Executive Officer

A native of Dyersburg, Tenn., Capt. Jamie Fitch earned a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and commissioned through the Health Professions Scholarship Program. After earning a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Tennessee in 2007, she completed general surgery internship at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP), followed by Navy flight surgeon training at the Naval Aerospace Medicine Institute in Pensacola, Fla.

From 2009 to 2011, she served as the squadron flight surgeon for Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 162 (VMM-162) where she deployed in 2010 with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard USS Nassau (LHA 4) in support of contingency operations in the Horn of Africa and earthquake relief in Haiti.

After completing general surgery residency at NMCP (2011-2015), Fitch served aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) as ship’s surgeon and deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. She then completed a fellowship in surgical critical care and was appointed as clinical instructor of surgery and surgical critical care at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas (2016-2018). In 2018, she returned to NMCP as a staff general and trauma/critical care surgeon, assumed the roles of assistant general surgery residency program director and assistant general surgery department head, and deployed aboard USNS Comfort (TAH 20) providing humanitarian assistance partnership development in Central and South America in support of Continuing Promise 2019.

In 2019, Fitch was hand-selected as deputy trauma director for the first US+UAE Trauma, Burn, and Rehabilitation Medicine team (TBRM), a strategic partnership between the U.S. government, the UAE Armed Forces, and the Mayo Clinic to develop an internationally verified level one trauma center to provide combat casualty care capability in the U.S. Central Command area of operations as well as an in-theater clinical currency platform for deployed surgical teams.

Fitch arrived at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune (NMCCL) in July 2021 to serve as the director for surgical services for both NMCCL and Expeditionary Medical Facility Kilo (EMF-K) and surgical market lead for the Defense Health Agency Coastal North Carolina Market. Promoted to captain in October 2023, she served as officer in charge for Navy Expeditionary Medical Unit 10G Rotation 16, deployed to Erbil Air Base, Iraq, from March to November 2024.

In June 2025, Fitch assumed her current role as executive officer of U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Guam and deputy director of U.S. Naval Hospital Guam.

Board certified in both general surgery and surgical critical care, Fitch is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, an assistant professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University, and a distinguished graduate of the Naval War College Joint Professional Military Education-1.

Her personal decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal (3), the Navy Commendation Medal (2), the Army Commendation Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, and the Army Achievement Medal as well as various unit and deployment awards. She is a designated Naval Flight Surgeon, Surface Warfare Medical Department Officer, and Fleet Marine Force Qualified Officer.