JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Jan. 24, 2024) – Dr. William D’Angelo, a biomedical engineer assigned to the Biomedical Systems Engineering and Evaluation Department, Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, briefs Force Master Chief PatrickPaul Mangaran, director, Hospital Corps, Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) and Master Chiefs Hospital Corpsman Hansen LaFoucade, deputy director, Hospital Corps, and Leslie Giuy, lead hospital corpsman planner on a prototype portable ozone sterilizer at the Tri-Service Research Laboratory. The equipment is being developed


JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (Jan. 24, 2024) – Dr. William D’Angelo, a biomedical engineer assigned to the Biomedical Systems Engineering and Evaluation Department, Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio, briefs Force Master Chief PatrickPaul Mangaran, director, Hospital Corps, Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) and Master Chiefs Hospital Corpsman Hansen LaFoucade, deputy director, Hospital Corps, and Leslie Giuy, lead hospital corpsman planner on a prototype portable ozone sterilizer at the Tri-Service Research Laboratory. The equipment is being developed by NAMRU San Antonio to be utilized by front-line military corpsmen, clinicians, and dentists during combat and humanitarian missions. NAMRU San Antonio’s mission is to conduct gap driven combat casualty care, craniofacial, and directed energy research to improve survival, operational readiness, and safety of Department of Defense (DoD) personnel engaged in routine and expeditionary operations. It is one of the leading research and development laboratories for the Navy under the DoD and is one of eight subordinate research commands in the global network of laboratories operating under the Naval Medical Research Command in Silver Spring, Md.


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