Director Profile

Nadja Y. West Director

  • Rank:

    Lieutenant General
  • Branch:

    Army
  • Status:

    Retired
  • Assignments:
  • 2020 - Present:

    Member of the Board of Trustees, Mount St. Mary’s University
  • 2019 - 2020:

    Hauser Leader at Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership
  • 2019:

    Retired
  • 2015 - 2019:

    Commanding General, United States Army Medical Command/The Surgeon General, United States Army, Falls Church, Virginia
  • 2013 - 2015:

    Joint Staff Surgeon, Joint Staff, Washington, DC
  • 2012 - 2013:

    Deputy Chief of Staff for Support, United States Army Medical Command, Falls Church, Virginia
  • 2010 - 2012:

    Commanding General, Europe Regional Medical Command/Command Surgeon United States Army Europe, Germany
  • 2008 - 2010:

    Commander, Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
  • 2007 - 2008:

    Director of Operations, J-3, Joint Task Force-National Capital Region Medical, Bethesda, Maryland
  • 2006 - 2007:

    Deputy Commander, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland
  • 2005 - 2006:

    Student, National War College, Washington, DC
  • 2003 - 2005:

    Commander,McDonald Army Community Hospital, Fort Eustis, Virginia
  • 2001 - 2003:

    Chief, Department of Medicine and Dermatology Service, 18th Medical Command, 121st General Hospital, Eighth United States Army, Korea
  • 1999 - 2001:

    Division Surgeon, 1st Armored Division, United States Army Europe and Seventh Army, Germany and OPERATION JOINT GUARDIAN, Kosovo
  • 1997 - 1999:

    Chief, Dermatology Clinic, Heidelberg Community Hospital, European Regional Medical Command, United States Army Europe and Seventh Army, Germany
  • 1996 - 1997:

    Dermatology Resident, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado
  • 1994 - 1996:

    Dermatology Resident, Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, Aurora, Colorado
  • 1992 - 1994:

    Family Physician, later Officer in Charge, Troop Medical Clinic Five, Blanchfield Army Community Hospital, Fort Campbell, Kentucky
  • 1991 - 1992:

    Family Practice Resident, Martin Army Community Hospital, Fort Benning, Georgia
  • 1990 - 1991:

    Field Surgeon, Company B, 197th Support Battalion, 197th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized), 24th Infantry Division, OPERATIONS DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM, Saudi Arabia
  • 1988 - 1990:

    Family Practice Resident, Martin Army Community Hospital, Fort Benning, Georgia
  • Education:

    2006: MS, National Security and Strategic Studies, National Defense University

    1988: MD, George Washington University

    1982: BS, United States Military Academy
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