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BG (Dr.) Joseph Caravalho Jr.
Commanding General
Northern Regional Medical Command
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| On 29 July 2011, Brigadier General (Doctor) Joseph Caravalho, Jr., became the second Commanding General of the US Army Medical Command’s recently reorganized Northern Regional Medical Command (NRMC), one of three commands within the Continental US, extending from North Carolina to Maine, and from the Atlantic Coast west to Wisconsin. The Region includes seven major Army medical treatment facilities. Additionally, BG Caravalho has administrative control of the Army personnel and Warriors-in-Transition working under the Joint Task Force Capital Med in the National Capital Region. His last assignment was as the Commanding General of Southern Regional Medical Command and Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX, from 2009 to 2011.
BG Caravalho was born and raised in Kaneohe, HI, and is a 1975 alumnus of St. Louis High School in Honolulu. In 1979, he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. Designated an Army ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate, BG Caravalho was first commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Medical Service Corps. He went on to the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences School of Medicine in Bethesda, MD, where he received his medical doctorate and was commissioned a Medical Corps Regular Army Captain in 1983.
BG Caravalho’s post-graduate medical training included a transitional Internship, internal medicine residency, and both nuclear medicine and cardiology fellowships. His military training includes the Command and Service Support School at Fort Leavenworth, KS. He is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College and the Army War College, the latter from which he received a Master of Strategic Studies.
Clinically, BG Caravalho served as staff internist, nuclear medicine physician, and cardiologist. He served as Chief of Cardiology at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, and as Deputy Commander for Clinical Services at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg, NC. His operational medical experience includes assignments as Surgeon, 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), Okinawa, Japan; Physician Augmentee, Joint Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg; Surgeon, 75th Ranger Regiment, Fort Benning, GA; Deputy Chief of Staff, Surgeon, US Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg; and most recently as the Assistant Chief of Staff, Health Affairs, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg. He also commanded the 28th Combat Support Hospital and the 44th Medical Command (Rear) (Provisional), both at Fort Bragg. He has two deployments in support of OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM. As an AMEDD General Officer, BG Caravalho served in Iraq as the Surgeon for both Multi-National Force-Iraq and Multi-National Corps-Iraq. Following his last deployment, he served as Commanding General for both Southern Regional Medical Command and Brooke Army Medical Center, both at Fort Sam Houston.
BG Caravalho earned the Special Forces and Ranger tabs and was awarded the Expert Field Medical Badge. He completed the Army Airborne and Flight Surgeon schools, as well as the Navy Dive Medical Officer and SCUBA courses. His individual awards include the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit with oak leaf cluster, Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Army Meritorious Service Medal with six oak leaf clusters, Joint and Army Commendation Medals, and the Army Achievement Medal with three oak leaf clusters. He is a recipient of the Order of Military Medical Merit. He holds current certification in nuclear cardiology.
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Major General Carla G. Hawley-Bowland
Commanding General
Northern Regional Medical Command and
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| Major General Carla G. Hawley-Bowland took command of the US Army’s Northern Regional Medical Command / Walter Reed Army Medical Center on 11 December 2007. She is the first female Medical Corps General in the history of the United States Army. In addition to this assignment, she assumed the responsibilities of Chief, United States Army Medical Corps on 29 August 2006. |
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| Born in Casper, Wyoming, MG Hawley-Bowland received her Bachelor of Science from Colorado State University. She received her Doctor of Medicine in 1978 from Creighton University under the U.S. Air Force Health Professions Scholarship Program. After completing a general surgery internship at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, she transferred to the Army, serving as a general medical officer. She then completed residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and was assigned to Darnall Army Community Hospital, Fort Hood, TX. |
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| Other assignments include: Chief, Gynecological Service; OB/GYN Residency Program Director and Chief, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, TX; Deputy Commander for Clinical Services, Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, NC; Commander, General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital, Fort Leonard Wood, MO; Commander, William Beaumont Army Medical Center; Chief, Clinical Services Division, and Deputy Chief, Health Policy and Services at U.S. Army Medical Command; Commanding General, Europe Regional Medical Command and Command Surgeon for U.S. Army Europe & 7th Army, and Commanding General, Tripler Army Medical Center and Pacific Regional Medical Command. |
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| MG Hawley-Bowland’s awards include the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit (3OLC), Meritorious Service Medal (5OLC), Army Commendation Medal (1OLC), Army Achievement Medal (2OLC), Humanitarian Service Medal, Overseas Service Ribbon, Armed Forces Reserve Medal with bronze device, The Surgeon General’s Physician Recognition Award, and The Surgeon General’s Award for Military Academic Excellence (the Lewis Aspey Mologne Award). Her civilian awards include the Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award from the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Edward A. Zimmerman Award for contributions to the Armed Forces District and the Army in Obstetrics and Gynecology. | |
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