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AUSA’s Noon Report Webinar series invites you to join us on Wednesday 7 September at 12:00 EDT to hear a presentation by LTG R. Scott Dingle. Joined by CSM Diamond Hough, Dingle will discuss how U.S. Army Medical Command is reorganizing its Regional Health Commands into Medical Readiness Commands in order to support Army Medicine’s transformation to readiness. Army Medicine will continue to synchronize and integrate medical efforts, build and enhance readiness and medical reform, support modernization of the medical force and strengthen allies and partners.

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Agenda
  • 1145-1200: Log-on
  • 1200: Opening remarks by LTG Leslie Smith, Vice President, Leadership & Education, AUSA
  • 1205-1225: Fireside chat with LTG R. Scott Dingle, CSM Diamond Hough & Dr. Joseph Cavaralho
  • 1225-1245: Question & Answer Session
  • 1250: Closing remarks by LTG Leslie Smith, Vice President, Leadership & Education, AUSA
Presenters
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Abbey Dardozzi
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Lieutenant General R. Scott Dingle
The Surgeon General and Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Command
LTG R. Scott Dingle is The 45th Surgeon General of the United States Army and Commanding General, United States Army Medical Command. Prior to his appointment as The Surgeon General and Commanding General, he served as the Deputy Surgeon General and Deputy Commanding General (Support), U.S. Army Medical Command.
Previous military assignments include: Commanding General, Regional Health Command – Atlantic; Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7, Office of The Surgeon General (OTSG), Falls Church, VA; Commander, 30th Medical Brigade, Germany; Director, Health Care Operations/G-3, OTSG, Falls Church, VA; Commander, U.S. Army Medical Recruiting Brigade, Fort Knox, KY; Commander, 261st Multifunctional Medical Battalion, Fort Bragg, NC; Chief, Current Operations, Special Plans Officer, Healthcare Operations Executive Officer, OTSG, Falls Church, VA; Chief, Medical Plans and Operations Multinational Corps-Iraq Surgeon’s Office, OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM, Baghdad, Iraq; Chief, Medical Plans and Operations, 18th Airborne Corps Surgeon’s Office, Fort Bragg, NC; Executive Officer, 261st Area Support Medical Battalion (44th MEDCOM), Fort Bragg, NC; Ground Combat Planner for CJTF -180, OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM, Baghdad, Iraq; Assistant Chief of Staff, Plans and Exercises, 44th Medical Command and 18th Airborne Corps Plans Officer, Fort Bragg, NC; Chief, Division Medical Operations Center, 1st Armored Division, Germany; Instructor, Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, Army Medical Department Center and School, Fort Sam Houston, TX; Plans Officer, 3rd Infantry Division Medical Operations Center, Germany; Commander, Charlie Company, 3rd Forward Support Battalion, Germany; Commander, Medical Company and Medical Hold Detachment, Fort Eustis, VA; Chief of Plans, Operations, Training, and Security, Fort Eustis, VA; Adjutant, Fort Eustis, VA; Ambulance Platoon leader and Motor Officer, 75th Forward Support Battalion, 194th Separate Armored Brigade; Fort Knox, KY.
LTG Dingle is a Distinguished Military Graduate of Morgan State University. His degrees include Master of Science in Administration from Central Michigan University, Master of Military Arts and Science from the School of Advanced Military Studies and a Master of Science in National Security Strategy from the National War College.
Awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal (Oak Leaf Cluster), Legion of Merit (two Oak Leaf Clusters), Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (seven Oak Leaf Clusters), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Army Commendation Medal (two Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters), Army Achievement Medal (one Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster), Humanitarian Service Medal, the Order of Military Medical Merit, Recruiters Medallion, the Order of Kentucky Colonels, the Army Surgeon General’s prestigious 9A Proficiency Designator, the French Legion of Honor (Knight), the Expert Field Medical Badge, the Parachutist Badge, and the Air Assault Badge.
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Command Sergeant Major Diamond D. Hough
Command Sergeant Major, U.S. Army Medical Command
Command Sergeant Major Diamond D. Hough completed Basic Training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. He then went on to Advanced Individual Training as a Combat Medic at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

