Jean-Robert Bernier

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Jean-Robert Bernier
AllegianceCanada
Rank Major general
Commands held Canadian Surgeon General
Commander of Canadian Forces Health Services Group
Chairman, Committee of Chiefs of Military Medical Services in NATO (COMEDS)
Awards Order of Military Merit
Canadian Forces' Decoration

Jean-Robert Bernier OMM is a Canadian military physician who served as the 38th Canadian Surgeon General [1] [2] [3] [4] and chief medical adviser to the North Atlantic Alliance as the 7th chairman of NATO's Committee of Chiefs of Military Medical Services (COMEDS).

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Biography

A native of Sarnia, he was educated at Royal Roads Military College, [5] the Royal Military College of Canada, McMaster University Medical School, the US Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, the Canadian Army Command and Staff College, the Canadian Forces College, and Queen's University's business school. Upon RMC graduation in 1982 with an honours BA in History, he was commissioned in Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, commanded rifle and anti-armour platoons and served as assistant and acting adjutant with the Third Battalion in Victoria, instructed at the PPCLI Battle School in Wainwright and the Infantry School in Gagetown, and served on the Operations Staff of 1 Canadian Brigade Group Headquarters in Calgary. [6] [7] Upon completion of his medical education in 1991, he served as Regimental Medical Officer to Third Battalion The Royal Canadian Regiment and as a hospital medical officer in Baden-Soellingen   Germany, commanded MacPherson Hospital as Base Surgeon in  Calgary, underwent training with US establishments in medical nuclear, biological, and chemical defence, and completed post-graduate public health and environmental health programs at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda.

After serving with the US  Defense Intelligence Agency's  National Center for Medical Intelligence at Fort Detrick, he served as the  Canadian Armed Forces  Head of Operational Medicine, chaired the Canada-UK-US CBRN Medical Countermeasures Coordinating Committee and the Australia-Canada-UK-US Medical Intelligence Analysts Working Group, and was vice-chair of NATO's Biomedical Defence Advisory Committee. He was then sequentially appointed Head of Occupational and Environmental Health, Director Force Health Protection in charge of the military public health agency, and Director Health Services Operations responsible for support to all Canadian missions, including the multi-national combat hospital in Kandahar for which Canada received NATO's highest medical honour, and for chairing the multi-national steering group coordinating NATO health resources in southern Afghanistan. [8] [4] [9] During his term as Deputy Surgeon General, he also chaired the Health, Medicine, and Protection research committee of NATO's Science and Technology Organization, the world's largest research network. [10]

In 2012, he was appointed Surgeon General, Head of the Royal Canadian Medical Service, Commander of Canadian Forces Health Services Group, Director General Health Services and Honorary Physician to Queen Elizabeth II. In 2015, he was unanimously elected Chairman of the committee of Surgeons General of NATO and partner nations, serving as the principal medical adviser to the North Atlantic Alliance and the Alliance medical community’s representative on the NATO Science and Technology Board until the end of 2018. [11] He also served on the governing council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and its executive committee, the board of directors of Ontario Health, [12] [13] the Council of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, [14] the advisory council of the Canadian Institute for Military and Veterans Health Research, the Foundation for Civic Literacy, The Dorchester Review, and the Royal Ottawa Institute for Mental Health Research. [15] [16] [17]

Awards

He was awarded the Royal Military College History Prize, the United States Army Medical Department Center and School Commanding General's Award, an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Queen's University, the Order of Military Merit, an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, election to the US national honour society in Public Health, an honorary membership in the Royal Canadian Dental Corps, and a NATO Science and Technology Organization Award of Excellence. [18] He is a Knight of Malta, an Honorary Graduate of the US Interagency Institute for Federal Healthcare Executives, and was the first graduate of the US federal health sciences university to be appointed a Surgeon General. [8] [19] ref> "Queen's recognizes exemplary careers with honorary degrees". Queen's Gazette | Queen's University. May 21, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2023.</ref>

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  15. ↑ Government of Canada [ dead link ]
  16. ↑ Advisory council cimvhr.ca [ dead link ]
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