Navy Researchers, U.S. Pacific Fleet Surgeon tour NAMRU San Antonio

Photo By Burrell Parmer | JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (April 7, 2022) – Dr. Sylvain Cardin, (second from left) chief science director of Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, speaks with U.S. Pacific Fleet Surgeon Capt. Michael McGinnis and other science subject matter experts from Navy Medical Research Center (NMRC) and Navy Medicine on the importance of having an open line of communication between the fleet and the research community during a tour at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Building. This communication ensures that the most updated devices and surgical techniques are responding to fleet requirements. 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 Department of Defense 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 NMRC in Silver Spring, Md. (U.S. Navy photo by Burrell Parmer, NAMRU San Antonio Public Affairs/Released)  

SAN ANTONIO, TX, UNITED STATES

04.07.2022

Story by Burrell Parmer 

Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (April 7, 2022) – Capt. William Deniston, commander of Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC), joined by U.S. Pacific Fleet Surgeon Capt. Michael McGinnis and other science subject matter experts from Navy Medicine toured facilities of Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio at the Battlefield Health and Trauma Building.

Personnel from NMRC, NAMRU 2 - NMRC Asia, NAMRU 3, NAMRU Dayton, NAMRU 6, Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, Naval Health Research Center, Naval Medical Forces Pacific, and Bureau of Navy Medicine and Surgery were in Military City USA to attend the annual Enterprise Leadership and Science Directors Meeting hosted by NAMRU San Antonio.

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 Department of Defense 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 NMRC in Silver Spring, Md.

• Date Taken: 04.07.2022
• Date Posted: 04.13.2022 14:14
• Story ID: 418427
• Location: SAN ANTONIO, TX, US
• Hometown: COCOA BEACH, FL, US
• Hometown: NEWINGTON, CT, US
• Hometown: SAN ANTONIO, TX, US