Dear Commissioned Corps officers,
The below information should ensure that you are ready to go for the conference:
- Registration – Make sure to register for the conference and view housing options at https://www.amsus.org/annual-meeting-housing-and-registration/.
- Uniform of the Day – Please adhere to the Uniform of the Day (to align with our sister services):
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- Conference attendees: Service Khakis or Operational Dress Uniforms
- Presenters (lecture/poster): Service Dress Blue
- Awards Dinner: Dinner Dress Blue
Note – The dinner dress uniforms are available in both ‘regular’ and ‘jacket’ versions. The jacket versions use a dinner jacket, while the regular versions use the service dress coat. Officers at the O-4 rank and above shall use the jacket versions with mini medals. Junior officers in the ranks of Ensign through Lieutenant (O-1 through O-3) are not required to wear the jacket versions and may wear either the jacket or the regular versions.
- Poster Presentations – Please support our Commissioned Corps officers who are presenting exciting poster presentations. For a full AMSUS agenda including posters presentations, please go to – https://www.amsus.org/events/annual-meeting-2/breakout-sessions-and-abstracts/. Reminder for Presenters: The approved U.S. Public Health Service templates are located in the secure CCMIS server under the Modernization Section – select Useful Templates.
- Junior Officer and Senior Officer of the Year – We are excited to recognize the U.S. Public Health Service Junior Officer of the Year and the Senior Officer of the Year at the AMSUS Awards Banquet on Thursday, December 5, 2019. You can get tickets for the banquet at https://www.amsus.org/annual-awards-banquet/ or at the time of registration.
For more information, please reach out to CDR Cody Thornton at Cody.Thornton@hhs.gov and LCDR Evette Pinder at Evette.d.pinder.mil@mail.mil.
See you there!
Sincerely,
RADM Erica Schwartz, MD, JD, MPH
Deputy Surgeon General
Office of the Surgeon General