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Gale S. Pollock
Army Distinguished Service Medal
Legion of Merit
(3)

Gale S. Pollock is a retired

Army Nurse Corps. She became acting Surgeon General of the United States Army for nine months following the 20 March 2007 retirement of her predecessor, Kevin C. Kiley, due to fallout from the Walter Reed Army Medical Center neglect scandal.[2]
She was the first woman and the first non-physician to hold the position.

Pollock served in the army for more than 30 years until her retirement in 2008. She is a

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist.[3] She was a Fellow at Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative in 2011.[4]

Education

Pollock received a

University of Maryland
. She is also a Fellow at the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE).

Pollock's military education includes the

Air War College
; the Interagency Institute for Federal Health Care Executives; the Military Health System CAPSTONE program; the Principles of Advanced Nurse Administrators; and the NATO Staff Officer Course.

Military career

Pollock's last position was Chief, United States Army Nurse Corps and Commanding General of

Honolulu, Hawaii
.

Her past military assignments include Special Assistant to the Surgeon General for Information Management and Health Policy; Commander, Martin Army Community Hospital, Fort Benning, Ga.; Commander, U.S. Army Medical Activity, Fort Drum, N.Y.; Staff Officer, Strategic Initiatives Command Group for the Army Surgeon General; Department of Defense Healthcare Advisor to the Congressional Commission on Service Members and Veterans Transition Assistance; Health Fitness Advisor at the National Defense University; Senior Policy Analyst in Health Affairs, DoD; and Chief, Anesthesia Nursing Service at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

Awards

Pollock's awards and decorations include the

Army Achievement Medal. She also earned the Expert Field Medical Badge, and the Parachutist Badge. She received the Army Staff Identification Badge for her work at the Pentagon and earned the German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency
(Leistungsabzeichen) in gold.

Criticism

In 2007, an

Fort Carson, Colorado, a review Kors alleged to be a sham.[5] According to Kors' piece, the Office of the Army Surgeon General had not interacted directly with discharged soldiers, instead relying on the Army officials who made the original diagnoses to confirm their confidence in their diagnoses.[5] Kors article stated that the Surgeon General's office then closed the review, without seeking information from more objective sources, leading to criticism of Pollack by the Iraq War Veterans Organization[6][7] and Veterans for America[6]

Citations

  1. ^ "Army Nurse Corps - Major General Gale S. Pollock". Archived from the original on 2007-04-02. Retrieved 2007-04-18.
  2. ^ Army Surgeon General Submits Retirement Request
  3. ^ Surgeon General Of Army Steps Down – washingtonpost.com
  4. ^ Pollock, Gale. "List of 2011 Fellows". Harvard University. Archived from the original on 2013-05-23.
  5. ^ a b c Joshua Kors on how the U.S. Army "cheats" some veterans out of their benefits
  6. ^ a b Scoop: Pentagon Cheats Iraqi Veterans Out Of Medical Care
  7. ^ Political Affairs Magazine – Pentagon Cheats Iraq War Vets Out of Medical Care and Benefits Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine

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Preceded by Surgeon General of the United States Army (Acting)
March 12, 2007 – December 11, 2007 		Succeeded by
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