Bridging the Distance for Timely Treatment A Conversation with PACOM’s Command Surgeon Sailors assigned to U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka transport a simulated gunshot victim from an Air Force UH-1 Huey helicopter to a waiting ambulance during a joint operational readiness exercise. The goal of this joint exercise was to strengthen cooperation and readiness between the two services to allow for quicker, more focused response during a real-world casualty. (Navy Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Josh Curtis)
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Hospital. Her various appointed duties included division head ommissioned in June 1979, Rear Admiral Bono obtained of Trauma; head of the Ambulatory her baccalaureate degree from the Procedures Department (APD); chair University of Texas at Austin and of the Laboratory Animal Care and Use attended medical school at Texas Tech Committee; assistant head of the Clinical University. She completed a surgical Investigations and Research department; internship and a General Surgery residency chair of the Medical Records Committee, at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth and and Command Intern Coordinator. She a Trauma and Critical Care fellowship at has also served as the Specialty Leader for the Eastern Virginia Graduate School of Intern Matters to the Surgeon General of Medicine in Norfolk, VA. the Navy. Shortly after training, Bono saw In September 1999, she was assigned duty in Operations Desert Shield as the director of Restorative Care at and Desert Storm as head, Casualty the National Naval Medical Center in Receiving, Fleet Hospital Five in Saudi Bethesda, MD, followed by assignment Arabia from August 1990 to March to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery 1991. Upon returning, she was stationed from September 2001 to December 2002 at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth as the medical corps career planning as a surgeon in the General Surgery officer for the Chief of the Medical department, surgical intensivist in Corps. She returned to the National the Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Naval Medical Center in January 2003 as Unit, and attending surgeon at the Burn Rear Admiral Raquel C. Bono director for Medical–Surgical Services. Trauma Unit at Sentara Norfolk General
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