Care Center (C5).

Operationally, he served aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) as staff orthopedic surgeon and as director of surgical services. He deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II as battalion chief of Professional Services (Forward) for the 1st Force Service Support Group and officer in charge of the Surgical Shock Trauma Platoon, achieving a 98 percent combat casualty survival rate while providing echelon II surgical care during Operation Phantom Fury.

Gillingham also served as deputy chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Readiness & Health; commander, Navy Medicine West; commander, Naval Medical Center San Diego; deputy commander, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth; commanding officer, Naval Hospital Jacksonville, Florida; Pacific Fleet surgeon, and Fleet surgeon and director, Health Services, U.S. Fleet Forces. While in the Pacific, he led efforts to assist the Vietnam People’s Navy in creating an Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical program, and in the re-location of Navy Medical Research Unit-2 to Singapore. In 2011, he served as the Joint Support Force-Japan Surgeon in the aftermath of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, ensuring the safety of over 200,000 U.S. citizens, service members and families.

He is a diplomat of the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery, a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, and the American Orthopedic Association and a member of the Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America, American College of Physician Executives, Society of Military Orthopedic Surgeons and Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. He has published over 30 scientific articles and book chapters.

Gillingham’s personal awards include the Legion of Merit (seven awards), Meritorious Service Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (two awards), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal with the Eagle Globe, and Anchor device with bronze star and the Fleet Marine Force ribbon.

Rear Adm. Cynthia A. Kuehner is a native of Fort Rucker, Alabama. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her graduate degrees include a Master of Science in Nursing from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) and a Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She was commissioned an ensign in 1991 through the baccalaureate degree completion program.

Operationally, Kuehner served as the senior nurse of Bravo Surgical Company, with the 1st Force Service Support Group, in Fallujah, Iraq, providing direct casualty care during the height of combat operations at the busiest role II medical facility, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Vigilant Resolve (the first battle of Fallujah). She also served as the senior medical officer, and ultimately as the executive officer, of the Provincial Reconstruction Team, Khost, Afghanistan. As the team’s provincial partner for health sector development, in a war-torn province of more than one million Afghans, she worked with Afghan government officials, U.S. departments, and non-government organizations to bolster reconstruction efforts essential to the counterinsurgency strategy, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Kuehner’s previous assignments include staff nurse positions on the pediatric ward and labor and delivery units, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, California; division officer at the Branch Medical Clinic, Sasebo, Japan; duty under instruction at USUHS, Bethesda, Maryland, Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) track; medical staff and primary care manager (PCM), Naval Health Clinic, Corpus Christi, Texas; department head and PCM, Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; department head, and PCM, Naval Hospital Bremerton, Washington.

Executive assignments include director for branch clinics and command executive board, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia; executive officer, Naval Medical Center San Diego, California. As commanding officer, Naval Hospital Okinawa, Japan, she directly supported forward deployed Navy and Marine forces and theater operational plans in INDOPACOM. Staff assignments include Navy Medicine transition lead; assistant deputy chief, medical operations (M3); and deputy chief, operations, plans and readiness (M2, M3, M5), Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) headquarters, where she ensured Navy Medicine’s successful surge response and led novel, adaptive naval force solutions to the SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic. In June 2020, Kuehner was appointed as the 26th director of the Navy Nurse Corps. Kuehner currently serves as commander, Naval Medical Forces Support Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

In addition to numerous unit and campaign awards, her personal awards include the Legion of Merit (two awards), Meritorious Service Medal (four awards), Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (three awards), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (three awards), the Fleet Marine Force Ribbon, the Combat Action Ribbon, and the U.S. Army’s Combat Action Badge. She was awarded the Japanese Defense Cooperation Award (Second Class) from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

Kuehner maintains board certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-BC) and as an Advanced Nurse Executive (NEA-BC) with the American Nurses Credentialing Center and is a Fellow of both the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP) and the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN).