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Navy Medicine renews commitment to excellence in trauma careNavy

Rear Adm. Rick Freedman, acting U.S. Navy surgeon general and chief, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and Dr. Erik Mikaitis, the chief executive officer of Cook County Health (CCH), pose for a photograph during a signing ceremony for a military-civilian partnership (MCP) for trauma care at the CCH Professional Building in Chicago, April 28. Joining Freedman and Mikaitis in the back row, from left, is Cmdr. Brigham Douglas, the officer-in-charge of the Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System; Dr. Fred Star, the trauma medical director; Dr. Mallory Williams, the chair of Trauma and Burn Services; and Dr. John Ruggero, the section chief of the Joint Combat Trauma Education and Training. The MCP provides U.S. Navy medical teams an opportunity to operate at the leading edge of medicine with Stroger Hospital to sustain critical knowledge, skills and abilities of expeditionary medicine teams. (Courtesy U.S. Navy photo by Cook County Health)