The Army Medicine at Work podcast brings you a closer look at some of the groundbreaking research the U.S. Army Medical Department is doing to transform care around the world. We’ll talk to Army Medicine officers involved in a first-of-its-kind

Episode 11: Making Medicine Mobile

Mar 13th, 2019 23m

The growing field of virtual medicine can help provide access to specialty care for people in remote locations around the world. The U.S. Army health care team is applying its skills and global infrastructure to advance the practice of virtual

Episode 10: Fighting Microscopic Enemies

Feb 21st, 2019 26m 15s

In this episode, we speak with Ltc. Hinkle and Ltc. Tyner from the U.S. Army Multidrug Resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network (MRSN) about their research on drug-resistant organisms, a serious public health risk. Hear researcher

Episode 9: The Truth About Sleep

Feb 21st, 2019 22m 54s

Sleep is an area of research often overlooked, yet it impacts everyone from Soldiers to civilians in every walk of life. Ltc. Capaldi discusses the work the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is doing to better understand our sleep

Episode 8: Pursuing Your Passion with Army Medicine

Feb 21st, 2019 21m 47s

Careers in Army Medicine offer unparalleled opportunities to engage in exciting research with the potential to improve human health. As an infectious disease physician and researcher at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), Col. Paige

Episode 7: Combatting Malaria

Jan 9th, 2019 11m 44s

Malaria is one of the biggest public health challenges in the world. We sat down with Ltc. James Moon, Director of Malaria Clinical Development at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), to learn more about the Army’s cutting-edge r

Episode 6: One Health Care Provider, Many Roles

Jan 9th, 2019 13m 24s

In the U.S. Army, uniformed members of the health care team have many opportunities to grow professionally. In this segment, Col. Todd Villines, MD, FACC talks about his role as a clinician, treating and preventing cardiac disease with state-of

Episode 5: Injury Prevention and Optimizing Physical Endurance

Jan 9th, 2019 12m 6s

Putting the right person in the right job doesn’t just mean having the right skills. It also means having the right fitness level. U.S. Army physical therapist Maj. Richard Westrick, DPT, DSc discusses how he is helping Soldiers with physically

Episode 4: Involving the Whole Family in Weight Loss

Jan 9th, 2019 9m 51s

In this interview, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Asma Bukhari, RD, describes her passion for nutrition and educating Soldiers. Her research project, Healthy Families, Healthy Forces, is a randomized study with Tufts University to explore long-term weight

Episode 3: Bringing a Novel Heart Therapy to the Army

Jan 9th, 2019 15m 4s

When Col. Eugene Soh, MD, FACC, introduced the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, it was a first within the Department of Defense, and provided an important alternative to open-heart s

Episode 2: Fulfilling the Promise of Global HIV Prevention

Jan 9th, 2019 18m 28s

U.S. Army Col. Nelson Michael, Ret., MD, PhD, Director, U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), talks about the Army’s critical work on the RV144 trial in 2009, which showed that a preven

Episode 1: In Pursuit of a Zika Vaccine

Jan 7th, 2019 13m 1s

U.S. Army Col. Stephen Thomas, MD, an infectious disease physician and vaccinologist, explains how the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) identifies emerging threats like Zika and Ebola, and rapidly develops vaccines to combat these

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