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Top DOW doctor: ‘Fundamentally, our focus is to support the warfighter’
Dr. Stephen Ferrara reflects on the Military Health System’s successes in 2025 and reinforces the critical role of medical support to warfighters to increase Joint Force readiness. Ferrara was the acting assistant secretary of war for health affairs from Jan. 20, 2025, to Jan. 12, 2026, and now serves as the principal deputy assistant secretary of war
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