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Surgeon General of the United States Army

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Most senior officer of the US Army Medical Department

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Surgeon General of the United States Army
Army staff identification badge
Flag of the surgeon general of the Army, depicting thecaduceus
Incumbent LTG Mary K. Izaguirre since January 25, 2024
Department of the Army United States Army
Abbreviation	TSG
Reports to	Secretary of the Army Chief of Staff of the Army
Seat	The Pentagon,Arlington,Virginia, United States
Appointer	Thepresident withUnited States Senate's advice and consent
Term length	4 years
Constituting instrument	10 U.S.C. § 3036
Formation	March 13, 1813; 212 years ago (1813-03-13)
First holder	Benjamin Church, Jr.
Deputy	Deputy Surgeon General of the Army
Website	Army.mil/ArmyMedicine

Thesurgeon general of the United States Army is the senior-most officer of the U.S.Army Medical Department (AMEDD). By policy, the surgeon general (TSG) serves as commanding general,U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) as well as head of the AMEDD. The surgeon general's office and staff are known as theOffice of the Surgeon General (OTSG) and are located inFalls Church, Virginia.

Since 1959, TSG has been appointed in the grade oflieutenant general. By law, TSG may be appointed from any of the six officer branches of the AMEDD. However, prior to the 43rd surgeon general, Lt. Gen.Patricia Horoho — anArmy Nurse Corps officer — all appointed and confirmed surgeons general have beenMedical Corps officers —military physicians. The incumbent surgeon general is Lieutenant GeneralMary K. Izaguirre.

Duties

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As a commanding general, TSG provides advice and assistance to thechief of staff, Army (CSA) and to thesecretary of the Army (SECARMY) on all health care matters pertaining to the U.S. Army and its military health care system. The incumbent is responsible for development, policy direction, organization and overall management of an integrated Army-wide health service system and is the medical materiel developer for the Army. These duties include formulating policy regulations on health service support, health hazard assessment and the establishment of health standards.TSG is assisted by the deputy surgeon general.

History

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Congress established the Medical Service of theContinental Army on July 27, 1775, and placed a "chief physician & director general" of the Continental Army as its head. The first five surgeons general of the U.S. Army served under this title. AnAct of Congress of May 28, 1789, established a "physician general" of the U.S. Army. Only two physicians, doctors Richard Allison and James Craik, served under this nomenclature. A congressional act of March 3, 1813, cited the "physician & surgeon general" of the U.S. Army. That nomenclature remained in place until the Medical Department was established by the Reorganization Act of April 14, 1818. Additionally, physicians assigned to the U.S. Army were not accorded military rank until 1847.

