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Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Portsmouth

Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP)

Captain Kim Shaughnessy-Granger, Nurse Corps, United States Navy

Commanding Officer NMRTC,
Director NMCP

A native of Hanover, Massachusetts, Captain Kim Shaughnessy-Granger earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Villanova University in 1997. She was commissioned in 1997 through Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps.

Captain Shaughnessy-Granger began her career at Naval Medical Center San Diego as a staff nurse in the Cardiac and Intensive Care Units. In 1999, she transferred to Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, serving as a Labor and Delivery Staff and Charge Nurse, Mother Baby/Level II Nursery Division Officer, and Business Manager for Women’s Health & Maternal Infant Services. In 2003, she attended Georgetown University for Duty Under Instruction (DUINS), where she studied nurse midwifery, earning a Master of Science degree, and was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society.

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Captain Heather A. Shattuck, Nurse Corps, United States Navy

Executive Officer, NMRTC

 

A native of Oxford, New York, Captain Shattuck was accepted as a U.S. Navy direct accession and commissioned in May 2001, after graduating from Niagara University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. In September 2001, she reported to Officer Indoctrination School in Newport, Rhode Island where she received orders to National Naval Medical Center (NNMC), Bethesda, Maryland. While at NNMC she served as a staff nurse in the inpatient Hematology/Oncology Unit and deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, to the Persian Gulf aboard USNS Comfort (T-AH 20).

In 2004, she reported to Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for duty as a staff nurse. Shattuck applied for Duty Under Instruction (DUINS) in 2007, and she was selected for Emergency/Trauma/Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS). Captain Shattuck reported to Naval Health Clinic Annapolis, Maryland, where she attended The University of Maryland Graduate School of Nursing in August 2008, and she graduated with her Master of Science in the specialty track of Advanced Practice Trauma and Critical Care Emergency Nursing, Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) in 2010.

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CMDCM John R. Kemp, United States Navy

Command Master Chief NMRTC

Master Chief John Kemp enlisted in March 2002.  After completing basic training at Recruit Training Command, Chicago, Illinois, he reported to the Naval Training Center, Chicago, Illinois, where he completed Quartermaster “A” School.

His sea duty assignments include Patrol Reconnaissance Wing ONE detachment (PATRECONWING ONE) Diego Garcia designated as a TSC OPCON watch stander supporting VP-1 and VP-47 (2002-2003); the USS Vincennes (CG-49) in Yokosuka, Japan as a Quartermaster of the watch (2003-2005); the USS Boxer (LHD-4) San Diego, California as the Leading Quartermaster of the watch (2005-2008).

Other duty station assignments include NRS Weatherford as the Leading Chief Petty Officer at Naval Recruiting District Dallas, Texas (2008-2011). He converted to the Navy Career Counselor rating in May 2011. His follow-on commands as a Navy Command Career Counselor were Strike Fighter Squadron Fifteen (VFA-15) Virginia Beach, Virginia (2012-2013); Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3) Virginia Beach, Virginia (2013-2015); Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Patuxent River, Maryland (2015-2019); USS WASP (LHD 1) Norfolk, Virginia (2019-2020).
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NMCP Mission Statement

We are the premier training platform providing superior medical care for warfighters and their families. We maximize readiness and forge a skilled, adaptable, and operational medical force for the fight tonight.

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*Updated 22 April 2024
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