Hough has served with distinction in a multitude of leadership positions commensurate with his career field. These positions include: Command Sergeant Major, G3 Operations Sergeant Major, Chief Clinical NCO, First Sergeant, Detachment Sergeant, Instructor/Writer, Observer/Controller, Medical Clinic NCOIC, Wardmaster, and Evacuation Treatment NCO.
His assignments include: 15th Evacuation Hospital, Fort Polk, Louisiana; 565th Medical Company, Fort Polk, Louisiana; JRTC (EAD), Fort Polk, Louisiana; 115th Field Hospital, Fort Polk, Louisiana; 1st U.S. Army Support Battalion, Sinai, Egypt; 44th Medical Brigade, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; 5th Mobile Army Support Hospital, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; 55th Medical Group, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; A Co. 232d Medical Battalion, Department Combat Medic Training, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; B Co. Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii; HHC 212d Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, Miesau, Germany; B Co. 212d Combat Support Hospital, Miesau, Germany; DSTB, 82d Airborne Division (Task Force Cincinnatus) JFT-82 in Bagram, Afghanistan; 101st Sustainment Brigade, Fort Campbell, Kentucky; G3 Operations, Europe Regional Medical Command, Heidelberg, Germany; 14th Combat Support Hospital, Fort Benning, Georgia; 62d Medical Brigade, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington; Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC), Fort Sam Houston, Texas; and Regional Health Command - Atlantic, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Hough’s civilian education includes a Master’s Degree in Leadership Studies from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). He also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Chaminade University of Honolulu. His military education includes, but is not limited to: Primary Leadership Development Course (Honor Graduate), Basic Noncommissioned Officers Course (Commandant’s List), Advance Noncommissioned Officers Course (Leadership Awardee), Battle Staff NCO Course, First Sergeants Course, and the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy (top 20%). He also attended: Airborne School, Air Assault Course, EFMB, Master Fitness Course, Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Black Belt, Equal Opportunity Course, CSM Force Management Course, Senior Enlisted Joint PME Course 1 & 2, Command Sergeant Major Legal Orientation (CSMLO), Nominative Leader’s Course, JMESI Capstone Course.

His awards include the Legion of Merit (3 OLC), Combat Action Badge Meritorious Service Medal (3 OLC), Joint Service Commendation Medal (1 OLC), Army Commendation Medal (3 OLC), Army Achievement Medal (1 SOLC), Good Conduct Medal (9th Award), National Defense Service Medal (2nd Award), South Asia Service Medal (3rd Award), Humanitarian Service Medal, NCO Professional Development Ribbon (#6), Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal (2nd Award), Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, Multinational Force & Overseas Medal (#2), LM (Saudi Arabia)(Palm Tree), and LM (Kuwait). Additionally, Hough has been inducted into the Sergeant Audie Murphy Club and the Order of Military Medical Merit.
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Major General Joseph Caravalho, Jr., USA, Ret., MD
President and CEO Henry Jackson Foundation
Joseph Caravalho, Jr., M.D., leads The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF), a private, not-for-profit organization established in 1983 and authorized by the U.S. Congress, whose mission is to partner to advance medicine for the mutual benefit of military and civilian health. As President and CEO, Dr. Caravalho guides the strategic vision for HJF and its global workforce in pursuit of its vital mission.
MG Caravalho culminated his 38-year military career as the Army Deputy Surgeon General and then as the Joint Staff Surgeon, serving as the chief medical advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Clinically, Dr. Caravalho held positions as a staff internist, nuclear medicine physician, and cardiologist. Operationally, he served as medical officer in the 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group; Joint Special Operations Command; 75th Ranger Regiment; U.S. Army Special Operations Command; and XVIII Airborne Corps. He also commanded the 28th Combat Support Hospital.
He has two combat deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, serving as the senior medical officer for both Multi-National Force-Iraq and Multi-National Corps-Iraq. He then served in succession as the Commanding General for the Army’s Southern Regional Medical Command (RMC) and Brooke Army Medical Center; Northern RMC; and the Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick, MD.
Dr. Caravalho graduated with a medical doctorate from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 1983. He also has a BA in math from Gonzaga University, as well as a master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the Army War College. He completed an internal medicine residency, as well as both nuclear medicine and cardiology fellowships, and was board-certified in all three. In 2019 he received an honorary doctor of laws from Gonzaga University.
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