Guice, DHA director, service surgeons general talk ‘raising the bar,’ building MHS at AMSUS | Health.mil

Guice, DHA director, service surgeons general talk ‘raising the bar,’ building MHS at AMSUS | Health.mil

Guice, DHA director, service surgeons general talk ‘raising the bar,’ building MHS at AMSUS

(Left to right) Navy Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, director, Defense Health Agency; Air Force Lt. Gen. Mark Ediger, Air Force surgeon general; Navy Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy surgeon general; Army Lt. Gen. Nadja West, Army surgeon general; and Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Caravalho, Joint Staff surgeon, partake in a discussion on how the Military Health System was and continues to be built at the 2016 AMSUS meeting.

DR. Karen Guice, principal deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, performing the duties of the assistant secretary of Defense, led a discussion on how the Military Health System was and continues to be built at the AMSUS (The Society of Federal Health Professionals) 2016 meeting at National Harbor near Washington, D.C., Dec. 1, 2016. Guice was joined on the stage by Navy Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, director, Defense Health Agency; Air Force Lt. Gen. Mark Ediger, Air Force surgeon general; Navy Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy surgeon general; Army Lt. Gen. Nadja West, Army surgeon general; and Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Caravalho, Joint Staff surgeon.

Invoking the AMSUS meeting theme of “raising the bar,” Guice equated building a health care system for the military to building a skyscraper. “You must build carefully with clarity of purpose,” she said. This meeting attracted about 1,500 military and federal health practitioners and concludes Friday, Dec. 2, 2016.