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Lieutenant General Patricia D. Horoho passes the Southern Regional Medical Command guidon to Major General Jimmie O. Keenan (left) during a change of command ceremony on June 6, 2013. In 1994, Horoho was the head nurse of the emergency room at Womack Army Medical Center. She treated the wounded in the aftermath of the Green Ramp disaster. [2]
However, prior to the 43rd Surgeon General, Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho — an Army Nurse Corps officer — all appointed and confirmed surgeons general have been Medical Corps officers — military physicians. The incumbent Surgeon General is Lieutenant General Mary K. Izaguirre.
The founding mission of SCORE was to improve the education of surgical trainees in general surgery and its related subspecialties. SCORE focuses its efforts on the five years of progressive training that constitute general surgery residency in the United States, following medical school but prior to independent practice.
In 2016, the number was zero. Now, it includes 152 emergency medical service agencies in 23 states, according to Dr. Randall Schaefer, a retired Army trauma nurse and steering committee member of ...
Jimmie O. Keenan is a retired major general of the United States Army. She served as the Deputy Commanding General of the Medical Command and also the Chief of the United States Army Nurse Corps before retiring on January 1, 2016. [1] She now works at WellMed Medical Management in San Antonio, Texas.
The term SAMMC solely applies to the inpatient capabilities within the hospital at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC). The hospital as a whole as well as the outlying clinics are considered BAMC. It is a University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and USUHS teaching hospital and is home to the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical ...
Nadja Y. West was sworn in as the 44th Army Surgeon General and Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM). [278] This makes West the Army's first black Surgeon General, as well as the Army's first black woman to hold the rank of lieutenant general and the Army's highest ranking woman who graduated from West Point. [278] [279]
On 1 July 1966, the USAF Hospital at Travis AFB was designated David Grant USAF Medical Center in honor of the late Major General David Norvell Walker Grant, USAAF, MC (1891–1964), the first Surgeon General of the Army Air Corps and U.S. Army Air Forces. The medical center was a wing-equivalent as well as a tenant on Travis AFB.