“My goal, wherever I’ve been, is to make the place better than when I arrived,” he said.

Mittelman’s accomplishments continue to make a significant impact: this time for the University. The life-saving emergency response operation involved dozens of naval vessels, more than 150 aircraft, and upwards of 24,000 service personnel. military medical response as part of Operation Tomodachi (Operation Friends) following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Mittelman also directed the comprehensive U.S. Joint Forces and the first clinician to lead the Navy Medical Service Corps.ĭr. Only a partial listing of his accomplishments include being the first Navy aerospace optometrist the first optometrist to command a major naval hospital (Naval Hospital, Okinawa, Japan) the first non-medical doctor to serve as a combatant command surgeon in the U.S. Pacific Command the first non-medical doctor to serve as the command surgeon for the U.S. Mittelman’s exemplary career included posts around the world – covering land, sea and air responsibilities – as he became one of the most influential medical professionals to serve in the American military. Prior to his appointment by the Salus University Board of Trustees, Dr.

Navy, a Rear Admiral and former Deputy Surgeon General, and returned to his alma mater to become Salus University’s sixth president. Mittelman, OD ‘ 80, MPH, FAAO, FACHE took on his new mission in 2013, it was- in a way - a homecoming.

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