The Academic Programs Directorate (APD) at Naval Medical Leader and Professional Development Command (NMLPDC), Bethesda, in coordination with Defense Health Agency (DHA), and Naval Medical Forces Support Command (NMFSC), completed a business re-engineering project focused on optimizing the course...

On November 20, 2022, the greatest sporting event in the world will begin and soccer (football) teams representing 32 nations will compete, vying for a chance to capture the coveted FIFA World Cup trophy.For HMCM (SW/AW) José Alonso of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), the FIFA World Cup...

(Mar. 2, 2022) In coordination with the DHA Virtual Medical Center Europe (VMC-E) and operational units with Operation Atlantic Resolve in USEUCOM, Active Duty physical therapists from U.S. Naval Readiness and Training Commands (US NMRTC) Sigonella and Naples have developed a Virtual Physical...

BETHESDA, Md. – Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC)’s Clinical Trials Center is looking for 200 volunteer test subjects for a new clinical study that investigates the immune response to seasonal flu vaccination.Clinical staff will look at different aspects of participants’ immune systems before and...

Diane Hebert couldn’t make it when her son, Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Joshua Hebert, was being recognized as Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command Bremerton’s Junior Sailor of the Quarter.Not because she was like many parents who are several time zones or states away from their children serving...

November 10, 2022 (NAS LEMOORE) -- “Our daughter was born in this building when it was a hospital,” Command Master Chief Hospital Corpsman Christina Wood reminisces about time she spent in the clinic on her final days while assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Lemoore. “Lemoore...

On November 7, 2022, Vice Adm. John Mateczun, the former Commander of Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical and Deputy Surgeon General of the Navy died. He was 76.Vice Adm. Mateczun charted a military career like none other.Over the course of 38 years in uniform, he served as an U.S. Army...

Elements of Naval Medical Forces Pacific (NMFP) recently travelled to Okinawa prefecture, Japan, and began participation in exercise Keen Sword 23 (KS23), Nov. 12...

(Oct. 31, 2022) It was another humid day in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, and there was the smell of a rainstorm brewing in the air. The light beige and aged building of the Japan-Guatemala Friendship Hospital became more prominent as Chief Hospital Corpsman Shawn Burnette, from Pittsburgh,...

CARTAGENA, Colombia (Nov. 11, 2022) – Hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrived in Cartagena, Colombia, in support of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet’s Continuing Promise 2022 (CP22) mission, Nov. 11.This visit marks the third of five mission stops as part of CP22 and the...