JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas  –   Several Brooke Army Medical Center healthcare professionals are listed among the Military Health System’s Joint Outpatient Experience Survey’s (JOES) Best of the Best in its 2023 second-quarter report recently released by MHS officials.

BAMC’s “best of the best” include 10 specialty care providers, three primary care providers and four clinical clerks/receptionists. They include:
• Army Capt. (Dr.) Halward Blegen, ophthalmologist
• Army Lt. Col. (Dr.) Jessica Carthon, podiatrist
• Air Force Capt. (Dr.) David Demasters, rheumatology fellow
• Douglas Dusenberry, orthopedic physician assistant
• Dr. Editha Foutch, audiology
• Dr. William Gedemer, ophthalmologist
• William Gaffney, orthopedic physician assistant
• Air Force Maj. (Dr.) Theodore Hart, vascular surgeon
• Catherine Marshall, cardiology nurse practitioner
• Linda Martilla, physician assistant
• Dr. Markham Brown, family physician
• Dr. Deirdre Hester, pediatrician
• Dr. Saraswathi Nair, family medicine
• Endocrinology Clinic
• Plastic Surgery Clinic
• Occupational Health Clinic
• Speech Pathology Clinic

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