311th Human Systems Wing
Birthplace, Home and Future of Aerospace Medicine
Advanced Force Health
Protection Fellowship
Society of Armed Forces Medical Laboratory Scientists
29 Feb 07
Marybeth Luna, Maj, USAF, BSC
Fellow, Advanced Lab Force Health Protection
OVERVIEW
• Fellowship Moving
• General Information
• Learning Activities
• Rotations
• Special Projects/Conferences
• Fellowship Future
• Follow-on Assignments
Fellowship Moving—2007
AFIOH/ATC, Brooks City-Base, Texas Modernization Directorate, Office of the
Surgeon General (SGR),
Falls Church, VA
GENERAL INFO
• Fellowship - Currently 24 month @ Brooks City-
Base
• 2007 - 1 Yr Fellowship in National Capitol Area
• Preceptor – Currently AFIOH Senior Scientist
• 2007 - Deputy Assistant Surgeon General, Modernization
Directorate, Office of the Surgeon General
• AFIT Slots & Application
• AFPC posts approved funded/unfunded list around June -
July
• Application due to AFPC, Randolph AFB in September
• Eligibility
• 43T AFSC
• Major (Advertised Rank)
• PME commensurate with rank
• Operations/Deployment/Overseas Experience
• TOS/DEROS
GENERAL INFO
• Application Package
• Applicant letter stating career goals and reasons
for applying
• Letter of recommendation from Sq/CC, with
endorsements from facility BSC Advisor and
MDG/CC
• Statement from Sq/CC stating applicant is
physically qualified for worldwide assignment
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
• Financial Management
• Marketing and Public Affairs
• Quality Assurance & Program Oversight
• Healthcare Operations Support
• Medical Readiness
• Homeland Defense
• Science and Technology
• TRICARE
• Military Blood Program
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
• Financial Management
• Review & Develop budget analysis for AF
laboratories referral testing
• Collaborate with lab and contracting experts for
major system acquisitions to be added to AF
inventory
• Assist in R&D of cost effective equipment/reagent
acquisition strategies for medical laboratories
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
• Marketing and Public Affairs
• Understand Freedom of Information Act
• Understand public information clearance process
• Provide military management or initiative related
workshop/seminar/presentation
• SAFMLS
• CBRNE Defense Seminar
• Administratively track approved initiatives
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
• Quality Assurance &
Program Oversight
• Attain working
knowledge of QA as
defined by FDA
• Review S&T and R&D
programs to support
CBRN defense
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
• Healthcare Operations Support
• Medical Readiness
• DoD’s role in FP & medical CBRN
defense
• Labs role and Unit Type Codes
• EMEDS, BAT, HLD LRT, AFRAT, TET
• Review AF TTP’s & other services’
lab roles in service-specific and joint
missions
• Participate in TTP and doctrine
writing groups
• Observe FP vulnerability
assessments
• Complete Level 1 Acquisition Training
• Participate in identification of needs,
development and validation of
requirements
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
• Healthcare Operations Support
• Homeland Defense
• Visit organizations to review HLD
roles at the federal, state, county
and installation levels
• Understand DoD clinical lab role in
the CDC NLRN, the NATO laboratory
bioterrorism response network and
overseas lab bioterrorism response
• Monitor AF lab accreditation & PT
programs in support of DoD NLRN
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
• Healthcare Operations Support
• Science and Technology
• Visit NRL and AFRL
• Review and approval
procedures for Human &
Animal use investigational
protocols
• Review AFMS requirements
and determination of
technological solutions
• Discuss DoD acquisition
program and review DoD
S&T/research process
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
• Healthcare Operations Support
• TRICARE
• Review AF Directives
pertaining to medical lab
support to force health
protection and medical CBRN
mission
• Air Force and Army lab
