Commanding Officer

Commanding Officer, Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Portsmouth

A native of Hanover, Massachusetts, Captain Kim Shaughnessy-Granger earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Villanova University in 1997. She was commissioned in 1997 through Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps.

Captain Shaughnessy-Granger began her career at Naval Medical Center San Diego as a staff nurse in the Cardiac and Intensive Care Units. In 1999, she transferred to Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, serving as a Labor and Delivery Staff and Charge Nurse, Mother Baby/Level II Nursery Division Officer, and Business Manager for Women’s Health & Maternal Infant Services. In 2003, she attended Georgetown University for Duty Under Instruction (DUINS), where she studied nurse midwifery, earning a Master of Science degree, and was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society.

Upon graduation, Captain Shaughnessy-Granger was assigned to Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton as a staff Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) and served as faculty for the Family Medicine Residency training program. In August 2007, she transferred to US Naval Hospital Yokosuka, Japan, where she served as Department Head of Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN), and as the first Nurse Corps Officer to be appointed as both Assistant Director and Director of Surgical Services. In August 2010, she transferred to US Naval Hospital Okinawa as Assistant Department Head for OB/GYN. While in Okinawa, she coordinated the local response for pregnant women and families evacuated from Yokosuka during Operation Tomodachi, following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. She also deployed with the Marine Corps 3^rd Medical Battalion in support of the Cambodia Interoperability Program 2011, providing outreach clinical care and education to rural communities, and training in obstetric and neonatal emergencies to 50 Cambodian military physicians, midwives, and nurses.

Returning to the National Capital Region in 2012, she was assigned as Chief of Midwifery Services at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at Bethesda and served as faculty for the OB/GYN Residency training program. In 2014 she transferred to Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, having been competitively selected as the first Nurse Corps officer to be appointed as Chief of Women’s Health. In 2017, she reported to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) Office of Women’s Health, then went on to serve as the Director of Secondary and Specialty Care, Deputy Assistant Deputy Chief for Healthcare Operations, Assistant Deputy Chief for Medical Operations, senior advisor to the Navy Surgeon General supporting Military Health System (MHS) Governance and reform, and as Navy Medicine Liaison to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. Among her accomplishments during this time, she spearheaded development of the Surgeon General’s first Female Force Readiness Strategy, helped design and shape the future of the Military Health System, and laid the foundation for organizational restructuring of BUMED to better align with Fleet requirements. She served as Executive Officer of Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Quantico, Virginia, from 2021 to 2023, and as Commanding Officer of NMRTC Annapolis and Naval Health Clinic Annapolis from July 2023 to July 25.

She currently serves as Commander, NMRTC Portsmouth and Director, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP).
 
Her military decorations include the Legion of Merit (2), Defense Meritorious Service Medal (3), Meritorious Service Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (4), Humanitarian Service Medal, Military Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal, Expert Pistol and Rifle Medals, and various service and campaign awards. She earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice at Villanova University in 2017, was selected as a 2017 Tillman Scholar by the Pat Tillman Foundation, and in 2019 received the prestigious MHS Award for Nursing Leadership Excellence. She is board certified as both a Nurse Midwife and Healthcare Executive, is a Fellow of the American College of Nurse Midwives and the American College of Healthcare Executives, and in 2021 was inducted as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing.

Captain Kim Shaughnessy-Granger
Nurse Corps
United States Navy