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And finally, Dr. Cougar Jimenez-Jaramillo is a board-certified pathologist and researcher.

She's also a major in the U.S. Air Force, assistant professor of pathology at the Uniformed Services University, and an adjunct staff pathologist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and a member of the CAP Neuropathology Committee.

In a recent CAP Foundation podcast, she said a high school tour of a pathology laboratory helped light the spark.

We got to talk to the folks who worked there, and I guess I asked too many questions or seemed a little too interested.

And that's a different conversation we can have at another time.

Apply to Uniformed Services University, which is the military's medical school.

or an HSPS scholarship, health services, something, professional services scholarship, where your med school will be, it's basically like ROTC for med school.

Awesome.

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Hey guys, it's Joanna, and welcome back to Beyond the Test, Connecting Communities Through Pathology, a podcast from the CAP Foundation.

Today, we're talking about finding your path to medicine through military service and how those experiences can shape your career.

After that, I turned active duty and completed my APCP training at Brook Army Medical Center down in San Antonio, Texas.

So during that four-year period, I was active duty.

And since then, my first billet has been at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences out in Bethesda, Maryland, right next to Walter Reed.

So I'm an assistant professor of pathology at the medical school.

And then I also sign out cases at Walter Reed where a couple of different hats.

Thank you for joining us as we recognize 250 years of sacrifice, innovation, and excellence in military medicine.

Joining me today is Dr. Jonathan Woodson, the seventh president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and a retired U.S. Army Reserve Major General with 36 years of military service.

Before leading military health policy as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Dr. Woodson served on the front lines of domestic disaster response.

On September 11, 2001, he deployed to Ground Zero as a senior medical officer with the National Disaster Medical System, treating casualties and managing critical care on-site.

Lots of doors are open.

What really pulled you towards a Navy commission, training in emergency medicine, and what did you know then or maybe what do you know now that you wish that current HPSP students or USU School of Medicine students knew?

Well, those are two actually different decisions separated in time by several years, the one about choosing the Navy and entering into the HPSP program, and then the one about choosing a specialty.

Uh, the running joke in my family is I joined the Navy for the money.

And in 2010, you became the director of the Division of Reproductive Health, a role you have now held for 14 years.

You're a professor of pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University.

You teach at Emory in both the Medical School and the Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia.

And you still take clinical service somehow as an attending neonatologist at Grady.

A-And I think it'd be great to start off just looking at what you're doing here in the US 'cause, you know, just the Department of Defense numbers for, you know, ugh, military disorders last year, I mean, we're talking over five hundred thousand service members that were diagnosed with something and oh, something like ninety-five thousand PTSD diagnoses.

You're involved in a couple clinical studies, uh, with a Colonel Dr. Roy who's involved in the, uh, in the Uniformed Services University collaborating Walter Reed Henry M Jackson.

I think he had two studies going on.

One with two hundred and fifty participants sort of looking at, you know, asking the question about, you know, um, can can Liv basically, you know, provide a similar, you know, this typical sort of standardized PTSD assessment comparable to a human.

Well, hell guy, I am more than happy to talk about that.

So we are publishing this month a study called Utility of DAT and Low-Risk Neonates with ABO or RHD Incompatibility by Dr. Tsai and colleagues at Seattle, Washington, and at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda.

And before I talk about the study, I just want to highlight a couple of things.

One is maternal antibody screening is essential.