2012 Sears Award Nominees

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CAPT KEVIN D. MOORE, MC, USN

Captain Kevin D. Moore graduated magna cum laude from Western Kentucky University in 1983 with concurrent Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees. He obtained his Doctor of Medicine from University of Kentucky College of Medicine in 1987 and completed Categorical Internship and Psychiatry Residency at National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in 1991. During his residency, he served as Chief Resident and was appointed a Clinical Fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD. As Division Psychiatrist and Assistant Division Surgeon for Third Marine Division from 1991 to 1994, he was based in Okinawa, Japan, and deployed throughout Asia on various battle staffs, exercises, and humanitarian operations. He was appointed Joint Forces Brig Psychiatrist as well as Substance Abuse Counseling Center Psychiatrist and Semper Fit 2000 Coordinator for the Division. Becoming the first Navy fellow to complete the Military Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship in 1995, he returned to NNMC as that Command’s first billeted forensic psychiatrist and was the first Navy psychiatrist to be triple boarded by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in General, Forensic and Addiction Psychiatry. He was the youngest member ever appointed to the Navy Parole and Clemency Board, served as the PGY III Training Director for the Psychiatry Residency Program and as Team Leader for the Special Psychiatric Rapid Intervention Team (SPRINT). He provided psychiatric services to Quantico, VA, served as a member of the Credentials Committee, and lectured to a wide range of audiences on topics that included forensic and operational psychiatry. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, and served on the faculty of the National Capital Area Consortium and Military Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship. While Director for Managed Care, Director for Healthcare Systems, Medical Director and Director for Specialty Care at Naval Hospital, Charleston, SC, from 1998 until 2001, he was the command’s solo psychiatrist and the psychiatrist for the Consolidated Brig, Charleston, SC. He was also selected as a subject matter expert, developer, and lecturer for the Bureau of Medicine’s premier Clinic Management Course. In 2001 as Division Surgeon, First Marine Division, he was responsible for all medical operations in support of the Ground Combat Element during the initial phases of the Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom; he deployed to Iraq in 2003 and was instrumental in his role as senior medical representative for the Reportable Incident Assessment Team and as the Senior Medical Officer for the Civil-Military Operations Center in Baghdad, where he liaised with military commanders, Iraqi and military physicians, non-governmental organizations, and the Iraqi ministry of health to reconstitute medical care following the end of combat operations. After redeploying, he served as Medical Director, Director for Clinical Services and Director for Healthcare Operations at Naval Health Clinic, HI. Also a staff psychiatrist, he consulted with the Hawaiian state government on suicide prevention prior to being selected as Executive Officer, U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam, in 2005. Captain Moore was selected as an Individual Augmentee to be the Commanding Officer of U.S. Expeditionary Medical Facility, Kuwait, (EMF-K) and Joint Medical Task Force, Kuwait, (MTF-K), from 2007 to 2008. As Commander, MTF-K, he led a team of Army, Navy, and Air Force personnel, consisting of eight subordinate commands and over 1,000 personnel in providing all healthcare services and support for the Kuwait, Qatar, and southern Iraq theaters of operations in support of the Joint and Coalition Forces Land Component Commander. Concurrently, he was responsible to Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, for provision of medical support and assistance to U.S. and Coalition ships in the North Arabian Gulf. He was also responsible for tactical command and control of all medical logistics operations in the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility. He orchestrated EMF-K’s move from four year old tents into the hardened facility at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, upgrading the only level III hospital south of Iraq while overseeing ten associated clinics throughout the region. As Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan, from July 2008 to July 2010, he was concurrently appointed Force Medical Officer for Commander, Naval Forces, Japan. Directly responsible for a staff of 1,000 officers, enlisted, civilian, and host nation employees, his command spanned three countries, consisting of a core facility, four branch clinics and three health annexes, and provided medical, operational and contingency support for 55,000 eligible beneficiaries while deploying in direct support of overseas contingency operations and humanitarian assistance missions around the world. Captain Moore’s medical support enabled the arrival of the first forward deployed nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) to Yokosuka, which forever changed the bilateral relationship between the United States and Japan. He also successfully led the medical response to the region’s first pandemic flu during the 2009 H1N1 outbreak. He reported to Behavioral Health, U.S. Marine Corps Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Quantico, VA, in August 2010. He was the facilitator for the first Mental Health Summit held at Headquarters, Marine Corps, in October 2010. He is currently assigned as the solo psychiatrist at Naval Health Clinic, Quantico, VA, and Joint Pre-trial Confinement Facility, Quantico, VA. He is also the first psychiatrist to be appointed a member of the Navy and Marine Corps Family Advocacy Fatality Review Board. Captain Moore proudly served as Specialty Leader for Psychiatry to Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery from 2001 to 2004, weathering the impact of Presidential Budgetary Decision 712 and preparing the community for support of combat operations. He was hand selected by the Navy Inspector General to serve on a Secretary of Defense Special Task Force on Interrogations in 2004, which reviewed behavioral health involvement in interrogations at GTMO and throughout CENTCOM. He has also served as a consultant for numerous agencies and activities, including: Antarctica Winter-Over Debriefing, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation Academy. In addition to board-certification in General, Forensic, and Addiction Psychiatry, he has completed the American Psychiatric Association’s Certification in Psychiatric Administration and Management. He is enrolled in the Helms Medical Institute Medical Acupuncture Course. A founding member of the American Psychiatric Association Society of Uniformed Service Psychiatrists (SUSP), he served as Secretary and later Ethics Chair for three terms. He is President-elect of SUSP. CAPT Moore’s awards include the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal (seven awards), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal and Combat Action Ribbon.

