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Rod Hagerman D.O. Rod Hagerman was born in St. Joseph, Missouri. His entire life has revolved around the US Navy and its demands, as his father was a submariner in both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets. His family's travels were diverse included many areas on both the east and west coasts. His final move with his family was to Sterling, Colorado where he ultimately graduated from high school. He attended both junior college as well as the University of Colorado where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Biology. His academic endeavors were aided by a Colorado Scholars scholarship, Regents scholarship, and track scholarship (pole vaulting). He continued on to the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri, with the assistance of the US Navy's Health Professions scholarship, which ultimately started his current naval career. After obtaining his D.O. degree, he pursued and completed his first year of postgraduate training at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia. His medical interests then shifted to the operational arena as he pursued his undersea interests by attending the Naval Undersea Medical Institute in Groton, Connecticut. While there, he became well versed in radiation, submarine, hyperbaric, and diving medicine. A noted extension of this training was an assignment to the Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City, Florida. Upon completion of the diving and undersea medical officer courses, he
received orders to Submarine Squadron Twenty at the naval submarine base
in King's Bay, Georgia. This represents his current assignment. Here he
overseas the healthcare of five trident submarines and their respective
Blue and Gold crews. His medical responsibilities include the Independent
Duty Corpsmen and the Trident Refit Facility dive locker on base and the
Naval Ordinance Testing Unit in Port Canaveral, Florida. |
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