Press release by JOl(SW) F. R. Keeley for Baltic Challenge exercise detailing humanitarian assistance by USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) neurosurgeon and staff who operated on a Lithuanian boy.
Topics: USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), hospital ship, Baltic Challenge exercise, humanitarian assistance
By André B. Sobocinski, Historian, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED). "A chance encounter at the Army-Navy Club in April 1965, between Lindbergh and Lt. Vernon Perry, of the Navy Tissue Bank in Bethesda, Maryland pumped new life into the artificial heart. Perry recruited Lindbergh as a “Guest Scientist.” Over the next three years Lindbergh commuted regularly between his home in Darien, Connecticut and Bethesda to work on improving his perfusion pump."
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, Charles Lindbergh, artificial heart, Alexis Carrel, history of medicine
By Capt. Patricia K. McCafferty, executive officer, Operation Health Support Unit Trained and ready, Navy Medicine Reservists have been mobilized in times of crisis, whether it’s to support humanitarian operations or boots on the ground conflict. In 1991, Operation Desert Shield saw over 2,000 Navy Medicine Reservists deploy, and an additional 4,000 recalled to replace deployed personnel. Our Reservists also provided operational support of deployed Navy and Marine Corps units; augmented...
Topics: Navy Operational Support Center (NOSC), Role 3 Multinational Medical Unit, Afghanistan, Naval...
SCREENPLAY "THE NAVY DENTAL CORPS" MN 8567 Prepared in the interests of Department of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Prepared by Roland Reed Productions, Inc. Hollywood, California Navy Contract NOas 57-492-f Received 16 Jan. '59 Changes thru 26 Jan. '59 SHOOTING SCRIPT APRIL 7TH 1959 Technical Advisers: CAPT. V. J. NIIRANEN CHARLES A. GREENE Script Writer: JOE DIMONA Project Supervisor: E. L. RANDEL NAVAL PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER CODE 134 EXT 372
Topics: Dental Corps, recruitment, film, Hollywood, movie, motion picture, Naval Dental School
Editor’s note: Although this blog honors several individuals, there are thousands of remarkable women who contribute to the Navy Medicine mission and continue to make an impact every day.
Topics: women's history, history of medicine, Nurse Corps, Navy Medicine Live blog,
Navy Medicine’s top Sailor, Force Master Chief (FORCM) Terry Prince, transformed his life in 2003 by dropping unhealthy habits and successfully completing an Iron Man triathlon in Hawaii. Today he continues to practice the healthy lifestyle changes he made for the Iron Man and motivates those around him to live a healthier life. Here are his top 10 tips for Sailors, Marines, and their families to live healthy and stay healthy in 2016:
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, Hospital Corps, exercise, stress, tobacco
By U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Public Affairs Kids of all ages have lots of questions about deployment and what it means for the parent who is away. It’s especially important for their questions to be answered openly, honestly and calmly.
Topic: Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Shanya Perkins, Public Health Educator, Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center, Portsmouth Va. "This year on Thursday, November 15, 2012, we will be encouraging Sailors, Marines, families, retirees and civilians to give up tobacco products for at least a day. The majority of smokers and tobacco users want to quit and the GASO offers an opportunity to do so."
Topics: Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center, tobacco, smoking, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Deborah R. Kallgren, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth Public Affairs
Topics: influenza, vaccination, NMC Portsmouth, Navy Medicine magazine
By: LCDR John Roman, MC (FMF), USN LCDR Roman is a Staff Dermatologist at Navy Medical Center Portsmouth I had been on bilateral exercises before – missions with the Korean and Indonesian Marine Corps, respectively, and spent time with the Thai Medical System. Lessons learned from these experiences emphasized the importance of building rapport with our partners and attentively working to further develop our relationship. As a member of the 2019 Brazilian Riverine Mission, I quickly realized...
Topics: Brazil, humanitarian assistance, Navy Medicine Live blog
U.S. Navy Surgeon General of the Navy, Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham, announced the launching of his professional reading list in a video released in February 2020. “The reading list is comprised of books that have helped shape my perspective as I have developed as a doctor, naval officer, and leader over the course of three decades of service,” said Gillingham. The 37 titles are organized by Navy Medicine’s four priorities—People, Platforms, Performance and Power. Each book was selected...
Topic: Navy Medicine
By Larry Coffey, Navy Medicine Education and Training Command "Approximately 425 Navy hospital corps and Army medic students from the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) Fort Sam Houston were provided a traditional holiday meal on Thanksgiving Day by volunteers from Valero Corporation."
Topics: Navy Medicine magazine, Navy Medicine Education and Training Command (NMETC)
By Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Milas Sturdivant, Branch Health Clinic Parris Island, S.C. "Dental Services at Branch Health Clinic Parris Island, S.C., has seen 49,806 patients so far this year. As the Leading Petty Officer for one of the Navy’s largest dental treatment facilities, every day brings its own unique adventures and challenges."