CAPT WILLIAM J. HOCTER, MC, USN

CAPT William J. Hocter holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree magna cum laude from the Loyola University of Chicago (Classical Greek, 1982), and a Doctor of Medicine Degree from the Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (Alpha Omega Alpha, 1986). He completed both his Neuropsychiatric Internship (1987) and Psychiatry Residency (1990) at Naval Hospital Portsmouth. He was selected for full time outservice training in Forensic Psychiatry and completed his fellowship at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland under the supervision of Phillip Resnick, M.D. From 1991 to 1998 he served as Staff Forensic Psychiatrist at Naval Medical Center San Diego. He became board certified in General Psychiatry in 1992, and in Forensic Psychiatry and Geriatric Psychiatry in 1994. While at San Diego, he taught forensics and geriatrics to Psychiatry residents, conducted research involving inpatient psychiatric treatment of Gulf War veterans, deployed with the SPRINT Team, and conducted complex military forensic psychiatric assessments in various geographic areas. In 1995 he deployed with Joint Task Force 160 in support of Operation Sea Signal, during which he treated Cuban and Haitian migrants held as refugees at Navy Station Guantanamo Bay. Additional training at Atascadero State Hospital in San Luis Obispo, California supported his collateral duty as consultant to the Miramar Brig’s sex offender program from 1993 to 1998. In 1998 he reported to Naval Hospital Guam as Mental Health Department Head. In 2001 he was selected for the additional position as Director of Preventive Services at NH Guam. During his four years in Guam he maintained busy clinical and forensic practices both at the hospital and in the civilian sector. He found murder cases on Guam and Saipan particularly complex and interesting. In 2002 he reported to Naval Hospital Great Lakes as Staff Psychiatrist. He deployed in 2003 with JTF GTMO in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. During this seven month deployment he treated active duty forces and detainees, and conducted parole evaluations of detainees. In 2004, he deployed with the 1st FSSG in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom to Camp Al Taqaddum in Al Anbar Province, where he served as Department Head for the Combat Stress Team. During this deployment he performed two complex forensic evaluations for the Army in Germany. In 2006, he reported as Senior Medical Officer for the Department of Behavioral Health at Naval Health Clinic Quantico. During his five years at Quantico, he cared for hundreds of active duty Marines who worked as combat instructors at the Marine Corps Officer Candidate School and the Basic School. He deployed in 2007 with 2d MLG, reprising his role as Department Head for the Combat Stress Team at Camp Al Taqaddam, Iraq. He deployed again with the 2d MLG in 2011 to Camp Leatherneck, Iraq in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, where he served as Officer in Charge of a three-clinic Combat Stress Team and also provided support to OSCAR units at other bases. From 2006 to 2009, he undertook graduate work at the National Defense Intelligence College. Because of his TS/SCI clearance he was selected in September 2008 to perform a forensic evaluation in support of the special Military Commissions at Guantanamo. More recently his high clearance brought him into a high-visibility case that has yet to go to trial. From 2010 to 2011, he instructed Forensic Psychiatry Fellows from the Walter Reed Program in their Correctional Psychiatry rotation at the Quantico Consolidated Brig. In late 2011, CAPT Hocter reported to the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital where he serves as Staff Psychiatrist specializing in forensic and geriatric issues. He recently published a six article series on Combat Stress in Counterinsurgency Operations in the Marine Corps Gazette aimed at platoon leaders and company commanders of combat and support units. CAPT Hocter is the recipient of the Joint Commendation Medal, the Navy AND Marine Corps Commendation Medal (three awards), and the Joint Meritorious Unit Commendation, among other awards and campaign medals.

