27 June 2023 Health Experts Across Latin America Making Waves with Navy Entomology (May 29, 2023) - The U.S. Department of State (DoS) facilitated a special, by-request visit to the Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE) for international public health experts, Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, May 29, 2023.Selected through the highly competitive International Visitor...
26 June 2023 Navy Medicine Microbiologist Joins NASA Efforts to Prepare for Mars Surface Missions HOUSTON – Lt. Anca Selariu, a microbiologist with Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) INDO-PACIFIC, along with three other volunteers, began a simulated Mars mission on June 25 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.The mission, part of NASA’s Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) Mars...
26 June 2023 NRC Corpus Christi Enables NMRTC Operations FORT WORTH, Texas (June 23, 2023) – Sometimes things don’t go the way you anticipate or plan. When this happens, it’s critical to have those you can count on to ensure the mission still succeeds.Navy Reserve Center (NRC) Corpus Christi recently assisted Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command...
26 June 2023 Walter Reed Performs Historic First Single-Port Robotic Surgery WRNMMC, Bethesda, MD. (June 26, 2023) -- Walter Reed unveiled its new single-port robotic surgical system, becoming the first Department of Defense facility, and the first military hospital in the National Capital Region, to use the newly FDA-approved medical device.“This is one of the most...
26 June 2023 Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Fort Belvoir Holds Second Change of Command Capt. Melissa Austin turned over command of Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Fort Belvoir to Capt. Tracey Giles during a ceremony in the Woodlawn Chapel on board U.S. Army Base Fort Belvoir, June 23...
22 June 2023 Walter Reed Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department All Smiles After Passing Rigorous CODA Inspection By James A. BlackWRNMMC Command CommunicationsPreparing for CODAThe Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) celebrates the recent success of the Navy Postgraduate Dental School’s (NPDS) Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department (OMSD) in achieving high marks from the Commission on...
20 June 2023 125 Years of Hospital Corpsman The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) held a birthday ceremony celebrating the 125th birthday of the hospital corpsman rate June 17, 2023.The ceremony, which was held on the ship’s enlisted mess decks, featured a brief look into the history of hospital corpsmen (HM) as...
18 June 2023 125 Years of Medical Excellence – Ford Celebrates the Hospital Corpsman Birthday ‘I dedicate my heart, mind, and strength to the work before me. I shall do all within my power to show in myself an example of all that is honorable and good throughout my naval career.’ – The Hospital Corpsman Pledge.The world’s largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) medical...
18 June 2023 A Legacy Remembered – Hospital Corps 125th Birthday at NMRTC Bremerton There was a singular place setting arranged at Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton’s 125th Hospital Corps birthday for nine distinctive members of the Navy only enlisted corps.Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Cade Crenshaw, behavioral health technician and Hospitalmen Drew Echeverria and...
16 June 2023 Dr. Jeffrey Bolkhovsky Recognized with 2023 Navy Emergent Scientist of the Year Award GROTON, Conn. - Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory (NSMRL) is proud to announce Dr. Jeffrey Bolkhovsky, a research physiologist with our Warfighter Performance department, has been selected as the sole Navy Medicine awardee of the 2023 Dr. Delores M. Etter Emergent Scientists of the Year...