Surgeons general of the U.S. Army and their precursors

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Incumbents from July 27, 1775 – including periods of vacancy
No.	Name	Dates of tenure	Military rank
1	Benjamin Church, Jr.	July 27, 1775 – October 16, 1775	None
2	John Morgan	October 16, 1775 – January 1777	None
3	William Shippen, Jr.	April 11, 1777 – January 17, 1781	None
4	John Cochran	January 17, 1781 – 1783	None
		1783–1792
5	Richard Allison	1792–1796	None
		1796 – August 1, 1798
6	James Craik	August 1, 1798 – June 15, 1800	None
		June 15, 1800 – June 11, 1813
7	James Tilton	June 11, 1813 – June 15, 1815	None
		June 15, 1815–April 18, 1818
8	Joseph Lovell	April 18, 1818 – October 17, 1836	None
9	Thomas Lawson	October 17, 1836 – May 15, 1861	Brevet Brigadier General
10	Clement Finley	May 15, 1861 – April 28, 1862	Brigadier General
11	William A. Hammond	April 28, 1862 – August 18, 1864	Brigadier General
12	Joseph Barnes	August 18, 1864 – June 30, 1882	Brigadier General
		June 30, 1882 – July 3, 1882
13	Charles H. Crane	July 3, 1882 – October 10, 1883	Brigadier General
14	Robert Murray	October 10, 1883 – August 6, 1886	Brigadier General
		August 6, 1886 – November 18, 1886
15	John Moore	November 18, 1886 – 16 August 1890	Brigadier General
16	Jedediah Hyde Baxter	August 16, 1890 – December 4, 1890	Brigadier General
		December 4, 1890 – December 23, 1890
17	Charles Sutherland	December 23, 1890 – May 30, 1893	Brigadier General
18	George Miller Sternberg	May 30, 1893 – June 8, 1902	Brigadier General
19	William H. Forwood	June 8, 1902 – September 7, 1902	Brigadier General
20	Robert Maitland O'Reilly	September 7, 1902 – January 14, 1909	Brigadier General
21	George H. Torney	January 14, 1909 – December 27, 1913	Brigadier General
22	William C. Gorgas	January 1914 – 1918	Major General
23	Merritte W. Ireland	October 4, 1918 – May 31, 1931	Major General
24	Robert U. Patterson	1931–1935	Major General
25	Charles R. Reynolds	1935–1939	Major General
26	James C. Magee	June 1, 1939 – May 31, 1943	Major General
27	Norman T. Kirk	1943–1947	Major General
28	Raymond W. Bliss	1947–1951	Major General
29	George E. Armstrong	1951–1955	Major General
30	Silas B. Hays	1955 – June 1959	Major General
31	Leonard D. Heaton	June 1959 – 1969	Lieutenant General
32	Hal B. Jennings	October 10, 1969 – October 1, 1973	Lieutenant General
33	Richard R. Taylor	October 1, 1973 – October 1, 1977	Lieutenant General
34	Charles C. Pixley	October 1, 1977 – September 20, 1981	Lieutenant General
35	Bernhard T. Mittemeyer	October 1, 1981 – February 1, 1985	Lieutenant General
36	Quinn H. Becker	February 1, 1985 – May 31, 1988^[1]	Lieutenant General
37	Frank F. Ledford Jr.	June 1, 1988 – June 30, 1992^[1]	Lieutenant General
38	Alcide M. Lanoue	September 8, 1992 – September 30, 1996^[1]	Lieutenant General
39	Ronald R. Blanck	October 1, 1996 – September 22, 2000^[1]	Lieutenant General
40	James Peake	September 22, 2000 – July 8, 2004	Lieutenant General
		July 8, 2004 – September 30, 2004
41	Kevin C. Kiley	September 30, 2004 – March 12, 2007	Lieutenant General (retired asMajor General)
		March 12, 2007 – December 11, 2007
42	Eric Schoomaker	December 11, 2007 – December 5, 2011	Lieutenant General
43	Patricia Horoho	December 5, 2011 – December 3, 2015	Lieutenant General
		December 3, 2015 – December 11, 2015
44	Nadja West	December 11, 2015 – July 19, 2019	Lieutenant General
		July 19, 2019 – October 17, 2019
45	R. Scott Dingle	October 17, 2019 – January 25, 2024	Lieutenant General
46	Mary K. Izaguirre	January 25, 2024 – present	Lieutenant General

Note: TheAMEDD Museum atFort Sam Houston,San Antonio, Texas, has a display on the Army Surgeons General, including images of each one, except for Richard Allison.

Agencies, centers, offices, and programs within the OTSG

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This list isincomplete; you can help byadding missing items.(February 2011)

Military Vaccine Agency (MILVAX)
Borden Institute
U.S. Army Medical Information Technology Center (USAMITC)
Army Human Research Protections Office (AHRPO)
Pharmacovigilance Center

References and notes

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^^a ^b ^c ^dSteahly, Lance P.; Cannon, David W. Sr (2018).The Evolution of Forward Surgery in the US Army: From the Revolutionary War to the Combat Operations of the 21st Century. Government Printing Office.ISBN 9780160947841. Retrieved2021-10-20.

Heitman, Francis B. (1903),Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903; Washington, DC: Government Printing Office; 2 vol. (Vol. 1, pp 41–42 details the Medical Department.)