CAPT GLEN C. CRAWFORD, MC, USN

A native of San Francisco, California, CAPT Crawford was graduated from McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada with a B.A. in Canadian and French-Canadian Studies in May of 1988, where he was named a Faculty Scholar. He then matriculated at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, in Bethesda, Maryland. After receiving the M.D. degree in May of 1992, CAPT Crawford completed his internship in pediatrics and his residency in psychiatry, both at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and also served as Chief Resident of Psychiatry during the 1995-1996 academic year. Upon completion of his residency, CAPT Crawford was sent TAD to Naval Hospital Millington, Tennessee, where he was Department Head of Mental Health. In January 1997, CAPT Crawford was assigned to Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, NC, where he served as Department Head for Mental Health and Medical Director of the hospital’s 20-bed inpatient psychiatric service. He was elected the hospital’s “Doctor of the Year” in 1999. CAPT Crawford entered fellowship training in child and adolescent psychiatry at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in July of 2000. After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, CAPT Crawford was one of the first Navy psychiatrists inside the Pentagon as part of an Army Special Medical Augmentation Response (SMART) Team. After his fellowship, CAPT Crawford remained at NNMC Bethesda as Medical Director of the Inpatient Adolescent Psychiatry Service, the only ward of its kind in the military, and ultimately led its conversion to an adult active duty ward in anticipation of receiving neuropsychiatric casualties from Operation Iraqi Freedom. In September of 2003, CAPT Crawford was assigned to the U.S. Naval Hospital, Naples, Italy, as the Navy’s child psychiatry consultant for the European theater, during which time he also served as Director of Medical Services and Director of Clinical Support Services. In October of 2006, CAPT Crawford was transferred to the U.S. Naval Hospital, Okinawa, Japan, where as Department Head of Mental Health he managed the Navy’s referral mental health service for the western Pacific area of responsibility. In October of 2007, CAPT Crawford returned to Millington, Tennessee, this time to the Bureau of Naval Personnel. As the non-surgical medical specialties detailer, CAPT Crawford was responsible for the assignment and career development of over 1100 Navy physicians worldwide. In August of 2009, CAPT Crawford was deployed to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany. As the Officer-In-Charge of the Deployed Warrior Medical Management Center, CAPT Crawford was responsible for tracking all wounded U.S. and Coalition personnel transiting through Landstuhl from Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. CAPT Crawford returned to Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune in June of 2010, having been hand-selected by the Commander of Navy Medicine East and the Deputy Surgeon-General to serve as the Director for Mental Health. In June of 2011, CAPT Crawford assumed the duties of Executive Officer of the U.S. Naval Hospital, Guam. CAPT Crawford is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Forensic Psychiatry, and he has served as an Examiner for the ABPN since 1999. CAPT Crawford is the Navy’s only child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist. CAPT Crawford most recently co-authored (as first author) the chapter entitled “Treatment of Children and Adolescents” in the 3rd Edition of the American Psychiatric Publishing’s Essentials of Psychiatry. CAPT Crawford’s personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal (three awards), the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, and the Navy Achievement Medal.

CAPT STEVE J. BRASINGTON, MC, USN

A native of Gainesville, Florida, Captain Steve J. Brasington was a Health Professions Scholarship student at the University of Miami, Florida. After receiving his medical degree in 1984, CAPT Brasington completed his Psychiatry Internship at Naval Hospital Portsmouth. He served as General Medical Officer for one year at Admiral Joel T. Boone Clinic in Norfolk, before resuming Psychiatry Training at Portsmouth. Following specialty training, he reported to Naval Hospital Guam, Marianas Islands for duty as Head of Mental Health and Medical Officer of the Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Service from 1989 to 1991. In 1991, Captain Brasington transferred to the reserve component, holding leadership positions while assigned to the Fourth Marines’ Aircraft Wing Medical and Fourth Medical Battalion. During inactive duty, Captain Brasington worked as the Director of the Chemical Dependency Unit at a private hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia. Next, he served as hospital unit chief at the Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Hampton Virginia from 1992-1995. For the next four years, he led the inpatient teaching service at Eastern Virginia Medical School. From 1999 to 2000, he taught on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine at the University of Florida. In 2000, Captain Brasington returned to active duty to complete a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Florida. Next, Captain Brasington transferred to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, where he served as the Service Line Leader for Behavioral Health from 2002 until 2006, until he accepted appointment as Director of Mental Health. In August 2008, he matriculated at the Naval War College in Newport Rhode Island. Upon receipt of a Masters in National Security and Strategic Studies, he volunteered for a tour in Iraq with the Army, supporting the 212th Combat Stress Control Medical Detachment. CAPT Brasington is currently the Executive Officer at Naval Health Clinic Charleston, the Navy’s first Joint VA/DoD Ambulatory Clinic. His next assignment will be with the Medical Inspector General in Bethesda, Maryland. Professional activities have included serving as the President of the Psychiatric Society of Virginia from 2007 to 2008. From 2005 to 2008, he served as the Department of Defense’s Ex Officio representative at quarterly National Institute of Drug Abuse Council Meetings. He is board certified in Psychiatry (with added qualifications in Addiction Psychiatry), Child Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine. Captain Brasington’s personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy Commendation Medal, the Navy Achievement Medal, the Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal and the Iraq Campaign Medal.