22 August 2022 Dental Corps Birthday honored, Pioneering Capabilities celebrated At Naval Base San Diego’s Dental Clinic’s courtyard, dentists, hygienists and staff gathered to celebrate the 110th birthday of the U.S. Navy’s Dental Corps with a cake-cutting ceremony, Aug 22.The celebration was ushered in by Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Kurtis Barlow, Naval Base San Diego, Naval...
22 August 2022 School/Sport Physicals readily available at Naval Hospital Bremerton School supplies, school schedules and school physicals.Naval Hospital Bremerton can readily assist parents with the school physicals – as well as sport physicals – needed for the upcoming school year.The back to school physicals can be arranged for active duty dependents who are enrolled in TRICARE...
22 August 2022 NMCCL medical faculty recognized for advancing their teaching capabilities Three health care professionals with Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune were recently recognized for advancing their medical education. Teaching certificates were presented by the Uniformed Services University on August 17, 2022 to Commander Dink Jardine, Commander Dan Hwang, and Commander Andy...
22 August 2022 Dentists from Solomon Islands, Pacific Partnership Brush up on Universal Oral Health Concerns HONIARA, SOLOMON ISLANDS (Aug. 18, 2022) – For some, going to the dentist is a bit scary.It seems to be a universal fear, based on discussions between members of the Solomon Islands Dental Association (SIDA) and a Pacific Partnership 22 (PP 22) dentist, currently in Honiara, Solomon Islands, for the...
19 August 2022 NMCSD VolunTEEN parents, teens applaud program (Aug. 17, 2022) Naval Medical Center San Diego’s (NMCSD) inaugural VolunTEEN program concluded with a graduation ceremony Aug. 17 with much praise from parents and VolunTEENs alike.After more than five weeks of participating in this heavily centric STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)...
19 August 2022 Navy Expeditionary Preventive Medicine Team Returns Home After Successful Mission The Forward Deployable Preventive Medicine Unit TEAM ONE (FDPMU-1), an operational medical platform made up of public health experts from Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit TWO (NEPMU-2) Norfolk, VA, returned from Krakow, Poland, July 8, 2022, after a five month deployment.The team...
17 August 2022 U.S. Navy’s Humanitarian Mission Concludes in Philippines PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines – The Philippines phase of Pacific Partnership concluded in Puerto Princesa, aboard Military Sealift Command’s hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), Aug. 16.In the Philippines, the Pacific Partnership 2022 (PP22) team included representatives from the host nation,...
17 August 2022 New NMCCL commander forges a path focused on people, relationships U.S. Navy Captain Kevin J. Brown always knew he wanted to be a doctor.“Generations of people from home were farmers, but I knew pretty early that I wanted to go into medicine,” said Brown. “I wanted to be a family doctor like the country, family doctor we had. That’s what inspired me.”Brown’s...
16 August 2022 HN Kilmer Honored by NMTSC, VFW (Aug. 13, 2022) SAN ANTONIO, Texas – "I owe 70 years of my life to a 21-year-old Navy corpsman who died days short of his 22nd birthday" hung in the air during a ceremony honoring the 70th anniversary of Hospitalman John Edward "Jackie" Kilmer's heroic actions on a mountain top in Korea.As the...
15 August 2022 Mass Casualty Incident Response Drill On August 11, 2022, Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Pearl Harbor took part in a quick- reaction, scenario-driven drill to evaluate their response to a mass casualty incident, should one occur.The drill evaluated NMRTC-PH’s ability to alert staff and respond to the installation’s...