Fourth Team of HHS Commissioned Corps Officers Joins Humanitarian Mission of the USNS Comfort

The fourth and final team of U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps officers from the U.S. Department of Health of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the USNS Comfort’s flight deck in front of helicopter Pain Killer 51 on September 15, 2007. Left to right: CAPT Craig Shepherd, LTJG Stacey McBryde, LTJG Stacy Ingram, CAPT Mary Reichler, LT Dorinda Ball, LCDR Karen Marienau, CDR Princess Campbell, LCDR Jamal Gwathney, LCDR Vickie Owens, LCDR Andrei Nabakowski, CDR Leonila Hanley, CDR John Redd, CAPT Ana Maria Puente, CDR Sandra Ferguson, CAPT Sandra Shire, CDR Jeffrey Salvon-Harman, CAPT Stephen Savoia, LCDR Harrichand Rhambarose, and CAPT Renee Joskow.

September 17, 2007 – The fourth and final team of U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps officers from the U.S. Department of Health of Health and Human Services (HHS) has joined the humanitarian mission of the hospital ship USNS Comfort. The HHS/USPHS specialists, from disciplines such as dentistry, environmental health, medicine, and nursing, will remain on board the Comfort as she makes the last three stops (Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, and Guyana) of her four-month, 12-nation voyage through Latin America and the Caribbean.

Last revised: September 17, 2007