The Tri-Service Optician School (TOPS), a directorate of the Naval Medical Leader and Professional Development Command (NMLPDC), held its graduation ceremony for class 24010 in Yorktown, Virginia on Dec. 13th, 2024.The graduating class was comprised of 13 Sailors and Soldiers from both the U.S. Navy...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - Naval Expeditionary Medicine Warfighter Development Center (NEMWDC) conducted an Integrated Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System (ERSS) and En-route Care System (ERCS) course that incorporated Point of Injury (POI) and Role 1 care providers, whose involvement...

USNMRTC Sigonella's Contributions to Global Health EngagementDecember is Global Health Engagement Month, and we are highlighting the significant contributions our team members at United States Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTC) Sigonella have made toward Global Health Engagement...

Courtesy story by Rick Burke, Navy Office of Community OutreachMILLINGTON, Tenn. – Petty Officer 2nd Class Ramon Castro, a native of Paterson, New Jersey, was recently named Sailor of the Year (SOY), for fiscal year 2024, serving with U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTC)...

Courtesy story by Rick Burke, Navy Office of Community OutreachMILLINGTON, Tenn. – Lt. Natalie Wen, a native of Hartland, Wisconsin, was recently selected as the U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTC) Junior Officer of the Quarter (JOOQ), for fiscal year quarter four, and Junior...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Sailors with the Bureau of Navy Medicine and Surgery joined the Navy Office of Community Outreach and 11 other commands for Navy Week Kansas City, Nov. 11-15.Throughout the week, BUMED representatives met with directors and students from local universities, spoke at local high...

Courtesy story by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Isaiah M. Williams, Navy Office of Community OutreachMillington, Tenn. - Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew McDowell, a native of Brooklyn, New York, serves the U.S. Navy and is assigned to U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command,...

Compiled by NHB/NMRTC Bremerton public affairs – With Christmas Eve officially declared as a federal holiday, the following adjustments will be in place at Naval Hospital Bremerton.NHB Urgent Care Clinic will be closed on the federal holidays of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, Dec. 24 and 25,...

Captain Joseph Ford: A Lifelong Commitment to Service and Mental HealthFor most service members the path from accession to retirement is pretty straight forward. That is definitely not the course charted by this once enlisted Soldier turned Navy clinician.Born on May 23, 1968, in Camden, New Jersey,...

Navy Capt. Karen Belcar has assumed the role of chief nursing officer for Defense Health Network Pacific Rim (DHN Pacific Rim) and Naval Medical Forces Pacific (NMFP), bringing 25 years of military nursing experience to oversee nursing operations across nine military treatment facilities and 10...