accreditation and PT programs
• Review operational initiatives,
suggestions & problems
relating to medical lab with
high level consultants to
USAF/SG
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
• Healthcare Operations Support
• Military Blood Program
• Understand interaction and roles
• Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs)
• Armed Services Blood Program Office – ASBPO
• AF Surgeon General – AF/SG
• AF Blood Program Office – AFBPO
• Major Commands
• Military Treatment Facilities
• Blood manufacturing & distribution system
• Blood Donor Centers
• Armed Services Whole Blood Processing
Laboratories
• Blood Transshipment Centers
ROTATIONS
• AF Medical Support Agency – AFMSA
• AF Medical Operations Agency – AFMOA
• Defense Threat Reduction Agency – DTRA
ROTATIONS
• Modernization Directorate (AF/SGR)
• 50,000-ft view of the Air Force
• EOS program – budget, technical inputs
• Silent Guardian II (Avian Influenza)
• Support real-time public health surveillance for
Influenza A and B at a minimum of nine Department
of Defense (DoD) sites
• Patient intake vital signs kiosk, automated nucleic
acid extraction, and RT-PCR technology along with
automated data capture, analysis and reporting
through the Composite Occupational Health and
Operational Risk Tracking (COHORT) system
ROTATIONS
• Modernization Directorate (continued)
• Silent Guardian II
• Laboratory procedure
• Laboratory test files for ordering
ROTATIONS
• Healthcare Operations Directorate – AF/SGO
• Joint Program Executive Office for CBD – JPEO-CBD
• AF Medical Evaluation and Support Agency – AFMESA
• Public Affairs & Congressional Programs Directorate –
AF/SGI
ROTATIONS
• Joint Requirements Office – JRO
• Navy Research Laboratory – NRL
• Navy Medical Research Center – NMRC
• Armed Forces Institute for Pathology – AFIP
ROTATIONS
• Armed Forces Radiological Research Institute – AFRRI
• U.S. Army Institute for Chemical Defense – USAMRICD
• U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infection
Diseases – USAMRIID
• Air Force Research Laboratory, Human Effectiveness
Directorate – AFRL/HE
SILENT GUARDIAN
DEMONSTRATION
Capt David Hagerty’s Experience
• 3 Month TDY to Washington, DC
• Rapid Deployment of Advanced
Biological Surveillance System for
events surrounding the Presidential
Inauguration.
• Set up Clinical Lab at Naval
Research Laboratory (NRL)
• Worked along with NRL, EOS
scientist to troubleshoot and
develop protocols
Other Learning Activities
• Defense Acquisition University
• ACQ 101 – Fundamentals of Systems Acquisition Management (Distance Learning)
• TST 101 – Introduction to Acquisition Workforce Test and Evaluation (Distance Learning)
• STM 201 – Intermediate Science and Technology Management (Classroom)
• Environmental Chemistry
• HAPSITE
• Biological Detection
• RAPID/JBAIDS
• M1M
• Microarray technologies
• Radiation
• EDAPTS
• AFRAT Operations
• Laboratory Biodefense Steering Committee
• Meeting Recorder
• Program Management
• Force Protection Battle Lab
• Applied Technology Center
CONFERENCES
• ANSER
• Secret 1-day CBRNE Symposium
• CBRNE
• Annual meeting sponsored by AFMSA
• SAFMLS
• Presentation on Fellowship
• Force Protection
• Annual conference sponsored by CHPPM
• Laboratory Biodefense Steering Committee
• Per Charter, FHP fellow serves as the Secretary
• Responsible for writing minutes, agenda, sending meeting
notifications, and setting up teleconferences
FELLOWSHIP FUTURE
FOLLOW ON ASSIGNMENTS
• Follow on assignments AFIP
• Battlelab—HQ Air Force Security Forces Center
• AF/SG – Bolling AFB
• AFMSA
• AFMOA
• HQ ACC/SG – Langley AFB
• DTRA
• SGR—Office of the Surgeon General Modernization
Directorate
• ATC—Applied Technology Center (currently at Brooks
City-Base, due to move to Wright-Patterson AFB, OH in
2011)
SUMMARY
• Application/Eligibility
• Learning Activities
• Rotations/Agreements
• Special Projects/Conferences
• Future & Follow On Assignments
QUESTIONS ?
Contact Info:
Maj Marybeth Luna
marybeth.luna@brooks.af.mil
Phone: 210-536-8141, DSN: 240-8141