Hardcover Now Available – Joel Schofer’s Promotion Board Preparation: A Guide for Officers in Navy Medicine
The initial release only included the Kindle eBook and a softcover version, but now there is a hardcover available. You can get it here:
How women Veterans won the right to healthcare
BLUF – Women who served in the U.S. military historically faced significant barriers to federal healthcare and veterans’ benefits, despite their contributions as nurses and other military personnel during the Civil War and World War I. Advocacy by organizations such as the Women’s Overseas Service League helped secure access to federal veterans’ hospitals in 1923, laying the foundation for today’s comprehensive VA healthcare services for women veterans and highlighting the lasting importance of equitable healthcare access for those who serve.
https://news.va.gov/150723/how-women-veterans-won-right-to-health-care/
Ensuring warfighters are medically ready, rapidly returned to duty: Defense Health Agency reveals fiscal year 2027 operational framework to achieve combat support mission
BLUF – Defense Health Agency Director Vice Adm. Darin Via unveiled the FY2027 “Delivering Warfighter Readiness” operational framework, establishing four priorities: improving service member medical readiness, maintaining military medical personnel’s clinical skills, strengthening joint warfighting capabilities, and delivering high-quality healthcare. Key initiatives affecting Navy Medicine include increasing surgical volume and patient complexity at 15 major military hospitals, reducing lost duty days, expanding battlefield blood and medical logistics capabilities, strengthening the Joint Trauma System, and improving access to care and provider retention.
Expeditionary Warfare School Marine Air Ground Task Force Operations Afloat Course Academic Year 2027
Preference will be given to Medical Service Corps Officers. Applications are due 20 NOV 2026.
From Electrical Systems to Human Body Systems: How 2 EMDP2 Students Bring Technical Skills to Medicine
BLUF – Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Brandy Ledet, a former nuclear electrician, and Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Efrain Negron, an electronics maintenance technician, are transitioning toward careers as military physicians through the Uniformed Services University’s Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program (EMDP2). Their experiences demonstrate how technical expertise, operational leadership, and personal encounters with military healthcare can prepare enlisted personnel for medical careers, highlighting EMDP2 as an important pathway for developing future Navy Medicine physicians with firsthand operational experience.
https://news.usuhs.edu/2026/11/from-electrical-systems-to-human-body.html
Strengthening acquisition, research efforts will support warfighter readiness and military healthcare services
BLUF – Retired Army Colonel Matthew Clark has assumed leadership of the Defense Health Agency’s research, development, and acquisition enterprise, emphasizing faster delivery of medical capabilities, streamlined contracting, and stronger alignment with warfighter readiness priorities. His new DELIVER Care framework and 90-day action plan aim to reduce bureaucratic delays, improve acquisition oversight, and ensure Navy Medicine and other military healthcare providers receive the equipment, technologies, and services needed to support operational missions and patient care.
National Naval Medical Center News
BLUF – Michael Rhode, the archivist for Navy Medicine, highlights historical editions of the National Naval Medical Center News during an episode of the “From the Vault” video series, Oct. 30, 2026. The series, produced in commemoration of America’s 250th anniversary, explores 250 years of U.S. Navy and military medical history by unlocking the Navy Medicine archives to highlight the enduring courage, innovation, and legacy of care provided by military medical professionals. (U.S. Navy video by Kevin Ray J. Salvador)
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1028045/national-naval-medical-center-news
Introducing DHA’s New Leadership Series – the Mission Minute
BLUF – Watch DHA Director Navy Vice Adm. Darin Via and DHA Command Senior Enlisted Leader FORCM PatrickPaul “PaP” Mangaran introduce a new video series dedicated to bringing you the latest DHA news…in (approximately) a minute! In this first video, Via shares the agency’s most critical objectives to enhance warfighter readiness, sharpen our provider’s medical skills, deliver integrated support to the DHA’s military partners, and provide safe, high-quality healthcare for all beneficiaries. Stay tuned for more leadership insights at www.youtube.com/@defensehealthagency.
https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1028737/introducing-dhas-new-leadership-series-mission-minute
Finding her fairway: How a Navy officer balances duty, family, and championship golf
BLUF – Lt. Mary Kate Peek, Navy Reserve Program director at Naval Medical Forces Pacific, earned a spot on the All-Navy Women’s Golf Team for the second time in 2026, competing in the Armed Forces Golf Championships just months after giving birth to her third child. A former Naval Academy golfer and surface warfare officer, Peek balances competitive athletics, motherhood, and responsibility for training and mobilizing Navy medical reservists, demonstrating the importance of resilience, family support, and work-life balance in sustaining operational readiness.
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