Topics: Hospital Corps, dentistry, BHC Parris Island, Navy Medicine Live Blog
Don’t be tricked, by all the sugary treats this Halloween season. Here’s some helpful tips to protect your dental health.
Topics: dentistry, Halloween
Unattributed lecture at THIRTY SEVENTH ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE IN OPHTHALMOLOGY, Roanoke, Virginia
Topics: ophthalmology, Vietnam War
"We had an opportunity recently to sit down with our deputy surgeon general, (DSG) Rear Adm. C. Forrest Faison, III and we thought we’d share his thoughts with you. He gave us his insight on what it takes to be a successful leader, he talked to us about his role as our DSG, discussed the importance of the standup of the Defense Health Agency and a host of other topics."
Topics: C. Forrest Faison, Defense Health Agency, Navy Medicine magazine
By Matt Lyman, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Public Affairs.
Topics: Hospital Corps, Independent Duty Corpsman, Navy Medicine magazine
By André B. Sobocinski, Navy Medicine Historian
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, history of medicine, psychiatry, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
By Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Chad Belmont. "My wife Brittany and I had planned to welcome our new born at home with the assistance of a mid-wife, but when our baby decided to arrive earlier than anticipated, I knew what to do; don’t panic, stay focused and rely on my training."
Topics: obsterics, Hospital Corps, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Paul Ross "Healing the sick, preventing illness and mending the broken is the main goal of any medical community. In military medicine the added requirement of readiness is critical and is the main priority. Navy Medicine runs military treatment facilities to keep a force of medical personnel ready to deploy in support of our warfighters when needed. But none of these goals are met if the patient’s safety is not paramount."
Topics: patient safety, Navy Medicine magazine
"There are a number of characteristics evident in that performance that are hallmarks of a learning system focused on continuous improvement: a demand for data – paired with an openness to reporting, continuous feedback to front-line units informed by the latest evidence and research, an improvement model focused on identifying and correcting systemic risks…not individual failures, and a sense of teamwork that spanned the entire system – more than a single organization, more than a...
Topics: military medicine, Navy Medicine Live Blog
The Sailor of the Year program was established in 1972 by the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Elmo Zumwalt and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy John Whittet to recognize an individual Sailor who best represented the ever-growing group of dedicated professional Sailors at each command and ultimately the Navy. Following the SSOY announcement, BUMED public affairs office met with HM1 Burkhart to discuss his qualities as a leader.
Topics: Hospital Corps, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Cmdr. Timothy Powell, MC, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth As the Continuing Promise 2015 (CP15) Director of Surgical Services, aboard USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) our team is not only delivering exceptional surgical care, but also contributing to one of the many aspects of this mission, men’s health. To provide a brief background on the mission, Continuing Promise is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored and U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet conducted deployment to conduct...
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, humanitarian assistance, hospital ship, USNS Comfort (T-AH 20)
By Marine Corps Sgt. Mark Fayloga. "The standard-issue spectacles, S9s, most widely known as “Birth Control Glasses,” or BCGs, are soon to become a thing of the past. In the coming months, recruits from all branches of service will be issued 5As, a more modern, hipster-chic pair of glasses. While the 5As are inarguably more aesthetically pleasing, they offer very little help as a contraceptive. Also PFLGs (Perfectly Fine-Looking Glasses), or TIGTABCYTPNGs (These? I Got Them At Boot...
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, ophthalmology, US Marine Corps
By Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Morgan Notel "Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Morgan Notel assigned to Naval Hospital Bremerton’s Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Program (SARP) passed her national certification exam and is now a fully credentialed Mental Health counselor. Along with sitting for her national exam, she had to successfully obtain a Master’s Degree and complete 3,000 clinical counseling hours. SARP staff members, like Notel, help guide and assist servicemembers and their family...
Topics: NH Bremerton, Navy Medicine Live Blog, mental health, Hospital Corps, drug abuse, alcoholism
By Captain Matthew Kutilek, U.S. Marine Corps "My corpsman’s actions that day initiated an 18-month immersion into Navy Medicine with repeated visits to vascular surgery, orthopedic surgery, pain management, neurology, physical therapy and even dermatology! The ridiculous amount of trauma caused by one solitary bullet has thus far resulted in a seven-week stay at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., 10 surgeries, 100-plus physical therapy appointments and countless...
Topics: Afghanistan, US Marine Corps, military medicine, Hospital Corps, Navy Medicine Live Blog
Cmdr. Eric Elster, Operational and Undersea Medicine, Naval Medical Research Center "This past Sunday I had the pleasure of being a guest of the Washington Redskin’s football organization and USAA during the game against the New York Jets."
