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Navy Medicine Force Master Chief champions training during first San Antonio visit
June 5, 2026
U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Force Master Chief Jerry Cantorna, director, U.S. Navy Hospital Corps, speaks to Sailors assigned to Navy Medicine Training Support Command during an all hands call at the Medical Education and Training Campus, June 2, 2026. Cantorna’s visit to NMTSC emphasized Navy Medicine’s focus on the health, warfare, and training of Sailors and Marines. (U.S. Navy photo Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Shayla D. Hamilton)
Civilians are a Navy Medicine critical force enabler
January 29, 2026
260123-N-CH185-1002 (Jan. 23, 2026) FALLS CHURCH, Va. Dr. Michael B. McGinnis, executive director of U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and director of the Navy Medicine Civilian Corps, speaks during a town hall at Defense Health Headquarters, Jan. 23. With a community of more than 2,000 civilian employees in over 119 different occupations across the globe, the Navy Medicine Civilian Corps play a critical and foundational role in helping the Department of the Navy meet its mission and support our warfighters. (U.S. Navy photo by Kaylon Chladek)
BUMED Medical Inspector General evaluates NAMRU San Antonio
March 8, 2024
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (March 6, 2024) – Program managers assigned to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio attend the outbrief of the U.S. Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) Medical Inspector General, Capt. William Deniston at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Research Institute. Approximately 12 inspectors conducted evaluations of 40 programs and collateral duties over three days at Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio to improve command performance and processes. NAMRU San Antonio’s mission is to conduct gap driven combat casualty care, craniofacial, and directed energy research to improve survival, operational readiness, and safety of DoD personnel engaged in routine and expeditionary operations. It is one of the leading research and development laboratories for the U.S. Navy under the DoD and is one of eight subordinate research commands in the global network of laboratories operating under the Naval Medical Research Command in Silver Spring, Md. (U.S. Navy photo by Burrell Parmer, NAMRU San Antonio Public Affairs/Released)
Naval Medical Leader and Professional Development Command Sailor Recognized as Sailor of the Year
April 21, 2023
230406-N-DQ752-0015 SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Apr. 6, 2023) Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Aisha R. Thomas, Naval Medical Leader and Professional Development Command, shakes the hand of Rear Adm. Cynthia A. Kuehner, commander of Naval Medical Forces Support Command (NMFSC) after being selected as the NMFSC 2023 Sailor of the Year on April 6. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Cheyenne Geletka)
Navy Medicine Senior Enlisted Leadership Symposium focuses on expeditionary future
March 24, 2023
Force Master Chief Michael Roberts, director of the Hospital Corps, speaks during the 2023 Navy Medicine Senior Enlisted Leadership Symposium in San Antonio, Texas March 14, 2023. Representatives from 78 Navy Medicine commands gathered for a 3-day event to discuss Navy Medicine’s transition to expeditionary medicine.
New director takes helm of Navy Medicine Civilian Corps
January 7, 2022
In December 2021, Mr. Mark Boman took on collateral duty as Director of Civilian Corps
Navy Medicine steeped in symbolism
August 21, 2021
Navy Medical Department Flag, originally adopted by BUMED in 1948.