JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas (Oct. 24, 2022) -- The Brooke Army Military Center lawman commandant for aesculapian services received the inaugural Hero of Military Medicine San Antonio grant from the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Inc., Oct. 20.
U.S. Air Force Col. (Dr.) Heather Yun, an infectious diseases physician, accepted the grant during a ceremonial held astatine the San Antonio Botanical Gardens. The lawsuit recognized apical researchers, practitioners, ambassadors, and champions of subject medicine wrong the San Antonio community.
“Honesty, I don’t deliberation of myself arsenic a hero,” Yun said. “There are truthful galore deserving radical wrong subject medicine, but I’m incredibly honored to beryllium a recipient.”
HJF is simply a planetary nonprofit that administers much than $500 cardinal successful aesculapian probe funds annually. Since 1983, HJF has partnered with researchers and clinicians to supply seat to bedside to battlefield probe support. More than 3,000 HJF teammates supply scientific, administrative and programme operations services to researchers successful the military, academia and backstage industry.
The Hero of Military Medicine grant honors a subject nonrecreational who demonstrates excellence successful aesculapian probe oregon objective attraction done compassion and selfless dedication to advancing subject medicine and the wide wellness of the nation’s wounded, sick and injured work members and veterans.
“It’s ever bully to cognize that radical volition instrumentality the clip to admit you,” Yun said. “It’s a large honor, and I’m precise humbled.”
Yun was nominated for the grant by erstwhile BAMC Commanding General U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Clinton Murray.
“Col. Yun has distinguished herself arsenic a consummate person wrong some the civilian and subject aesculapian specialty communities of Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease,” Murray said. “As a physician-scholar, she has precocious the aesculapian field’s knowing of civilian and military-relevant topics, to see formative probe connected tropical diseases, SARS-CoV-2, and postgraduate aesculapian education.”
As a programme manager for the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium Infectious Disease Fellowship, Yun directed the acquisition of astir 24 subject Infectious Disease physicians and mentored different fellows/junior staff, galore of whom person gone connected to presume cardinal enactment positions wrong their respective subject service, Murray explained.
“As a much elder leader, she has continued to foster a objective learning and moving situation that supports the ongoing improvement of these aboriginal subject medicine leaders,” helium added. “Her engagement arsenic a talented mentor has facilitated her interaction wrong the Military Health System acold beyond the walls of BAMC. Her capableness for objective and scholastic excellence is matched lone by her empathy and compassion arsenic an affiliative leader.”
Other honorees included Marty Wender, San Antonio existent property developer and civic leader, who received the civilian diligent award. Wender suffered burns implicit 20 percent of his assemblage successful an accident. He received attraction astatine BAMC, the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center and UT Health San Antonio.
Retired U.S. Marine Maj. Gen. Juan Ayala received the ambassador award. Ayala presently serves arsenic manager of the City of San Antonio’s Office of Military Affairs.
And, Dr. Ian M. Thompson Jr. received the civilian supplier award, which recognizes an idiosyncratic who has efficaciously leveraged their objective and probe acquisition successful subject medicine to supply attraction to the civilian assemblage they serve. Thompson is president and main improvement serviceman for The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio Foundation and Christus Santa Rosa Friends Foundation.
“HJF is arrogant to contiguous our 2022 Heroes of Military Medicine Awards to these San Antonio leaders who person made specified important contributions to subject medicine successful the community,” said retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Joseph Caravalho Jr., HJF president and CEO. “This volition beryllium the archetypal solemnisation of galore to travel successful San Antonio to grant our subject and assemblage collaborators.”
Caravalho is besides a erstwhile BAMC commanding general.
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