Topics: football, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Sally Vickers, MS, CHES, public health educator, Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center, Patricia Booth, nurse educator, Naval Health Clinic New England and Bethany Sweatman, management analyst and Farmers Market Manager, Defense Logistics Agency. "We’re talking about community gardens and farmers markets. These markets have grown in popularity in recent years, much because of their ability to improve access to healthy foods; one of the keys to getting people to eat healthier and...
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center, plants, nutrition
By CAPT M.L. Cowan, MC, USN and LT Gene Christian, MC, USN. "FOREWORD As it should have been: this book was born at sea - in my cabin aboard a Navy ship underway in the Caribbean. The impetus to its birth was the many discussions with the authors regarding the need for a compendium of shipboard life and medical practice for use by those of our junior Medical Department officers fortunate enough to be detailed to a ship of the fleet...." RADM W.M. McDermott, Jr.
Topic: Michael Cowan
By André B. Sobocinski, Historian, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery On the morning of September 15, 1944, the 1st Marine Division began their assault on a tiny coral island in the Central Pacific called Peleliu. For Pharmacist’s Mate Third Class Eleuterio “Joe” Marquez this would be a baptism of fire. The 19-year old Los Angeles native had enlisted a year earlier with his two best friends, each anxious to make their own contributions to the good fight. After a whirlwind of boot...
Topics: Navy Medicine Live blog, history of medicine, World War II
By André B. Sobocinski Historian, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Before his career in the Navy, retired captain Dr. Al Mateczun, MC, graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1964. After pilot training and reconnaissance school at Shaw AFB, tours in France and Idaho, he deployed to Tan Son Nhut AB, Vietnam where he flew 200 missions in the RF-4C Phantom reconnaissance plane. It is May 12, 1968. At a Special Forces camp in Kham Duc, Vietnam, an Air Force Combat Control Team is...
Topics: Navy Medicine Live blog, Vietnam War
A history of the first US Naval Observatory and BUMED's Potomac Annex. Scripted and produced by Jan Herman. "A HILLTOP IN FOGGY BOTTOM: home of the old Naval Observatory and the Navy Medical Department, where many firsts in science and technology took place. This is where the science of oceanography was born, where the moons of Mars were discovered, where the underwater path of the first transatlantic cable was plotted. This location played a key role in the Civil War, our westward...
Topics: astronomy, prime meridian, Civil War, telegraph, maps, time, timekeeping,, John Quincy Adams,...
"A HILLTOP IN FOGGY BOTTOM: home of the old Naval Observatory and the Navy Medical Department, where many firsts in science and technology took place. This is where the science of oceanography was born, where the moons of Mars were discovered, where the underwater path of the first transatlantic cable was plotted. This location played a key role in the Civil War, our westward expansion, and in the development of military medicine. In 1920, the Naval Observatory was renamed the Naval...
Topics: Naval observatory, astronomy, U.S. Navy, Washington D.C., Naval Hygiene Museum, medical museums,...
On October 1, 2020, Capt. Eric Peterson was promoted to Rear Admiral, becoming the Navy’s newest flag officer as well as the first male ever to achieve this rank in the Nurse Corps. As a flag officer, Peterson will serve as the Deputy Commander, Naval Medical Forces Atlantic and the Deputy Director Nurse Corps, Reserve Component.
Topic: Nurse Corps
Compiled by Aviation Branch, Research Division, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, 1 June 1946 Reprinted by Biological Sciences Division, Office of Naval Research, 1 December 1975 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. General Introduction II. Activities Engaged in Aviation Medical Research III. Research Accomplishments in Specific Fields A. Acceleration G-Suits Other Studies B. Clothing General Survey Specific Projects c. Dentistry Specific Projects D. Ear, Nose, and Throat General Survey E. Food...
Topics: aviation medicine, World War II, World War 2
By Lisa Johnson, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Public Affairs. "A pediatric dentist from the U.S Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery visited with a group of high school students on Sept. 9 during Baltimore Navy Week. The dentist, Rear Adm. Elaine C. Wagner, deputy chief, Wounded, Ill, and Injured, and graduate of Indiana University, visited Western High School with the purpose of receiving a brief demonstration from the school’s award-winning all-girl’s robotics team, the...
Topic: Navy Medicine magazine
By S. E. Boss, Force Master Chief, Bureau of Medicine And Surgery. "It is with great pride and enthusiasm that I wish the men and women of the Hospital Corps a very happy 114th birthday. History has witnessed our humble beginnings, from our 1898 establishment, through our first graduating class of 28, and today, a force of over 25,000 performing duties around the globe."
