USASOC Deputy Command Surgeon to receive Hero of Military Medicine award

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FORT BRAGG, N.C. (USASOC News Service, May 2, 2012) – Col. Russ Kotwal will receive the 2012 Heroes of Military Medicine awards courtesy of the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine in Washington D.C., May 2.
Kotwal is one of three individuals to be a recipient of the award. These individuals have distinguished themselves through excellence and selfless dedication to advancing medicine for our nation’s wounded, ill and injured Service Members, Veterans and their Families.
Kotwal has served in the U.S. Army for 27 years. He is currently the Deputy Command Surgeon for the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. His education includes a Bachelor of Science in Health Education from Texas A&M University (1985), a Doctor of Medicine from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (1996), and a Master of Public Health from the University of Texas Medical Branch (2004).
Kotwal has completed residency training in both Family Medicine at Martin Army Community Hospital (1996-1999) and Aerospace Medicine at the Naval Operational Medicine Institute (2003-2005). He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
His operational assignments include four years with the 25th Infantry Division, nine years with the 75th Ranger Regiment, and two years with the U.S Army Special Operations Command. He has deployed to combat twelve times with the Rangers, nine times to Afghanistan and three to Iraq. He has conducted hundreds of combat ground and air missions as the senior medical provider for which he has received five Bronze Star medals, two Joint Service Commendation medals for valor, and two combat jump stars.
Other awards include two Meritorious Service Medals, three Army Commendation Medals, and four Army Achievement Medals. Other recognitions include that of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Award for Excellence in Military Medicine, Distinguished Member of the 75th Ranger Regiment, Special Operations Medical Association Award for Lifetime Achievement, Order of Military Medical Merit, and Infantry Order of Saint Maurice.
Kotwal is also a master parachutist and master flight surgeon. He is credited with numerous novel training and technology initiatives, professional publications, and national and international presentations related primarily to prehospital medicine on the battlefield.
Kotwal is an adjunct professor for both the Texas A&M Health Science Center and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and he is a member of the U.S. Department of Defense Health Board Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care.
 
Very nice CV just it itself alone. His military achievements speak volumes as well, he has stars in his future. Good on ya doc, congratulations.

RF 1
 
I am sure there are plenty of members of this forum who know, or have worked, with Doc Kotwal. For those that don't know him, or haven't worked with him, he is one of the finest and most honorable man around. To say he'd give you the "shirt off his back" is a gross understatement.

I believe he was a captain and then a major when I knew at 3rd Batt. He treated everyone he came into contact with the utmost respect, regardless of rank. He was also always good to bum a dip off of.

I wish I had a funny Doc Kotwal story. The only one I can remember off the top of my head was once when a couple of us were training for the Army Ten miler. We had just come back from a long run on a saturday morning and were hanging out in front of the Battalion Aid Station. Doc Kotwal drives up and we start giving him hell about it being a Saturday morning and him being an officer with nothing better to do than come to the compound and do paperwork or whatever else it is that Ranger officers do. Anyway, when we finally got it out of him what he was doing at work on a Saturday, he states, " I had to get up early this morning to deliver a couple of babies and I thought I would just stop by here to see what was going on."

Many Rangers' babies were delivered by Doc.

Doc, congratulations. No one deserves it more than you

Jeremy
 
Amazing combat service record and an absolutely amazing man. Congrats to him!
Reminds of LTC. Doc Lennon another amazing man who I served with.
 
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