When Joseph Kahler was growing up in Mosinee, Wisconsin, he had an epiphany in the fifth grade.Although he didn’t quite understand exactly who a hospital corpsman was, or did, an elder sibling returning home opened his mind’s eye to his future.“My oldest brother joined the Navy as a corpsman near...

SAN DIEGO – U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Place, director of the Defense Health Agency (DHA), and Rear Adm. Tim Weber, San Diego Market director and commander, Naval Medical Forces Pacific, visited Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) for the San Diego Market establishment ceremony Aug. 10.The San...

Accessing and completing a Periodic Health Assessment (PHA) or any Deployment Related Health Assessment (DRHA) is now easier with two websites combined into one.The new electronic Health Assessment (eHA) website consolidates the PHA and all DRHAs, including the Pre-deployment Health Assessment...

Capt. Walter D. Brafford, Dental Corps, relinquished command of Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Annapolis to Capt. Rachel M. Lewis, Nurse Corps, at a change of command ceremony Aug. 6 at the U.S. Naval Academy’s Mahan Hall.Brafford’s tenure as commanding officer of NMRTC...

As Navy Lt. Maxwell Anderson calmly addressed a seated crowd during the Mental Health and Wellness Expo 2021, he asked those in attendance to focus on the concept of mindfulness.As a staff psychologist attached to Navy Medicine and Training Command (NMRTC) Bremerton, Anderson explained how...

On August 4, 2021, COVID-19 was again front and center as top medical leaders of the Navy, Defense Health Agency (DHA) and Coast Guard took part in a robust conversation about the pandemic at the Sea-Air-Space Exposition in National Harbor, Maryland.Speakers included Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham,...

In an effort to meet service members and their families where they conduct their day to day lives, Naval Health Clinic Hawaii (NHCH), Tripler Army Medical Center, and the American Red Cross joined together to bring the COVID-19 vaccine to the Navy Exchange (NEX) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The event...

Entomologists from U.S. Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit SEVEN (NEPMU-7) and Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE) partnered with the Cabo Verde National Institute of Public Health and the Cabo Verdean Armed Forces to search for disease-causing pathogens in mosquito populations...

Growing up in the high-desert of Eastern Washington, Janine Wood was practically a world away from the U.S. Navy and high seas.Until approximately 29 years ago.After departing the small town of Deer Park in what is referred to as the ‘inland empire’ upon high school graduation in 1988, Wood attended...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (July 30, 2021) – Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) Branch Health Clinic Adm. Joel T. Boone, located at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, held a Change of Charge ceremony inside the clinic, July 30.Cmdr. Kender Surin relieved Capt. Dawn Freeman as the officer...