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 Command surgeon selected for second star
President George W. Bush has nominated a U.S. Navy rear admiral who oversees U.S. Joint Forces Command's efforts in joint health services transformation for a second star.
(WASHINGTON - March 13, 2007) -- Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced today President George W. Bush has nominated U.S. Joint Forces Command's command surgeon for his second star.
Rear Adm. Gregory A. Timberlake oversees the mission of leading the medical transformation of the armed forces of the United States and the NATO nations in his role as U.S. Joint Forces Command surgeon (J02M).
His directorate, J02M, provides advice on force health protection in the command's joint force provider role as well as overseeing various medical plans and policies that support the commander's initiatives.
Rear Adm. Timberlake’s qualifications include tours as battalion surgeon, 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, Okinawa, Japan, and chief, general surgery and director of surgical services, U.S. Naval Hospital, Rota, Spain. He also served as officer-in-charge, Medical Mobile Augmentation Readiness Team Surgical Team 3 from U.S. Naval Medical Center, San Diego, Calif., and the Surgical Contingency Response Team from U.S. Naval Hospital, Rota, Spain. Additional shore assignments included duty as staff surgeon, U.S. Naval Medical Center, San Diego, Calif.
Rear Adm. Timberlake left active duty for the Naval Reserve in 1989 and was recalled in August 1990 in conjunction with Operation Desert Shield/Storm. Originally assigned to the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md. as a general surgeon, he was reassigned as a general surgeon aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort (TAH-20). He returned to reserve status in April 1991.
His reserve assignments include duty as officer-in-charge, Primus Unit 0605A Morgantown, W. Va., and officer–in-charge, Naval Reserve Hospital 106, Charleston, W. Va. He served as director of surgical services for Naval Reserve Fleet Hospital Minneapolis, Minn., from 1997 to 2000, and then assumed command of the same unit in October 2000. He served as director of health services (N9) for Naval Reserve Readiness Command Mid-Atlantic from October 2002 to October 2004, when he was assigned as deputy fleet surgeon, U. S. Fleet Forces Command.
As a civilian, Rear Adm. Timberlake is currently a professor of surgery, physiology and biophysics and director of trauma services and head of trauma and surgical critical care at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Miss. He has been active in developing and providing trauma care both in this country and internationally.
He has served for 10 years on the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma and its Subcommittee on Advanced Trauma Life Support and is one of the co-authors for the last three revisions of the course and textbook Advanced Trauma Life Support for Physicians.
He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and numerous other prestigious medical organizations. He has authored or co-authored 40 peer-reviewed manuscripts and several books and monographs related to care of the sick and injured.
A native of Arlington, Va., Rear Adm. Timberlake received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia in 1972 and was commissioned an ensign in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program in 1973. He received his medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1977. He completed his residency in surgery at the U.S. Naval Medical Center, San Diego, Calif., in 1983, and a fellowship in trauma and critical care surgery at Tulane University School of Medicine and the Charity Hospital of New Orleans, La., in 1986.
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