Authority control databases
International	ISNI 2 VIAF
National	United States Israel
Academics	CiNii 2
Other	Yale LUX

External links

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United States Army Medical Command

Category:United States Army

Leadership

Army Medical Department

Officers	Medical Corps Nurse Corps Dental Corps Veterinary Corps Medical Service Corps Medical Specialist Corps
Enlisted	Enlisted medical soldiers

Major Subordinate Commands

Regional commands	North Atlantic RMC Southeast RMC Great Plains RMC Western RMC Europe RMC Pacific RMC
Others	AMEDD Center & School U.S. Army Dental Cmd U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Cmd U.S. Army Public Health Cmd U.S. Army Warrior Transition Cmd

Installations

Fort Sam Houston
Fort Detrick (withForest Glen Annex)

Medical Centers
(MEDCENs)

Stateside	Augusta MMC Brooke AMC Tripler AMC Eisenhower AMC Madigan AMC Womack AMC Beaumont AMC Darnall AMC
Overseas	Landstuhl AMC

Medical Department Activities
(MEDDACs)

Hospitals	Bassett ACH Jones ACH Blanchfield ACH Allgood ACH Evans ACH Wood ACH Ireland ACH Irwin ACH Keller ACH Martin ACH McDonald ACH Moncrief ACH Reynolds ACH Weed ACH Winn ACH
Clinics	Bliss AHC Barquist AHC Bavaria MEDDAC DiLorenzo TRICARE HC Dunham AHC Fairfax FHC Fox AHC Guthrie MEDDAC Heidelberg MEDDAC Kimbrough ACC Kenner AHC Kirk AHC Lyster AHC Munson AHC Rader AHC Woodbridge AHC Camp Zama

Field medical units

Medical Commands	AR-MEDCOM United States Army Medical Command, Europe United States Army Medical Command, Vietnam 3rd MEDCOM 7th MEDCOM 18th MEDCOM 68th MEDCOM 807th MEDCOM
Medical Groups	United States Army Health Services Group, Vietnam 31st Med Gp 43rd Med Gp 55th Med Gp 67th Med Gp
Medical Brigades	1st Med BDE 2nd Med BDE 4th Med BDE 5th Med BDE 7th Med BDE 8th Med BDE 30th Med BDE 32d Med BDE 44th Med BDE 62nd Med BDE 65th Med BDE 112th MED BDE 139th Med BDE 175th Med BDE 176th Med BDE 213th Med BDE 307th Med BDE 330th Med BDE 332nd Med BDE 338th Med BDE 426th Med BDE 804th Med BDE 818th Med BDE
Combat Support Hospitals, Hospital Centers, and Field Hospitals	9th Hosp Ctr 10th Field Hospital 14th CSH 28th CSH 31th CSH 47th CSH 48th CSH 75th CSH 115th Field Hospital 121st CSH 212th CSH 228th CSH 256th CSH 325th CSH 328th CSH 345th CSH 349th CSH 352d CSH 396th CSH 399th CSH 405th CSH 452th CSH 801th CSH 865th CSH
Forward Surgical Teams	1st FST 2nd FST 8th FST 67th FST 102nd FST 126th FST 135th FST 160th FST 240th FST 250th FST 274th FST (ABN) 402nd FST 541th FST (ABN) 555th FST 624th FST 628th FST 629th FST 691st FST 745th FST 758th FST 759th FST (ABN) 772nd FST 848th FST 874th FST 909th FST 911th FST 912th FST 915th FST 932nd FST 933rd FST 934th FST 936th FST 945th FST 946th FST 947th FST 948th FST 1980th FST 1982nd FST

Education

Centers, schools, etc	AMEDD Center & School U.S. Army School of Aviation Medicine Borden Institute
Museums	National Museum of Health and Medicine AMEDD Museum
Courses	Captains Career Course Walter Reed Tropical Medicine Course
Products	Textbook of Military Medicine War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq

Research Institutes & Centers

Stateside	Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (ISR) U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research
Overseas	Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science (AFRIMS) United States Army Medical Research Unit- Europe (USAMRU-E) U.S. Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya (USAMRU-K) Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP)