Photo by Brandy Ostanik-Thornton | MEDDAC-AK | 08.27.2024
Army Maj. Brandi Martone, chief of pharmacy services for Medical Department Activity -Alaska, serving at Bassett Army Community Hospital, has earned a coveted seat at the General Staff Officer Course at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. The CGSS, the largest of four academic schools within the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, provides master’s-level curriculum and instruction to......
Photo by Marcelo Calero | Naval Medical Center San Diego | 01.12.2024
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (Jan. 12, 2024) As Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) celebrates National Pharmacist Day, 12 Jan., we present two pharmacists whose parallel trajectory lead them to serving in one of the hospital’s most relied upon departments by beneficiaries who expect a precision and expediency that leaves zero room for complacency. Lt. Catherine Bobea, United States Public Health......
Photo by Deidre Smith | Naval Hospital Jacksonville | 01.10.2024
Jacksonville, Fl, - (January 10, 2024) - Lt. Julia Pate, a Naval Hospital Jacksonville pharmacist, prepares a prescription for a patient. Pate, a native of Nashville, Tennessee, holds a Doctor of Pharmacy from Lipscomb University and says, "Pharmacists play an important role in the health care team. They use their drug therapy knowledge to help improve health outcomes beyond the dispensing of......
Photo by Lt.Cmdr. Aaron Cagley | Naval Health Clinic Charleston | 10.27.2023
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Techs celebrate pharmacy week at Naval Health Clinic Charleston.
Photo by Deidre Smith | Naval Hospital Jacksonville | 10.25.2023
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Oct. 25, 2023) Lt. Julia Pate, a pharmacist assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Jacksonville , briefs Rear Adm. Matthew Case, Naval Medical Forces Atlantic (NMFL) commander and Defense Health Network Atlantic director, on ScriptCenter®, a convenient and automated prescription pickup system, at Naval Hospital Jacksonville. The visit was an......
Photo by Deidre Smith | Naval Hospital Jacksonville | 01.25.2023
ALBANY, Ga. (Jan. 25, 2023) - Barbara Robinson, a pharmacist at Naval Branch Health Clinic Albany, fills a prescription. Robinson holds a doctor of pharmacy degree from University of Florida. She is a native of Tallahassee, Florida, and says, “We follow the five rights of medication: give the right drug, to the right patient, at the right dose, by the right route, at the right time.” (U.S.......
Photo by Douglas Stutz | Naval Hospital Bremerton/Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Bremerton | 01.11.2023
They’re behind the scenes, but not behind the times. National Pharmacist Day, January 12, 2023, provides an annual date to recognize that the pharmacists assigned to Naval Hospital Bremerton are at the forefront in combining high tech convenience with patient-centered care. Those days of an apothecary using an abacus to prepare and dispense medicine are long gone. NHB pharmacists -......
Photo by Deidre Smith | Naval Hospital Jacksonville | 09.26.2022
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Sept. 26, 2022) - Danielle Showers, a pharmacist at Naval Branch Health Clinic Jacksonville, fills a patient prescription. Showers, a native of Jacksonville, Florida, holds a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Florida A&M University. “Taking care of patients and making sure they have proper medications is my number one priority,” says Showers. October is American......
