FALLS CHURCH, Va.– In a landmark event to shape the future of military healthcare, Rear Adm. Rick Freedman, acting Surgeon General of the Navy and chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, hosted the Inaugural Navy Medicine Educational Leadership Summit, April 8-9, 2026. The summit convened...

Navy Medicine reaffirmed its long-term strategic partnership with Cook County Health (CCH) to sustain the skills of expeditionary medicine (EXMED) teams and clinical care until 2031during a signing ceremony to extend its program at the Cook County Health Professional Building, April 28...

In the world of Navy Medicine, healing is about more than just mending the body — it’s about restoring the whole person — mind, body, and spirit. The U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps has a team of dedicated spiritual guides who integrate into medical teams, providing hope in times of crisis, counsel in...

Civilian employees across the Navy Medicine Enterprise joined in-person and virtual town halls with the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery executive director on strategic developments and new programs, engagements to strengthen the community and the future direction of the Navy Medicine...

For 47 years, the U.S. Navy’s Religious Program Specialist (RP) rating has carried on a legacy of service that stretches back to the start of the Chaplain Corps 250 years ago. Numbering about 750 Sailors, these specialists are tasked with a mission unlike any other, both combat-ready protectors and...

In the quiet, early hours of a Saturday morning in East Taunton, Massachusetts, the rhythmic sound of a chisel meeting grain fills a backyard workshop. The workspace is a blend of the ancient and the modern. Traditional hand saws and clamps share bench space with high-precision computer numerical...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Genevieve Landers, a native of Annandale, Virginia, serves as a program support specialist at the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED).Landers graduated from W.T. Woodson High School (now Carter G. Woodson High School) in 2002 and most recently obtained her Master of...

Aboard the Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), the Radiology Department turned lessons from a mass-casualty drill into a powerful example of the Navy’s Get Real, Get Better (GRGB) culture of continuous improvement...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - For one U.S. Navy Sailor, the path to medicine didn’t begin in a lab or a lecture hall – it started in a recruiter’s office with a leap of faith.Armed with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and a passion for hands-on work, Ensign Alexander Brady, a native of Gering, Nebraska,...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Navy Medicine recognized five outstanding hospital corpsmen with the Danyelle Luckey Sacred Trust Award, honoring their unwavering commitment to patient-centered care and advocacy.Established in 2022, the Danyelle Luckey Sacred Trust Award commemorates Personnel Specialist Seaman...