About USJFCOM: About the Command Surgeon (J02M)


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Command Surgeon (J02M)

U.S. Joint Forces Command’s (USJFCOM) Command Surgeon’s Office (J02M) strikes a balance between meeting present and future joint operational medical requirements. The office is divided into four branches: Joint Concept Development and Experimentation, Joint Force Provider, Global Health and Joint Medical and Education.

The Joint Medical Concept Development and Experimentation Branch is responsible for the transformation of joint force medical and health care support into enhanced capabilities, accomplished through joint medical concept development and experimentation. The branch also provides insight on health protection concept development as part of the command's joint force provider role with emphasis on advancing joint and coalition medical support capabilities.

The Joint Force Provider (JFP) Branch functions in direct support of the USJFCOM Operations, Plans, Logistics and Engineering Directorate’s global force management process. As the joint working group medical lead, the branch develops conventional medical joint sourcing recommendations supporting combatant command (COCOM) requests for forces. The JFP Branch is staffed by senior medical planners and subject matter experts from the Army, Air Force and Navy. The branch supports development of operations plans, contingency plans and joint medical doctrine. Other significant supporting activities include active participation on the Global Patient Movement Joint Advisory Board, Joint Synchronization Working Group and NATO's Multinational Medical Management Steering Group.

The Global Health Branch provides support to COCOMs in the fields of international health, veterinary medicine, preventive medicine and public health, with an emphasis on medical stability operations. The branch identifies capability gaps and solutions in regard to the political and cultural contexts of healthcare systems; facilitates joint, interagency and multinational concept development, experimentation, training, mission rehearsal and operational enabling; and synergizes force health protection with civil-military relations and health sector capacity building.

The Joint Medical and Education Branchincludes the medical aspects of joint individual and collective training. It identifies training shortfalls and leads the development, improvement and integration of the joint training environment to enable trained, capable and interoperable forces in meeting medical missions. The Joint Individual Training Section’s responsibilities include conducting the Joint Task Force Annual Senior Medical Leader Seminar; reviewing and updating medically related Joint Knowledge Online distance learning curriculum and courseware; reviewing and providing input for simulation technologies for joint force medical initiatives; and reviewing lesson learned for incorporation into future training. The Joint Collective Training Section provides medical expertise and support to COCOM exercises, USJFCOM mission rehearsal exercises (MRXs), and Partnership for Peace and NATO exercises.