WarDocs - The Military Medicine Podcast

In this episode COL (Dr.) Joseph “Joe” Alderete describes the Center for the Intrepid and the amazing advancements in rehabilitation, limb salvage, and amputee care that have been developed from over 20 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Here about the latest in cutting edge research to help soldiers and elite professional athletes, such as NFL quarterback Alex Smith, regain the ability to ach...

   In this episode COL (Dr.) Joseph “Joe” Alderete discusses a life-changing experience that led him to become a military orthopedic surgeon and how a mentor influenced his decision to train in orthopedic surgical oncology. Find out how special operations and surgical military assets bring lifesaving surgical care near the tip of the spear and unique stories of the resiliency of the human body to...

  Dr. Neff is a Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician who is currently attending War College.  She has held numerous academic and leadership positions in Army Medicine     In this episode Dr. Neff describes her experiences providing care in remote locations such as Korea and Alaska and participating in a Medical Readiness Exercise in Cambodia.  She talks about what it’s like to be deployed for...

  Dr Cestero is a trauma surgeon, surgical intensivist and a Navy Reservist with over 19 years in the military. Commander Cestero served as an active-duty Navy trauma surgeon for 10 years, completing seven deployments throughout his career including three to combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.     In this episode Dr. Cestero describes how Navy Medicine is able to provide top notch surgical care...

   Dr. Turabi is a Board-Certified Anesthesiologist and Fellowship Trained in Pain Medicine.  He currently is in the US Army Reserves and is Chief of Pain Medicine at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore, MD.    In this episode Dr. Turabi describes a dramatic effort to save one of his unit’s nurses when stationed at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) in Kabul, Afghanistan.  He volunteers to...

Dr. Czarnik is a Board-Certified Emergency Medicine Physician and serves as the Deputy Chief of Staff, Surgeon of US Army Special Operations Command In this episode we continue our conversation with Dr. Czarnik as he describes some memorable cases he had as a military Emergency Medicine Physician.  He talks about the critical role medics play in supporting the military health system both deployed...

Dr. Czarnik is a Board-Certified Emergency Medicine Physician and serves as the Deputy Chief of Staff, Surgeon of US Army Special Operations Command   In this episode hear about what military operational medicine physicians do and about the Ranger’s combat jump into Afghanistan after 9/11 as well as providing care under fire in austere locations with special operations units.  He uses these anecdo...

Dr. Crosland is a Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician and serves as the Army Deputy Surgeon General and Chief of the Army Medical Corps   In this episode she describes the role of Army Deputy Surgeon General and what value military medicine brings to the warfighters both in support and strategy development.  She provides insights into how military medicine can build on the successes from pre...

Dr. Tyson Becker is a fellowship trained Army trauma surgeon and consultant to the US Army Surgeon General for General Surgery In this episode he describes how surgeons must be prepared for operating outside their normal comfort with a story about needing to do a neurosurgery in a remote location at 7500 feet when weather prevented evacuation.  He also discusses and provides an example of how comb...

Dr. Hartstein is a dual boarded Army Pediatrician and Emergency Medicine Physician and the Army Emergency Medicine Consultant to the Surgeon General. On this episode learn the role of emergency medicine physicians on the battlefield and the challenges that emergency medicine physicians face in the military. Dr. Hartstein also discusses mass casualty situations and activating a walking blood bank w...

Dr. Preston is an Army psychiatrist and the Chief of the Office of the Surgeon General, Behavioral Health Division.  On this episode learn why psychiatrists and behavioral health expertise is critical to the Military wartime mission, and what psychiatrists do in a war zone. Hear how psychiatrists are force multipliers by ensuring good mental health practices. Also learn tips for how to break bad n...

Dr. Kimball-Eayrs is an Army pediatrician and the is the Army General Pediatrics Consultant to the Surgeon General.  On this episode learn why pediatricians are critical in the Army and what pediatricians do on the battlefield and at home.  She describes lessons learned downrange as well as at Combat Unit training centers in the U.S.  She explains what a Chief Experience Officer does and why it is...

 Dr. Shackelford is an Air Force trauma surgeon and Chief of the Joint Trauma System.   She discusses the development of the Joint Trauma System and how we use the data from the battlefield to guide trauma surgery going forward.   She also discusses why she focuses much of her research on prehospital battlefield care, as many as 90% of the battlefield casualties occurred before they arrived at a h...

Dr. Chung is a critical care physician and Chair of Medicine at Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland.  In this episode he discusses the role of critical care physicians on the battlefield and how his military career in burn medicine and critical care helped innovate battlefield care.  He tells the story of how the death of six critically ill combat burn patients spurred an entire sy...

Dr. Yun is an Air Force Infectious Disease Physician and serves as the Deputy Commander of Medical Services at Brooke Army Medical Center In this episode you will learn how critical infectious disease (ID) physicians are to the military health system.  You will hear anecdotes about darting Howler monkeys in the study of exotic diseases and find out how the emotions of being deployed as a mother of...

In this episode, we interview COL(R) Dr. Doug Soderdahl.  You will hear how military urologists support the warfighters in deployed environments and at home.  Find out how a wannabee Army Helicopter Pilot found his way to Army Medicine and stayed for a 30+ year career.   He describes stories from multiple deployments including an isolated GSW to the prostate, MASCAL triage challenges as well as a...

A brief overview of what you can expect to hear on this podcast.     Check back soon for new episodes weekly!   Go to our website wardocspodcast.com to learn more.   Produced by Dr. Doug Soderdahl, Dr. Wayne Causey and Dr. Kevin Kniery