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The Surgeon General of the United States Army is the senior-most officer of the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD). By policy, the Surgeon General (TSG) serves as Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) as well as head of the AMEDD. The surgeon general's office and staff are known as the Office of the Surgeon General (OTSG) and ...
Churchill Hospital (1945) Deshon General Hospital, in the former Butler Hospital [3] DeWitt General Hospital, Auburn, California, 31 December 1945. Named for Brigadier General Calvin DeWitt, Medical Corps, United States Army. [6] Dibble General Hospital, Palo Alto, California, 31 July 1946. Named for Colonel John Dibble, Medical Corps, United ...
Namesake of Kirk United States Army Health Clinic (formerly hospital), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Major General. Shelley U. Marietta. September 13, 1943. Retired 1946. Commander of The Army Medical Center. Major General. Robert H. Mills. September 17, 1943.
Nadja Yudith West (née Grammer; March 20, 1961) [2] is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and the 44th Surgeon General of the United States Army and former Commanding General of the United States Army Medical Command. West, a physician, was the first black Army Surgeon General, and was the first black female active-duty major ...
The surgeon general of the United States is the operational head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government of the United States. The surgeon general's office and staff are known as the Office of the Surgeon General (OSG), which is ...
Army Medical Department. The Army Medical Department of the U.S. Army (AMEDD), formerly known as the Army Medical Service (AMS), encompasses the Army's six medical Special Branches (or "Corps"). It was established as the "Army Hospital" in July 1775 to coordinate the medical care required by the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
The U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) is a direct reporting unit of the U.S. Army that formerly provided command and control of the Army's fixed-facility medical, dental, and veterinary treatment facilities, providing preventive care, medical research and development and training institutions. On 1 October 2019, operational and administrative ...
Physician. Neurologist. William Alexander Hammond (28 August 1828 – 5 January 1900) was an American military physician and neurologist. During the American Civil War he was the eleventh Surgeon General of the United States Army (1862–1864) and the founder of the Army Medical Museum (now the National Museum of Health and Medicine).