Clare Helminiak
Member of United States Public Health Service
Clare Helminiak is a rear admiral (retired) in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. She served as the Chief Medical Officer and Assistant Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service.
Biography
Helminiak received her M.D. from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1982. The following year, she completed her internship at Michigan State University. In 1998, she received her M.P.H. from the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Helminiak joined the Corps in 1983 in Mescalero, New Mexico as General Medical Officer. From 1984 to 1988, she served at the Alaska Native Medical Center as General Pediatric Officer and Assistant Director of the Alaska Area Native Health Service Hepatitis B Program.
After being a member of the Inactive Reserve from 1988 to 1990, Helminiak returned to active duty in Parker, Arizona as Senior Medical Officer and later Clinical Director of the Colorado River Service Unit. Later, she worked on-site in Kabul, Afghanistan on a maternal/child health care reconstruction project for the United States Department of Defense and the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
In 2006, she was responsible for the transfer of the National Disaster Medical System to the Department of Health and Human Services from the United States Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency and served as Team Leader for Rapid Deployment Force #5.
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