Complete Story
03/28/2022
John Devlin, MD, CAPT MC USN
Panelist, Specialty Leaders Q&A
On July 1st, 2021, CAPT John J. Devlin assumed the duties as the Force Surgeon, MARFORCOM / FMFLANT / MARFOR NORTHCOM.
CAPT Devlin earned his BS in biology from Virginia Military Institute in 1995 and his MD from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 2000. He completed the emergency medicine residency program at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) where his research on hemorrhagic shock earned the Virginia College of Emergency Physician’s John P. McDade Award and the national Council of Emergency Medicine Program Directors’ Academic Achievement Award. He graduated as the residency program’s honor graduate in 2008.
After graduating, CAPT Devlin continued at NMCP as core faculty and the department’s research director. He received the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine’s Young Investigator Award, the only military recipient in award history, for his leadership of the Combat Trauma Research Group. After completing a fellowship in medical toxicology at Emory University / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA, he served as NMCP’s Associate Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director and Program Director from 2013 to 2021, training roughly half of all Navy emergency physicians.
CAPT Devlin’s operational assignments include service at Naval Submarine Base Bangor, with 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division in Okinawa, Japan, and as an augmentee to Joint Special Operations Command. His OCONUS service also includes deployments to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (2010), to South/Central America aboard USNS COMFORT in support of Operation Continuing Promise (2015) and with Task Force 182’s DSCA response (2017), and as Chief Medical Officer for EMU-10’s R2E in Qayyarah West and Erbil, Iraq in support of Operation Inherent Resolve (2018-19). Most recently, CAPT Devlin became the Specialty Leader and Consultant to the Surgeon General for Navy Emergency Medicine, the first residency program director to serve as Emergency Medicine Specialty Leader. He is a member of the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care, the Defense Committee on Trauma’s GME Working Group, and the NATO Emergency Medicine Working Group.
CAPT Devlin is dive qualified, airborne qualified, and submarine medical officer qualified. He has received 11 personal awards, four unit commendations, and the Fleet Marine Force ribbon for his service.
CAPT Devlin is married to Dr. Sanaz B. Devlin. They have four children: Riley (16), Ryan (16), Shea (12), and Shane (12).
