JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, texas –
Dr. Jonathan Woodson, president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, visited with military dental researchers at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute at Joint base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, on Aug. 19.
Woodson, who is responsible for the academic, research and leadership mission of the university, was briefed by staffers assigned to Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio, U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, and U.S. Air Force Dental Research & Consultation Service.
Joining Woodson were personnel assigned to USUHS, along with Dr. Drew Fallis, executive dean of the Postgraduate Dental College.
Topics of discussion included, but were not limited to, funding priorities of dental research, portfolio management, the future of military dental research to enhance readiness, and advocacy.
NAMRU San Antonio, part of Navy Medicine Research & Development, conducts gap-driven combat casualty care, craniofacial, and directed energy research in support of Navy, Marine Corps and joint U.S. warfighter health readiness and lethality while engaged in routine and expeditionary operations.