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USTRANSCOM hosts Global Patient Movement Joint Advisory Board

Release #120702-1 posted on Jul 2, 2012
By Bob Fehringer, U.S. Transportation Command
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Col. David O’Brien, command surgeon for U.S. Transportation Command, welcomes participants, June 27, to the Global Patient Movement joint Advisory Board at Scott Air Force Base, Ill. The doctors, nurses, medical technicians and healthcare workers are responsible for patient movement around the world. Lt. Cmdr. William Howes, USTRANSCOM command surgeon’s office, helped arrange the event. Photo by Bob Fehringer, USTRANSCOM/PA

Col. David O’Brien, command surgeon for U.S. Transportation Command, welcomes participants, June 27, to the Global Patient Movement joint Advisory Board at Scott Air Force Base, Ill. The doctors, nurses, medical technicians and healthcare workers are responsible for patient movement around the world. Lt. Cmdr. William Howes, USTRANSCOM command surgeon’s office, helped arrange the event. Photo by Bob Fehringer, USTRANSCOM/PA

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SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. – Col. David O’Brien, command surgeon for U.S. Transportation Command, welcomed participants, June 27, to the Global Patient Movement Joint Advisory Board at Scott Air Force Base, Ill. 

More than 100 medical personnel from all services and Health and Human Services attended the conference.

The doctors, nurses, medical technicians and healthcare workers are responsible for patient movement around the world. 

Lt. Cmdr. William Howes, USTRANSCOM command surgeon’s office, helped arrange the event.

“The forum hosted by USTRANSCOM’s command surgeon is to set the strategic direction for relevant and effective patient-centered care,” Howes said, “and to bring together patient movement subject matters from all services.”

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