The U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) announced Navy Medicine's fiscal year 2021 Sailor of the Year (SOY) at Defense Health Headquarters, May 5.Rear Adm. Bruce L. Gillingham, Surgeon General of the Navy and Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and Force Master Chief Michael J...

Medical Power begins with people on optimized platforms operating as cohesive teams demonstrating high reliability performance.This is the very foundation of Navy Medicine. And few people illustrate this better than Lt. Cmdr. Daniel Hammer.Through his work as a Navy dentist, maxillofacial surgical...

Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) departed Naval Base San Diego, May 3, launching the start of Pacific Partnership 2022 (PP22)...

Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) departed San Diego, May 3, marking the beginning of Pacific Partnership 2022 (PP22).Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in...

When the Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) Douglas R4D broke through the clouds of volcanic dust and smoke to land on Iwo Jima on March 6 1945, it carried more than whole blood and medical supplies for the wounded. On board this inaugural air evacuation flight was a 22-year old nurse named Jane...

MILLINGTON, Tenn. – For those interested in a career in the medical field, the Navy has the Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP) to help fund graduate-level professional schooling—all the way through residency. After graduation, scholarship recipients will become officers and professionals...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (April 28, 2022) –Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) staff used their expertise as care providers in a unique way on April 28. Instead of caring for the sick and wounded, they were educating and inspiring the future of our country.NMCP has partnered with Manor High School in...

As April, the Month of the Military Child, ends, Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point celebrates Dr. Daniel Tuckey, our staff Pediatrician.Tuckey, a 1996 graduate of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, has over 13 years of service at the clinic providing medical care for our...

Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune is being honored on a national level once again. The Family Medicine Program was recently presented with the 2022 Research Competition “Outstanding Achievement in Scholarly Activity Award” from the Uniformed Services Academy of Family Physicians.“This award is a...

What happens when holistic healthcare is combined with empowering education?With April designated as Occupation Therapy Month, merging those two concepts helps describe OT and this year’s theme of ‘empowering everyday living.’Occupational Therapists readily assert they are the answer to many a...