Topics: Hospital Corps, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Lt. Cmdr. Ian Fowler, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Va. "Morphine has been used to alleviate pain from war injuries for more than 100 years. It was widely used back in the Civil War, and is still used by Navy corpsmen and Army medics in war zones. But another drug is starting to supplant morphine on the battlefield. It’s the fentanyl “lollipop.” Although it’s called a lollipop, it is far removed from the candy every child loves. This lollipop is basically a white lozenge on a...
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, pain, morphine, fentanyl, anesthesia, NMC Portsmouth, Hospital Corps
Written By: Mike Galarneau, Naval Health Research Center, Director of Operational Readiness At the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) in San Diego, we are always looking for ways to improve the readiness of our military. Part of that mission is learning more about the aftermath of combat injuries and looking at ways that we can improve recovery and rehabilitation and find ways to produce better quality of life outcomes, now and well into the future. The Wounded Warrior Recovery Project (WWRP),...
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, Afghanistan, Iraq, military medicine, U.S. Marine Corps, Naval Health...
By André B. Sobocinski, Historian, BUMED On November 16, 1942, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) commissioned Naval Hospital Harriman. Formerly known as Arden House, the facility had been the ancestral home of the U.S. ambassador to Russia, and later governor of New York, W. Averell Harriman. In August 1942, Harriman offered his home to the U.S. Navy for use as a hospital. Harriman was the first of the Navy’s “convalescent hospitals,” a new type of treatment facility that...
Topics: World War II, history of medicine, Navy Medicine Live Blog
By Andre Sobocinski, historian, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, history of medicine, World War 1, World War I, William Braisted, Hospital...
By André B. Sobocinski, BUMED Historian
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, World War 1, World War I, submarine, William Seaman, USS F-4, Hospital...
By André B. Sobocinski | U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Historian. "When the Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) R4D broke through the clouds of volcanic dust and smoke to land on Iwo Jima on March, 6 1945, it carried more than whole blood and medical supplies for the wounded. On board this flight was a 22-year-old Navy nurse named Jane Kendeigh, marking the first time in history that a Navy flight nurse appeared on an active Pacific battlefield. Kendeigh may have become a symbol...
Topics: Navy Medicine magazine, World War 2, World War II, flight nurses, Nurse Corps, Pacific Theater
By Andre Sobocinski, historian, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Topics: Navy Medicine Live Blog, history of medicine
U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6) is the U.S. Navy’s first stand-alone research facility in South America, and is one of six overseas research laboratories operated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). NAMRU-6 was initially established in Lima, Peru in 1983, as the Naval Medical Research Institute Detachment (NAMRID) to investigate infectious diseases Today, NAMRU-6 research activates focus on applied research to evaluate and test new vaccines, prevention strategies,...
Topics: Navy Medicine Live blog, Peru, NAMRU-6, vaccination, bacteriology, entomology, parasitology,...
In May 2009, the Navy consolidated several laboratory detachments into Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio (NAMRU-SA), located on the San Antonio Military Medical Center campus, Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Today, NAMRU-SA supports Navy Medicine’s commitment to improving the survival and medical readiness of the warfighter with operationally related research and development for the treatment of traumatic injuries, as well as ensuring world-wide dental readiness. The...
Topics: NAMRU-SA, Maxillofacial Injury, dentistry, Navy Medicine Live blog
In June, 1959, the U.S. Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) established the Navy Medical Neuropsychiatric Research Unit. In September 1974, the unit’s name changed to the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC). Today, NHRC’s mission is to optimize operational readiness and warfighter health by informing DoD policy through research. Located aboard Naval Base Point Loma, NHRC is the Department of Defense’s designated Deployment Health Research Center and the only military medical...
Topics: Navy Medical Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, Naval Health Research Center, epidemiology, Navy...
By André B. Sobocinski, historian, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Unlike “ambulance cots” and “transferring boards” that were commonly used by the Navy at the end of the nineteenth century, the Stokes was both stretcher and splint in one.
Topics: history of medicine, Charles Stokes, Navy Medicine Live Blog, military medicine
"We are 100 days into a multi-year period of significant change in how we manage and lead the Military Health System. We want to acknowledge the important changes that have already occurred, outline the major activities in the coming year that will demand our continued attention and discipline, and remind everyone of the vital responsibilities we have to those we serve." Jonathan Woodson, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, Surgeon General,...
Topics: Defense Health Agency, military medicine, Navy Medicine Live Blog
"The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is central to our strategy to form a partnership with each patient for whom we provide primary care to help them successfully sustain health and function. By redesigning our primary care around multi-disciplinary teams sustaining a continuous relationship with their patients and implementation of interactive technology, PCMH is showing early results and promise. Positive results from our established PCMH sites include improved access to care,...
Topics: Defense Health Agency, military medicine, Navy Medicine Live Blog
