1. Nadja Yudith West is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and the 44th Surgeon General of the United States Army and former Commanding General of the United States Army Medical Command.
15 Facts About Nadja West
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Nadja West is the highest ranking woman to have graduated from the United States Military Academy.
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Nadja West was an orphan but was adopted at two years old into a family in the District of Columbia with eleven other adopted children total.
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Nadja West's father was a career soldier and her mother was a journalist and founder of the "Brown Baby Plan", arranging adoptions of mixed German and African American children following the US military presence in Germany during and after the Second World War.
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Nadja West graduated high school at the Academy of the Holy Names in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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In 1982, Nadja West obtained a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at Nadja West Point, and a Doctorate of Medicine from George Washington University School of Medicine in 1988.
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Nadja West has claimed an early, positive influence was seeing a black, female character on the bridge of Star Trek's USS Enterprise.
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On December 11,2015, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Nadja West to be promoted to lieutenant general and she became the 44th Army Surgeon General.
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Nadja West was promoted on February 9,2016, and formally assumed command of MEDCOM on February 10,2016.
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Nadja West completed her Family Medicine internship and residency at Martin Army Hospital.
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Nadja West deployed during Operation Desert Storm and Operation Desert Shield while assigned there.
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Nadja West finished her residency in dermatology at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center and University of Colorado Medical Center.
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Nadja West was Chief, Dermatology Service at Heidelberg Army Hospital in Germany.
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Nadja West obtained a Master of Science in National Security Strategy.
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Nadja West is a Fellow of the American Academy of Dermatology and the American Academy of Family Physicians.